Okay, commonly during the day, more specifically when I am tired (i don’t know why it happened today, I got 8 hours of sleep), I will often fall into a sort of daze where I just put my head back and my mind wanders.
More often than not, this leads me to a sort of dream state. I am controlling the images in my head, but I know I’m not asleep, I’m just kind of visualizing this stuff. Then all of a sudden, this is how they always seem to occur, I perform some sort of action (about 5 minutes ago I did this, I was in a city type thing and jumping over brick walls, then I decided to jump really high so I crouched and pushed off) and then I kind of mimic the action in real life. So for example, in the scenario that I parenthesized above, I guess I sort of pushed off the ground in my chair and i woke up sliding across the floor on the wheels of my chair. I kind of fell into the dream state just moments before I did the final jump.
Now what I want to know is this. What kind of dreams am I having? I start off knowing it’s not a dream but I then fall into a dream because I’m tired and have my eyes closed, and what I’m then imagining becomes the dream sequence.
Another question: I could use this to help me start lucid dreaming on a consistent basis, correct? I could wake myself up in the middle of the night and simple imagine the scenario type thing and fall asleep to it? Or would this be more effective to LD during daytime naps?
Also, another scenario that commonly takes place is I will be having the above type nap/dreams, and somehow it’ll turn into me falling off a building, or from the sky or jumping off a cliff or something, this is when I think I go from lying down to asleep mode, and I lose control of what’s happening in my mind. So I’ll be falling and then the moment I hit the ground I wake up, or I wake up just before I hit the ground. It almost feels as if I can feel my dream body falling back into my real body. Like an airy weight falls on me and instantly goes away. It’s really weird and that commonly happens when i’m lying down and not just lying with my head back in a chair or something.
Any ideas?