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I had a non-lucid dream long time ago, which I was resting in a swimming pool and fell asleep. After I was asleep I had another dream again which is a semi-lucid dream. Im playing in an amusement park and realized that I was dreaming and start to explore the dream but some kids keep chasing me and I woke up. I woke up back to the non-lucid dream which is I am resting in a swimming pool. What kind of Dream is this?? Its kinda like the movie INCEPTION, dream within a dream. |
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I would guess, JimmyChung, that your dream simply changed scenes, and then returned to an earlier scene that was still lingering in your dreaming mind. Such a change could seem like you're "waking up" beside that pool, but it was still just a scene switch. When recalling it, it could certainly seem like a dream within a dream; especially after being fed the false mythology of Inception. |
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Last edited by Sageous; 05-20-2013 at 05:35 PM.
Agreed with Sageous - entirely too many people come in here thinking Inception tells the truth about dreaming, and it just doesn't. They wrote a fictional movie in which they invented things like 'dream within a dream' to make it more exciting. We get pretty tired of having to repeat this stuff over and over to excited newcomers. In reality all that happened is you were dreaming, you briefly became lucid with very low awareness, and then lost lucidity. You probably dreamed about falling asleep because you had seen Inception. |
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I agree with Baradrim though, lucidity is like a boolean variable, either yes or no. |
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I believe Sageous defines true lucidity as not only knowing you're in a dream, but also having the full presence of mind and memory to not get caught up in the dream plot. So I guess it depends on how you define "knowing you're in a dream". Sometimes I'm aware I'm dreaming but have very little self-awareness or memory of who I am outside of the dream world. Technically according to the definition I keep seeing in here that would be considered lucidity, but it's really only one small step above a normal dream, and a long way from a high-level lucid experience. But I do define lucidity as simply knowing you're dreaming, and I consider awareness and memory to se separate issues, which are required for high-level lucid awareness. |
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That's about right, except for one thing: I never said just knowing you were dreaming wasn't lucidity; it is. No, just knowing you're dreaming, without key factors in place like strong self-awareness or memory (i.e., knowing your sleeping body is right where you left it), constitutes low-level lucid dreaming, but it's still a LD. |
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