Thread: I witnessed how a dream starts!

OLHi,
I had actually thought of starting a similar thread to share my experience...but never did...
Most of my lucids are basically DILDS - so I just find myself in the dream, not witnessing how it begins. But I always wanted to know how dreams actually begin...
My Wilds (and OBE-like experiences) - that are not so many - start with me feeling myself in bed and I either lift out of my body, or some random HI becomes gradually real - in quite many different ways. So the dreams begin in different ways based on the initial HI (or body exiting sensation ) and how they gradually transform into a dream scenario.
However, I had a WILD (some years ago) after which I thought exactly like you: I finally witnessed how a dream begins!!!
This is what happened:
After WILDing for quite some time, and after loosing the feeling of my body, I started seeing quick sequences of imagery:
First, quick flashes of B/W cards - just in front of my eyes - with different objects (a pen, an umbrella, a house etc). Then blackness and then quick flashes of COLOR cards with different objects. Then some blackness again and then a bright image with no definite shape - just dots and lines - but with DEPTH/PERSPECTIVE that was MOVING towards me. Then blackness again and I then I find myself lying in a different bed, in a different position. Did a RC, realized I was dreaming and went off flying...

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So, when I woke up, I was amazed! I thought: well that's how dreams begin: first shapes, then color, then depth/perspective and motion, and then the full dream - starting with a FA!
Of course, I gradually got to realize that not every dream starts this way, but it was quite an amazing experience - and one of my favorite - nonetheless !

P.s. 1.I am still pretty sure that most normal dreams start with a FA of you being in another bed and thinking that you have just woke up... so doing a RC upon EVERY awakening is quite a good idea!
2. I don't know why the attached images don't show up. They were a good approximation of the stages...