thelou,
Yes, I dream like this alot.It's like dreaming in a trance, and then I snap out of it before going to sleep.
you can enter a dream without ever "falling asleep" but you're still asleep.
meaning you are so relaxed from sleeping so long that you just INSTANTLY enter a dream the second you lie still... it's happened to a me a few times, and it's really odd
like i'll lay on my side... and a few seconds will pass... and i think "is this a dream? why would it be, i haven't fallen asleep...." and then I think a bit longer and I decide to do a reality check and I AM DREAMING... and i'm like "whoa!"
It's cool.
Just as you can instantaneously enter sleep paralysis during the night if you wake up and then lay back down and keep your head kind of clear, you can also instantaneously and smoothly pop into a dream about being in your room, lying down, and never even realize that you have fallen asleep.
So you did fall asleep really, you just stayed awake while it was happening.
Ah I love this type of topic.
Dreaming in a trance state is so awsome. Its also a great state to weigh things out.
When im in a trance state I can imagine something for a few seconds, then my mind runs the rest of the show.
I also love this topic, it reminds me of another post i read by mustardseed:
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10115
The same type of thing is descibed there and you may find it interesting.
RooJ
I have only been able to read about half of the posts here. Was hoping to find my answer without having to bother others with a new post. No luck. Must leave soon.
Ok, before my question, let me back up a bit. I started keeping a dream log about 6 weeks ago. Most of them were just regular dreams. One thing I found out for myself, that I have not heard anyone else talk about yet. Is that we sort of pick and choose which dreams we want. I discovered this when I was trying to teach myself to be lucid.
A picture would come into my field of view like a slide show. I found myself passing, and then another one came. I did this several times, before I found one I liked, and instantly I was in that dream.
Then the progression of my dream log started to slow down. I was remembering less and less of my dreams, and almost no lucidity.
Then I read of people getting up and writing the dream down, right after it happened. So I decided to do that. It took three days to actually do it. The first two I just sat there and thought about the dream. Seems like if we don't think the dream is important to our growth, or just plain fun, we dismiss it as nothing worth writing about.
Ok now the weird part I could really use some help on. This morning I woke at about 1am and wrote down a dream I had.
"I drempt I was talking to two other people". Not significant or with many details.
Next three got longer with the explanations, and remembered more and more of each one. I was kinda getting excited because it was working so well.
By now I was not really tired enough to go back to sleep, but not rested enough to get out of bed. But I wanted to try and go back to sleep and see if I could go lucid. Then I was laying there and could see like with my dream eyes a dream. I could also sense the people like they were around me. Then I realized that I had not fallen asleep yet!!!
I looked at the clock and rolled over. Then it happened again. I started to have a dream and I was not asleep yet. I looked at the clock again and only 3 minutes had passed. I never fall asleep that fast. So this was proof to me that I started dreaming before I fell asleep.
Anyone have any experiences like that, or any ideas/opinions on what might have been happening?
Thanks all,
Thelou