During the last few nights, I begin to fall asleep and suddenly it feels like I have “a mind but no body” for a few minutes, and its really quite disconcerting. In a few moments, I find myself in a virtual dreamworld or whatever, which I’m assuming is lucidity, and usually wake up within 10 minutes. Just have recently begun staying in them instead of waking up right away, but does anybody have any suggestions on staying lucid? And am I doing this right? It seems to take a while to fall asleep but when I do, I go through the process and can feel my body falling asleep… any suggestions or comments would be helpful. Thanks. 
hi there Teaira,
nice to meet you.
yupp… beautifull that’s the perfect time…
the crossover between sleeping and waking is the perfect launch to full lucidity. it’s much like a trance state, yes?
A friend wrote this:
In Dreaming this is one of the things people should learn in the beginning, to develop a detailed visually correct self image. Later on it’s a way of taking skills and devices into dreaming, but in the beginning it is an aid to being there. When I began Dreaming I would sometimes look at my hands and find them amorphous and indistinct, so I consciously, in waking meditation, practised seeing my hands mentally until I could examine them in that in detail and see them correctly. When I had done that I could work in Dreaming with hands that were more than just energy blobs.
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This helps to move you into your dreaming body, once awake. What you could also try is say imagine a picture story book in your hands - with scenery that fascinates you - that you’d lvoe to explore. Try and visualise the texture, imagine your hands running across the cover. You reminding yourself of your intention to look through this book, during your waking state. When you come to the stage of ‘mind, but no body’ you remind yourself of your goal. With practise, you can get a page of the book to appear in front of you.
From here, it is only a matter of further experience, until you can gradually expand the outlines of the page, and enter the scenery itself. Visual gateways are an exciting way to dream, and I hope what I’ve written is of some help.
Bye now, explora