Some observations and questions about my attempts to LD
General Observation
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This first observation is about sleeping in general and not specifically about LDing but I will tie it in. When I sleep, I perceive time to pass very quickly or rather I lose large chunks of time for which I cannot account. For example, I will go to bed at 10:00 pm and will wake up later to get a drink. My mind will tell me that I have only been asleep a short while, but in reality it is 4:00 am.
LD Observations
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I haven't had an LD yet, but I have had several instances when a dream sign has indicated to me that I am dreaming. My mind snaps into focus that I am dreaming and here are the things that occur:
* I become aware of my physical body. I can feel it laying in bed, but it feels dull, heavy, and fuzzy. I feel a dull ache in the limbs that I have been laying on or that have not moved for a while.
* My sense of hearing becomes very acute. I can hear every little noise that is occurring throughout the house.
* I can feel my eyes twitching rapidly underneath my closed lids. They twitch to the point of being annoying and distracting.
* My heart starts to beat strongly and rapidly. This fully awakens me and ruins anything that might have occurred otherwise.
Sequence of events during last nights sleep
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I went to bed at 10:00 pm. I was having a fuzzy broken dream when I was awoken at 2:30 am by heartburn and the need to go to the bathroom. I ate a couple of tums, relieved myself, got a drink, and went back to bed. Instead of drifting back to unconsciousness, I decided to see if I could WILD up a dream. I lay quietly looking at my closed eyelids and listening to the sounds of the house. The light in my eyelids started to intensify until it became white and very bright. It then turned into an oscillating line that looked like an electrical wave on an oscilloscope. I wondered if this was the start of a lucid dream and heard a voice telling me that "there were three ways to connect". When I heard the voice, a fuzzy wave came over my body and I heard two electronic bursts (like the warning buzzer at a factory telling you that something is about to turn on). Immediately after, my eyes started to twitch rapidly and my heart began pounding. I told myself it was all just signs of dreaming and to try and relax. I lay with my eyes closed a little longer, but couldn't get the feeling back, so I opened them to check the time (I didn't think I had been laying there that long) and was surprised to see that it was 4:07 am. I rechecked my watch several times over the next few minutes, but the watch was consistent in showing I was indeed awake. I closed my eyes and lay quietly thinking about this, wondering if I could salvage any of this again. When I couldn't stand laying still anymore, I opened my eyes to check the time again. Now, it was 4:40 am. This happened twice more with me losing chunks of time, but the intervals getting shorter until time no longer was passing - I was just laying there staring at the seconds go by (boring). At this point, I gave up on the LD experiment and let myself drift back to oblivious sleep.
Questions
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What is the eye twitching and heart beating all about?
Why did I lose large chunks of time when it seemed to me that I was conscious? I could hear the sounds of the house, the wind blowing, my wife breathing next to me, and my own heart beating, and could see the black of my closed eyelids. And, I was formulating this post in my head because I needed something to do to stave off boredom.
If I really was dreaming, how come there were no visual images to accompany the dream?
Cheers,
Raklet
