Sometimes when I go to sleep and I'm really tired. I'll lay in bed and just think about things. Most of the time I'll play out little scenes in my head.

But sometimes, when I do that, I actually start to dream that. Except, I know I'm not asleep. I never went through sleep paralysis, but I can see all the imagery in my head just as if it was a dream.

Most of the time, I'll do something in this sleepless dream that will cause me to jump and wake up.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? If so, does anyone know what this is called?

If I can figure out how to achieve this more often, I can probably try to turn it into a Lucid Dream technique.