Thread: Why did I not become lucid?

You were having a dream about having a lucid dream?

That's deep.

Yea, pretty much! My subconsiousness must really want to mindf*** me...

I somehow suspect that my two last LD were only dreams about lucid dreaming. I don't really care tbh by now, because both were really cool and memorable experiences, and its an illusion nevertheless... so what's the problem if I only dreamt about being in control?

I mean, i read a ton of stuff here and try to wrap my mind around the stuff in waking live. Since I can remember my dreams often involved stuff I had on my mind that day, but sometimes in a warped, strange way. If i read here: flip a lightswitch inside your dream, it won't work! Then I think I somehow expect this to happen in my dream as well. I am not yet convinced that this was truly lucid dreaming but it really doesn't matter. I have very good recall of the first and ok recall of the second dream, both were "HD" so I don't have much to complain about.

But... my very first LD experience was so much more physical, as short and idiotic as it might have seemed. This was a WILD, the other two were DILD. Maybe thats the difference in vividness and general feel of the dreams.


I think it would not be too strange to dream about lucid dreaming. And that not making you lucid in itself. If I learned one thing here then that dreams are built upon expectations. If you spend some time per day to practice RCs, awareness or just read stuff here on DV, then you can of course implement this into your regular dreams.

It could either be a false lucid, or maybe you had low awareness. Are you doing reality checks with awareness? Asking yourself if you're dreaming; remembering what you were doing five minutes ago; being aware of what you're doing at the current moment. Here are a couple of helpful links:

http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...kingyoshi.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/dild/13212...ods-dilds.html

Hope this helps a little.

Originally Posted by AstralMango

It could either be a false lucid, or maybe you had low awareness. Are you doing reality checks with awareness? Asking yourself if you're dreaming; remembering what you were doing five minutes ago; being aware of what you're doing at the current moment. Here are a couple of helpful links:

http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...kingyoshi.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/dild/13212...ods-dilds.html

Hope this helps a little.

Thank you!