I saw that someone asked a question about this thread in the DVA so I would like to add some clarification on why I referred to this as an unintentional WILD and not a DILD.
Let me present three scenarios...
1. You are intending to have a WILD. You lay down to nap, intending to stay completely conscious during the various stages: SP, HI...and eventually find yourself in a lucid dream.
2. You lay down to take a nap, intending to get some sleep. You find yourself sorting out rotten flubberworms from fresh ones into a barrel and suddenly realize, wow this isn't right, I must be dreaming! You become lucid.
3. You lay down to take a nap, intending to get some sleep. However due to the fact that it is daytime, or that you had some caffeine in the morning, or that it is just a much lighter level of sleep (for whatever reason)...you snap back to consciousness when the vibrations and/or the HI sets in...and soon after find yourself inside a lucid dream.
Scenario 1 depicts your typical WILD. Scenario 2 is obviously a DILD. But what is Scenario 3?
That is a question I've had to ask myself many times because I have literally had hundreds of those sorts of experiences. I have taken naps with the intention of lucid dreaming, but without attempting to actually WILD. Meaning I would just let myself fall asleep, not attempting to stay conscious...and I would usually snap back to consciousness during either the vibrational state, during HI, immediately or soon after entering a lucid dream. This is why I refer to them as unintentional WILDs...because it is a much more passive induction technique than WILD itself. In fact, I suppose the induction method is more so "nap induced" because that is all you are doing to actually induce anything...taking a nap.
I used to experience these most often in my dorm room when I would nap in between classes usually between 12am-2pm. To me these lucid dreams are very different from DILDs. Even if I did not snap back to consciousness during the SP/HI stage and it took me a few seconds inside the dream to realize what just happened...I was never actually fooled into thinking I was in a dream. There is always a level of conscious awareness that is never really quite lost, unlike typical DILDs. Notice how the OP states that they were in HI and suddenly found themself standing somewhere wondering how they got there, and quickly realized they were dreaming. To me, that is distinguishable from DILD. There is no real acceptance of the dream world without questioning and conscious awareness. There is no actual absence of lucidity, they were questioning the dream from the beginning, and were consciously aware even before the dream started.
I would lay down to nap, suddenly find myself in the vibrational stage not knowing how I got there, and would ride it out into the lucid dream. Then the lucid dream would end, and I would find myself in SP or HI, and again...follow it into another lucid dream. I would chain these dreams back to back to back sometimes for up to 2 hours, when it eventually became to exhausting to continue. (I guess you kids call this a DEILD, I refer to them as marathon lucid naps, because it just keeps going and you continue to re-enter LDs, wait through SP, wait through HI, etc. etc.) I was at such a light level of sleep too that I could literally open my eyes, look around my dorm room, watch what my roommates were doing, and close them again...never even interrupting the lucid dream taking place inside my own head.
Anyways, hopefully that clears up somewhat why I did not call it a DILD. Someone else may very well think it is a DILD though. This is a very subjective thing so opinions will vary.
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