Hi,
Im Neil a lapsed lucid dreamer who has been meaning to get back into it for ages. I am at univesity studing film production. I heard about a research project that required people to write a dream joural and throught it would be a great motivation to start trying to LD again.
Last night I watched (most of) the film Paprika before sleeping, we were given a list of dream related films to watch before sleeping to see if they influenced your dreams. I got really tired and turned it off (will watch the rest this evening). I checked my clock before going to bed and it was around 22:30 (possibly later). I thought about dreaming and remebering my dreams while falling asleep.
The next think I know I was in a lucid dream. I was telling an old friend that ‘we are dreaming’. I managed to increase the vividess by spinning, but I dont think I was 100% lucid. I had fun flying around in the dream (dream flying is usually hard for me but last night it was easy) and even tried to act out a part in the film Paprika where she flies from up hight in the sky very quickly towards earth (the memories hazy, but I think I did it).
I woke up assuming it was hours after I had gone to sleep. I checked my phone and was amazed to see it was only 23:22. I aways thought you had to have slept awhile to be able to dream, something about REM sleep. Looking at this site I guess it may be possible I had some kind of accidental Wake Induced Lucid Dream.
So decided to sign up to see if anyone had any ideas about why I had a LD at such an unusual time. Anyone got a theory?
Thanks in advance.