Lucid dreaming not during REM?

[disabled_account]

I have often been tired and gone to sleep for a 15-20 minutes for an afternoon nap. Sometimes, I could have been on public transportation, between classes, after an afternoons work before going out again... My point is that sometimes in such a short nap I can 2 or 3 lucid dreams lasting a minute or two. Am I in REM? I have heard many people say that a person can lucid dream only in REM but I have many times, when in the right state, been able to lucid dream with in a couple minutes of laying down to rest.

[Barns]

Same here. I do this about once or twice a week. I think it is something different though.

[Adam]

Nah its not just REM sleep you can lucid in, basically you can become lucid in any dream, and you dream in both REM and non-REM sleep

[TempleGuard]

You dream (vividless, crappy, and so on) in non-REM, too. But if you get lucid and the dream is fine you probably just jumpped faster in the REM period.

[disabled_account]

Thanks for the info.