Thread: I witnessed how a dream starts!

Hi dreamers!

I tried wake-back-to-bed last night, and witnessed how a dream starts from sleep paralysis. I couldn't see anything at first (pitch black during sleep paralysis), but it started to become brighter and brighter as black turned into white. When the brightness reached its climax, it faded from the middle and I found myself dreaming.

Has anyone experience this?
How do your dreams start?

Not too sure if I've ever gotten something like that. Perhaps from a transition where I become lucid in the dream and then it blacks out and I wait for a new scene to appear. It just kind of appears.

When I WILD though, I usually just start some sort of an imagination going and set an intent or direction and pretty soon I find that the imagination becomes real to the point of me being there with all of my senses.

There was one time where I saw how the dream scenario was created and I could actually create it myself. You know when it's pitch black but you can still see some white lines on your field of vision? Well what happened was that those would become the lines of the scenario and would gain colour and become a full scenario. I could then choose where the lines would be and even how to create different scenarios based on different interpretations of the same combination of lines. It's hard to explain, but it was awesome!

Congratulations i think that this was a successfull WILD ! I am experiencing something similar with DEILDS. At first as i enter REM atonia i am feeling vibrations in my head and i can hear some buzzing noises(this lasts for a couple of seconds) then i can see nothing but darkness for a while and if everything goes well in some seconds i will start feeling my dreambody and suddenly i am in a dream.

My first (and last) WILD back in '08 started a bit like that. I fell through my bed, got auditory hallucinations of hooved animals galopping around my head, then "emerged" into a dream scene. Without a body, sadly.

OLHi,
I had actually thought of starting a similar thread to share my experience...but never did...
Most of my lucids are basically DILDS - so I just find myself in the dream, not witnessing how it begins. But I always wanted to know how dreams actually begin...
My Wilds (and OBE-like experiences) - that are not so many - start with me feeling myself in bed and I either lift out of my body, or some random HI becomes gradually real - in quite many different ways. So the dreams begin in different ways based on the initial HI (or body exiting sensation ) and how they gradually transform into a dream scenario.
However, I had a WILD (some years ago) after which I thought exactly like you: I finally witnessed how a dream begins!!!
This is what happened:
After WILDing for quite some time, and after loosing the feeling of my body, I started seeing quick sequences of imagery:
First, quick flashes of B/W cards - just in front of my eyes - with different objects (a pen, an umbrella, a house etc). Then blackness and then quick flashes of COLOR cards with different objects. Then some blackness again and then a bright image with no definite shape - just dots and lines - but with DEPTH/PERSPECTIVE that was MOVING towards me. Then blackness again and I then I find myself lying in a different bed, in a different position. Did a RC, realized I was dreaming and went off flying...

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So, when I woke up, I was amazed! I thought: well that's how dreams begin: first shapes, then color, then depth/perspective and motion, and then the full dream - starting with a FA!
Of course, I gradually got to realize that not every dream starts this way, but it was quite an amazing experience - and one of my favorite - nonetheless !

P.s. 1.I am still pretty sure that most normal dreams start with a FA of you being in another bed and thinking that you have just woke up... so doing a RC upon EVERY awakening is quite a good idea!
2. I don't know why the attached images don't show up. They were a good approximation of the stages...

I have experienced similar.
I am a maladaptive daydreamer and I daydream excessively at night. Eventually, my daydream became extremely vivid and became bright for a moment, and my daydream scene had become my dream location.

Didn't become lucid, because I thought I was still daydreaming. :p