(Yesterday, 05:13 AM)Sirius Wrote: 90 seconds...interesting, has this been consistent? "approaching the hypnopompic stage but not fully engaging"... so these dreams you can control are not the same as hypnagogic/hypnopompic ones? Or does it all feel the same for you?
It's a state of full awareness within a dream, I haven't experienced it too many times and 90 seconds seems to be the cut off time. Any more than that and you'll just wake up. Ever had an exciting dream where you've gained autonomy and awareness? You tend to wake up, if you're swinging punches, running or doing anything physically active it'll have a chance of moving the body in reality. Within a dream it's possible to revert back to dreamlike thinking instead of waking and thus reversing the process.
The dream I mentioned with a conversation was the first time I reversed the effect of full consciousness, I had a long boring (normal) dream after the experience. I can mention more about this.
Interesting list, I was going to mention yoga nidra... It's a technique I was practicing before I learned about it. Give it a go as it definitely helps with awareness.
I'd say this "fully conscious" experience can be initiated within any dream, most times it's a basic awareness though or awareness within a dream. With partial awareness you're not aware of your breathing, the warmth of a bed or the tensing of muscles, sensations you usually only experience within those hypnagogic/hypnopompic stages. My theory is being asleep and awake is an untenable position, I guess I'm saying those stages and awareness are bundled up together. As if the part of the body that ushers in those hypna/hypno stages can be trained, yoga nidra could be considered a workout within that frame of thinking.
Seemingly there's a few types of dreams. The rule of thumb is play the role or bugger off. The most interesting ones to me are the ones you can leave as much as you want but you're coming back till it's finished.
There's dreams with no sound where the sun is either about to rise or has just set (I believe it's the former) these dreams tend to have muted conversations with people that have passed, ever had dreams like that?
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