Thread: Strange way to attain lucidity

Originally Posted by Eddydpyl

Thing is, I have never felt this unplugging of the senses when waking up, it seems like if his consciousness wakes up before his body does. Have you ever felt this sensation or know someone that has?

It is most noticeable for me when I get an urge to roll over when I *think* I am having trouble getting back to sleep. When I do move or roll over, regular audio senses become more obvious and I can feel that my muscles are waking back up. I occasionally notice something similar when waking up after a lucid or normal dream. I think it was more prevalent when I was really concentrating on remembering to try to DEILD, RC or recall right at any awakening...thinking that my awareness of the process of waking up was heightened.

Earlier, when I read the OP, I tried rolling my eyes back while obviously wide awake and I did feel more drowsy, it seemed. I may try to experiment with this as a way to doze off quicker as well as how he uses it...though I am guessing I will need WBTB and may not want to skip natural NREM, even if that is possible for the average person on the average night (some people do have different sleep abnormalities). As I got through to the later posts it sounded more like he was using this as a way to realize that he is asleep. It can be confusing many times. I have been laying in bed thinking I was still trying to get to sleep only to do a motionless RC before realizing I was already asleep, basically dreaming that I am in bed trying to get to sleep much like my rollover example. It either doesn't happen to me very often or I am not catching it very often. This friend's method may be similar to my clenched eyes method of guessing how asleep I am. When fully asleep I am guessing the clenched eyes "action" is happening completely with my dream eyes and it brings on stronger vibrations for me. When I get lighter vibrations I am guessing that I am just in the earlier stages of sleep and not quite to REM, but that is just my current hypothesis. I am definitely far from a master of WILDing, so I am hopeful that something comes of the method in the OP!