I dreamt I thought I was lucid dreaming, but don't think I was!

I am new to all this stuff, and only been trying for a few days, so I know I'm most likely a long way off from attaining lucidity.

However last night I had a strange dream. I actually hadn't put any effort into being lucid that night as I had a tiring day, but I had one dream in which I'm not sure if I was lucid!

I was at home going somewhere, with some people coming to pick me up. They came and when we left I realised I wished I had worn something else. We were stuck in traffic so I decided I had enough time to go home and change. When I was home trying to decide what to wear I realised I was holding everyone up, I looked awful and I had made a mistake in coming back! Then I suddenly thought, hang on I'm in a dream I can change it! I remember thinking, can I shout to my Mum and giving it a go (not sure why that would be a RC but it seemed relevant in my dream!), and also checking the lightswitch to see if it worked which of course it didn't. Then I thought I bet I can fly so I kind of jumped and managed to fly around a bit and thought it seemed cool but nothing amazing. I don't remember anymore after that.

The thing is although I did these things, I don't remember actually being in control.

It's hard to explain, but for me, and I suppose everyone, a normal dream is like a recording, you kind of watch it without having control or realisation. From what I understand in Lucidity it is like you are actually there because of the realisation and I suppose it must feel very different?

In this dream it didn't really feel different. I think because of reading so much about LD I dreamt I was doing it, but actually it was still the recording and I was still watching my dream without any realisation.

Does this make sense?

If this is the case, then I wonder, how will I ever realise I'm in a dream so I can become lucid! In this dream I thought about it and even did a reality check, but I don't think I was ever lucid dreaming - how will I ever really consciously realise and make the transition!

If you noticed in the dream that it was a dream, then you did have a lucid. It has nothing to do with being in control.

But in a dream anything can happen right, so can't you dream that you know you're in a dream, without actually truely realising it?

I don't think I fully understand Lucis Dreaming tbh (I have read a lot, but will read more!), however this dream to me felt like any other dream and I assumed when I was in a lucid dream, no matter whether I had control or not, it would feel somehow different and I would know?

It is possible to just dream of an LD, but when you really have an LD, you'll just know. The feeling is hard to describe, but it's not hard to miss.

hello cathia!
I had the same problem, like 4 times...
read it http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=73299

you are nooooot alone =)

bye!

Ok well good to see I am not alone! I read your thread Mariano and I think it is the same as we. We're really just dreaming about being lucid and in our dream saying " I'm dreaming" but this is the unconsious mind saying it because of all the reading about it.

I know some peope say if you say I'm dreaming in a dream it's an LD, but I don't think mine was because I was just dreaming about something I'd thought so much about (if that makes sense...)

Well I guess I'll have to keep practising and hope eventually I do really realise!

Had the same thing happen to me last night.

happened to me a few months ago.
i think i posted a thread about it.

hello

i am very new to lucid dreaming also. iv had one accidental WILD after getting VERY angry and smashing up a chair (i wont go into the details) :)

anywhoos, because of all the stress i had very bad dream recal so i dont remember it all to well. and it could be that it was a full lucid dream, but i dont remember it clearly.

i am currently reading stephen laberge's 'Exploring the world of Lucid Dreaming'. and i am learnign soooooo much about it.
there was an extract from a dream journal in there and it describes how the moment he realised he was dreaming, it was like he had turned up the dail on everything, everything was more colourful etc. ie everything was more vivid.


another thing i had learnt is that there is a part of the brain were all the senses come together, this part of the brain then takes all these senses and reconstructs a world for our concsious mind.
this is also the part of the brain where dreams are created, simply because in our dreams there are no external sesnses coming in, so they have to be simulated.


BUT, when this part of the brain is only simulating the senses (for our dream) it usualy only simulates sight (and somtimes sound), they are the only 2 senses it needs. yet with reality this part of the brain is recieving LOADS of senses:

-sight
-sound
-touch
-taste
-smell
-balance
-hunger
-thurst
-pressure
-thermoseption (feeling heat)
-neuosiseption (feeling pain)
-and many more

so the next time you are lucid dreaming, tell the part of the brain that generates senses 'the dream generator' to generate the other senses. you know what an apple taste like, pick one up and eat it, look for the taste. feel the grass. smell everything you can find.



so i knwo how you all feel, slightly disapointed, is this all lucid dreaming is. im gonna say no. since my WILD i have learnt so much, and i think you need to aswell. because the more we understand about our brain, the easier it is to control.
let me know if you have any questions.


i will leave you with this quote for the book: (btw READ IT)

"the degree of awareness one is able to achieve while in a dream is in direct proportion to the degree of awarness one experiences in waking life

sorry, to sum up.

practice using all 5 senses in your imaginations and daydreams. + set a goal, (this is my goal atm).

'the next time i have a lucid dream, i want to 'activate' all five senses to make the dream more vivid'

I've had similar experiences long long time ago.

I dreamt about that I was in an elevator with a lot of people and I said "OK, you guys please repeat after me, we are dreaming!!!"

Such situation sometimes happened to me when I almost lost lucidity in a DILD.