Thread: FAO Naiya: "What is a lucid dream?"

If you become lucid in the dream at any point, the dream is now a lucid dream, since you were lucid in it at some point. Even if you lose lucidity, it is a lucid dream, one in which you realised that you were dreaming.

ShockWave.

Originally Posted by Oneiro

So.. you can be lucid for a few seconds and then lose it and get dragged off into whatever dream scenario for "ages", and the whole thing counts as a lucid dream?

Not exactly. A lucid dream is being aware that you are dreaming...you are lucid for as long as you are aware of the dream. When you lose awareness, you slip into a nonlucid dream. It is generally pretty common to begin a dream lucid and eventually enter a nonlucid dream, especially if it's been several minutes. If you have a dream that lasts 5 minutes, and you were only lucid for 10 seconds...then you had a lucid dream that lasted ten seconds, and then a nonlucid dream that lasted 4 minutes and 50 seconds. The whole thing doesn't magically become a lucid dream just because it started lucid. Lucid dream has a pretty specific definition. Hope that clears it up.

Originally Posted by Pan

If you have a dream that lasts 5 minutes, and you were only lucid for 10 seconds...then you had a lucid dream that lasted ten seconds..

Exactly..

So why is it posted up as a sticky definition for people to read? Bad info imo.

If you were lucid at one point that section of the dream is a lucid dream she said nothing about reporting the whole dream as lucid. That's a choice for the person to make they can lie or be honest. You sound like a troll right now why would you even post this

Originally Posted by Oneiro

Exactly..

So why is it posted up as a sticky definition for people to read? Bad info imo.

Could you post a link so I can check it out? I just want to be sure it isn't being taken out of context or anything...but if it's not, then I agree with you. It's a slightly confusing statement.

Originally Posted by Reclypso

.. she said nothing about reporting the whole dream as lucid.

Ummm.. yes she did actually: "You do not have to be lucid throughout the entire dream for it to be a lucid dream."

It's a bullet point near the beginning: http://www.dreamviews.com/f20/what-lucid-dream-93983/

A lot of people must have read it..

Then further on: "This is still a lucid dream, but one in which you have lost your lucidity."

Originally Posted by Reclypso

You sound like a troll right now why would you even post this

Does that even require an answer to someone who's been a member for just a couple of months? Unbelievable.

Well she tried to clarify the statement with an example, albeit still slightly confusing...

You have a false awakening, do a reality check, and conclude that you are dreaming. You run off to explore the area, but you get lost in the dream plot and completely forget that you are in a dream. This is still a lucid dream, but one in which you have lost your lucidity.

I guess it would have been better to word that last sentence a bit differently, because it is sort of contradictory as it stands. She could have clarified that only the part where you are lucid counts as the lucid dream...but I assume this is pretty obvious.

Originally Posted by Pan

She could have clarified that only the part where you are lucid counts as the lucid dream...

Well.. clarified ? As if it had already been alluded to? She writes the opposite, surely? That the whole thing, lucid or not, counts as a lucid dream.

Originally Posted by Pan

..but I assume this is pretty obvious.

Well it is to you and I.

What she is saying is that if you have a lucid dream. And you lose lucidity, you still had a lucid dream. NOT that the whole dream is lucid.

The term "lucid dream" only specifies that you were aware at some point in the dream, regardless of how long that lucidity lasted.