Thread: Is This Common?

I went to bed around 1am. within a half and hour i had my first lucid experience (DILD).
when i woke up it was almost 1:30am. Is that a normal to dream within that dream stage like that cause i felt like when i woke i was dreaming all night. i figured it was time to get up. I ask cause i hear people talk about dreaming during REM Sleep? just curious if this happens alot with other people. thanks!

You could be in REM rebound, which makes you enter REM much faster than usual. It's not common to become lucid at such a early time, but there are indeed reports of dreams outside the REM stage. From what I've heard about them, they represent a very small minority of your total dreams in the night, and tend to be way fuzzy and abstract. Who knows, maybe that was what happened to you

What Zoth said, it's not so common, but not so strange either. I'd like to hear more about your dream though.

Originally Posted by ShadowOfSelf

What Zoth said, it's not so common, but not so strange either. I'd like to hear more about your dream though.

you can you my dream in my Dream Journal. Its my most recent post. there where parts that jumped around and i remember other things happening but i couldnt remember when i woke.

I've found with recent use of a lucid dreaming app, that when I wake up after every REM period, (as opposed to normal sleep where I sleep right through), I feel like I have slept for a LOT longer.
I think it is because when you wake up after every dream you remember them more, so your sleep seems longer. It could be something else entirely, but that seems to make sense to me.
My rest felt several hours longer than normal, when waking up after or during every dream.

You also do dream outside REM periods. The dreams are just more like hypnogogia. Not very vivid and generally less structured (i.e all over the place, very random etc.).

Also I think that if you had been deprived of sleep beforehand, you would be more likely to enter directly or quickly into REM like sleep.

Originally Posted by wearetheenemy

I went to bed around 1am. within a half and hour i had my first lucid experience (DILD).
when i woke up it was almost 1:30am. Is that a normal to dream within that dream stage like that cause i felt like when i woke i was dreaming all night. i figured it was time to get up. I ask cause i hear people talk about dreaming during REM Sleep? just curious if this happens alot with other people. thanks!

Lately I have been waking up at the end of dreams during the first hour of sleep. The memories of the dreams disappear very quickly, they are impossible to remember the next morning unless recorded. I have had four lucid dreams within the first hour of sleep before. The level of awareness that I was dreaming was astounding and achieving lucididty was automatic. What puzzles me though is why that awareness didn't continue during the REM periods of sleep that night.

Originally Posted by mcwillis

Lately I have been waking up at the end of dreams during the first hour of sleep. The memories of the dreams disappear very quickly, they are impossible to remember the next morning unless recorded. I have had four lucid dreams within the first hour of sleep before. The level of awareness that I was dreaming was astounding and achieving lucididty was automatic. What puzzles me though is why that awareness didn't continue during the REM periods of sleep that night.

that is weird