Thread: REM cycle curiosity

The thing is: each waking up can modify the whole patterns.
Also rem interruptions during night n will also perturbate the same rem coresponding phase the nigth n+1.
This is why it's hard to find a special timming for WILD.
By the way rem atonia is supposed to last the whole rem stage to prevent us to act our rem dreams for real.
When it lasts also after the end of the rem stage while we are awoken it's called sleep paralysis.

Read up on DEILD (Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dream), it is possible to wake and immediately reenter a dream. Even from Non-lucid to Lucid. Sometimes I will think as I find myself half conscious laying in bed and notice flashing patterns in my eyes, finally I'm falling asleep, only to realize I am in fact emerging from a non-lucid dream, and that I'm actually falling awake. I have only ever succeeded once or twice and from Lucid tho and never from a non-lucid (but have tried it at least 20+ times on falling awake). Some people will even intentionally wake from a Lucid that is destabilizing to reenter as a stabilization technique, and others even use devices to wake themselves in REM (after their devices detect this state and give a brief alarm) to then immediately reenter as a Lucid.