Thread: did i have a LD??

lots of times before school my mom wakes me up and i go over to my door, shut it andlock it (so she doesnt see) and i go back to sleeping laying down in my bed (hehe i tell her im dressing) then i recall what i was dreaming about, especially if it was a good dream and i continue it in my head but usually focus on it too much and it fades away after 10 minutes

is this an LD? tonight im going to try to WILD... ill post what happens but im not sure what to look for because dreams are a vast subject

if, during the time where you recall the dream and are continuing it in your mind, you're asleep, then yes it's a lucid dream. otherwise, no. lucid dreaming is simply being aware of the fact that you're dreaming, while you're dreaming.

what you're doing though sounds similar to a technique called Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (or MILD) where you basically re-enter a dream, fully lucid, after waking up. but again, that depends on if you were asleep.

Originally posted by Paperdoll EP
Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (or MILD) where you basically re-enter a dream, fully lucid, after waking up. but again, that depends on if you were asleep.

aint mild the one where you keep repeating a phrase before you sleep?


I think you're experiencing WBTB (wake back to bed) where you wake up, go to sleep again and have a LD as soon as you doze off.

Originally posted by Damascus

aint mild the one where you keep repeating a phrase before you sleep?

not really, no. i've used MILD before, i know what the hell i'm talking about.

Well, not to contradict you Paperdoll, but I've had something like this before I found out about lucid dreaming, and I label it more on the dream re-entry side. I've been trying it again lately, but with no current success. When I had time (usually on weekends) and I had a particularly vivid dream, I would try to "finish" it with my own particular ending. I'd lay in bed and use my imagination to continue what was going on and would often fall back asleep, directly into a dream state.

The problem I have, though, is once I'm asleep the dream continues as normal. Now that I know about lucidity, I've been trying it again but still need to work on some stuff. That's just my own experience.

"No, I'm Spartacus!" (as a reference to everyone trying to label this every which way)

-Amé

Originally posted by Amethyst Star
Well, not to contradict you Paperdoll, but I've had something like this before I found out about lucid dreaming, and I label it more on the dream re-entry side.

that's pretty much what MILD does. re-entry.

hmm i dont really know if i was sleeping or not... i suppose i was for a few minutes because when i wakeup i really do wakeup not just stop daydreaming
the only thing that i think is weird is that it wasnt exciting or anything

They don't have to be exciting. You don't even have to have any amount of control in an LD. If you were certain that you were dreaming (and by its very nature sleeping), then you were lucid.