Quote Originally Posted by BigFan View Post
hmm, I have to disagree with your final statement about it being impossible to pinpoint the stage of sleep you're in. If you use an EEG(if I'm not mistaken about the machine name) and then once you LD, you can use some kind of signal with your eyes, then the machine will record it. This was how Dr. LaBerge proved that Lucid Dreaming exists. Once you are awake, you can look at the EEG and find the peaks that correspond to your signal and determine the stage of sleep. Far as I know, you can move your eyes in REM, but, not sure about NREM. If you can't do so in NREM, then if the EEG doesn't pick up anything even though you did the signal, it means that you dreamt in NREM, because, if it was REM, then it would have picked it up, so, either way you'll find the stage you dreamt in
Well yes everyone knows this, we're talking about the average person sleeping in their bed at home with no such devices. If you don't have them, it's probably impossible. It may be possible to use one to learn what your NREM and REM dream differences are an guess later on when you're not using a machine. But basically, that's what we're saying- unless you have some sort of device, it's going to be impossible.