hello!
I post this because as I can see, a lot of people questions involves if they were lucid or not.
I'm here to talk about False Lucid Dreams, Lucid Dreams, and, if it's necessary, Levels Of Lucidity.
I must let everyone who is confused, clear their doubts with this, and also, fix another problem, that is that sometimes, people post a thread like "was this a lucid dream?", and when it wasn't, other people answer "yes, it was a lucid dream because ****** ".
I don't want people to be excited of something that isn't happening, and I don't want them to follow a wrong path.
I'm not the best person to talk about this, I know there are people who are more experienced, so if you think you can add something...DO IT. It's important to post a definately post about what really lucid dreams are, and when one is lucid or not.
I'm not a guru on lucid dreaming, I just know a lot of things, but if I don't say these things, who is going to do it?
Lucid Dreams
"A lucid dream is one in where you are aware that you are dreaming"
that's it. We can answer all of our question with that. Really....can we?. I don't think so, I think we should add something. What means to be aware? What's awareness? Right now, your Consciousness is ON, or that's what you think. If your Consciousness is ON, then that means you know where you are, and why, and how...and....etc...
An example of being unaware could be : you are daydreaming, in fantasy land, unaware of what's happening around you, unaware that you are lost in thoughts...
So, A lucid dream is one in where you aware that you are dreaming..that means : you know that you are inside your mind, inside a dream, that your physical body is sleeping, that nothing around you is real, that nothing can harm you, that you are "god", you feel yourself like you generally do in Waking Life(I was going to say Real Life, but I know that dreams are part of your Real Life, they are not real, ok, but they are part of the "Realness")when you discover all of this in a dream, then a wave of happiness occur, because it's like being Neo in the Matrix when he UNDERSTOOD he was the chosen one.
It's an analogy. In "The Matrix", Morfeous says to him that he believes Neo is the chosen one(a character in your dreams says to you that he thinks you are dreaming), a lot of things happens next, finally Neo, becomes "lucid", becomes aware of everything, now he understand that he is The Chosen One, and he can do whatever he want, he is like GOD(in a dream, you, for some reason, become aware that you are dreaming)
That's a Lucid Dream, that's being lucid in a dream. For example, in a dream, you can say "oh I'm dreaming", and not become lucid, did you know that?, why? because you are still expecting for something.
When you are in dreams, if they are non-lucid, you are unaware, that means that your Consciousness is OFF.
If this Consciousness doesn't switch to ON, then, you are NOT lucid.
If these things happens, and the switch doesn't become ON, then these are not Lucid Dreams.
1)you see your surroundings and say, oh I'm dreaming of course, this is not real, and the dream continues.
2)you controlling all of the surroundings of the dream, because you are powerful
3)you controlling the surroundings of the dream, because you think is a dream
4)you do a RC, and you think you are dreaming, then you start to do a lot of things that involves what you always wanted to do.
False Lucid Dreams
BUT "believe", and "be", are two differents things. In Matrix, Neo starts to believe, before he gets shooted, that he is the Chosen One, but that not means too much, he starts to bend some rules, believing and believing, but not "Lucid" at the moment...(in a dream, you can "believe" you are dreaming, so you do a RC to confirm it and transform the Believe on Be)
Then, when he wakes up(after he is shooted) and understand everything, he is on the state of BE = BEING LUCID
That means his Consciousness turned ON. If this doesn't happen, then, no matter what, you will still being blind, in a world that you think you know.
A False Lucid Dream is defined by: A dream about you being lucid, but with the Consciousness OFF.
Because, you can't believe what you said, if you said "Oh , this is a dream, I know I am dreaming balhlah..." and still continue in the dream with the switch turned OFF, then it wasn't lucid.
Is only lucid if you are in the dream and .... "oh, this is a dream!(Consciousness ON) etc."
This Conciousness can't exactly be explained, only felt.
I had A LOT of FLD(False Lucid Dream) and they are very disturbing.. In these dreams, things like these happens a lot:
"you are in the dream, walking, and you have the feeling that you are dreaming, you do an RC to confirm it, and it fails(for example you pinch your nose and try to breath, and you breath! good), but for some reason, the Consciousness doesn't switch to ON, so, every action you do from this moment, will still be non-lucid, no matter what..for example,after that, I generally fly, see my surroundings a little more, I do dream goals..after all, is only a dream in where you think you are lucid, and you start to do the things that you think you will do in a lucid dream"
No matter what, if this Conciousness doesn't go ON, it will felt like "hey, it wasn't me" or "hey, was this a lucid dream?" or "hey, I don't know if I was lucid or not"... and so...
Another thing that happens in False Lucid Dreams is something like: "hey, this is a dream, I'm lucid, I know I'm a dreaming, I'm aware of everything, I know where is my physical body...!", is like trying to autoconvince one self....
An analogy could be something like :
John = Bob, you mother died, I'm really sorry (and this really happened)
Bob = no! NO ! she is not dead, she is alive, you don't understand anything!
After all,if the switch is not ON, then words,actions, everything, means NOTHING.
Is easy to recognize False Lucid Dreams,if you know. When these happens, the most important thing that happens is the moment you wake up: "hey! what happened, was that a lucid dream? I'm not sure!"
We can say that DOUBT is a crucial point. DOUBT = FALSE LUCID DREAM
Levels Of Lucidity
When this switch of Consciousness turns ON, then here appears the levels of lucidity.
I won't speak too much of these, because everybody experiment them in different ways.
I only can say that, if you are not too Lucid, it feels strange, like you can't remember some things of your waking life, like in your mind there are differents memories. Like if you first wake up in the morning....for example.
When you are very lucid, you feel the same awareness as in Waking Life (expecting that you are aware here, no?)
The Main Point
I'm going to say one more thing. When you wake up, after that dream, no matter what, the only person that can says if it was a lucid dream, is YOU, and nobody more.
bye!
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