my dream profile

you might have some ideas and tips for my situation.

sometimes during the night i realize that i'm dreaming. I don't wake up, instead i drift slowly through layers till i wake up.

For exampel i'm reading a book in my dreams and then i realize it's a dream. I try to keep my focus on the dream, but it starts to fade.
The next layer i fall through is an emptiness with godly voices. Doesn't mean much to me.
Then comes the next layer with heavy sexual stimulation, which i not tend to accept.
The last layer before waking up is filled with random focus to minor details of my real world.

Is that common ?
thanks for comments
Phyl

Welcome to the forum.

Hrm, that is unusual. I have never experienced it. I just get the black void when I wake up. Perhaps next time when you realise you are dreaming, you should rub your hands. That's a good technique for stabalizing dreams.

i guess i start the classic drill.... find my hands and keep the dream alive ...

staying away from caffeine is the hardest part right now ... haha

I agree with NeAvO on both fronts..

1) I've also never experienced "layers" upon waking up and
2) since your hands are "always with you", you should definately try rubbing them and see if that helps!

Interesting. I sometimes (usually only in nightmares) get to the point where I know I'm dreaming and try to get out (this was long before finding DV however. If it had been after I would have welcomed the lucidity!). From there on in I am in a state where the only thing between me and being awake is the fact that I just can't open my eyes.

Another thing, slightly on a tangent here, is what I experienced one morning. I was lying on the sofa watching an episode of Futurama (the 'El Chupa Nibre' one) when I somehow (not being anything like tired) dozed off without realizing. My dream was then (only being 5 or 10 minutes) the part of that exact episode, down to the script and all. It was extremely fun - like actually being in an episode of Futurama, and I (using Sky+) had to quickly rewind the TV to check if it was what I'd dreamed. It was, and watching it again was like repeating my dream!

^^ These guys pretty much have it right. :)