Waking Up Before Waking

I don't know where to put this, but I've done this twice in the past week. I wake up mentally before I physically wake up. I can talk to myself mentally. If I try to move it kind of hurts, like I am thinking REALLY hard. I think I even managed to physically speak. I said, "wake me up." in a whisper after reading about somebody else who has this on the internet.

I know this isn't lucid dreaming, or maybe it is but not what I have heard it described as.

So... What is this called and what can I do to have fun with it?

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Originally Posted by tdrusk

I don't know where to put this, but I've done this twice in the past week. I wake up mentally before I physically wake up. I can talk to myself mentally. If I try to move it kind of hurts, like I am thinking REALLY hard. I think I even managed to physically speak. I said, "wake me up." in a whisper after reading about somebody else who has this on the internet.

I know this isn't lucid dreaming, or maybe it is but not what I have heard it described as.

So... What is this called and what can I do to have fun with it?

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Sounds like you are waking up to SP (sleep paralysis). There are many methods for entering a LD while in SP. They will mostly be categorized under WILD methods.
Search for "WILD technique":
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...archid=1699014

I hate when I wake up in my sleep repeatedly.

I WOKE UP 6 TIMES IN A ROW. I get up I get breakfast get ready to goto school, goto school and wake up..... I was sooooo pissed off.

This sounds like sleep paralysis (SP). You can sometimes have hypnagogic imagery (HI) while in SP. Basically these are any sights, sounds, or sensations, that are not really there. You can play with these, or even use them to create a dream scene that you then enter. Check out the tutorial section for all kinds of ideas!