Thread: Something Unexpected

Originally Posted by Jimmie

Hi I'm Jimmie.

Here's what happened:

I recently decided to have another go at trying to have a lucid dream or two and met with an unexpected result. I was using the MILD technique to attempt to induce a lucid dream 2 nights ago and it sort of worked but sort of didn't. I realized while I was sleeping that I was sleeping and that if I knew I was sleeping then I must also be dreaming but the weird thing is that I WASN'T dreaming. There were no images, no sound, no feeling. It was completely dark and I didn't even have a body to try spinning. I was just a consciousness in a dark abyss. I was confused because I hadn't planned for that eventuality. There was no body to spin, no hands to rub, there wasn't even an image to attempt to clarify. It lasted perhaps 20 seconds and then I lost the lucidity.

Has anyone else had this experience? I'm not sure exactly what happened but I think I may have in my overzealousness somehow awoken my conscious mind during NREM sleep. . . another possibility is that I managed to realize I was dreaming after the dream had faded and my mind was in the process of moving out of REM sleep.

Any thoughts at all?
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I've done that on several occassions. You are right you have entered into a NREM period. Usually when I prematurely jump into an NREM state there are ways that you can Force the REM.

Well that's good to know. Thanks. At least I'm getting somewhere!

Could you give me an example of a way to force it? Or perhaps link to a tutorial on the subject. I would like to have a contingency plan in place in case something similar happens again.

It was very disappointing that the first time in 11 years that I've managed to become lucid while asleep wasn't actually while I was dreaming.