Thread: How do you tell the difference of a lucid dream or a regular dream about being lucid?

What I mean is, sometimes you have normal dreams about being lucid. I've had them before.

So how do you tell the difference from an actual lucid dream to a normal dream about being lucid?

This seems confusing to me. You're having a dream about being lucid while not actually lucid? Look for dream signs, or a way to conciously take control during your normal dreams about being lucid.. and you should be able to take control.

A Lucid dream is a dream in which you realize you are dreaming while still dreaming.

Dreaming about lucid dreaming without being lucid would consist of you making statements of lucidity, performing actions of lucidity, and/or acting as if it was a lucid without the actual realization that you are dreaming.

To put it as others before me have, it is one thing to say you are lucid in the dream, it is another thing entirely to believe it.

Ah, I know what you mean. For me, these things tend to be part of these "fake" lucids:

•You aren't in control of your actions. This could mean doing completely random things for no reason.
•Not remembering your goals for the LD.

You can tell a regular dream from a lucid just from the fact that you were mentally aware, conscious at some level. You acknowledge that you're in a dream and recognize the implications of that. As for these "fake" lucids, I've had many dreams where I acted like I was aware, but wasn't - my actions were just part of the dream plot, just like flying or non-lucid dream control. These dreams can happen when your mind is on LDing and you think about it a lot.

Anthonyyy0, "fake" lucids don't involve actual lucidity, just acting like you're lucid and without any consciousness.

Originally Posted by Puffin

Anthonyyy0, "fake" lucids don't involve actual lucidity, just acting like you're lucid and without any consciousness.

Yep, that's true. I should probably fix that last bullet.

OK, fixed.

I had one of these "fake" lucid dreams last night. Only one day after my first actual lucid dream. While at the time (in the dream) I thought I was lucid, but once I woke up it was clear to me that the lucidity I thought I had in my dream was not even close to the previous night of my actual lucid dream. In this "fake" lucid dream I was telling myself that I was currently dreaming so I had no consequences to my actions however I did not stray from the dream itself, I did not have the same "feeling" of lucidity and I did things I would not have done if lucid.

In my experience, even though I have only had one and a half lucid dreams, you kind of just know. I remember having plenty of dreams *about* lucid dreaming, and those are the ones where I would wake up and wonder, "Was I lucid?" But with a real lucid dream, I would stay asleep and think, "Holy crap I'm lucid!" and when I woke up I would say, "Holy crap I was lucid!"

There's also the fact that in a "fake" LD, like someone else mentioned, you would still be doing random actions, with no rhyme or reason to them. Just the other night, I did a reality check in my dream, recognised that I had too many fingers, but then I proceeded to push my friend's car in front of his candy mansion because he and his dad went out for pizza.

Its just so easy for me, not even once have I had control during a non-lucid so yeah, that and the mind state is on a whole nother level.

I think in Lucid Dreams. I see things More Clearer than a Normal Dreams which I almost ignore it and not realizing its not real.

if all those statements are true, that means I only had 2 lucid dreams instead of having 8

do a reality check to ascertain it is a lucid dream...pinch your nose and try to breathe, if you can breathe, you're dreaming; then, try to manipulate your dream

Silentgiggulz people will never become lucid just by doing reality checks alone, a part of your brain has to open up when you do a reality check an when you're in a fake lucid, reaity checks 70% of the time are going to fail you. people only become lucid when your logical side of your brain awakes and reality checks help open that part of your brain but a fake lucid will fool that part back to sleep. thats why its so easy for lucid dreamers in their fourth stage of lucidity to fall back into a regular dream. . so telling people the same old same old isn't going to do much to help in the case of false lucidity.

This happened to me this morning. I was dreaming that I was at my aunt and uncle's house (At this point it was non-lucid). It was nighttime and I lied down to sleep on the couch in their living room. I had a "dream WILD", so to speak, with vibrations and everything. I false-awoke in the same room, did the hand and nose reality checks, and sure enough I was dreaming. I believed with 100% certainty that my actual body was on the couch in my aunt and uncle's house, when in reality it was in my bed. But everything carried out like a normal lucid - I stabilized the dream by touching surfaces and objects, controlled dream characters, etc. However, I did things that I wouldn't do if I was in a normal lucid... it was as if I was carrying out the desires of my dream-self's conscious, not my own. I don't want to go into details, but it involves a primal, suppressed desire. Also, there was a point at the end of the dream where I tried to change the dreamscape to a graveyard... why would I want to do that? At this moment everything faded and I woke up in my real bed, at which point I realized that it was a DILD, not a WILD.

tl;dr My dream-self was fully conscious within his dream, but I wasn't.

deep shit brah.