Was I Lucid Dreaming??

[Valyreone]

Hello everyone Today I was woken up from a normal dream which I remembered vividly. Throughout the day I had performed RCs and thought about Lucid Dreaming (I've never LD'ed before); however I had never intended to DILD, my method would have been DEILD. A few minutes after waking up I had this vague memory of me being in my room, realising I was dreaming and performing Reality checks (fingers didn't go through palm but I could breathe with nose pinched). At first I thought I was dreaming but then I realised that if I was actually dreaming about Lucid dreaming I would have become lucid myself... Some time later I could remember the sensation of air going into my lungs with my nose pinched and I remembered I had tried to stabilise my dream by rubbing my hands together but everything had become blurred and dark and that is the last I can remember. I have no memory of what happened before that nor of waking up after it, or I would have written it in my dream journal. My theory is that I was dreaming, realised I was awake and became Lucid but since my mind was not prepared for it and I was quite tired yesterday; I fell back asleep. What do you guys think?

[SinisterDezz]

This confuses me. Your theory is that you were dreaming, realized you were awake and became lucid? What? If you confirmed awareness while dreaming, you are defined as lucid. Hopefully that gives a good enough answer.

[sparkley]

Sometimes your RCs don't make you lucid, it's the awareness. And you would've known if you were lucid or not. But if it's just a memory and you're confused.. mayybbeee not, you probably weren't lucid. You should practice your dream control if you think you were lucid, so you can do more stuff

[Valyreone]

What I believe so far is I was only lucid for a few seconds but then my mind fell back asleep/I lost consciousness and drifted back into a non lucid dream. As I mentioned I was very tired when I went to sleep that day so I may not have been able to control it...

[sparkley]

Yeah i think that's how it was for me this one time. I seemed like I was lucid but for a second, and I only did a RC but it ended as soon as I realized.

[Laurelindo]

If you can answer "yes" to the question "did I realize that I was in a dream?", then you were lucid, regardless of anything else.

[GalMutzafy]

It seems like you 1. dreamed about lucid dreaming, which happens to almost every lucid dreamer, or 2. you were lucid but not aware enough, so the dream just continued untill it went back to a normal dream. Thats my opinion, one of the two

[Valyreone]

Well, I did realise I was dreaming so I guess that technically makes me lucid, or semi-lucid at least. It's interesting that you say every lucid dreamer dreams about lucid dreaming.. I don't understand how that would be possible though. I mean if I dream about lucid dreaming I'm bound to realise I'm in a dream and actually become lucid right?

[Laurelindo]

dreamed about lucid dreaming How can anyone dream about being lucid, though? That sounds like a logical contradiction to me. If someone is dreaming about being lucid, then isn't that essentially the same thing as being lucid, since they have that lucid moment?

[GalMutzafy]

How can anyone dream about being lucid, though? That sounds like a logical contradiction to me. If someone is dreaming about being lucid, then isn't that essentially the same thing as being lucid, since they have that lucid moment? Well, basically it's the plot of the dream, if you read alot about lucid dreaming troughout the day, so you can actually dream about doing stuff that you would do if you were lucid because you think about it alot.