Quote Originally Posted by EamonWill View Post
I always thought that a DEILD was where you actually woke up and then fell back to sleep with intent to re-enter the same dream... am I wrong? Must do more research! lol

EDIT:
OK, so I re-read a DEILD guide online just to make sure and it definitely requires waking up, not moving, remembering your last dream, and incubating it so that you slip back into the same dream. I suppose it's similar. I was probably getting close to waking up which is why my dream slipped away. However, I was not awake enough to realize the last place I'd been was a dream and I didn't do any kind of dream incubation. I just allowed my mind to drift naturally into another dream. I can't incubate dreams worth crap. I think if I'd tried I would have woken myself up from the effort. So it's like a simplified version of DEILD, lol. Thanks for pointing that out! Also, the writer mentioned that instead of using alarms she takes advantage of her dog waking her up in the night. This gives me reason not to be mad at my cat when he does the same! Bouton is just helping me with lucid dreams!
Roughly. Doesn't really need to be the same dream, but to keep that awareness. That's what I get from the fundamentals of DEILD.