Thread: Dreaming you are lucid

Yes, it's really strange. I had one once. I flew for the first time in that dream. You have more control than a normal dream but less than a true lucid. In this kind of dream you eventually "wake up" and go through it mindlessly. When you're at the lucid part you don't think nearly as rationally. Normally my lucid thoughts would be: okay I'm dreaming I can do this this or this. Or I want to do this how can I acheive this goal. In the dream in a dream I thought: I want to fly! and then I did. It was like being lucid because I remembered the lake I flew over and stuff, but it was like I had less control and I was more spontanious.

dreaming you are lucid? I'm assuming you mean falling asleep in a dream and then becoming lucid. That's only happened to me once and I didnt feel any real difference in dream control.

Now that my friend is a predicament!

What about having a dream were you are dreaming and in the dream dream you are also dreaming.

Well wouldn't it be a good thing? You would still be lucid, and everytime you wake up, you'd have a chance at getting lucid AGAIN, since its really just a false awakening.

What I mean is...I had a dream I was lucid, but I didn't control myself...at least I don't think I did. I was basically watching myself through my eyes doing things...I wasn't fully dully lucid to calm down and think. And when I awoke it was as if I awoke from a normal dream, they say when you awake from a lucid it is more...real. But I don't even remember waking to it...Maybe it's my dream recall

Originally posted by Kid-Lucid
What I mean is...I had a dream I was lucid, but I didn't control myself...at least I don't think I did. I was basically watching myself through my eyes doing things...I wasn't fully dully lucid to calm down and think. And when I awoke it was as if I awoke from a normal dream, they say when you awake from a lucid it is more...real. But I don't even remember waking to it...Maybe it's my dream recall

I used to wonder the same thing because I often had dreams where I would say "hey, I'm dreaming," but then had very little control and seemed to slip back into a non lucid dream. You may have been lucid, but at very low level and then slipped back into unconsciousness. There's a lucid context and non-lucid context to each dream and they are fighting for control. I think the non-lucid context is just much stronger in this case and therefore gained control, especially with you just watching - you get caught up in the events and you lose consciousness.

surely if you're able to think "i'm lucid" then you have to be lucid?

I had a crazy dream that I became lucid and switched the scene, so I knew I was lucid. In another part of the dream, I remember I was telling my dad that I controlled my dream, and he didn't seem to believe it! Then I woke up and discovered that I really hadn't been lucid. Strange huh?

Originally posted by milkeyedmender
surely if you're able to think \"i'm lucid\" then you have to be lucid?

Nope. This happens all the time for me; I have far more 'dreams about lucid dreams' than actual lucid dreams. I put it down to reading about lucid dreams etc. so much, and so you dream about it, and dream about the types of experiences other people have had in lucid dreams, or experiences that you want to have in lucid dreams. The thing is, you aren't actually lucid. It's often hard to tell if you were lcuid in the dream, or if you were simply dreaming about being lucid all the way through.

I think I've had about ten dreams that I've said "Hey! I'm dreaming!" and then proceeded to go on with whatever I was doing before, as if I'd forgotten it was a dream, and I'd have no more than average control after that. I always wonder when I wake up if I really was lucid or if I just thought I was. :/ I'm pretty sure I've had one *real* lucid dream out of the ten, because I felt more solid and real than in other dreams.

Yes, in fact i only had one lucid dream and was of that type. I dreamed that i had an accident and i was in comma, but while i was in comma i realiced that all that was just a dream, it was then when i become lucid. Sadly, i got too excited and waked my self up.

After that i did a GoogleSearch and i ended up here. So now my goal is to have an other lucid dream baut with better results.

PD: well this was my first post... and have in mind i am from argentina (we speak spanish), so my english should be terrible.

I have dreamt that i was attempting the "WILD" technique, and almost succeded...very irritating when I woke up, realising that it was a dream from the beginning

its very possible.

what he is saying is he dreamed that he was lucid but he wasnt, its happened to me before.

i had a dream that i was lucid and making things happen, when in reality i wasnt lucid, Example: in my dream i dreamed that i was indeed in a lucid dream, and i dreamed that i actually willed myself to turn a wall a different color, and while i was dreaming i thought i was lucid, but i was really dreaming it. I wasnt lucid, i just dreamed that i was. its hard to explain but its possible, it happened to me twice. I once had a non lucid dream where in the dream i yelled to a DC "ITS JUST A DREAM, DONT BE SCARED" when in fact i wasnt lucid. its confusing upon awakening but you have to ask yourself "did i will the wall to change colors or did my dream will me to make the wall change colors and think i was the one changing the walls colors" etc. Its very possible

if you think about wish about being lucid every night its bound to happen, of course you'll eventually have a dream that you are lucid, when your not actually lucid. Its just like having a dream where you discuss lucid dreams with a dream character (DC) and still dont become lucid, and wake up pissed off that you missed that huge dreamsign.

in my false lucid dream i even did a reality check to determine if i was awake or not, and i still didnt become lucid, even while i was dreaming that i was lucid. its trippy

okay, my opinion has changed. the other night i was running through a house, and when i sat down i thought to myself "i've been here before, i should have become lucid", while dreaming it's weird, it's like i was treating the dream as past tense while it was happening.

Okay, I've totally had two of these! It's where, in your dream, you think you're lucid but you aren't actually lucid. Very annoying! You'd think if you could say, "I'm lucid" that you would be, but for some reason it just doesn't work.

Thinking you are lucid could be the ultimate cue for becoming lucid.

Last summer, I had a dream that I was having a lucid dream with my eyes open and doing things around town. I guess I was lucid, but I had false understanding of what was really going on. I really thought I was doing stuff around town. I went around (didn't drive because I thought it might be dangerous, so I was a passenger) town with great amazement as I thought I was in a really trippy mental state. Well, I was, but not the one I thought I was in. Then I woke up and realized that the lucid dream had actually taken place on my couch. A few weeks ago, I did the same thing, except I just had a brief conversation with my sister while I thought I was in bed and she was standing in the room and talking to me.