The Review Board

Lucid Adventures
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I recently had an experience, while drifting back to sleep in the morning, of becoming aware of a dream already happening–as if one part of my mind were already in a dream while another part hadn’t fully fallen asleep yet.

The dream came into my awareness in a “fuzzy stream of information,” meaning I couldn’t quite clearly see the dream and yet I felt myself in it and the details in it.
I was sitting at a long table surrounded by a panel of women. They were discussing my spiritual progress and my next steps.

As the me-in-the-bed focused more fully on this dream, my awareness of it dissolved.

This is my first experience, as far as I remember, of having attended a “Review.” Friends of mine, and other dreamers I’ve met online and have read about, have mentioned these type of meetings.

For those of you who have had these “Review” dreams, can you offer me any tips for opening myself up to the experience?

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Your consciousness went back up right after you fell asleep. This happened to me once, I was in a 2-3 minute dream and then I suddenly realized I was dreaming. The dream was very fragile so I woke up into sleep paralysis.

This was at the beginning of the night, mind you. If it wasn’t, I would have probably stayed in the dream, lucid. REM periods at the beginning of the night are short.

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Hmmm…I wouldn’t say I was actually asleep. I was in-between. I was quite aware of lying in my bed, still awake. My body felt heavy, but I wasn’t in full sleep paralysis. I could have moved if I wanted to, I think.

The dream certainly was fragile, like yours. My waking attention seemed to dispel it. It was like a part of me was already asleep and dreaming and a part of me was awake and noticing that a part of me was in a dream.