Lack Of Awareness In My Lucid Dream

[ty4TheAdventure]

Before I go into some of my own thoughts and speculation, I'll give you the main part of my dream journal entry where this experience occurred: ...The leader was definitely the goblin. I remembered that we saw these two in different places earlier. One of these earlier places looked like the outside alleyway of a nightclub. The goblin knew we were dreaming. He wanted to see what he was capable of in the dream. Hell, I knew we were dreaming. But I was not aware. It felt like another dream. My brother and I wanted to escape the goblin and every time we even tried, he found a way to stop us... Link: March 14, 2011: "Dreamviews User Defense", "The Creepy Goblin" - Dream Journals - Dreamviews Lucid Dreaming Community & Resource I knew I was dreaming. But I wasn't AWARE of it. I asked myself how something like this could be possible. Had I just not trained myself enough recently to be aware when doing any sort of reality check? Or was it something else? Could it be a waking life belief that when I go lucid there's a possibility of me not being truly aware. Dreams are made from our expectations after all. Dream stabilization is something that I have read up on a lot and have done several times, but what if you're not aware enough to even consider doing it. I believe that at this point, it is my conscious perspective that should be worked on to prevent these kinds of dreams. Maybe beliefs that I will be aware when I say I'm dreaming will help. I'm just getting back into things and so I am definitely trying to internalize stabilization and awareness when doing RCs and things like that. I'm beginning to question some of my own experiences because I have never had a dream like this before. Experiences where stabilization was always the answer. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

[faceonmars]

Sounds more like a vivid dream or a dream about lucid dreaming. When you are lucid dreaming you are quite aware of it so 'lack of awareness' cannot be. You will get there, however! Good luck to you...

[lucidlistener]

Sounds more like a vivid dream or a dream about lucid dreaming. When you are lucid dreaming you are quite aware of it so 'lack of awareness' cannot be. You will get there, however! Good luck to you... what he said. however lucidity isn't (this or this), it does work in "fades". Although i agree with faceonmars, you could be aware but not lucid, vs lucid but not aware.

[MagicDustin]

The same thing happened to me last night I knew I was dreaming but wasn't aware

[Action]

I've been having more vivid dreams as of lately, and yours seems to be more void than lucid. You have the first stage of awareness, I feel, wig the recongition of "something is out of place," but I feel like the reality check isn't there. I've found that, and also noticed in Inception, if you actually take the time to check yourself consciously in reality...it makes it easier to do so in the dream world. For instance, consciously look and feel your hands every time you wash them and think to yourself..."is this reality?" the more you become consciously aware of your waking life, the more those habits tend to feed into your dreams. That's my input

[ty4TheAdventure]

Hahaha it sort of happened again, but I was slightly more aware this time. ...However, before I could start explaining how to make it scarier, I found that everything around in the room looked organized. There were racks of clothes as if we were in a store. Everyone was still with me. Fuzziness. I was supposed to train everyone to be good at this haunted house thing. I had everyone line up as if it were a gym or dance class. I started yelling. I picked up a nearby chair and placed it in front of everyone so I could stand on it and be seen by everyone. Everyone there was someone I know. I remembered C was there and so was my other friend B. I realized I was dreaming. I looked at everything and everyone around me, and half-consciously decided to continue with the dream remaining aware of everything the entire time. I yelled for everyone to practice some sort of suffering act. Everyone then started getting sucked into the ground. Only their upper bodies protruded from the floor and they all struggled to to avoid being completely sucked into the floor disappearing for good. One person totally disappeared. I yelled directly at his location for a good while, but he didn't reemerge. I had everyone finish the exercise and the guy still didn't reemerge. So I just expected him to be there again. He was. For some reason, I was making out with B. Then I went back to the front of the class and realized that I felt the dream slipping. This was because I never had full control to begin with. It was also due to expectation. Feeling like a dream was slipping led to expecting the dream to slip, which would in turn made it actually happen. So I decided to use all my senses and expected the dream to be reality. For a split second, as I stabilized the dream, everything did feel real. But because I expected the dream to continue feeling the way it had up to this point, my awareness became weak. I remember consciously saying to myself my awareness is weak. I was believing it. I continued training the class. Then, I got distracted by B again as she sat down on the floor leaning against the wall to my left. I walked up to her and told her to forget about the class. Let's just have fun together. We made out for a little bit. Then I was distracted by something else. More happened that followed the plot of this haunted house dream. I have not yet recalled what... Link: March 17, 2011: "Lucid Training", "The Poisoner", "Waiting Room" - Dream Journals - Dreamviews Lucid Dreaming Community & Resource Maybe it is just gradual. I just wanted to make sure I posted this before I forget (exams this week are going to be taken up most of my time). The more I do this, the more aware I might become. I think stability and control has a lot to do with expectation even at an unconscious level, but I'll just have to keep trying it out for myself.