Have you ever experienced a dream where you suddenly noticed that it is a dream?
On rear occasions, my concious would sort of wake up during a dream, and I would suddenly notice that it is a dream, for sure (dream images tend to be blurry and vague and reality is clear and sharp, as far as I can comprehend). Now, I am sort of free in the dream before I truly wake up from my sleep. From my experience, there is usually about a minute of "grace period" (as I call it) that remains before waking up from the dream.
I've had this happen a few times while during nightmares involving some inhuman creature (monster, ghost, whatever). It's annoying, when I really want to wake up from it, but I just can't get myself to do so. I've even tried pinching myself. It's a myth. It never seem to work. Sometimes, I don't even feel the pinch.
In more relaxed dreams, once I noticed that it is a dream, I can sort of feel this freedom, as if I was no longer confined to some sort of determined theme. I can walk around it and explore it, but just a very small amount of it, because the "grace period" ends very quickly.
These occurances are quite rare, and I haven't experienced any within the past two or three years as far as I can remember. Can anyone explain this strange phenomena?
On rear occasions, my concious would sort of wake up during a dream, and I would suddenly notice that it is a dream, for sure (dream images tend to be blurry and vague and reality is clear and sharp, as far as I can comprehend). Now, I am sort of free in the dream before I truly wake up from my sleep. From my experience, there is usually about a minute of "grace period" (as I call it) that remains before waking up from the dream.
I've had this happen a few times while during nightmares involving some inhuman creature (monster, ghost, whatever). It's annoying, when I really want to wake up from it, but I just can't get myself to do so. I've even tried pinching myself. It's a myth. It never seem to work. Sometimes, I don't even feel the pinch.
In more relaxed dreams, once I noticed that it is a dream, I can sort of feel this freedom, as if I was no longer confined to some sort of determined theme. I can walk around it and explore it, but just a very small amount of it, because the "grace period" ends very quickly.
These occurances are quite rare, and I haven't experienced any within the past two or three years as far as I can remember. Can anyone explain this strange phenomena?