Thread: My chance of becoming lucid depends on the type of dream

It seems that the more abstract and/or story driven my dream is, the less likely I am to become lucid. Most of my DILDs start from false awakenings or dreams that mimic waking life situations. Has anyone else experienced this?

Yes, it comes and goes like this. I think that it usually is the other way around, your more aware dreams are more like waking and your less aware dreams are less like waking. This is because you are more aware of what life should be like. My dreams used to be like that, but I think it has changed since I have become lucid in more situations, then when I am aware in a dream it doesn't feel like it has to follow that set of rules. Does this make sense?

I used to think of it like the dream not wanting me to get lucid, so when I was aware enough it would not give me anything crazy. I then realized that I "unconsciously" had created this idea accidentally. I ended up breaking through it with incubation so that I can dream about what I want to an extent.

opposite has always been true for me, but the vast majority of my dreams are unrealistic, so maybe I just have a skewed probability.

Dreams where I die or I am severely injured and know I am going to die have made me lucid when I asked myself questions like "Is this what dying really feels like?" and "Am I dying?" These types of dreams are not like any waking life situations I have experienced so far. In fact with false awakenings or brief dreams where everything seems as it should be I am not always sure even after I wake up whether I was dreaming or not.

But also on days where I am really tired and I need to get up and do something, images of me getting up and doing things like taking a shower and putting on clothes will flash through my mind and I will just lie in bed with the vague notion that I haven't actually gotten up yet but that is always more like hypnopompic hallucinations.

Stress dreams are likely to make me lucid. If I'm in a stressful or anxiety-provoking situation in a dream, I will frequently have a feeling that for some reason, the bad things that are happening to me aren't actually a problem or aren't actually happening. Sometimes, based on this feeling, I am able to conclude that I'm dreaming.