A word of caution: be careful googling anything about sleep. I'll just leave it at that.
I mention this because I did some googling myself earlier trying to figure something out. I happened to lie down and fall asleep for 11 minutes. Not a part of my sleep schedule, I know, but the results were very interesting. In those 11 minutes I had a dream, a very vivid dream. This confuses me because the REM stage comes last, and yet I clearly had a dream. (I was in a wheelchair for a bad sprained ankle. And then I was rock climbing.) I had this little nap about 5 hours after waking, so I can't imagine it being an extension of my last REM period. I'm not exactly sure what to think. I couldn't readily find any reliable information on the subject, but I'll keep digging. Anyone have some insights?
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Hey Reggie, It's Sally. I think the nap dreams come from the same place that lucid dreams come from, an active control of the imagination paired with the subconsious thoughts that linger as we fall asleep. I usually constitute it with what day dreams are, the kind that you actually snap out of? I think it's just a manifestation of the concious and subconcious thoughts in a sleep state.
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ReplyDeleteCaffeine has come up often over the last month. I think nap dreams are very close to lucid dreams, as well. I can't recall the technique, but during my studies of lucid dreaming I recall a method of inducing lucid dreams by staying awake for a while, then going back to sleep. There are all kinds of -ILD methods for lucid dreaming.
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