Thread: first night...no LD, but...

I can't really comment on the feeling of being awake and asleep at the same time, that's never really happened to me as far as I can recall. A better way of measuring success when starting is by how many dreams you recall per night, how long they are, and how vivid they are. Keep a dream journal if you aren't already.

Waking up in the middle of the night after 6-8 hours of sleep is called a Wake Back To Bed. Most people do those with WILDs, where you lay still and try to go directly from being awake into being in a dream(I've never successfully WILDed before, so I'm not really one to comment on the subject.) Doing a plain WBTB is good for inducing lucid dreams as well. Some people find it better when doing a WBTB to stay up for a while, sometimes up to 90 minutes. I just stay up long enough to turn my alarm off and go back to sleep. It's best to just try trial and error to find what works for you. I recently had two very long and vivid lucids as a result from WBTBs.

It sounds like you are describing the transition to sleep, and hypnagogic imagery. When I pay attention as I fall asleep, I find my thoughts start to develop into brief 'dreamlets'. They get more and more vivid, until I get so caught up, I lose my sense of self and fall unconscious. Pay attention to how this works, and you should have a better understanding of how all the WILD techniques out there are designed to trick yourself into doing this consciously.

Allright thanks, I'm going to go study/read about wbtb and figure it out,

And yeah, that awake but not awake feeling, could that have
been the beggining of an LD, but not fully formed

Originally Posted by Hollings

Allright thanks, I'm going to go study/read about wbtb and figure it out,

And yeah, that awake but not awake feeling, could that have
been the beggining of an LD, but not fully formed

I get that a lot in class

cause im a very light sleeper but when i'm really tired i sortof half fall asleep like you said. I've heard that it is still posible to dream in states of sleep before REM sleep, but it is far less vivid, which is what i've always assumed this was.

It's amusing though when you wake up and for a moment you don't realise that you've been dreaming. That's what happens to me in class all the time.