Thread: Are false lucids a sign of progress or failure

I would be very uncomfortable telling people that they didn't achieve lucidity, until they have a high awarenes lucid. That low awareness LD is not LD, just being on the verge of reaching lucidity.

Frankly, this is something very new to me. This would discourage so many people.

What I'm striving to do is to encourage them. To tell them, they had a LD (if indeed, they did). Doesn't matter if it was high or low awareness. After some experience, they will notice differences themselves and start asking questions about it. Then it would be a good time for them to find out about different levels of awareness and how to manipulate it.

I don't think low level LD is just a minor milestone. It's a huge milestone. It's the goal, doesn't matter if low or high or anything in between. And then you can go and get better at it and reach higher level LDs.

I don't see myself telling people who after many weeks or months finally have a 2 sec. lucid that "meh, just a minor milestone". That is just so wrong.

In my opinion, only someone with hundreds of LDs cares, if it was a high or low level LD. Just because by then he knows the difference. By then, he can afford not to care about low level LDs and even label them "not even lucid, just on the verge". Yes, compared to very high level LD, those could be seem to him as "not worth a mention".

But for a beginner, believe me, they do matter a whole deal.