Borderline Lucid?

[dreamweaver7]

Hi all, not sure if I lucid'ed or not, like to see if I did. So, today, after a hard workout I decided to lie down on my bed and try to wild. I imagined the never ending staircase, everything. So, then I had this wierd dream that I was changing history by telling world leaders about events that were about to happen, thereby changing the future. It didn't feel like real life, but it felt like I was a narrator telling my dream self what to do on the fly. Also, I didn't experience SP. It sounds like it was just a failed WILD, but when I was dreaming, I didn't think that I was sleeping and I thought I was still on my bed imagining this whole thing. After the dream ended, with me finding out what the 2 ultimate things were for the perfect universe, which were some nonsense, like (Blue-Green 3454389), I woke up, 2 hours after I had layed down. I didnt feel like I fell asleep however because I didn't feel that refreshed as I usually do after a nap of that length. I was also frankly shocked that I even fell asleep at all, after I saw the clock. Just curious if I managed to finangle a lucid/WILD finally. Sorry for the length, thanks for the help!

[gunsdontwork]

sounds like a failed WILD but it does sound like your awareness is high in the dream, i think if you make your RC's more of a habit when you are awake you could have changed the failed WILD into a DILD by automatically doing it in the dream

[TeaSea]

Sounds to me like a semi-successful WILD to me... were you completely aware the whole time that you were dreaming?

[Puffin]

If you have a lucid, you'll know because your dream self feels more "there" than usual, as if you're more conscious and capable of having your own, more conscious thoughts in the dream. You won't necessarily feel tired after having one; on the contrary, most people feel refreshed and excited after a higher-level lucid. Sometimes when you fail a WILD, the simply notion of trying to maintain your awareness can cause you to have a DILD. You fall unconscious, but you may end up regaining some of that awareness you had right before you dozed off, resulting in a DILD. The whole feeling that you were still semi-awake and lying in bed could either mean you were just bordering on being unconscious (but not quite), or it could mean it was a false awakening. Hope that helped! sounds like a failed WILD but it does sound like your awareness is high in the dream, i think if you make your RC's more of a habit when you are awake you could have changed the failed WILD into a DILD by automatically doing it in the dream Habitual RCs don't cause lucidity, awareness does - get into the habit of being aware, questioning and observing what's around you, and that alone will cause LDs. It's then only a matter of confirming if you're really dreaming or not, which RCs are great for.

[gunsdontwork]

Habitual RCs don't cause lucidity, awareness does - get into the habit of being aware, questioning and observing what's around you, and that alone will cause LDs. It's then only a matter of confirming if you're really dreaming or not, which RCs are great for. i agree awareness would be the main factor, but my take on the whole RC/Awareness combined would be that if you are doing RC during the day when anything slightly strange happens eg. you see something at the corner of your eye but you look round and there is nothing there you would do a RC. by doing this throughout the day would mean that when you are in a dream and something "differet" than normal happens you would sub contioously do a RC and instantly know it was a dream, again though you would need awreness as anything in a dream would seem normal until realisation kicks in by awareness. thats my take on it though and understand there is different methods but thats how the tutorials have explained it to me.

[Puffin]

i agree awareness would be the main factor, but my take on the whole RC/Awareness combined would be that if you are doing RC during the day when anything slightly strange happens eg. you see something at the corner of your eye but you look round and there is nothing there you would do a RC. by doing this throughout the day would mean that when you are in a dream and something "differet" than normal happens you would sub contioously do a RC and instantly know it was a dream, again though you would need awreness as anything in a dream would seem normal until realisation kicks in by awareness. thats my take on it though and understand there is different methods but thats how the tutorials have explained it to me. You might be right; that can happen in a few cases, but it comes down to awareness. If you do happen to do an RC and become lucid, you were probably already slightly aware in the first place. Lots of people, including myself, don't really experience anything "strange" during the day. If you do an RC if something does seem out-of-place, sure, you can end up doing it in your dream, but that's only a motor movement and not a conscious effort - I did this when I first started out lucid dreaming, back when the tutorials simply said "do an RC and you'll become lucid" (apparently they haven't changed that much, haha) - I'd never become lucid until I practiced awareness.

[dakotahnok]

If you didn't know it was a dream then it wasn't a lucid. So since you just thought that it was your imagination I would say no, its not a lucid.