Thread: REM before sleep paralysis?

Had another DILD over the weekend. I haven’t been doing any WILD attempts of even many RC’s of late because of a Job interview I have been preparing for.

The night after my interview I had an amazing DILD. It started with a false awakening I was in this bedroom that I did not recognize. The sun shined through the net curtains of this very feminine bedroom that was decorated with white antique furniture. I awoke in this room and had no idea where I was. I looked around and tried an nose pinch reality check? It failed?? So I was awake. But as I looked around I just knew this was not any place that I recognized in any way. So I tried again. This time confirming my suspicions.

I immediately jumped out of the bed heading for the window. I looked back, a woman lay asleep in the bed, My Girlfriend I assumed.
I continued to the window flying straight through the glass and into the open air. I looked at my hands a few times and spun. I had remembered to spin from not doing it in my last attempt and ever since whenever I did a RC in waking life I would turn my head to the left and imagine spinning so that I would become a natural reflex action in a LD. It had worked! Every time I looked at my hands I would also spin and I felt as though I had stabilized completely into my dream body.

I flew towards a building. I noticed a few moments of loss of consciousness. Much like when you are on the bus and deep in thought and you don’t notice the journey. The effect of this was chunks visual space just didn’t exist as I thought about other things.

As I reached the building I looked through the windows and noticed office workers going about their business. I flew right through the wall with confidence and was now in a long l shaped corridor, people buzzed past me and I could make out a conversation between 2 managers. I listened intently as I approached them and although I could make out every work I hadn’t the faintest idea what they were talking about.

I flew out of the other side of the building and began to decent height like I was losing my flying abilities. I noticed a woman with a pram on ground level and decided to jump into flight again. This worked and I was now about 11 stories high outside the window of a tower block. I looked through the windows and saw a couple. I entered the building and the woman I had seen was just leaving the room.

I decided to have a chat with the Guy and sat on his bed as he watched TV. Although I was aware he had no idea who I was, I pretended to be a family member and he talked to me as if he knew me. As I looked at the TV I became astounded. It was an old black and white TV my friend used to have in his flat. I examined the TV and every detail was exactly the same as I remembered it. It was a perfectly accurate 3d version of my friends TV except it was in colour, But the thing was I hadn’t seen that TV in 10 years.

I was filled with a feeling of nostalgia, and this must have distracted me from remembering I was in a dream and I went into a normal dream after that. Then woke moments later exhilarated and wrote it all down in the bathroom in my dream journal much to my girlfriends confusion. All in all It was a very clear and vivid LD and despite not getting much done I was very happy about the whole experience.