Thread: Simulated lucidity ( dreaming of having a lucid dream)

Having just the thought "I am dreaming" is not necessarily the same as having the realisation "I am dreaming". The thought and the realisation are two separate things, which should, but sometimes don't, occur simultaneously.

IMO The most common misconception is that if one gets lucid, then one is lucid all the way through the rest of the dream scenario. Not often so: a few brief moments of lucidity can be quickly followed by one forgetting that one is dreaming.. and subsequently getting pulled into a non-lucid or waking up. Learning to recognise this slippage of lucidity as it's happening is a key to prolonging "control" - with practice, you can RC and stabilise your "awareness", i.e. keep lucidity, over-and-over again.

I don't buy most of the "lucid dreams" I read on here.

Originally Posted by Oneiro

Having just the thought "I am dreaming" is not necessarily the same as having the realisation "I am dreaming". The thought and the realisation are two separate things, which should, but sometimes don't, occur simultaneously.

IMO The most common misconception is that if one gets lucid, then one is lucid all the way through the rest of the dream scenario. Not often so: a few brief moments of lucidity can be quickly followed by one forgetting that one is dreaming.. and subsequently getting pulled into a non-lucid or waking up. Learning to recognise this slippage of lucidity as it's happening is a key to prolonging "control" - with practice, you can RC and stabilise your "awareness", i.e. keep lucidity, over-and-over again.

I don't buy most of the "lucid dreams" I read on here.

^ YES. I was trying to put words to that first sentence but I never could, for some reason.

As for the rest of your post, I agree with you. The term "lucid dream" does not state how much minimum or maximum time someone has to be lucid in order for the dream to be considered an LD. A large number of my lucids were less than three or four minutes in length; some of them I lost lucidity halfway through... These ones definitely still count as lucids, even if I don't retain the awareness until the dream ends. If someone doesn't consider [dreams where you lose lucidity before it ends] lucids, then all DILDs also can't be considered lucids, because what about the non-lucidity before you discover that you're dreaming?