Lucid, but not really aware?

**chase** · 03-07-2011 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by bihon

Thank you! I could never remember to do RC's when I'm awake, but still, I'll try. And do you think these dreams are still considered "lucid"?

They are lucid dreams but sometimes you lose lucidity so it goes back into a normal dream. Remember, you can be "lucid" but have no control at all. The act of a lucid dream is being aware that you are dreaming, having "lucidity" is having control over it if that makes any sense. -Chase

**Haerodiel** · 03-08-2011 05:12 PM

A similar thing happens to me sometimes. Something will happen in a dream that I don't like, and I'll be like "Eeeh, I don't really like the way that happened." And I'll rewind and do it again. Sometimes I'll re-do a certain part of a dream 3 or 4 times before I'm happy with it.

There was one time where I re-did a whole dream. I was a jewelry thief, for some reason, and kept getting caught. It was a variation on the dream where you are being chased, but I was always re-do, or try different ways of escaping when it looked like I was going to be caught. Eventually I got really frustrated and started the whole thing over from the beginning. Never did get away, though.

This usually happens after I've woken up in the middle of a dream, usually quite late in the morning, but don't want a dream to end, so I just go back to sleep and hop right into it again. That's when I really get the most control over them. I only just really got into lucid dreaming a couple days ago, so this is all before every really knowing about it. I thought it was funny learning about WILD, because that's basically what I would do without thinking about it. I always somewhere in the back of my head knew that it was a dream, (especially since it's the same dream I just woke up from, so I've already identified it as a dream) but never really made it a conscious thought. Now that I know to watch out for that, maybe I can make these semi-lucid dreams completely lucid. I'll have to wait for some time when this happens on a morning I don't have somewhere to be and can go back to sleep.