Perhaps your mind is being conditioned to become more lucid when you experience these nightmares, your mental state and situation is very similar every time, at least in concept, as you've stated. A few times you've maybe become half lucid and your mind has picked up on the fact that you didn't feel anxiety or terror when you woke up, so it's a way of relief. There's no telling if the stressful situations were actually causing you to physiologically react either, that may be the case. If so, you expect the typical effects of fight or flight--you have a heightened sense of awareness, you become more alert, more lucid, yet at the same time the mind dissociates, and things appear to be happening both in slow motion and so fast you can hardly recollect the details, it feels like what's happening is like a dream or it didn't really happen. At least, that's what happens when you experience adrenaline when awake. Assuming your dreams are eliciting a physiological response, maybe the response is still blunted because you are, in fact, asleep. Therefore you would begin to see a trending rise in lucidity during these dreams. All of this is speculation of course, but I think it could be possible. |
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