Odd state between awake and dreaming

[StaySharp]

I suppose the state I was in this night might be known to someone, so I'll leave a description here and hope someone can enlighten me on what happened. I was normally sleeping throughout the night, I occasionally woke up due to my lucidity playlist but otherwise everything was normal. Somewhere in the middle of the night (night for me that is, it was around 11 am I think...) I had a series of awareness changes...? What happened as exactly as I can describe it, is that the border between dreams and reality was suddenly really thin, barely existent. I was sort of half asleep but had normal dreams, due to me being half asleep my awareness came back a few times, however I didn't became lucid. Instead my focus just returned to my body, and it felt a little bit like the dream I had remained in a frozen stat within my brain, waiting for me to lose awareness again, continuing the dream when I fell half asleep again. That was the first time something like that happened, and I have no clue what it was. Now that I think back I probably should've tried to use it to WILD but I was trying to DILD and didn't really try to understand it. Any thoughts, comments or ideas? I have no clue what I'm onto here.

[TheSkies]

I had an experience once that lead to brief lucidity, and I think my situation was somewhat similar to yours. I was between sleep and wakefulness. I was dreaming, but could feel my physical surroundings i.e. bed, pillow. It was possibly caused by a lightspeed WBTB - so quick you're brain doesn't fully enter it's waking state, but you fall back into a doze with your logic and reasoning centre still active, and without the paralysis

[Oneironaut Zero]

This is called Hypnopompia. Just like Hypnagogia is the 'daydream-like' state between being awake and falling asleep, hypnopompia is the state between being asleep and waking up. Sometimes, imagery, visualization or other elements can sort of 'bleed over' into the waking world. I've had some pretty intense experiences with this. It's kind of cool, really, but can be pretty startling at times.

[StaySharp]

This is called Hypnopompia. Just like Hypnagogia is the 'daydream-like' state between being awake and falling asleep, hypnopompia is the state between being asleep and waking up. Sometimes, imagery, visualization or other elements can sort of 'bleed over' into the waking world. I've had some pretty intense experiences with this. It's kind of cool, really, but can be pretty startling at times. Haven't heard about this so far, thanks for the info. Even though my state had some similarities to hypnopompia I however have to say I'm pretty sure that wasn't it, if I think back I had it at least once and it was different. I was in a state that was sort of half asleep, but I never reached either side, drifting for- and backwards. It also wasn't connected to any strange sensations at all, even though I was somwhere inbetween there, reality and dream existed as 2 seperated entities at the same time. As I opened my eyes I saw reality in it's complete normality while the dream itself stayed conserved inside of my brain, hence I could feel both as seperate entites at once, though neither interfering with on another.

[Naiya]

This is called Hypnopompia. Just like Hypnagogia is the 'daydream-like' state between being awake and falling asleep, hypnopompia is the state between being asleep and waking up. Sometimes, imagery, visualization or other elements can sort of 'bleed over' into the waking world. I've had some pretty intense experiences with this. It's kind of cool, really, but can be pretty startling at times. Yep, this. I perfer to call it the Twilight Zone myself, but yeah, you do tend to feel very strange and get some interesting hallucinations.

[StaySharp]

Well as I already said, I didn't knew the term hypnopompia but I definitely had it once. And I had hypnagogia several times already. I've done some thinking myself with the information I have so far. It is neither hypnogogia, nor hypnopompia since the whole experience was one single state in which I woke up and fell asleep again a few times. This state had as mentioned the special twist exactly NOT to mix up dream and reality, but rather to keep them completely seperated and yet existing at the same time. No hallucinations at all. But I still have no clue what I'm up against exactly. It'd be easier if I had that experience again, I might try and see if I can get it a second time.