wake induced dream or just imagination?

[Eas]

is there such a thing as a wake induced dream or are there only wake induced lucid dreams?
i woke up this morning and immediately remembered my dream that I'd had whilst sleeping, was about swimming and almost drowning and stuff, anyways Ive wrote that down.
So i was lying in bed and i decided to have a lie in, i didn't fall asleep because i kept thinking about getting up, i started thinking about a scenario where i was in my house and it was overrun by monsters, i had to kill these monsters but it was kind of difficult (as I'm writing this I've almost forgot the whole thing) i cant remember much of these monsters but i know i had a sword and i was attacking them with that. After a while i was in a field and there were groups of people training with swords, they looked like Jedi (last night i was playing on star wars: knights of the old republic for quite a while) and some had normal swords, some had the staff swords like the one Darth maul had in episode 1, i went over to them and asked if i could train with them, they didn't respond, later on the leader came to me, i guess this could have been the Jedi master. I told him that i wanted to join them and train with them so that i could grow stronger and defeat these monsters in my house, the master started examining me, he grabbed my head and started inspecting it, he was looking at my head from different angles, looking deep into my mind. He said that i wasn't;t ready yet but i should keep playing pool and one day i would be able to join (whats the hell? Pool?).

I think that's about it there may have been more but i don't remember, I'm almost certain Ive dreamed about these monsters before, but i cant exactly remember, nor can i remember what the monsters looked like.
During the whole thing i was quite awake and wondering if i should get up yet or carry on with this dream/imagination thing.
i wasn't lucid at all during the whole dream, hmmm now I'm confusing myself, since i cant remember much i may have been lucid but the whole thing seems so long ago even tho it was this morning.
So was it a wake induced dream, or maybe even a wake induced lucid dream? or just my imagination running away with me?
I do have a very active imagination, a few years back i started thinking about this little scenario at school, i decided to start writing a little story in word, before i knew it, it was 15-20 pages long (cant exactly remember and i don't have the story anymore), anyway it was quite long, so thats how active my imagination is. soz for the long post didn't really mean to write so much.

[Selski]

Eas

Thanks for sharing.  It's interesting, isn't it?  

Never underestimate the power of imagination.  And don't get your knickers in a twist about terminology.  I tend to use the word "experiences" for everything.  Makes is so much easier in the long run (and the short run too!).

One thing about your post that struck me and I thought I'd mention it.  You talk about swimming and almost drowning.  Firstly, I used to have loads of those dreams.  Just as I'd stop struggling and resign myself to drowning, I'd wake up.  However, that wasn't what struck me.  

It was the "keep playing pool" comment.  It might have something to do with water, rather than the game.  Which might have a connection with the swimming dream, so it could be worth looking at that dream again and seeing what significance there is for you.  Perhaps "playing pool" means opening your awareness and trusting yourself (learning to swim, so to speak, and not drown), and the more you do this, the more control you'll have, and the more experiences you'll have too.

Just a thought.  

Sarah

[Eas]

before i went on holiday last year i was having dreams about swimming every week usually about 3 dreams a week, they were always different but in it i was always an amazing swimmer, whereas in real life i couldn't swim and i had a fear of deep water deep being where my feet couldn't touch the bottom, i went on holiday and i learned to swim, not very well but i could swim, after i came back the dreams stopped, i knew that the dreams signified a longing to learn to swim, and when i came home i thought about going to the swimming pool at least once a week, although i didn't, i haven't swam once since my holiday and the swimming dreams have started again, not as frequent as before, but they have come back.

The swimming and almost drowning wasn't really almost drowning it just that i head my head underwater for a little while which i really hate doing, ill wrote down here what i wrote down this morning, i know there was more to this dream but this is all i can remember:
I was in the sea wading out to where the level reached my neck, but the waves were high and many times they went over my head. One wave went over me and pulled me back a little to a point where my feet couldn't reach the bottom and my head was underwater (this is my biggest fear). I was scared but i held my breath and waited for the next wave, as it came and pushed me i started swimming, i reached the shore quite quickly. It was a cool experience if not a little scary.

I would not have been smart enough in real life to have acted this way, if i got the a point where my feet couldn't reach the bottom then i would panic and start thrashing around lol, maybe this dream is trying to teach me huh?

[Selski]

Hi Eas

Perhaps you should take the dream quite literally and start going to the pool to practice swimming?!  

Sometimes we miss the obvious when it's staring us directly in the face.

Sarah

[wisp]

Eas,

If you don't mind a very general take on your dream experiences. Through general trends, those things in dreams should surface to the waking life. A life manifesting. Not as bad as it sounds, it's actually called living.

Is it about taking more chances in waking life?

a few years back i started thinking about this little scenario at school, i decided to start writing a little story in word, before i knew it, it was 15-20 pages long (cant exactly remember and i don't have the story anymore)

This is great, and a good reason to keep a journal. This sort of thing has been called automatic writing, and may have been channeled information.