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Lucid Dream?
So I went to bed last night without even thinking of LD and reality check, only thinking of writing down my dreams. So I woke up after 5 hours of sleep to write my dream in my journal and after that I went to my bathroom. Then I went to bed again without thinking of LD and I passed out quickly. And this is were it all went strange.
I entered a dream which was in my room and from absolutely nowhere I got the feeling that I was dreaming. It was strange because it felt like I was lucid from the start of the dream. My only reality check was the nose plug which worked btw. The strange thing also was that I didn't feel excited at all, but the dream was so vivid that even I thought it was ridiculous. Then I felt that the dream faded away so I woke up, but NO! I did not woke up. I thought I was in waking life, but from nowhere I checked my hands and when I saw that I was having 6 fingers I was freaking out so bad! But I didn't woke up after that. I was thinking; "Ah! it's just I dream" I was in my room and it was again very vivid, but I didn't have any control over my second dream at all.
So? was this a Lucid dream?
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You realized you were dreaming so this was a lucid dream.
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Agreed. The only condition for a dream to be considered "lucid" is that the dreamer realizes he/she is dreaming. You realized you were dreaming, hence it was a lucid dream.
Lucidity does not guarantee control. The fact that you didn't have any control in the second dream just means that you weren't fully stabilized or grounded in the dream, but you were still technically lucid.