I'm not sure I will be able to explain this to convey the events to you people sucessfully, but I'll try. First I'll start with a little bit of history. Usually when falling asleep I will get several instances where my imagination will start coming up with things that make no sense, and I realise soon after but this continues for a bit. After that the same thing will happen but I will slip into a dream during the course of it, and wake up soon after. This happens a couple of times before I finally fall asleep and they are never very deep-sleep dreams.

However last night (or the night before?) I started to get something entirely different. I would carry on with my imagination running off with me as usual. These thoughts would take on dream form again and I would lose complete controll as if I were in a dream. Now I am definately not lucid at this point. Here is where the difference comes in however. When I "wake up" from one of these it isn't as if i wake up from anything at all. My body and mind feel exactly as if I had been conscious the whole time and they were just my thoughts. There is no chance they are just my thoughts however, because they are extremely vivid and detailed. I know this doesn't sound too significant in type, but trust me, it is worlds away from what I described in the first paragraph.

I almost always realize at some point it is happenening, but in my attempts to focus on reamining lucid I become unable to be swept away and regain consciousness.

So what are these? Dreams with no brain-sleep, or no body-sleep? Fast slips from waking into full-on dreams? Half-hearted WILDs? Anyone else experience this?