Thread: I'm new here. Hello all.

A 'hey' to everyone out there in dreamviews forum. My friend told me about this and I really got excited, So I stayed up till 3am yesterday just to read about the basics at the main page =)

It is unusual for me to start a post on my very first 10 minutes whenever i join a forum. But I see so many newbies posting their posts in their section, So I guess I'll be a typical lucid-dreamer-wannabe newbie and do this =) hello. ( I think the smiley is necessary in some forums )

So...I guess what I can say now is, I'm pretty lost =P I remember finish reading the main page and I'm really happy, and I thought I knew everything, until I found the forum. So yeah, I'm really lost. But I guess I'll start my DJ tonight. That is, if I can actually remember my dream. Wait, I started my DJ yesterday, I slept at 5am. Woke up at 6:40am to send my sis to school, came back home, had breakfast. Estimating that I'll be able to fall asleep in 10 minutes, I then set my alarm to wake me up at 9:15am (it is 7:35am then) , that is 100minutes from where I am, taking away the 10 minutes to fall asleep, that leaves me to 90 minutes, which is the normal estimated time for the REM period to begin. Am i right? Or did I get all my facts wrong

So then...I guess I had my first DILD ( not the first if I were to bring previous experience, that is before reading or even knowing bout lucid dreaming )? I think it is. Most probably its not( Sorry, I tend to always contradict myself, sometimes ) I realized it was a dream, and then woke up..or was it..I woke up then realized it was a dream. I looked at the time and it is only 8:23am!! It has only been less than a hour and I had a dream? So I typed in my cellphone everything I remembered, not much. Only 3 sentence, and went back to sleep and woke up at 3pm, not remembering any dream. oh, got carried away. Sorry. Back to my earlier dream, I thought dreams are suppose to happen only at the REM period? Maybe it is because I don't have enough sleep and the REM period from the day before yesterday kinda brought forward? is that how REM rebound works?

I'm sorry I have so much questions, there's more I think. I just can't seem to remember what I want to ask. I guess I'll post it whenever I have a question =)

So, oh a little bout myself. I'm pretty sure I have gone into a lucid status before. I remember it, around a year ago or so? I knew i was dreaming a couple of times. In some of them, I tried to do the impossible, by teleporting and all. it only worked once. pretty cool =) And in some other dreams, I simply controlled what I was doing. And in some other lucid dreams, I realize I was dreaming, So I just let myself wake up. I guess that's pretty much my dream life. Its pretty boring. =/

Sorry for wasting a few seconds/minutes of your life reading this. =) I'm not so sure myself what this post is about. So, my apologies

oh, Nocturnal Dreamer is a pretty cool user name huh? right? I think so. I don't think it make sense though. First thing I thought of =)

Hi welcome,! most people do indeed think dreams are only during the REM-period. This isn't correct tho, we dream through the whole night, it's just that dreams have more potential to be more vivid during REM. You actually dream all the night long.

thanks for the warm welcome =D hahaha. It occurs the whole night long? Awesome!! I had another LD last night. Well I'm not sure if It is considered as one, it suddenly came to me that I was dreaming. I'm not sure what made me realize that it was a dream, so I did a reality check by doing something that I can only do in dreams.

I was in a library with my friend, I closed my eyes and told myself "I'm going to make you disappear" When I opened my eyes, next thing I know, the chair is empty =) He completely vanished. Still, I'm not convinced, so I closed my eyes, wanting to make the chair disappear too. When I opened my eyes, true enough, the chair is gone.

So I thought "What am I doing in a library when I can be anywhere in the world I want to?" I closed my eyes, I thought of some place, which I couldn't remember, I felt the room spinning around me...and thats all I remember. I woke up, and realized that it was only 10 or 20minutes into my sleep. I then typed in my cellphone the little things I remembered. And went back to sleep =/

thats pretty much all. I woke up 5 hours later, and I can't seem to remember any other dreams.

Hello! Welcome to DV
I'm new here, too.
xx

You only REM during a few minutes every couple of hours. About twenty minutes, but they get longer toward morning.

Originally Posted by xXxmagicalyambagxXx

Hello! Welcome to DV
I'm new here, too.
xx

thanks for welcoming me. All the same to you dude.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

You only REM during a few minutes every couple of hours. About twenty minutes, but they get longer toward morning.

thanks the welcome sign's really cute
a few minutes every couple of hours? I thought it is 90minutes after you fall asleep?
So ... how do I know when is the time for my REM stage to usually occur? it differs from every individual?

If differs, but the pattern is very consistent.. Generally if your getting say 8-10 hours of sleep the best and longest phase of REM sleep is after about 5-6 hours. The reason is because the REM phases get progressively longer and longer, so you need to find the point where you can have some vivid, decent length dreams. Which will help your recall substantially.

The amount will vary depending on how much you sleep to begin with, and how regular/irregular your sleep pattern is. Best way to find your personal best is experience waking at different times on different nights, see if anything varied from night to night. How hard it was to fall back asleep, How your recall was, etc.

Also the reason you may have had a fairly vivid dream in a matter of 10-20 mins is because... making random adjustments or say waking up early, then having a nap mid way will cause an REM rebound effect, where you didn't get to finish your whole sleep cycle at night, and so when you go back to bed it kinda comes at you full force to catch up. Waking up from a dream and knowing you were dreaming is completely natural, as is becoming lucid.. however, you have to realize your dreaming while inside the dream, and be able to take control basically, like what happened in your second one to be lucid. There are plenty of stages in between to.

Vivid dreams and LD's are common for many people during brief naps, because you almost go directly into your REM at times.

Originally Posted by NocturnalDreamer

I thought it is 90minutes after you fall asleep?
So ... how do I know when is the time for my REM stage to usually occur? it differs from every individual?

That's about right, but that's only your first of many (usually 4 or 5.) The dreams get more and more vivid as the night progresses, during that first REM cycle you will almost certainly not have a lucid dream. If you do then you probably won't remember it.

The REM cycles that you will probably have your lucids will probably be around 4am and 6am. Do you wake up in the middle of the night? Note the time, that happens AFTER your REM cycle, so if you wake up at 4:30 then your REM cycle started around 4:10.