Thread: Only lucid in certain types of dreams?

As I recall the times that I have become lucid, I am realizing that it is only certain types of dreams that I become lucid in. I rarely EVER become lucid during an action-packed or epic dream. As long as there is a constant storyling going on, I don't seem to ever become lucid.

It is usually the dreams where things have cooled down, the storyline is idle, that I become lucid. I think this is because it is sort of a break in the dream, and it gives your consciousness a chance to survey the scene and think about what is going on. Of course there are always dreamsigns, and occasionally during an action-packed dream a dreamsign will appear or occur and I will suddenly become lucid, but then after that point, many elements of the plot disappear.

QUESTION: Have any of you ever noticed that you only become lucid in certain types of dreams, maybe ones that have an idle storyline, or something else? Or I am the only one?

...The reason that I thought of this is because a couple nights ago I was having a wild action dream where I was in some type of huge, tall building, escaping people. Then it turned into a huge ship, at least 500 feet high. It was at night at there were explosions all over in the air. I stood at the edge and jumped and plummetted into the water almost facefirst. After impact I remember thinking "man, if this weren't a dream, that would have hurt." But I wasn't lucid, I never continued the thought, it was just there. Then I started swimming, and I had some gunboat and I was shooting other boats. Then, oddly, I saw some weird bubble in the air and it had a person's face in it and then it zoomed in to me, and all the sudden I was looking at photographs. It was apparently showing me digital edits of pictures. I heard the word "blue" and a picture would take on a blue tone, then "red" and the picture would be red-toned. Then one was blurred on the edges with a person sitting in radiant light, it was spectacular.

Then I woke up. I couldn't BELIEVE I hadn't become lucid. So I began to wonder... Do you just not become lucid during active storyline dreams?.... who knows.

I become lucid durring al different sorts fo dreams, but I belvie it is harder for people to become lcuid when they are so invovled wiht the stroy. For, have you noticed that when your busy in real life, notthign elce aroudn you relaly maters,? SO I think it works the smae way in a dream, if your too busy in the aciton, you never bother to quesiton whats real and whats not.