Thread: consious during deep sleep

So the other night I was sleeping when I slowly became aware I was sleeping, even though I was in a really deep sleep. After that I kinda forced a dream to form but the quality was really bad. I'm almost positive I wasn't in REM sleep. This has been happening a lot lately, too. I become conscious of myself thinking while I'm in a deep sleep, then that triggers a low quality lucid dream. Can anyone explain this?

Isn't that just a WILD? Or at least the beginning of one?

This is merely "lucid sleep." You were aware that you were falling asleep. I get that sometimes, too. This is precisely how you can WILD (of course, you need to remember to remind yourself that you are dreaming, once you start dreaming).

that might be it but its usually not when im falling alseep, but when im in a deep sleep

Something similiar has been happening a lot to me lately, though in my case it is usually from a waking state and just continues into sleep. I'll sometimes listen to myself snooring and yet be fully awake. However many times no dream will form, I am simply aware and fully consious that I am asleep. I will try to make a dream appear, and sometimes it does and I WILD or have an OBE, but other times no dream will appear, and I can't seem to seperate from my body as in an OBE, whether real or a dream is irrelevent to this point. Yet my level of consiousness is perhaps greater than in most of my lucid dreams.

Do you meditate? I do and have been listening to Binaural beats such as BMV Theta brainwaves, and Hemi-Sync Meditation CDs. This has been happening more often since I have been doing this. I believe that meditation and brain entrainment allows your mind to remain consiousness at levels where you are normally asleep.