My trouble with lucid dreaming...

[GangsterPanda]

To be honest, I haven't been focusing on lucid dreaming for the past week or two and I didn't have any plans to. Until I picked up my dream journal. It was the one before my re-start which I believe, in total, I had 17 lucid dreams. But every single one seemed to follow a wired pattern. I don't feel aware, like it just feels like I'm dreaming but telling everyone I'm dreaming. And while this wasn't how it was in my first couple of lucid dreams recently this has been the only thing I've got. I know you probably don't understand 100% what I'm telling you because it's hard to explain. I would like to know if there's a way to stop this? My guess is that with practice it will ware off. It's just I'm waiting for a jump to get back into lucid dreaming, as much as I use to. Mabye this weekend. Now I'm just mumbling I should just finish off - GangsterPanda

[dutchraptor]

Hey man I totally know what you mean and don't worry you are actually lucid. There are two factors in play here, firstly lucid dreams can be quite groggy or still slightly unconscious which can make it seem like you weren't fully lucid, secondly (I have this poblem alot) when we think back on a lucid dream it is very hard to remember the feeling of becoming lucid and often after a lucid dream I start to doubt whether I actually had one, the more I repeat the memory the more I remember it as a normal dream (purely because that is what I'm expecting), it gets even worse when there are long periods between lucids and you start to forget the feelig. My advice is to keep going strong and once you get consistent enough at it your problem will fade away

[sloth]

Yes, I have had this many times. I consider them to be unconscious lucid dreams. You are aware that you are dreaming, but you aren't actually "THERE". Short version: Reality checks. I think that should help.