Thread: Real Lucidity vs Faux Lucidity?

Had my first lucid dream since I got back into this last night. Or at least I hope I did. (I'll make a DJ later, the dream contents themselves really aren't the issue). Though I wonder if it was *real* lucidity vs, I guess, for a lack of a better term, "faux" lucidity. What I mean by that is: I do a reality check (I was practicing a sort of mix of FILD/DILD at the time, where if I noticed my fingers not moving, I would do a RC [nose pinch]), stabilize, and acknowledge that it is a dream, but it is not a true, conscious reality check/lucidity, but simply an unconscious part of the dream script. The reason I say this is because it didn't feel like the other lucid dreams I've had before, where I wake up immediately afterwards when the dream collapses after a few minutes. In this, I did the RC/"gained lucidity", played around a bit with telekenesis (I was in what seemed like Philly's Reading Terminal Market at the time, so there was plenty of stuff to toss around), and drifted back into nonlucid dreams after a while, and now in hingsight, I wonder if I was ever really lucid at all.

Anyone ever have this happen to them? Was it real lucidity? If not, am I doing RCs too little? Too much? Should I switch RCs?

TM