Hello guys,

I have been a silent reader here for some time and have written a dream journal for about half a year now, with good results as i remember a lot more now from my dreams, and noticed having more dreams.

I had two WILD attemps that yielded somewhat of a result, in one I really witnessed me falling asleep and entering a dream, but I was regularly dreaming then. Still, I clearly noticed the beginning, the falling asleep part. A crazy vibration started and it felt like I was twisted through the floor in a vortex like fashion, then I fell asleep.

The other attempt ended in a similar fashion, I had a solid impression of my body beginning to move violently to the left and right, but sadly I was so excited because of it that I woke up again, slowly but I could net get my temper down again for another try. Cool stuff.

This night I had a dream of me and my wife driving a very familiar road with bicycles on a sunny day. A police helicopter flies straight towards us, very low height, and then passes us (nearly hitting us) without making too much of a sound, that got me wondering... hm that's not feeling right. I then notice we are on the same road but in a car. I say to myself: lets try a RC, and I usually always do the pinch my nose or poke finger through cheek. But I was not able to loosen my hands from the steering wheel, it was just not possible. So I used my tongue and tried to poke it through my cheek, but it didn't work. It felt all soft and mushy, like I poked it inside the tissue, but it did not come through. So I continued to dream. I looked after the helicopter and it flew to a port (that is not there normally, on that road) where I notice two other large flying objects. The port looks bristling with life and action and I want to check it out.

The dream then started to fade, it looked like a low resolution post card moving away from me. I gathered all my will and wanted to get "inside" that post card, so i thrusted my arms forward and flew into it. A great feeling of flying and accomplishment overcame me and I rushed towards the water of the port. Then i woke up, it was only a few seconds.


But now comes my question: this did not feel like a lucid dream. Only the very last part felt different, and I was able to fly in other dreams before this one, but it was more like "oh well, flying is totally normal, so lets just take off, right?" and not like a conscious decision. So is this still my untrained mind not being able to recall all the nice details and I am lucid dreaming already and that's really all there is, or is truly becoming lucid in a dream an unmistakable event, that you just can't miss?