Do regular or lucid dreams meld?

[Germzx]

Well, I was going to just post my dream experience but it ended up too long, if you wanna read it go to my dream journal. It ended up being non-lucid, but very close several times, but I have a question about how long a dream can extend, considering it ended up being only 3 hours of sleep, which was pretty much continuous, with 3 brief interruptions of waking up and immediately falling asleep 5 seconds later, and I can almost guarantee due to the length of the dreams that I was dreaming for most of that time. Yeah, I know time doesn't matter in dreams, I just don't think an hour (at least in the first hour) is long enough to enter a good REM cycle that results in a big dream. The other 2 times could have been the extended sleep mixed with the brief awakenings. I drank half a coke before going to bed. Or it might be the fact that it was an afternoon nap. IDK

[seeker28]

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "meld." Read your DJ entry. Sounds like you were almost doing DEILD, a shortened WILD method that relies on brief awakenings at the end of a dream. DEILD is also known as dream-chaining since it often results in returning to your last dream. With DEILD you can pretty much chain a dream for as long as you can sleep. A few times after some serious (unintentional) sleep deprivations I've kept a dream chain going for over 12 hours. I'm not sure how much time was spent in REM, but when ever I woke from a dream I used DEILD to re-start the dream I was after. Crazy stuff.

[Germzx]

ah that's what I meant then, dream-chaining. Alrighty sounds cool. It always seems to happen when I take long naps during the day like that. I suppose I will try again this weekend or something. thanks