Last night I experienced something unique. I was having a normal dream, just like any other with all sorts of crazy things happening around me, till at one point I had a vague idea that it all might be a dream. But I didn't go for any reality checks, I probably forgot about that as soon as it came to my mind.

But what happened next was amazing. I started running through some fields when all of these motorcycles and buggies started coming straight at me, and I started leaping over them, making some kick-ass stunts in midair. The weird thing was, I could literally feel myself imagining how all of this was happening.

In an earlier dream, I did something else I'd never done before. I actually materialized a chocolate bar in my hand, but I hadn't even the slightest idea that I might be dreaming.

What could this all mean?

In the first intance, I'd say that perhaps for beginners, too much lucidity means too much awareness, which in turn means caution and fear. Fear will lessen one's chances of doing incredible things in their dream like jumping off a high building. But if you're awareness is really low, your fear is virtually non-present, or at least diminished to an insignificant level. Yet the idea of dreaming somehow spawns a chain of subconscious associations and you end up doing the unthinkable without giving it a second thought.

In the second intance, well, maybe it's simpler. You don't need to have any idea that you're dreaming; in your waking life you're pretty much sure that in your dreams you can do anything, and thus it works.