Semi-Lucid Dream within a Dream?

**b3b** · 01-14-2012 09:16 PM

I'm new to this. I've been attempting to lucid dream for 3 days now and this morning I had what seemed like one, but it didn't really feel like one. I woke up the first time excited I had remembered a couple of dreams from the previous night and wrote them all down. I was still kinda groggy and went right to sleep after I had finished writing.

I seemed to jump right into a dream where I saw a lady shouting that she was dreaming. I was no one but realized she was right and I became the lady and things became clear and real. I ran around the restaurant telling people I was dreaming. I went to a table full of elderly people who were my friends and told them I was dreaming. They didn't believe me so I took a lady to a mirror. We looked at our reflections (I don't remember what I looked like and I don't think it was me) She was old with curly white hair. My reflection disappeared, hers didn't, and I felt it was confirmed that I was lucid dreaming. We all looked to a chair where an old man had previously been sitting but he was gone, we all somehow agreed he woke up from this dream because he got too excited.

I saw little animal puppets dance and jump about on the floor, singing to me, but I didn't want to get distracted so I tried to ignore them. I remembered that I should try to fly. I ran and jumped and flew in the restaurant, it was a good feeling but it only lasted a couple of seconds and I only flew a couple feet off the ground. I kept on running and jumping to try and fly again but I couldn't. I remember I was very frustrated. Then mini animals, the size of insects, started following me and jumping around excited for me along with the puppet animals. I fell to the ground and let them crawl and jump on me. As I was celebrating I felt a ticklish pressure on both sides of my waist. I ignored it for awhile but then I started wondering what it was. I started waking up very slowly. It was like I was coming out of a fog and bit by bit my vision became clearer. As I tried to roll over in bed I found that someone had been grabbing my waist all along. I had felt them grabbing me in the lucid dream from the next dream. I eventually forgot about the lucid dream and went along with the next dream.

It almost seems as if I was merely dreaming that I was lucid dreaming, if that makes sense. If I was truly aware that I was dreaming wouldn't I have been myself and not some random lady? Wouldn't I have been able to fly and get out of the restaurant? It just seemed like I hadn't much control over the situation. What do you think?

**Earl** · 01-15-2012 03:19 AM

i think you're really lucky! you've only been trying for 3 days! it took me a while to have my first lucid and it only lasted like 6 seconds. the key to doing something in a dream is believing that it can happen. if you have any doubt of flying then you won't be able to. but good job on the lucid

**PalmDreamer** · 01-15-2012 03:30 AM

In my opinion and from my experiences, I only count dreams as Lucid if every single action of mine was made by "me" under my own control. I have had dreams where I have said "I'm dreaming, so then I can do what I want" but then I start doing things that at the time didn't go along with how I felt and when I woke up, the actions that I remember doing were not actions I would have done if I was truly lucid.

So if everything you did once "realizing" you were dreaming was done by YOU, then yes it was a lucid dream.

**intheworldofnim** · 07-26-2012 01:04 AM

Earl, he said it didn't feel like a lucid dream so I don't think he was completely lucid. But congrats on the SEMI lucid dream.

**intheworldofnim** · 07-26-2012 01:09 AM

PalmDreamer, their are different layers of lucidity, true lucidity starts at layer 3 but the lower levels contain a feeling inwhich the logic side of you brain is becomes partially awake and your dream suddenl;y starts to feel strange. But the dream world still has influence over you so the lucidity you feel only only remains as a feeling.

**Raiden** · 07-26-2012 03:37 AM

Originally Posted by PalmDreamer

In my opinion and from my experiences, I only count dreams as Lucid if every single action of mine was made by "me" under my own control. I have had dreams where I have said "I'm dreaming, so then I can do what I want" but then I start doing things that at the time didn't go along with how I felt and when I woke up, the actions that I remember doing were not actions I would have done if I was truly lucid.

So if everything you did once "realizing" you were dreaming was done by YOU, then yes it was a lucid dream.

I completely agree with this. If i would count the amount of dreams i had where i said hey i'm dreaming, do something i choose to do and then get lost again in its own story i would have had numerous "lucid dreams".