What is this???

[jereb]

Okay, lately in the mornings I will be dreaming but then start to wake up. I will open my eyes (my real eyes) and see my room, but if I close them quickly, my dream will keep going. Also, I can see the dream in my mind, even as I open my eyes. Am I just dreaming opening my eyes, or is this truly possible?

[Graysong]

I have this sometimes too, but only when I'm REALLY tired. I'm not sure if this has really been researched, but i've always considered it as being 'half-awake.' This might contribute to the DEILD technique. If anyone has any real answers, i'm curious as well.

[Arbaces]

You can even continue it for good minutes sometimes, I experienced this as well. I think they'd say is not dreaming but I belive is still is dreaming. Dreaming with open eyes is not always used just to describe a frustration or wish but what we are talking about as well. It's perhaps the opposite of lucid dreaming, to dream while you are awake. Don't know, I only tell it from my own experience, for example today while studying maths I got myself so deep that it ended when I realised I started to talk with my girlfriend (who wasn't there obviously) (Though this example might not be very relevant, but it can get this far).

[Silvanus350]

This happens to me all the time. I can close my eyes and continue to dream even though I'm fully aware that I am awake. It's connected to the Dream-Exit-Induced-Lucid-Dream (DEILD) method, but not quite the same. Not sure what to call it, particularly, but if you do it long enough you'll just slip back to sleep... It's perhaps the opposite of lucid dreaming, to dream while you are awake... Ja, it be daydreaming. :p

[Arachanox]

Well, you can daydream in the sense that your just imagining things, or you can enter a half-asleep, half-awake sense that is basically dreaming. Personally, when I daydream, I just fall asleep. As for you jereb, I believe it is possible to have an aftershadow of your dreams. If they were really powerful and involved a large portion of your dream-brainpower, surely your brain would spend longer waking you up, thus giving the illusion of waking dreams.

[Myrai]

Something like this happens to me pretty much every morning my dad goes to work early. Whenever he bangs something or drops something, I partially wake up. I can still see/feel the dream, but I can also hear/feel things outside the dream. It isn't really lucid, as I don't know which one is reality. I've even had internal arguements about what's real, in the past.

[NeAvO]

Yeah I've had that a few times, I'm not sure what to class it as, however DEILD does seem to have some similarities to it.

[Adrenaline Junkie]

My guess is that it was just the transition between waking up and dreaming, it happens alot of the time. As you go to bed and imagine thoughts they don't seem as real, but as you get to sleep and an REM period begins they become more real and vivid say if you were performing a WILD and what you described is like in between. Hope that helped!

[Jerboa]

I had a similar experience myself just this morning. At the end of the dream, I go to bed and I try to sleep even though my roommate is drunk and throwing a party. But something does not seem quite right... they are blasting music I actually like instead of something lame like hip-hop or rap. Then, he barges into my room with some girl... After that, the real world and dream world blur a little as I wake up. I open my (real) eyes, and I can almost see two (dream) people in my real bedroom. I feel disoriented, and it takes some time for me to realize where I am. I am alone in my own quiet bedroom, and I remember that my college days are behind me now. I have my B.S. degree, and that was just a dream.