The 'Trailing Edge' effect...

**imj** · 06-07-2011 10:55 AM

I discovered by accident that when there is an external light entering at the edge of an ending dream there is a chance for the conscious mind to take over the dream and dream exactly what it wants. However I did not experience any form of lucidity. It only happened when the dream is ending prematurely by the external light and the dream still trailing enough for the conscious mind to continue the dream but the light has to be bright enough to cause the arousal of consciousness but not enough to blast the mind of of the dream completely. The light used had an on and off interval where the off time allowed the dream to continue with what the concious mind wants but because it was by accident the off interval was too short to continue so I fully woke up the next time the light came on. I have configured the light set up to occomodate this Trailing Edge effect....so far the problem faced is the unconscious resetting of the system by switch in hand much like the unconscious removal of the dream mask during sleep. I have installed an anti-resetting circuit to prevent resetting of the time delay after the set time has passed...

IMJ

Ev · 06-08-2011 12:52 AM

Are you talking about the kind of "meta control", where you can control the dream from the 3rd person perspective? Kinda like a TV show which you know how it's going to proceed?

If so, I might've experienced this in the morning, and this may indeed be triggered by external light!

**imj** · 06-08-2011 04:49 AM

Something like that where there is no awareness of the self and no control of the dream but I am presented with stuff/material from waking life which would not be seen in normal dreams. An example I had was seeing the 'thing' I wanted in my parent's bedroom, there was no getting there or making it appear it was already there in front of me in the room and I went nearer to it but no walking was involved just awareness of what I was seeing and going closer to it...lasted less than a minute I would say. Another one was seeing the control box for the light..again no awareness of the self just the image of the control box and then I wake up in the next pulse of light. I think I could say that it was the conscious mind dreaming instead of the subconscious.

IMJ