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      (Another) quick question about what LDs are like

      I'm wondering about the general feel you get about lucid dreaming...At the time, is it like you're awake? It's very hard to explain, this. But what I basically mean, is in a dream that MAY have been lucid, it felt when I woke up like it was doing it for me?

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      ^^ Another quick answer:

      If I understand you right, Ben, you might have just been dreaming you were lucid, which I believe can happen.

      The general feel of lucidity, I think, is one of feeling like your waking-life consciousness -- aka, You -- is present in a dream, and you have that "Ah-ha!" moment where you think or even say something like "Hey! This is a dream!" during the dream.

      So if you didn't get that feeling of presence in the dream, and simply remember that you were lucid (especially if that memory is one of feeling like you were being told you were lucid, or being made lucid), then you may not have been lucid.

      When you are lucid, BTW, and you will be, there will be no doubt!
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      Well, to me it feels exactly like when I'm awake
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      Thanks for the replies guys! I hope I will achieve my first LD soon. ^_^

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      I dunno, for me it is not that black and white. Sometimes I am lucid, but I feel less connected somehow. Other times I get lucid and I realize afterwards I had no sense of some major things, like my body, or there was no sound at all. Sometimes I am very concious and know it's me, but I make choices I would never make if I were awake, so it kinda also feels like a different me. And sometimes I feel completely like myself, and I am totally calm and collective and think pretty much like normal.

      It's sometimes hard for me to know whether or not I was lucid, or dreaming about being lucid. Though the realistic ones are the best for sure
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      Usually, I feel just like I'm awake during a LD and afterward have the sense of having been there living the LD “in the present”.

      Quote Originally Posted by MrPriority View Post
      Sometimes I am very concious and know it's me, but I make choices I would never make if I were awake, so it kinda also feels like a different me. And sometimes I feel completely like myself, and I am totally calm and collective and think pretty much like normal.
      Same here; sometimes my judgment seems a bit weird, but I generally feel like it was “me”, I think. Other times my self-awareness will seem high and I'll make choices more in line with what my waking self would.

      For me, it's usually fairly easy to distinguish lucid vs. non-lucid, with the exception of some occasional corner-cases—such as a dream where I exercise dream control but not actually realize I'm dreaming, or where my mind just seemed to be in such a confused state that it's actually hard to classify (I once had a dream where I apparently was literally lucid and non-lucid simultaneously at different levels of awareness. The result of my trying to think logically through this was hilarious.)
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