Thread: "DEILDing" within a dream

Originally Posted by Spock

But I don't wake up after every dream

If there was a dream you never woke up from, you wouldn't be awake right now. You'd still be in the same dream.

Originally Posted by Spock

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?)

Yes it was one dream. Dreams don't have to have cohesive themes.

Originally Posted by Spock

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

Going into a void is a scene change, just like a false awakening.

Originally Posted by Spock

Normally I would treat it as 2 LDs, because was I truly lucid if I didn't know that the DEILD was false?

It sounds like your DEILD was in a false awakening to me. I doubt your Mom would be more than 1 hour and 38 minutes off in her sense of time if it wasn't a dream.

Originally Posted by gab

But what if you don't wake up completely? If you only realize that one dream has ended, you decide to just hang in there till next one shows. You are aware that you are in your bed, sleeping. All you see is gray emptiness and then you realize you are still "there and dreaming", or "aware" and you force some transition to happen or just wait for a dream to form around you and "stand up" into it.

I define a real awakening as the point where you're only able to perceive objective reality rather than the previous dream.