I don't understand the part of a dream within a dream, but I have had 2-3 of those fake lucids, I realize that I'm dreaming, but it doesn't get to me and I continue the dream normally. It's very frustrating xD |
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Hi Folks, I'm pretty new to all this and I had an odd experience last night that left me curious as to whether it was common or not. |
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I don't understand the part of a dream within a dream, but I have had 2-3 of those fake lucids, I realize that I'm dreaming, but it doesn't get to me and I continue the dream normally. It's very frustrating xD |
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Sometimes I surprise myself wondering how would my character sheet be.
I've had fake lucids before. |
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From how you described it, it sounds like you did have a real lucid dream but you eventually lost your lucidty without relizing you did. So while you "character" believed he was in a dream, you didn't actually realize that you were. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Motto - "I have walked upon the the surface of a burning star. Observed events so infinitesimal and instantaneous that they can barely be described as having occurred at all. You... you're just a dream character. And this world's most powerful dream character poses no more threat to me than it's smartest cupcake." - Dr. Manhattan (kinda)
Did you know that you were in the dream at the time you realized that? If yes then it counts as actual lucid dream even if you knew about it for a very short period of time. Though it does sounds like you have actually gained lucidity and then lost it shortly afterwards. Losing lucidity happens from time to time to pretty much about everyone. There's way to decrease chance of losing lucidity though, and it's called dream stabilization, here's tutorial: Dream Stabilization and Clarity Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views |
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Thanks for the comments folks. From what you're all saying, it seems like that I might have gained lucidity for a brief moment and then been unable to stabilise, resulting in me losing lucidity pretty quickly. And it also seems that this is pretty common and nothing to worry about. I think I'll boost my LD count by one, even if this one did only last seconds |
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There is no such thing as a false lucid. You either know you were dreaming or you didn't. There many levels of lucidity and you can lose lucidity just as quickly as you get it. |
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False lucid, though a somewhat deceptive term, is just a way of describing a dream in which you dremt your character was lucid dreaming, but you were not actually consciously lucid. For many lucid dreaming beginners it can be hard to tell the difference between a dream in which they dreamt their character was lucid dreaming, and actually lucid dreaming, thus the term "false lucid" was born. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Motto - "I have walked upon the the surface of a burning star. Observed events so infinitesimal and instantaneous that they can barely be described as having occurred at all. You... you're just a dream character. And this world's most powerful dream character poses no more threat to me than it's smartest cupcake." - Dr. Manhattan (kinda)
How? If one dreamt they were lucid, they still would be. They know that they are dreaming. To "dream that you were in a lucid dream" implies that you can have a "layered dream." This is not Inception. If one dreams of dreaming, the dreamscape will simply change; the brain doesn't retain and superimpose the previous dreamscape. If he dreamt that he knew he was dreaming, wouldn't he still know of his false reality? I don't understand this. You either know or you don't. There is no difference between a "false lucid dream" as it is called and simply an unstable lucid dream. |
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I think you missed a key point: They were dreaming that their dream character deduced that he was in a lucid dream. They were to busy paying attention to the actions of the dream character. It's very similar to a dream in which you are spectating a dream character fly, in this case you would never say that "you" as the dreamer were flying in the dream, even if the entire dream revolved around that character flying. |
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Last edited by TranquilityTrip; 03-20-2013 at 04:58 AM.
My Lucid Dreaming Motto - "I have walked upon the the surface of a burning star. Observed events so infinitesimal and instantaneous that they can barely be described as having occurred at all. You... you're just a dream character. And this world's most powerful dream character poses no more threat to me than it's smartest cupcake." - Dr. Manhattan (kinda)
Hmmm... I'm inclined to think there maybe a little of both in there somewhere. |
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That's exactly why I use the term, because there are a quite few people who come on forums, just like this one, and ask what it was they just experienced. It's a way of clarifying to them that what they dreamed of was not a lucid dream, it was a FALSE lucid. A dream in which it may have seemed like they became lucid, but didn't. Why does this need to be clarified? Because some people don't know what a REAL lucid feels like, so to them any dream associated with lucid dreaming may be incorrectly identified as a lucid dream. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Motto - "I have walked upon the the surface of a burning star. Observed events so infinitesimal and instantaneous that they can barely be described as having occurred at all. You... you're just a dream character. And this world's most powerful dream character poses no more threat to me than it's smartest cupcake." - Dr. Manhattan (kinda)
Yep - it's simply a regular dream about being lucid. Nothing fancy there. There's also no such thing as a "dream within a dream" - that's just a fake idea from a science fiction movie. Just as you can dream about being lucid, you can also dream about having a dream. |
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