Linking Lucid Dreams

I know this might sound wrong, this is because I just recalled it from when I first began lucid dreaming. Your dreams get progressively longer. Your body starts out with 1 minute dreams when your REM cycles begin. At the end of an 8 hour sleep period they are 1-2 hours. Correct?

Ok. So the person who introduced me to LD about 5 years ago talked about a time between the end of Lucid dreams, where you have total control of your dream, but the scene fades to black anyways. This is where one dream ends, and another begins. I saw him everyday at work, and he always insisted to keep me informed about his progress in LD. He called it that void, which was the empty space between each dream. His goal was to extend his awareness into the next dream. One of his techniques he talked about was, when the dreamscape started to get darker, he would imagine a rope and lower himself into it. He would continue to climb downwards. Hand over hand until he fell into the next dreamscape. He said the most common dream he would come into would be his room.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? The reason why I ask is because I have not hit this point yet. But when I do I would want to know already different techniques to link lucid dreams. All opinions and techniques welcome!

It's called a DEILD, dream exit induced lucid dream. You stay perfectly still after you wake up and then you imagine a dream and you can step into it. I did it once, it's easiest with the dream you just exited but it can work for new dreams as well if you have skills.

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Originally Posted by StrangeDreamsGuy

It's called a DEILD, dream exit induced lucid dream. You stay perfectly still after you wake up and then you imagine a dream and you can step into it. I did it once, it's easiest with the dream you just exited but it can work for new dreams as well if you have skills.

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No, I don't think that's what he's talking about.

DEILD requires you to wake up after one dream to enter another one. I'm pretty sure the OP is saying he went out of one dream in the beginning of the night and then between his 2nd nad 1st REM periods he went straight into the next dream instead of two separate dreams.

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Originally Posted by Naquido

Your body starts out with 1 minute dreams when your REM cycles begin. At the end of an 8 hour sleep period they are 1-2 hours. Correct?

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Not correct at all. You still dream during non-REM sleep. Dreams don't just end either unless you wake up. From the moment you fall asleep until the moment you wake up, it's all one long dream, not several different ones.

The body throughout the night rotates through all four cycles of sleep. The last stage of sleep is your REM. The longer a person sleeps the quicker it will take the body to cycle through all three stages and spend more time in the fourth stage. So doesn't the mind have multiple dreams since it cycles through multiple periods of REM?

Sleep cycles have nothing to do with the content of your dreams, that comes from what you have your attention focused on. The different sleep cycles only change the quality of your dreams.

About my first post, what sort of techniques can be used to maintain awareness as the body rotates through stages of sleep and dreams get less vivid to control your lucidity until the mind swings back into REM.

Cusp, once you go to sleep and you begin dreaming, will sleep stages effect your dreams dramatically once your lucid? Or is it too small of a change in quality to notice.

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Originally Posted by Naquido

Cusp, once you go to sleep and you begin dreaming, will sleep stages effect your dreams dramatically once your lucid? Or is it too small of a change in quality to notice.

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I think it would be too small to notice. But their main effect is on the mood of the dream, not on the content.

Lucidity trumps any effects the sleep stages can have on your dreams. Non REM dreams tend to be more mellow, whereas REM dreams are where the action happens. But that's just generally speaking, it's not an absolute rule. You can still have an awesome lucid battle even in a non-rem dream.

I suspect the various stages of sleep would conform to your lucid dream. So if you start an epic battle in a non-REM dream, then you would quickly enter a REM cycle. But that's just my opinion, I have no way to prove it.