Entering REM Sleep

[Myridden]

Thanks for that link, I'm gonna try it out soon. I love it when I can control my dreams and would love it even more to have them every night.

 

 

 

Your welcome, but it requires a lot of practice. I attempted lucid dreaming for 2 weeks and only accomplished it once. I guess I was just so excited to lucid dream, it actually prevented me from lucid dreaming.

 

 

 

Good luck.

[Adam007]

I find all aspects of sleep really interesting. What you've described sounds like something I go through myself. In a lot of my morning lectures, I'll nod off and immediately slip into a dream for a few seconds. Then I'll jerk back awake, but it will be weird because the few seconds of dreaming feels real and suddenly you're back sitting in lecture. My best guess is that on those mornings my body still hasn't left sleep completely and is still trying to re-enter REM sleep, even though I've long since left my bed. If regular sleep is interrupted, the body is good at getting back close to REM state without restarting the sleep clock.

 

 

 

While this often happens to me in class, I had a much crazier experience when I was in the hospital with a collapsed lung. I was on a heavy morphine derivative, and that was amplifying the awake-REM-awake-REM thing going on. I would be talking to friends and family, and mid-sentence would drift out to a dream (or a hallucination, hard to tell in that state). Unfortunately I told them about it and they insisted my drugs were too strong and had the doctors give me something else. :P

 

 

 

The last possibility is plain old narcolepsy, which I doubt you have.

[Zierro]

No matter how determined or well-studied I am about lucid dreaming, I could never do. Does it only work for certain people or something?

[Adam007]

No matter how determined or well-studied I am about lucid dreaming, I could never do. Does it only work for certain people or something?

 

I hear it's something you have to train yourself with if it doesn't occur on its own. If you have good dream recall apparently it's easier to start lucid dreaming. Do you ever have moments in your dreams where you're slightly aware you're dreaming and have slightly more control over your actions than you normally do? Most of the time this happens right before a person wakes up, or right as someone re-enters REM sleep after waking up. Once you realize you're dreaming, it's easy to lucid dream. You just have to reach that point of realization without waking up, and then you have a lot more control over your dreams. Thinking about lucid dreaming before sleeping often helps. Try thinking about a specific dream you want to have and if you do realize during your dream that it's a dream (reality checks help, look that up if you're interested), you'll have some control over it. Just don't expect complete control, because lucid dreams don't work that way most of the time.

[Giordano]

This happened to me a couple of times. Only happened during really boring class lectures though. :lol:

[AdamMonkey0]

I think had this happen to me last night. :-k

 

 

 

Basically, I was trying to reverse issues I had where I slept from 4AM to 1PM. Got into bed, and after 20 minutes of thinking, I decided to go with the 7-minutes of silence (which is apparently the necessary time in which it takes to actually fade into your subconscious. It wasn't going very well, cause the only thing on my mind was actually trying to experience going into a dream-state while realizing it.

 

 

 

After being motionless and just breathing steadily for a while, I began to realize that I had to give up my senses. I tried picturing myself moving my arms and making that my new sense. Smell and taste pretty much went obsolete. Then I started to believe that my sight shouldn't be active. So basically, when ever I imagined, I would see an image, but technically it was just an image in my mind, rather than something I was actually seeing. When a picture started to appear, I began to think immediately. When I knew I was dreaming, my mind was in the blackness of my eyes, rather than the mental image I had.

 

 

 

Reality fades into an unknowing imagination, only when you're not actually realizing it at all.

 

 

 

Strange and interesting at the same time. :-k

[dusqi]

People also dream in NREM sleep, although dreams are usually not as vivid.

 

 

 

It is assumed that the eyes moving around while in REM sleep is the individual looking around their dream. When one goes into REM sleep, the body paralyses the muscles however the eyes are unaffected. Researchers did something to undo this paralysis in sleeping cats and the cats acted out their dreams.