Is there a Name for This Phenomenon?

**Protected2013** · 06-23-2010 05:12 PM

When you have no logical reason to believe you are dreaming. There was **no** Reality Check done or anything first to make sure you weren't wake. No technique done before. It feels almost like a flash of insight or a feeling, like it. Like you sense you are dreaming without really sensing it. Like it's second nature, but more like 3rd nature?

I don't really know how to explain it, but lately, thinking back, the RCs and other techniques happened AFTER this flash of insight. And many times I don't think i really did any RCs....they were more like playing within the dream after becoming lucid because i couldn't think of anything else to do.

What is this called, does it have a name?
Anyone else experience this?

**Hazel** · 06-23-2010 05:16 PM

There's not really an official name for it. Most just refer to it as spontaneous lucidity. It's not uncommon, either. I'd say that about 80% of my DILDs are achieved without reality checks.

**Philosopher8659** · 06-23-2010 05:19 PM

One thing that you learn is something prior to language, it is a feeling, a perspective, a knowing that one is not one's perception but something before perception. One develops it in lucid dreaming, but it is lucidity itself, something called self- awareness, but it is awareness of the self by realizing not the self, but the absence of self in one's perception. It should be cultivated into waking life because it is a raised form of awareness.

**Protected2013** · 06-23-2010 05:33 PM

even before you knew that "lucid dreaming" existed, and it was normal to NOT do any technique what so ever? Like eating or ...sleeping? And people look at you weird when you ask them if they've ever realized they're dreaming. and they say "you really must be dreaming!" when you're a child?

**Philosopher8659** · 06-23-2010 05:38 PM

Awareness changes psychological profile. Normal people subjectively identify with perceptions, they are "one with the universe". Awareness is the distinction of individuality, of the self before perception.

As such, the more aware you are, the stranger you will be to those around you--if you do not learn to hide it.

Subjective identification with perception is expected, supported by laws and customs. It is exhibited in the behavior that "someone made me mad" "someone else is to blame for how I feel" etc.

**Puffin** · 06-23-2010 05:57 PM

I call it spontaneous lucidity/awareness. Almost all of my lucid dreams are achieved through it.

**Philosopher8659** · 06-23-2010 06:04 PM

Sometime in your developement, you may come to realize that just as you choose what to do in a lucid dream, it is your choice even when awake on how to respond to the environment. You then take responsibility for yourself.

A non-living thing has no choice, action and reaction. A truly living thing crafts its response.

**Linkster17** · 06-23-2010 06:41 PM

yeah, ive done this several times but then i forget that im dreaming lol.

**Clyde Machine** · 06-23-2010 08:42 PM

Agreed, no official name for it, but I experience this countless times in my lucid experiences. I do a little auto-suggestion before going to bed sometimes, which almost always gets me lucid, but when I get lucid in the dream it's not because something tips me off, and I don't do RCs - I just KNOW. I just enjoy it.

EDIT: Although I had to slow down to make sure I understood it, this is my favourite post of this thread:

Originally Posted by Philosopher8659

Awareness changes psychological profile. Normal people subjectively identify with perceptions, they are "one with the universe". Awareness is the distinction of individuality, of the self before perception.

As such, the more aware you are, the stranger you will be to those around you--if you do not learn to hide it.

Subjective identification with perception is expected, supported by laws and customs. It is exhibited in the behavior that "someone made me mad" "someone else is to blame for how I feel" etc.