Thread: I think I started dreaming at school. Also DJ troubles.

I was bored in science because we wern't doing any work and I have hardly any friends so I put my head on the desk and closed my eyes. Everyone was talking really loudly. I was just thinking about things, I cant remember what though. I got so into it I couldnt hear everyone else talking or anything. Usually if I try to wild all I can think about is trying to keep my eyes still but I didnt this time, but I think that partly because I wasnt paticularly trying to wild, just being bored. Whilst thinking about whatever it was, I suddenly saw a picture of a forest. For some reason I had it in my mind that if I looked right then little red riding hoods grandmas house was there haha. But when that picture came into my head I jumped awake, then my eyes moved, then I swallowed hard and it was gone.
I dont think it was wild because I didnt have SP, but I didnt try to move so I dont know lol.

Does anyone know if I close to wilding?

Also, I used to keep a dream journal but every time I went to write in it on a morning I would fall asleep while writing or just write something stupid without realising it because I was dropping off but I need to write it in a morning otherwise I forget it. Usually I just remember little bits of my dream, then turn the tv on to keep my self awake and forget the dream completely.
Any suggestions?? Or can you post your DJing routine??

Sorry if there are alreaddy posts about these things, I just thought I would ask

Sounds sort of like HH to me...I've had similar things happen to me, but I'm not sure if it's SP or what...

As for your dream journal, I really recommend building it up again. Recall is the first step toward lucidity, even with WILD's. Here's my DJ routine: the alarm goes off, and as it is located on the other side of the room, I get up to go and turn it off. I then return to bed and try not to fall alseep again. While doing this, I hold perfectly still and try to get back the fragments of my dreams. If I fail to get any solid dreams, I'll go and take a shower and do a bit of pondering. Sometimes, dreams will come flooding back. Once in a great while, a random dream will come flying back in the middle of the day. I record every little thing I remember as best I can. I use Banhurt's DJ program to record my dreams with.

Does anyone know if I close to wilding?

I think so. In my opinion, not every minds are alike. I think is not necessary to have a SP when you're WILDing, sometimes I have fallen asleep so quickly that I couldn't realise if I had SP or not.

Sorry if there are alreaddy posts about these things, I just thought I would as

When you wake up, take your DJ or any notebook, take a breakfast trying to recall your dreams, don't think anymore! And after that, write your dream. Is like the advice of Mario92 but changing the shower instead of a breakfast because... honestly, England is too cold for a morning shower haha.

I've started to try and write a dream journal and have had a LD and a long normal dream since! I'm well chuffed
Ive just decided to not turn on the TV till ive had breakfast and wrote something in my dj.
Thank you

And yes, England is way to cold haha

I think it'd be highly unlikely that your body allows you to fall genuinely asleep (for a full cycle!) in class. Especially if it wasn't your first class, but you didn't specify. This was most likely a bit of hypnogogia.

You need to wake yourself up a bit more to write more. When you wake up, remember some of your dream, and then stand up (or get water, or turn on a light. . . Whatever works best for you.) and write down the rest.

Really? I'm very happy for you. Writing a DJ could be a hard, but in the end, it deserves the worth. Only you may be used at the beginning, and for that there are some tricks hehe
Your welcome.

@Abra
I don't know why you say a person can't sleep during a school class, I myself have fallen asleep many times in class, don't underestimate the oratory of some teachers haha No, now seriously, a fully and pleasant dream is improbable but there're so many ways to fall asleep

I have fell asleep properly at school at least once before definatly before, somehow it was in P.E haha!
I cant remember what time of the day it was sorry, I never even thought about it to be honest.
I had another similar thing happen yesterday or the day before. I was trying to sleep and had my eyes closed for ages. I randomly got a picture/dream type thing where someone wearing a red england shirt slipped over and at the same time that happened, my went forward as if it was me that had slipped, even though I was sat down if that makes sense. This is quite cool Im going to try again next time we arnt doing anything useful

Originally Posted by Tarsso

@Abra
I don't know why you say a person can't sleep during a school class, I myself have fallen asleep many times in class, don't underestimate the oratory of some teachers haha No, now seriously, a fully and pleasant dream is improbable but there're so many ways to fall asleep

Well, of course you can fall asleep in class. But probably not for an entire sleep cycle. Unless your body was multiple-day completely sleep deprived, why would your body allow itself to be paralyzed in that sort of situation?

I'd say you weren't close to WILDing because this...

Originally Posted by BAMitsLauraX

But when that picture came into my head I jumped awake...

...was a Hypnic Jerk.

As for dream journaling, I stay still in bed for a few minutes and play the dream over in my head backwards. I say backwards becasue I usually find it easier to try to remember everything from where the dream ended rather than from when it began. When I'm sure the dream's been commited to memory, that's when I get up.

Oh yes, that was probably what it was, thank you

Sometimes I just find it hard to remember the dream. I wake up and know that I have had a dream but I just cant remember it. Its like when you know a word and say that it is on the tip of your tounge, except its a dream and it is on the tip of my mind
That made sense to me but probably wont to you

Oh no, I know EXACTLY what you mean. That's happened to me so many times. Last Thursday I know a had a freaking awesome dream, but 5 minutes after I got up for school I couldn't remember any of it.

Its been happening a lot lately, its so frustrating! But ive restarted my DJ now and the last couple of nights ive remembered bits, so its hopefully be getting better now

I've had this happen on occasion. I think the terminology is a micro-nap. Basically sleeping for only a few seconds at a time. I've had HH and micro-naps before, and there is definitely a distinction. I can hold HH for a long time, but if it turns into a micro-nap, I usually have a hypnic jerk. Those are awkward most of the time.

I just hope memory serves here. I can definitely remember seeing these terms.