Ok, so recently I've been getting many more regular lucids than I would have usually. The vividness of my dreams and recall has also improved. This has brought something to my attention that I find hard to understand.

During the dream (non-lucid or lucid) it feels as though I am really there and in the moment. But when I wake up, it feels like a distant memory, from a long time ago. Obviously it IS a memory at that point, but it feels different from a normal memory. It feels dream-like. Like it was a non-lucid. BUT in the actual dream, it didn't feel at all like how I remember it. So what confuses me is how I remember both, the actual being there, and how normal it feels, AND the dream-like feel to it and the strange-ness. Because I know the dream-like feel only happens when I wake up and remember it. It's like doing something twice and having different outcomes.

I know that my lucids are in fact lucid because I can remember that in-the-moment feeling, but at the same time it feels as though it were a normal dream. The same kind of dreamy, thick, strange atmoshere.

This happens in my non-lucids too, obviously. During the dream, although I have no control, I am still there. But when I wake up it's all dreamy.

What confuses me (ahhh it's hard to explain) is how I can distinguish the two when it feels like a memory. How, when I'm non-lucid, I still feel as though I'm there, when I only remember it when I wake up, and by that time it feels like a dream.


So I guess my point in this thread, is to ask whether this happens to you too, and if you understand what I mean. I really think I've made a mess of explaining it but am not sure how else to put it.