Interesting experience.
But in terms of classification, I would simply call it a DILD, with the voidspace being nothing more than a dream sign.
I suspected as much too.
It'd be interesting to develop a way to use dream transition time to get lucid. We have several dreams a night, right? If there were a way to determine and use the transition periods between regular dreams there would be the potential for getting lucid even more. I'm willing to bet though that not all dreams transition the same. Just idle ponderings.
Had an interesting experience this month. I became lucid at the very end of one dream because I realized it was 'dream end' ... stayed lucid for the few moments of void space... and managed to hang onto lucidity as a new dream formed all around me.
I got to wondering about the void or transition area between dreams. Would becoming lucid via void be it's own classification if an actual dream had not formed yet?
The voids are interesting. How would you describe the void you experienced?
The void, which was only a few moments, was greyish and somehow chaotic. It didn't appear to be doing anything but I could feel something else was brewing up.
...and managed to hang onto lucidity as a new dream formed all around me.
Pretty cool, Vex! For me, when the dream imagery goes away while lucid, I almost always wake up. I sometimes get some HI before waking up, but that's about it.
Also, did you use any particular technique to get the new dream going without losing lucidity? Or it just happened?
I did almost wake up. At the moment the previous dream ended and I realized it was ending I felt on the verge of waking. The void came, was just sort of there, and I knew I'd wake up if i didn't do something. I clasped my hands together as tightly as possible and repeated, "I'm dreaming, I'm sleeping, I'm dreaming, I'm lucid,..." or variations of those. It worked. I hanged on through the void, which was a bit scary because I'd never experienced that type of environment before, so serene but at the same time dangerous feeling. The new dream formed abruptly. It started from my feet, with grass and worked it's way up to the sky. It happened startlingly quickly and then there was this huge jolt, like the whole world fell into place or something. That nearly knocked me out of the dream too, that giant jolt. I jumped onto the nearest house and ran my hands along the grit of the shingles to anchor myself in. It worked.
Had an interesting experience this month. I became lucid at the very end of one dream because I realized it was 'dream end' ... stayed lucid for the few moments of void space... and managed to hang onto lucidity as a new dream formed all around me.
I got to wondering about the void or transition area between dreams. Would becoming lucid via void be it's own classification if an actual dream had not formed yet?
Sounds similar to the DEILD (Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dream) where a person just lays still after waking up from a dream, and waits for the next dream to form, which is a very effective technique.
I've never been able to DEILD. Maybe this was an in dream version of it? The thing that triggered lucidity was the realization the dream was ending. It was weird experience. I've dropped through floors to change dream scenes and when I do that it's a black void I fall through to the next dream. I've also commanded a dream to change and watched as one dream scene constructed itself downward, like puzzles snapping together, over the old dream scene. There was no void in that though. This was probably the strangest and scariest transition I've ever been through. I want to experience it again.
