Do you know dream states?

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How do you know? Is this the stage just before you are sleeping that you are referring too? How did you learn to control it?

Is it the same as the film reel that Ultrabudgie describe here?  The film reel seems to mostly be nonsense playing and your just along for the ride.  Other dreams "feel" different...more real. I don't think all of this is happing in the same state of consciousness. 

 

Sorry lots of questions.

What I told my children is that when the dream starts turning bad or threatening or into a nightmare, you can stop the dream, calm down, then say to yourself "I am in a dream, I can change it to anything I want". This may be what ultrabudgie is referring to as in 'pivoting'. Where you stop that moment of time in the dream, then move from the subconscious REM state to the in between state, then change the scenario then get back into REM sleep or jolt yourself awake and forget the whole thing.

So, I believe my deep dream state is during REM (subconscious) and this is where you need to train your mind to simply be able recognize when you are dreaming. Then the choice is yours where you take it.

BTW, I have never thought any of my dreams were real since I have practised deep meditation, ESP, have received family spirit visits, remote viewing, and OBEs. These are totally different experiences, well to me at this point in time any way...famous last words until we can understand the mind and spirit on higher levels of being.

I hope I was able to explain it in such as way that you may be able to practice it.

Edit to add: It may also be practised in the waking state using calming practices or breathing techniques to take control of a moment or moments in time where one can rebalance and not be reactionary. "Take a deep breath." "Count to ten."