Waking up feeling

So I was dreaming the other night and there was a boring speaker speaking, and I, bored, was in the audience. When I am bored I tend to remember to do a reality check, so right before I was about to do the deed, I got this feeling that I was about to wake up.

So now I was faced with the prospect of waking up after being lucid for a short while, or instead waiting to do the Rc until my dream was more stable.

I woke up before I could decide :(

Another dream I had, on the same night was that there was a HUGE snake chasing after me, it was extremely slow, so not that scary, but had an accurate sense of smell, and if he did catch up to me it seemed I would be devoured.

Then, after running through many backyards in a foreign neighborhood , I was ahead by several hundred yards. So I cut into a backyard and went across a few untill I opened the gate back to the sidewalk, where he was 15 feet away from me going in the direction away from me.

Then he turned around and started in my direction.

At that point I said, "I am tired of running this is boring" and simply woke up.


WHY CAN'T I OBTAIN LUCIDITY!?!?!

Read up on DEILD. Reenter your dream lucidly.

In that first dream you did obtain lucidity.
You felt like you were going to wake up and were trying to decide whether to do an RC or wait till the dream was more stable. Sounds like you already knew it was a dream, no RC necessary. Thats all lucid dreaming means, knowing its a dream while your still in it.

Perhaps your thinking of control or your level of awareness? You can be lucid and still have no control or still be in a dream state of mind. I've often been lucid but still not reacted as sharply to things as I would if I was awake. It's like parts of your brain are switched off still. In fact I think thats exactly what it is. This will come with practice.

Ya, I guess I did techniclly become lucid and the real question of stability was whether or not to become active and controlling in my dream. Thanks.


hmm Deild... I shall search