Was this a true lucid?

**cyanidebaby** · 07-20-2014 03:11 PM

It was about 9:55am this morning, I'd been up 40mins thinking about dreaming and recalling my non-lucids from the night before. I thought 'okay, one last go at WBTB before I get up. Morning is usually good for me, my lucid rate on a morning is much higher than through the night.' I fell asleep quickly.

DREAM:

I'm in the street on my phone. Then, a familliar DC's voice tells me I said before that we were going to try and WILD. (The DC from this thread:http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...-i-nutjob.html ) I say, 'yeah, that's right we were, last time before I get up.' The scene changes and I'm back in bed, the DC speaks hypnotically to me, at first I say it isn't working, but then I see hypnogogic imagery and realise it is.

So now, my dream self is in a lucid dream in an office block. This is the part where it gets confusing. I knew something was wrong, or she did, I'm not sure, my senses didn't kick in, and it was bothersome. I thought 'What the hell kind of LD is this?' 'Where are my senses? Where's my heightened awareness? I want my senses, but they're not here. Why the hell am I in an office block? There's nothing here. Let's go!' So my dream self opened a door, and I could sort of feel it, but not as intensely as my last LD (which is admittedly the first mid level lucid I've ever had, it was a layer 3.) This time was like I was controlling her with a playstation controller, I could influence her, but I wasn't her. communicate what she needed to do and what was wrong with the dream situation, but my attempt to meld with her didn't work. There was a flash of me in my real bed trying to combine with her, but nothing happened. My consciousness was hit and miss. Part of me must've remembered my dream goals though, because I decided that if I could kiss someone, I'd get my senses and then we could have a better LD. The scene changed, and my dream self was kissing a different incarnation of the DC that helped me get lucid, but from what I could feel of it, it was terrible and not very lifelike at all, I got a vague sense of it, but no real sensation. I thought, 'Are you serious right now? I just sort of completed a goal but it was appalling, there was drool everywhere' I got bored and thought 'okay then, if this is all I'm reaching now, wake up, just wake up.' I woke up. Some of the thinking was me, but some was my dream self. I don't know how to classify it.

What do you think? Dream or very low-level LD?

**cyanidebaby** · 07-20-2014 08:59 PM

Also, how do you grade levels of lucidity?

**LDman** · 07-20-2014 09:55 PM

The levels of lucidity.

**cyanidebaby** · 07-20-2014 11:23 PM

Thanks so much! I'll use this all the time now.

With this particular dream, I don't know how to categorise it, cause it was a (lucid?) dream about a lucid dream. I WILDed within the dream, and I felt like there were bits that I was influencing (like deciding if I couldn't break through using the usual stabilising techniques I should try kissing a DC, which is also a lucid goal) and then the dream changed and my dream avatar WAS kissing someone. What do you think?

**Wolfdog** · 07-20-2014 11:36 PM

I believe you did got lucid, but your awareness of the whole situation was too low; basically, a very low level of lucidity. I've been currently experiencing these low level lucids in my dreams as well. Guess we just need more practice to slowly raise our awareness and feel we're truly in direct control of our actions in the dream. It's complicated to classify said experience because of the low level of lucidity; at times you feel you're truly aware of being lucid, and at times it feels as if it's all just a dream about being lucid and fulfilling your lucid goal. Nonetheless, if at some point during the dream you had the slightest idea you were dreaming, then sure, I'll say the experience falls under a lucid dream.