Thread: Seeding a visualization to form into a dream

Basically sometimes after about 7 hours sleep I rest in bed usually on my front or partly on my side. I have just woken but I know I'm at that stage where I'm going to get up for the day (not a WBTB) so I just normally enter a light sleep where I have weak but frustrating dreams and fragments before I get up.

However this morning I tried seeding a train of mental visual thought in my head of a route in my house to the front door and outside to the car.
To my amazement (after) the visualization did form to the point where I saw my car from the front like a weak dream (not a daydream.)
As soon as I 'realised' that the visualisation had 'formed' to a high degree then my sudden awareness of the event pulled me back to a more waking level of consciousness breaking the dream and thought stream. (Not the hypnic jerk though that you would get at the start of the night, but the awareness threshold is similar.)

A similar analogy to this would be like lifting the clutch up too fast and stalling the car!

I was not attempting a WILD BTW, although I have managed to partly seed visualisations into images before, etc.

My question therefore is it a matter of practice to try and dampen the realization down in order to carry on the dream and not be overwhelmed by the experience itself, but run the risk of falling asleep or having a non related (non-lucid) dream by being sidetracked/falling deeper asleep, etc?