I'm calling it Sleep Limbo (See 1), but I don't know what the correct terminology is. At around 11:40 PM last night, I went to sleep. I have a routine before I go to sleep, to relax me. After I do this "relaxation technique", I usually fall asleep in a heartbeat. The problem I have had though, is that I keep rolling over and having dream thoughts (See 2). And, you see, these dream thoughts are just layering up and although they aren't dreams, they start colliding in my mind. An example would be this:

First Dream Thought: I am walking through the woods at night with my little brother, when we run into a bear.
Second Dream Thought: I am running from something chasing me in the woods.
Third Dream Thought: I am hunting something during daylight in the woods.
Fourth Dream Thought: My guide is leading me through the woods at sunset.

So, you get the picture. But then, I'll have thoughts where the dream thoughts collide. Suddenly, it will be me walking through the woods during daylight when the guide comes in and starts chasing me. And the entire time this is happening, I'm trying to sleep.

I would really appreciate if someone could help me use this to become lucid or, hell, just helping me fall asleep. I swear, I've been up since 11:40 PM tossing and turning. I remember these Sleep Limbos from when I was a little boy and they were hell in a dream. It took me so long to escape the endless loop of the same dream thought.

Thanks for listening. Please reply soon because I'm tired as hell.



(1) Sleep Limbo - An endless loop of the same string of dream thoughts that usually involve time (E.g. Vines growing from the ceiling to the floor, having to make a complete 360º turn when you're going slow as molasses). These seemingly never ending dream sequences are somewhere between dreaming and awake. You cannot awake from these and if you do, by some miracle, you should probably stay awake because once you enter Sleep Limbo, it's hard to escape.

(2) Dream Thought - When I have a partially developed dream that I am not actually in, but I feel everything in it. Multiple happen at once, sometimes. Sometimes, I can't wake up from them and it'll take me hours and hours to complete the dream, although when I awake...it's only been fifteen minutes.