Hello, good day.

I had a question about how lucid sleeping works. Is this the right place to put this..?
anyhow so I am aware people can be "conscious" the entire night, sleep yoga and all that interesting stuff. I can lay down to go to sleep, and after fighting off my thoughts trying to steal my awareness a few times, I get this nice settled feeling and my breathing gets different, and it feels nice and comfy. I can just kind of watch my awareness, but I don't think ive ever donw it longer than maybe... 30 mins? And that's because, id ont really know whats going on.

I suppose what I mean is, how can I know im sleeping if im not.. "sleeping" in the traditional sense of the word. Which I suppose would be blacking out, for most people.