Thread: Was this a lucid dream?

Tonight my mom covered me with another blanket, which woke me up. I didn't move, or open my eyes, and suddenly got the idea of trying to DIELD. I tried to re-imagine the dream, and in a moment I was there!

It didn't really feel like I was completely in the dream, but quickly I completely parted with my waking life self, and was in the dream completely, also knowing that it was a dream from the beginning. It was still fuzzy, and things only got detailed when I payed attention to them. I was on a train, driving trough some random city. A couple of asian-looking girls sat near me, and they started speaking in chinese. What's weird is that they would alternate between speaking in chinese and english, and I understood they were saying something like "It's funny how we're not real, it's all a dream." I could also control weather they would speak in chinese or in english.

An interesting thing as well is that english isn't even my native language! In most of my dreams, everything is in english. Maybe it has to do with the fact that everything I read about dreaming is in english too? Back to the dream tho.

I also find it a bit weird that I was completely calm. I repeated my mantras before going to sleep "I'm going to look at my hands in the dream", and some other similar ones, but I wasn't at all interested in doing a RC, or trying to do anything. I was conscious, but was kind of "going with the flow" of the dream. I looked trough the window, to check out the city, and that's where the dream snapped. I was transferred to another place, a beach of some sort with my friends; but I forgot all about it being a dream! It was so realistic, probably even more so than my waking life!

The question is, though, was the first dream, on the train a lucid one? Because I don't feel like I had any control, even if I was aware of it being a dream.

If it does count as a LD, then this would be my first one, just one day after trying out the All Day Awareness thingy

Congrats on first lucid!
Definitely lucid, because you were aware that you were dreaming, and that"s what makes dream lucid. It's not uncommon to become lucid without reality check too, because in fact it's awareness from doing reality checks in waking life that makes us lucid, not the action itself, and in dream we usually become aware first and then do reality check to confirm, but other times we can be aware enough to be sure without RC, especially if doing awareness practices like ADA.
As for dream control, it's not uncommon for first lucids, but it will surely get better with practice, and you had control over weather which is pretty nice for first actually. Check out this thread too: http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...m-control.html

It seems you have had your first lucid my friend, and a WILD at that. A WILD id a Wake Initiated Lucid Dream, caused by going directly from conscious or semi-concious state to luciddreaming. If you want to repeat this I would keep track of the time you went to bed that night, and when your mom half woke you up. If you repeat these steps (maybe not using your mom, but a sleep alarm) you could probably have another wild whenever. Gratz.

Yay!

Thanks for the advice, and the cool link; it really helped explain a lot of things!

Congratulations!