Thread: Have I been having lucid dreams?

Your second dream sounds a bit like a pre-lucid where have the idea that you might be dreaming but for some reason ingore it or come to a conclusion that you're not.

Anyway, those definitely aren't lucids because you didn't realize that you was dreaming. Remember: A dream is a lucid dream if, and only if, while dreaming, you're aware of the fact that you're dreaming. It doesn't matter whether you have control over your dream or not.

I really think I might have been aware of dreaming-on both. Because I remember choosing what I was going to say or do on the first one. And on the second one I woke up because I realized that I had to be dreaming since there is no school on Saturday.

Dear Dancing,

Once upon a time there were no Lucid Dreams -- not that anybody spoke of as being separate and distinct phenomenas --, but people nonetheless could work on their Dream Lives by suggestion. After having so many recurrent dreams, one would repeatedly suggest to ourselves a course of action. And yes, eventually we would incorporate that action into a dream. Likewise we would have real knowledge flash up in a dream -- that it was a friday night and so we could keep sleeping.

The first Lucid Dreams occurred along these same lines. For instance, one finds that an arm is cut off in a dream and then thinks to oneself, in order to calm the incipient panic "no need to worry... this is a dream, and I will awake later and my arm will be fine". The realization within the dream that one was dreaming is the key to technical Lucidity.

Before Lucid Dreams, Carl Jung used to speak of Big Dreams. A dream can be Big without being Lucid. And a Lucid Dream is not necessarily a Big Dream. What defines a Big Dream is its intensity -- the clarity of consciousness, whether one realizes it is a dream or simply thinks it is Real Life, and the vividness of the colors and the sounds -- the perceptions.