Thread: When You Know It's a Dream, But You're Not Lucid... (Pseudo-Lucidity)

Actually, that is technically a lucid dream. Control is irrelevant; you just have to know you're dreaming in order to be lucid.

Originally Posted by fennecgirl

Actually, that is technically a lucid dream. Control is irrelevant; you just have to know you're dreaming in order to be lucid.

I wouldn't exactly agree with this, obviously with lucidity comes the power to make decisions which he didn't show in his dream. He might have known it was a dream but that doesn't mean he was aware of the implications, and without that there really isn't much lucid dreaming going on. Sure he was at a more aware state than usual but that doesn't mean it was lucid dream yet.

Originally Posted by dutchraptor

I wouldn't exactly agree with this, obviously with lucidity comes the power to make decisions which he didn't show in his dream. He might have known it was a dream but that doesn't mean he was aware of the implications, and without that there really isn't much lucid dreaming going on. Sure he was at a more aware state than usual but that doesn't mean it was lucid dream yet.

Bingo.




I assume I was too amused by what was going on to care about the fact I felt like a robot- fully aware, but a slave, with every part of my body, save my brain, out of my control.

Oh, and this happened again a night ago. Same world, same character, just in a different part of town. That dream was epic. I'm starting to love my pseudo-lucid dreams.

Originally Posted by fennecgirl

Actually, that is technically a lucid dream. Control is irrelevant; you just have to know you're dreaming in order to be lucid.

Not precisely, the key element which is not really specified in the typical definition is conscious awareness, which muse be present before you can really call it lucid. Otherwise your real state of mind is no different than any other dream. They say degree of control is irrelevent, and this is only true in that you might try to do something and not be able to do it for various reasons we won't go into here, but if you;re not conscious enough to try, I wouldn't call that lucid.