Thread: "DEILDing" within a dream

Thanks gab!

Yeah, gotta love these weird FA chains! Plus, every time I do essentially a huge WBTB I get like 3-4 LDs... It's phenomenal - just 4 days ago I did this too, rather by my own design, and got 4 LDs (even better than these).

And, yes, I totally agree about WILDing in a dream - I do the same to "teleport" sometimes when I want precision. I just find a silent place to "sleep" in, and visualize where I want to go. But want's weird in this dream, is that when I "DEILDed" I didn't know it was a dream, only to realize this from the "inner dream"! haha

Originally Posted by gab

I would count as a new dream every time you realized you are dreaming or if you remained aware between 2 LDs, when you noticed a transition between them.

This would be 3 then - two DILDs and that "DEILD"... That DEILD had a transition like a normal DEILD would and I had to recall the previous dream - so weird to know in retrospect it wasn't real...

Edit (reply to dolphin to not double post):

Originally Posted by dolphin

So, you only woke up for real during 1 and 8? If so, that would mean you experienced only 1 dream so I would count it as 1 LD.

The dream only ends once you wake up for real. Having a false awakening after a dream is just a scene change of that same dream.

Yes, only during "1" and "8". But I don't wake up* after every dream, especially during the dense morning REMs (in 3. I had a recall of one short and one long non-lucids, that must have occurred between 8:35 and 10:02 IRL - but during this time I didn't wake up - but does this make all of these one dream, even if they had totally distinct themes?). By that logic, if you have a DILD and then DEILD back without waking up completely it's still 1 LD even if the scene is different (most will rather treat it as two discrete dreams), but DEILDing back into the same scene, from fully woken up state would be considered 2 LDs.

Plus, after "3", I was in the void - which I usually treat as what divides two dreams - and slowly falsely "woke up" after.

Normally I would treat it as 2 LDs, because was I truly lucid if I didn't know that the DEILD was false? But it's very tricky, is it 1 or 3 instead?

Edit 2: *rather "notice waking up", but you know what I mean...