Thread: I'm back with a question!

Hey, first hello again to evererybody. I've started Lucid Dreaming about 3 years ago and had small successes with DILDs but somehow I lost touch with the theme. Might be because my way to school made me get up at 6 o Clock in the morning which didn't leave me a lot of room to experiment with LDs. Anyway, I just finished school and as university starts in september I have a lot of time to sleep (thank god )!! So I'm back and this time I really want to try hard!!

Well, now to my question:

This night I tried to WILD but I was too awake and so I decided to try to get back to sleep normally. Then my mind must have drifted away to enter a normal dream (I don't remember anything of this but I'm sure that I didn't try anything to stay conscious) but suddenly I found myself in my bed, still awake but seeing pictures and hearing sounds and I knew I was about to fall asleep. But as I realized this and so logically thought about it I woke up (and confirmed this with a RC).

Pretty excited I wanted to get back to sleep normally and the same thing happened again, just more intense and with a lot of noise on my ears but I woke up again (and confirmed this with a RC).

I think both times I was so surprised that I had no clue what to do and so I just started trying to tell myself "you are going to enter a LD" or something like this...I'm pretty sure my problem was that I just concentrated and thought too much so that I couldn't enter my dream.

Do you have any suggestions what I could do the next time this happens to me? Has anyone experienced the same thing?

Thanks in advance!