Thread: Confusing LD

Yeah...all I know is I woke up in the morning and drifted back into sleep. This is the second time I've had one of these confusing LD's. Both times, I've awoken wondering whether they even happened, except the difference is that the first time something like this happened, I was able to sort it out.

The first time I had one of these confusing LD's, I actually was having a lucid dream within a dream. I dreamt I was in one place, going to sleep, went through SP, etc., and had a lucid dream in layer #2 of my dreams. Any time I awoke into the first layer of dreams (a sort of false awakening), I'd have another DEILD to get back into the 2nd layer, which was the layer of dreams where I knew I was dreaming, and was therefore lucid. It's really funny to think about - I had a sort of "fragmented" lucid dream. It was all one connected dream, but it was segmented into parts where I knew I was dreaming (2nd layer of dreams) and where I didn't know I was dreaming (1st layer of dreams). This time, however, I clearly haven't been able to sort it out like that.

I’ve never had what I’ve officially considered a WILD. I had what I think was a WILD, which lasted all of 5 seconds (if it even was one), and another that was either a WILD or just HI which I startled myself straight out of (about 1.5 seconds). If this was a WILD, I may never know. It was that or a DILD. Or another layered dream. If I did in fact dream of that sleep paralysis (though I’m now beginning to suspect that the SP was real), then I’ve again had a lucid dream within a regular dream. Well, whatever.

Yeah...the next time I wake up in the morning like this, I'll try to drift back off into sleep. I wasn't thinking about LD'ing while it happened, yet possibly had an accidental WILD. It's funny how that happens. What might have been my first official "WILD" happened by accident. How ironic!