Did I lose control? or was it the end of the dream (REM Cycle)

**Vainglory** · 05-01-2014 12:42 AM

Hey there. Before I get down to it, I'd like to say thanks to the DV community

I really appreciate all the help, all the tutorials, etc.
With your help I got my 2nd lucid dream last night (relatively short though)
Okay, here we go.
Last night I had a dream that I was lying on my bed and I was trying to turn the TV off or shake something off my hand (not sure which one).
I couldn't do it then I thought to myself, "Am I Dreaming/Is this a Dream"?
I was able to do this cuz I think my brain is conditioned to question reality when something is weird, strange, or abnormal.
So yeah, I did the nose plug thing, the hand check (my index finger had like 3 cockroach leg-like feet - awesome) then I was lucid.
I tried to change the setting of the dream (from my bedroom to like a classroom or a beach) by closing my eyes and verbalizing though it failed.
I think this made me non-lucid. I feel like I lost control.
I lost the awareness that I could do whatever I want in the dream, or so I think.
All of a sudden my parents & my sister walked through the door in a hurry.
Something about picking up an "Aunt".
When I asked for her name from my sister, I woke up..
I was lucid for like 5-10mins.
Was that the end of the REM cycle?
I slept at around 9pm, woke up at 11, then went back to bed at around 11:45 (I have a habit of checking the time via my phone)

**Hitokage** · 05-01-2014 07:37 PM

Well it's possible to maintain lucidity almost the whole night so I think you just lost it. Sometimes it happens because even though people are lucid and they modify the dream, the eventually let this dream they once controlled slowly take control of them without noticing.

**LucidMoon** · 05-01-2014 11:02 PM

@Vainglory it's kinda hard to say, probably impossible. You may have even been woken by an outside noise and not realized it.

**Vainglory** · 05-02-2014 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by Hitokage

Well it's possible to maintain lucidity almost the whole night so I think you just lost it. Sometimes it happens because even though people are lucid and they modify the dream, the eventually let this dream they once controlled slowly take control of them without noticing.

I see. I'll work on my control/awareness, thanks!

Originally Posted by LucidMoon

@Vainglory it's kinda hard to say, probably impossible. You may have even been woken by an outside noise and not realized it.

Hmm, maybe. I naturally wake up at around 3am and yes sometimes it gets loud

exaggerating a bit, ofcourse