Thread: most real LD was during school?

Hello

I have been reading all the techniques and waking myself up at night for months with only 2 LDs before today, neither of which were very real. I could see things, but couldn't feel them and they weren't clear.

Today I woke up at 6:30 after 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. By second period (around 9:10) I was back asleep, and slept uninterupted again until 10:00. By 10:07 I had found my way to an empty room and laid on the floor to sleep some more.

I first noticed I was dreaming because I had been dreaming I was walking around the room I was in, but then I was woken up and found myself on the floor. The dream was very real, so I told my subconscious (named shupar22) we would have an LD.

At first I thought I was still awake because I was on the floor and it was extremely real. As a matter of fact, when I spoke in my dream I was convinced I was speaking in real life too for how real it was. To make sure I was dreaming I pushed a big hole in the floor (which felt like playdough). Then I got up and jumped through the window. I fell strait to the ground (which was about 5 stories in my dream). It was cool.

Anyway, the point is, that for all of the months of trying to get LDs from the techniques I've read, and from everything I know about REM this doesn't make any sense. I had been awake for 3 hours, and only after a little more than an hour I had the most intensly real LD I have ever had. Really the only realistic LD I've ever had. Just maybe some food for thought I guess. I've been reading stuff here forever and never contributed anything of my own so I thought it was time.

-cheers

This doesn't seem like an odd thing to me at all. Interupting your sleep period does not reduce the time of REM-sleep that occurs during your full sleep period (this is how WBTBs work), and it definitly doesn't say anything about the quality of your dreams for as far as I know (then again, I can't say I know everything).
A reason for the fact that this dream was more vivid than your previous lucid dreams might be that you were more concious, as you'd been awake for a couple of hours. The fact that people often report having vivid lucid dreams during naps supports this.

Either way, congratulations on your best LD yet, and of course...
Welcome to the forum!

i had my best LDs during after-lunch naps (and history-of-art lessons, but this is another story )
I think it's normal, and also thing natural light helps, but i've no proof at all on this