lucidity?? help!

**sugarpeaches** · 06-05-2015 06:13 PM

Okay so. I think I had a lucid dream last night (exciting! it's been a long time!), but I'm actually super unsure! I wouldn't include content, but I think it's important to consider.

It started in a strange town that I had to get away from, so I got in a car with a few friends (none of whom are people I've actually met in real life) and we went to a Wendy's outside the town. At this point I "woke up," an obvious false awakening now that I think about it. But I decided to go back to "sleep" into the same dream, and told myself that I would become lucid. I went back into the dream, to the Wendy's, but was now on a bus and wanted to get out, so I opened a window. But, suddenly realizing I was dreaming, I didn't climb out the window, I simply made the bus vanish. Then I played around with the gravity of the dream universe and made food levitate and stuff until having another false awakening and finally having a real awakening.

I felt lucid! I'd like to say I was. But could this have been a false lucidity, considering I only became lucid in a dream within a dream and failed to do a reality check within the dream or my false awakenings?

**ParanoidLlama** · 06-05-2015 10:28 PM

Well, for me personally, I don't think it's possible to initiate a dream in a dream. Sure, you may feel like you just went to a different scene instantly, but that's just it, you went to another scene. In the same dream. Your mind can make it seem as though you were in a dream from a dream when you go to sleep in a dream, and when you wake up from that dream wake up in the same place you were before, but that's nothing more than just your mind remembering where you were before the scene changed. That's just my speculation, at least.

But in either case, you were in a dream, and you were lucid. It doesn't matter if you didn't do a reality check during the dream or when you had that FA, the fact that you knew it was a dream, whether it was the same dream or a dream within a dream, still makes it a lucid dream. So well done on that!

Hope you have more sweet (lucid) dreams..

**sugarpeaches** · 06-05-2015 10:45 PM

thank you so much!! that was kind of what I was thinking, but I'm a bit of a beginner so I just wasn't sure c:

**Sunfire** · 06-06-2015 09:54 PM

Congratulations! That was definitley a lucid dream. Don't be to confused by the whole Inception thing you had going on there, closing your eyes in a dream (when you went back to sleep) often results in a scene change, infact that's a common technique used for lucid dreamers to transport themselves where they want to be.
Failing to do a reality check wouldnt have made this any less of a lucid dream. A reality check is just confirmation really. If you get into the habit of doing them everytime you wake, then you would have done one when you had the false awakening and realised you were dreaming slightly earlier.

Best of luck on having more lucid dreams

**Rothgar** · 06-06-2015 10:24 PM

I Agee with all the comments. I don't always do reality checks I'm my LDs. Sometimes you just know it's a dream and don't bother confirming what you already know. Congrats!