Is it possible to consciously induce REM sleep or slow sleep?

[Chaosseraph88]

I think in order to get a PHd over here, you have to take a series of exams, along with submitting a thesis.
The school systems here are based on competition rather than merit... it seems to me

[cylinder2166]

Listen,I think that it truly is possible to induce an REM cycle while awake.I have some theories that I want to run by you.My e-mail is majesty2166@gmail.com,please contact me with the title for the message reading:REM(so that i know its you).Until we speak...



-Cylinder

[deyouggerry]

I have a similar experience. When I start to try to sleep I see faces and they keep changing into other faces men, women, old young and like you bam I am dreaming but I am conscious of the dreams at the first ten or fifteen minutes.

[cylinder2166]

I've done that too,i've been trying to do it while just sitting instead of laying down but it's really hard lol,but I think thats just a few steps behind what we're going for.The furthest i've gotten is more like daydreaming but we both know that thats not exactly an rem cycle...is it?

[try2figure8]

i have had fully awake REM sleep maybe ten times....

eyes bouncing bake and forth much faster than i could ever do it consciously.....

having a dream....

i can feel my body.....

hear the sounds of my surroundings...

wide awake....

it is quite bizarre....

i have not played with it in a while...

it is absolutely possible......

it always starts with me flying through a meteor shower as it fly's passed me... then my eye's start bouncing from slow to fast.....

then i pop into a dream.....

but i am wide awake.... completely aware of my body...

enjoy!