Thread: Dreams of Having Lucid Dreams?

In the past, usually when I became lucid, I did not have any idea that I could change the dream. So if there is a monster chasing me and I realize I am dreaming, then I would think to myself something like, "thank god I'm only dreaming and that monster can't hurt me if he catches me" but it would never occur to me that I could just quit running too!

Last night, I dreamt that I was trying to have a WILD. In the dream, I thought I was awake and trying to enter into sleep paralysis. It didn't work, but I wonder if it could. I mean, if I have a dream of having a lucid dream- can I really be lucid in the second dream even though I was not in the first?

One thing that I've learned here is that there are all levels of lucidity and control.

Originally Posted by lucyoncolorado

I mean, if I have a dream of having a lucid dream- can I really be lucid in the second dream even though I was not in the first?.

Thats what we need to figure out! In other words what do you think? The first post of this thread (by me) i personally think isnt considered a lucid. BUT the second one which i have reposted below, i personally think gets some credit atleast for a lucid: I was truly awake in my dream. The only aspect of the lucid that goes against the norm of lucidity is the fact that i thought i was truly in the park, not in bed. But in a sense its just like i had a 2nd layer of what is the waking world. Pretty cool. :


Weird Attainment of Lucidity
So last night another crazy thing happened.

I was having a dream that i was having a 'play war' on this big field with a lot of hills. I went behind a HUGE hill where some people were sitting on chairs. Most of the people soon left and i sat down and became tired in the dream. I was looking at some girl that was there, but with eyes closed ( HI ? ). Soon i see her get up and i feel as if i just did a WILD so i get up, do some reality checks etc.

I am dreaming and lucid, from then on i am excited that i did my first WILD and am lucid till waking. While lucid i know i am asleep, but think i am asleep in the chair at the park. After waking up i think it was a real wild, but then realize it was like a dream-to wild.

Though i attained a lucid in an odd way i personally think that it can be considered a 'real' lucid, felt very real and in control, besides of course thinking i was asleep in a dream i failed to realize was a dream.

What do you think?

Probably more experienced people can give better advice. Although I've become lucid in a fleeting way off and on all my life, it has never lasted long and I've never tried to control a dream except for once- the WILD I had about a week ago. That is the only time that I've ever become completely lucid, intentionally, for any period of time. It felt completely different from dreaming, completely unmistakable. So if you are sure that you were lucid in your dream-within-a-dream, then I don't doubt you.

Here's what I'm thinking. I wonder if this is just a DILD only instead of using a reality check, you are dreaming of doing a WILD. You aren't really doing a WILD of course, you are just dreaming of it and this prompts you to be lucid the same way a reality check would for someone else. I think this is what you meant all along- sorry I'm new to all these terms and still a little amazed that there are so many people talking about all this!

Anyway, it sounds really cool. When I had my dream of trying to WILD, I was even chanting to myself "I'm dreaming" "I'm dreaming" just like I did the only time I did it successfully, and yet even though I was saying "I'm dreaming" I didn't realize that I actually was dreaming.