Thread: Im so mad at myself for not realizing it was a fake lucid!

I'm so mad at myself right now!This morning I had a fake""lucid dream"" and didn't even realize it!It started off as a normal dream.I was a spy and was running away from police with my spy partner.We go in a empty building,I trip,and with the police right behind us,my partner has no choice but to leave me behind.so I run into a hiding spot but I'm caught and handcuffed.

A police starts to question me.thats when I become ""lucid"".So when I become ""lucid"" I said "Hehe,this is a dream"I look at my hands and they looked warped looking.Then I said "stabalize lucidity!"Finally,I remember from reading a tutorial here somewhere that I have to "Anchor myself" to the dream.So I imagine that an anchor is holding me down to the dream.When i finally stabalize,I decide to give a shirtless policewoman a shirt.Thats when i "wake up" because i had earphones on to a song i dont even own (yea as you can tell I had a FA right after my "lucid dream")so I go back to "sleep".when I have my next dream,I remember looking at a valley and then away,when I looked backed it was a train station.I told myself "Hey,just like a lucid dream"

Needless to say,when I woke up for real I wanted to slap myself so hard

This was a real lucid dream, at least in the beginning.
It's common to go into FA's then have a weird dream thing, it happened to me earlier, during a nap i was lucid then later i was telling about how crappy it was XD it was probably the same dream.
But don't be angry at stuff like that when it happens. It means you are getting closer to another LD (which i don't know why you said it was fake, you were aware at one point)

I'm confused.

You had a lucid dream. Then a false awakening. Then a normal dream.

What do you mean by "fake lucid"?

I was not aware at any point of the dream that i was actually dreaming.I guess i had a dream about lucid dreaming

That usually happens just before you actually start having lucids. It's a good sign.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

That usually happens just before you actually start having lucids. It's a good sign.

Darkmatters is right! i had several of these "false lucids" before i had an actual lucid! Keep it up!

You were lucid during the spy dream, because you were aware you in a dream. That's all a lucid dream is, awareness in a dream. You don't have to be flying, stopping bullets or hulking out on dream characters for it to be a 'true lucid'. It's quite common to lose lucidity through false awakenings, always be sure to reality check when you wake for real... Just in case

The false awakening does not discount your lucidity. I have loads of lucid dreams that end in false awakenings.

That's interesting that FAs are so common. Has anyone ever had a thread here discussing why that might be the case, or the ways LDs end?

This was a legit lucid! The first one definetely was.
And the second one was a FA? So what?!
You should be proud! Don't feel stupid because you didn't notice, you think it'd be obvious, but honestly it's quite hard to realise you're dreaming. You're logic centre is turned off. Tip: To avoid future FA's do reality checks upon awakening
Congrats

Like Spy Kids much?
The term you used: "fake lucid" is incorrect. You had a lucid dream, followed by a false awakening. Give yourself a pat on the back

Many of my false awakenings happen as soon as I think about the dream ending. I will think to myself, "Gee, I hope I don't wake up..." and then I will immediately have a dream about waking up

I dont think anyone read my other posts.i was Not lucid.I was not aware at any point of the dream that it was a lucid.It was a dream about lucid dreaming.In the dream,i said that i was dreaming,but i was not aware.I even did a reality check and stabilization technique in the dream,but I was not aware.At all.I even had a false awakening.Thats why i am mad at myself,because even after all of those signs,i did not become aware.

I think I understand what you're getting at - I'm having a similar problem myself, where I know I'm dreaming but I still feel really 'fuzzy' ... but I can't see how it's possible for it not to be an actual lucid dream, regardless at what stage of awareness you feel you are at. If you're dreaming and you know you're dreaming, you are aware - it surely must be impossible for it to be otherwise. What stage of awareness you reach seems to depend on a number of factors, which you may need to explain more clearly. Do you feel, having woken, that you were somewhat on auto-pilot? You don't remember making any conscious decisions? Is this what makes you believe you were not "aware"? There are certainly many factors at play here as to why one can feel that they are merely 'dreaming' a ludic.

i guess you can say that i didnt have any conscious decisions.I really dont know if i was actually lucid or not,now that i think of it.the dream did feel fuzzy,if i remember clearly.in the dream i looked at my hands twice,but the second time i looked at it,i think i made that desicion to look at it.i really dont remember.also when i gave the topless lady a shirt,i just thought of it and then it popped on her,but it had holes in it.and when i was stabalizing i remember about reading from some tutorial,that i had to anchor myself to the dream,and thats what i did.then the dream ended apruptly and i had a FA

If anyone has any corrections to make to what I'm saying, please do - but I'm going to go out and say that I'm thinking awareness can really be on a scale, from in dream----->completely lucid. I've been thinking over my own experiences, and the most aware I have been was when I was the most shocked to be dreaming. The realisation was enough to cause a feeling of fear at how creepy it was that physics was not as per usual, and the thrill of RCing without expecting the result that I got threw me into a state of absolute lucidity. Conversely, dreams in which I've RCd because I've suspected the truth have resulted in a much lest shocking rise to lucidity, and a feeling of "yeah, I knew that was coming and I completely accept that without any feelings either way". In a way, this didn't jolt me from the dream in the way the first occurrence did, and I felt consequently much less aware and remembered less when I woke up.

My conclusion would then be that yes, this was without a doubt a lucid dream that you had - but your expectation to have one and complete acceptance of it did not cause you to reach a heightened awareness beyond the fact that you now understood that you were dreaming. If you make it a new goal to become more aware - to try some mental gymnastics as well as just RCs, I think we will both find the solution to our problems.

Oh....well then,YES!i finally had a lucid dream!!!!!Woooooo!And it took me 2 months!yea!

Originally Posted by shysweetiepie27

Oh....well then,YES!i finally had a lucid dream!!!!!Woooooo!And it took me 2 months!yea!

Congratulations!!! You'll be havin your next one before you know it!

You were lucid.

I had a false awakening in which i went back to sleep with the intent of WILD'ing, and since it was a dream in the first place, the WILD worked (inside the dream) within seconds. DOnt know if this counts as a real lucid dream but at some point I knew that I was dreaming but it was within the previous dream.

I don't see why some people are so keen to discredit their experiences, if at any point in a dream you know you're dreaming then that is a lucid dream.

If you were aware, it was a lucid.

But sometimes you might do activities in a dream and simply say that you're dreaming, without actually feeling like you're "there", or that your mind is "present" in the dream. In that case, it wasn't a lucid because you weren't conscious. As an example, I've taught a DC dream control using actual techniques, but I wasn't lucid, so just because you use dream control and do RCs, that doesn't automatically make it a lucid, unless you are aware. Because of this, only you know if you were lucid because we can't measure your awareness from reading your post.