Confusing LD

So, this morning I woke up a little before 8:00, and maybe was up again at 9:00 (in which case it's possible I'd slept for that extra hour), and I ended up having a lucid dream, but I honestly don't even know how it started. I'm extremely confused, because I remember a few things that could all have initiated this LD, yet I don't know which did. First, I'll mention I remember having a different dream at some point before the lucid dream, and I think I vaguely may remember just knowing I was dreaming at one point and realizing "hey I should have a lucid dream here, since I'm dreaming anyway", and this would indicate a DILD, but I'm not so sure whether this part was what led into my LD. I also remember a feeling of sleep paralysis. I can't remember if I felt any vibrations, but at one point laying in bed, I definitely vaguely remember started to get what I knew was sleep paralysis, and then a sensation of certain parts of my body beginning to float above my bed, and then basically once everything was floating it felt like I was pushed back down on my bed and there was that great pressure on my chest, and maybe I felt like I was sinking for a second after that...so if I did go through this sleep paralysis (unintentionally) it'd have been a WILD. HOWEVER, I have dreamt of sleep paralysis before, and I could've dreamt this one too. I didn't get any hallucinations here, though, but the last time I went through unintentional SP I did get the auditory ones.

Has this ever happened to anyone? It's the second time I've awoken extremely confused about my LD, wondering whether I really had one or just imagined it, then confused over how it started. I'm trying to look for hints wherever I can. Is it common to get both a floating sensation and a pressure-on-the-chest/sinking sensation during SP? And why do my lucid dreams have to be so confusing?:uhm:

That does sound confusing. Maybe it has to do with that feeling you get sleeping in, where you doze in and out of sleep.

Even an intentional WILD can be very disorienting. The sensations involved are very foreign, so they take some getting used to. Sometimes I will fall asleep for a short time during my WILD, lose consciousness, and then suddenly find myself in a dream. It is like my WILD turns into a MILD, if that makes sense. The time spent thinking about lucid dreaming triggers me to remember it is a dream.

Try not to worry too much about the speficics. Just congratulate yourself on a lucid, even if it was goofy. Maybe you can try doing something similar again, and see what happens. Maybe you can narrow down what you did that worked?

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!:biggrin: