So, does this happen to everyone after a lucid?

[DreamStorms]

Wow, long time no post! Feels good to be back here Anyway a lucid I had this morning made me come back to you peeps that I've missed so much, but I seem to go through something after I've lucid dreamed. Every time I start recollecting my dream or telling someone about it, it feels like the lucid was just...well.....a dream with no control! I know that it was a lucid because I remember consciously in the dream wanting to touch surfaces and do certain things.....but after I wake up and start recollecting it feels like it wasn't a lucid at all and that everything was just played out by the normal dream, for example I think back to this recent lucid I just had I touched my driveway and remembered wanting to do so in the dream, but now that I try to remember the dream it feels like I didn't really choose to and that it was just part of a regular dream. Does this happen to anyone? Or should it happen this way once you are actually awake , where lucids feel like regular dreams once you wake up? TL;DR My lucids feel like regular dreams with no control after I wake up, is this normal?

[Impossibleman]

I don't know. I figure after a time, lucid dreams may just become fixated as regular. I know what you are saying.

[Miau]

Yes,That's alright. I FULLY understand what you are meaning.I had this problem too,and I keep asking and asking people about this.So,By you LD count I see you're a starter.Good.The problem here is the recall and the vividness of the dreams.First LD's can be like this.Like a dreamy memory.But it will get better by the time you have them and if you practice for vividness and recall too,it would be awesome. Gratz about the lucid tho! <3 Oh,Also! The self-awareness! You can increase it by doing ADA.ADA is basically just being aware of everything around you.Watch this though: http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...kingyoshi.html

[Micael]

Some people talk about semi-lucids, you basically dream of being lucid and your subconscious uses that to perhaps act out some desires but your waking consciousness is not all that present in the dream, it happens. Or maybe it's really just a feeling you're getting. Like Noeul said recall and dream enhancement play a huge role on the intensity and feel of the dream once you're awake.

[Amiana]

This has happened to me a few times, not waking up with that "I've been lucid!" feeling after an LD. It confused me until I realized that it was happening when I'd become lucid, then lose lucidity and continue on in a regular dream. Not sure if it's the same for you, but maybe you'll notice there's a pattern to when this tends to happen to you.

[Shantak]

I tend to get this effect with a lot of lucids but over more time than immediately. The other night I had a LD which started out very weak (vision froze) but I eventually got it. I met a DC and started going along with what they wanted. I found myself placing some small candles in a hard to reach place they couldn't get to and doing other trivial tasks for them. At the time I was confident of lucidity and control, I made a decision to just go along with it instead of doing my own stuff. I eventually told him I best go now and do a few other things before I wake up, and broke off. Over time it has started to feel more and more like I wasn't in full control. On the other hand, I had a LD a while ago where I had absolutely no control, only an awareness I was in a dream, and I knew this straight after waking. I think with me over time after a lucid, it starts to mingle with other memories, of being awake, and of non-lucids, and I start forgetting the lucidity of it; it simply becomes a memory of events like the others. But looking at the first dream, my instincts then were that I had full control, as I did after waking from it. I tend to trust this feeling more than what I think some time after. I think the problem is sometimes that I forget how weak my brain is inside a LD, and start to think after why did I do this, it makes no sense. Its' easy to scrutinise it with a fully awake brain that can make better judgement or come up with better ideas but at the time it feels like genuine control, albeit at reduced IQ.

[Scionox]

Welcome back! If you were aware that you were dreaming, you were lucid, dream control can vary depending on your expectations and awareness, but it will improve with practice. Though if you actually feel like you weren't really aware at all, it may have been non-lucid dream about actions that one would do when lucid, it's still a good sign, means that you think about lucid dreaming alot, either way, keep practicing awareness and lucid dreaming, it will definitely improve.

[Comed3y]

Well the definition of Lucid dreaming is knowing that your dreaming as pretty much everyone knows , so if you did that then it was a lucid dream . Maybe do more different drastic things in your lucid dreams instead of choosing things you would normally do in your non lucid dreams . Change your enviroment from the one you started out from , bring up different people from your memory at will and talk/kick the shit out of/have sex etc with these people depending on who they are . Just generally use your lucidness on stuff you know you cant really do without being lucid is what im getting at .