Thread: Are FA's progress?

It makes you wonder why FA's start after you begin to get lucid. They are so common amongst people who lucid dream, but I can only rarely remember having them, just a few times in my life before.

The brain has numerous ways to try and trick you when you are dreaming.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

It makes you wonder why FA's start after you begin to get lucid. They are so common amongst people who lucid dream, but I can only rarely remember having them, just a few times in my life before.

The brain has numerous ways to try and trick you when you are dreaming.

That is an excellent and fascinating question Moonbeam. Like you, I don't recall every having FA's prior to starting lucid dreaming. For me, like Robot Butler (funny avatar), it feels like some halfway point between lucidity and unconscious dreaming, which is why I was thinking/hoping it was some kind of progress towards more regular lucidity. And, during most of my FAs, I've had lucid dreaming on my mind when they occurred (for example, I'm laying there trying to invoke a lucid dream, not realizing I'm asleep). I didn't think of it before as my brain "trying to trick me", but who knows! It is interesting why this happens, I wonder what others think?

Originally Posted by PaleRider

it feels like some halfway point between lucidity and unconscious dreaming, which is why I was thinking/hoping it was some kind of progress towards more regular lucidity.

My most common FA is trying to write in my dream journal, but something always goes wrong. Sometimes it will happen several times in a row. It actually helps me remember my dream.

I think you're right, Pale, it's definitely progress.