Thread: 8 Hour Lucidity - Need Researchers

Originally Posted by detroitLions1970

No, no. The night my body was asleep for two hours, I did hit REM (I'd say about 1 and a half hours in?). However, I got too excited and got an adrenaline hit, so the dream faded as it was being formed... My body woke up, and I had to start again. About half an hour after my body went to sleep for the second time, my mind fell asleep because I lost focus for a couple of minutes.

I'm telling you, my body was definatly fell asleep, I felt everything accompanied with a successful WILD - and as I said, almost entered a dream.

It still sounds like you were doing this before you went to sleep for the first time that night. And if you lost your dream as it was just starting to form, it wouldn't stop the entire freaking REM cycle. Unless of course, you did WILD right when you went to bed, considering the first REM cycle is only 5 to 10 minutes long.

In any case, you're either BSing me... >_> ....or you simply did something wrong. There's nothing wrong with that, because now you know.

I keep trying , not sure if you look at this though. I am kind of close, I get some intense HI which I need to learn not to freak me out.

Originally Posted by Mini Man56

It still sounds like you were doing this before you went to sleep for the first time that night. And if you lost your dream as it was just starting to form, it wouldn't stop the entire freaking REM cycle. Unless of course, you did WILD right when you went to bed, considering the first REM cycle is only 5 to 10 minutes long.

In any case, you're either BSing me... >_> ....or you simply did something wrong. There's nothing wrong with that, because now you know.

Than I must have done something wrong when I went back to bed - Why didn't I remember that about REM cycles? Could have saved me typing my last post . I'll try again tonight, maybe I'll be able to get it right if I keep a calm, headstrong mindset.

I'll keep you updated.

Hey Guys.

Good to see this thread is still active, no thanks to me.

I'm gonna start posting again. Ive started to have random WILDs again, and I want to start this again. I find that when i try this, even if i fail, I end up having a lucid later on in the night.

Well, I found out something interesting. Riding home from school today, I kept falling asleep. I was aware I was asleep, but every time there was some kind of image. It wasn't quite hypnagogic, and there was no sleep paralysis. However, during one of the times, there was some puzzle or some insane question I was trying to figure out. I think it had something to do with some kind of brown puzzle board. It had leather and wood. There were wooden cubes on it, and I had to turn them all just right.


What do you think?

Originally Posted by oniman7

Well, I found out something interesting. Riding home from school today, I kept falling asleep. I was aware I was asleep, but every time there was some kind of image. It wasn't quite hypnagogic, and there was no sleep paralysis. However, during one of the times, there was some puzzle or some insane question I was trying to figure out. I think it had something to do with some kind of brown puzzle board. It had leather and wood. There were wooden cubes on it, and I had to turn them all just right.


What do you think?

Sounds like some kind of trance. Probably started from hard focus, which is how we loose consciousness every night (or so i believe)
Focus makes you loose consciousness, awareness lets you keep it. Hmm.

Tell me more about trances, if you will.

Trance denotes a variety of processes, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.

In my experience, a trance is when you become so focused on one thing, for example, listening to music/watching TV, that you aren't aware of other things - such as surroundings.
Another trance might be what gamers call being "In the zone" - where they are so focused on an objective within a game, that their game play skill becomes much greater. Who knows?

I would call any focus in an activity, where certain awareness is lost - a trance. So, focusing on your thoughts as you fall asleep would make you forget about everything else and enter a 'trance' and so, lose consciousness.

I would say awareness is something else completely, it isn't about focusing or not focusing.