What Type Of Method Is This?

The other night I went to bed like usual, and I wasn't intending on trying to LD. I woke up at about 8 AM after 4-5 hours of sleep. I was in the middle of a non-Lucid dream when I woke up. Immediately after waking up, I went back to sleep. RIGHT AWAY I entered a dream. There was no break in consciousness, and I was lucid right off the bat. Is this WILD? If so, why was there no waiting period at all? How was it possible that I could enter a dream so quickly?? As soon as my eyelids were closed I was in a dream. The reason I'm asking is because I'd sure like to be able to do this EVERY night. It would save a lot of time relaxing in the WILD stages.

That is not exactly a WILD, because a WILD you feel yourself entering into the dream. It seems like you just got lucky with becoming lucid.


-Rob

Well I don't know if you know, but normally you start out with a 90 minute sleep cycle, but this decreases as morning comes and especially at 8 in the morning, sleep cycles can be anywhere from 5-20 minutes. And I've blinked my eyes in the morning and its been 10 minutes later... so you can easily close your eyes, lose conciousness very fast and enter your REM state very quickly. This is just an assumption (the above is true), but I think that you are more mentally aware of things in the morning dreams, one reason maybe being because it is easier to remember something 5 minutes later (to become lucid) than 90 minutes. I hope I helped.

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Originally Posted by ataraxis

Well I don't know if you know, but normally you start out with a 90 minute sleep cycle, but this decreases as morning comes and especially at 8 in the morning, sleep cycles can be anywhere from 5-20 minutes. And I've blinked my eyes in the morning and its been 10 minutes later... so you can easily close your eyes, lose conciousness very fast and enter your REM state very quickly. This is just an assumption (the above is true), but I think that you are more mentally aware of things in the morning dreams, one reason maybe being because it is easier to remember something 5 minutes later (to become lucid) than 90 minutes. I hope I helped.
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Thanks for the help, that sounds quite reasonable. The other thing I was thinking was possible was that I had a FA (False awakening) when I thought I had woken up, but who knows. Thanks. Merry Christmas!

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Originally Posted by CrazyInSane

Thanks for the help, that sounds quite reasonable. The other thing I was thinking was possible was that I had a FA (False awakening) when I thought I had woken up, but who knows. Thanks. Merry Christmas!
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Merry christmas to you to (by this time its the day after christmas). I cant tell you or not if it was a FA, because I dont know how the dream felt to you and everything. When you say you woke up at 8 am... did you look at the clock and it clearly said 8 am? Are you familiar with the reality check method? If you've tried it again, you've probably noticed that dream letters are incredibly jumbled. It is possible that the numbers are "legit" the first time you look at it (sometimes the numbers just change dramatically for me in a dream, sometimes the first time i look the numbers are crazy), but if you remember very clearly looking at the clock and it saying 8:00 AM then I would say it were a real experience (this depends on your own dream stability though). If you remember 8 AM as a feeling or abstract thought... like you had looked at the clock and thought "8 am" rather than looked at numbers, processed them, and come to the conclusion that it was 8 am, then it was probably a FA. This depends on your own dream stability as i've said, though. For some people numbers are more stable. For me in the past I've seen numbers somewhat stable in my dreams on a watch. You probably dont care which it is now, but I just thought I'd say that.

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Originally Posted by CrazyInSane

The other night I went to bed like usual, and I wasn't intending on trying to LD. I woke up at about 8 AM after 4-5 hours of sleep. I was in the middle of a non-Lucid dream when I woke up. Immediately after waking up, I went back to sleep. RIGHT AWAY I entered a dream. There was no break in consciousness, and I was lucid right off the bat. Is this WILD? If so, why was there no waiting period at all? How was it possible that I could enter a dream so quickly?? As soon as my eyelids were closed I was in a dream. The reason I'm asking is because I'd sure like to be able to do this EVERY night. It would save a lot of time relaxing in the WILD stages.
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2 possibilities I can think of now:
1) There was was a waiting period. It is just that you did not intend to observe it, so your awareness came to you only when you were in the lucid dream.
2) There could have been a waiting period if you wanted. The waiting period didn't exist or was over very quickly because your mind just moved very fast into the lucid dream.

I am not sure if I have ever entered a lucid dream without a waiting period before. I do remember that I have entered a non-lucid dream without a waiting period before (or a short one at most).

I have entered either a lucid dream or false Out-of-body before from closing my eyes to sleep without a break in consciousness (my consciousness could perceive some time passing before the lucid or fake Out-of-body experience occurred though).

Karuna (Compassion)