Does doing RCs necessarily mean you are LDing?
Last night I had this REALLY LONG dream. At one point I did RCs which proved I was dreaming. But yet I didn't feel like I was controling it all as if the whole thing was not lucid. For about 15 - 20 minutes in the dream, I was trying to fly through walls and just start flying through the sky in which every attempt was unsuccessful. There had to have been at least 10 attempts in it. Also, there was also talk of how many people where I was had dream journals.
If I did have any lucidity in the dream it didn't last very long b/c the whole dream just felt like a regular dream, even when I was trying to fly through walls. Before I went to bed at night, I had said what I wanted to do and this was not it.
So my question is, if you do RCs and they prove that you are dreaming, does it at that point have to be counted as a Lucid Dream?
Re: Does doing RCs necessarily mean you are LDing?
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Originally posted by kungfurabbits
So my question is, if you do RCs and they prove that you are dreaming, does it at that point have to be counted as a Lucid Dream?
It depends on the events that happen after you realize. You could perform a reality check using a digital watch for example notice that you are dreaming but then convince yourself that the watch is just faulty and that you are not dreaming.
Also what you describe does sound like you became lucid, but at a very low level. You realized that you were dreaming and tried to do things but you didn't realize that you really can do anything. When fully lucid you would find flying through walls easy because you know that there aren't any walls there in the first place.