What does it feel like to lose lucidity?

So I'm curious here, as a child I used to have LDs and recently had one which got me interested in mastering the art.

There are a few things that give me a little anxiety about what to expect though.

One is what I have read in some posts, especially with posts involving people who tried to convince a DC they were in a dream to which the response was 'no' and dreamers sometimes report losing lucidity after this or sometimes after a while without stabilizing.

I was wondering what it feels like to lose lucidity in a dream and what it can trigger in the dream or for the dreamer?

Sorry if this has already been asked, I am on my phone and the 'similar post titles' functiin doesn't work here, nor did anything overly to my interest appear in search of the forums or google.

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Originally Posted by BadAssLongCoat

So I'm curious here, as a child I used to have LDs and recently had one which got me interested in mastering the art.

There are a few things that give me a little anxiety about what to expect though.

One is what I have read in some posts, especially with posts involving people who tried to convince a DC they were in a dream to which the response was 'no' and dreamers sometimes report losing lucidity after this or sometimes after a while without stabilizing.

I was wondering what it feels like to lose lucidity in a dream and what it can trigger in the dream or for the dreamer?

Sorry if this has already been asked, I am on my phone and the 'similar post titles' functiin doesn't work here, nor did anything overly to my interest appear in search of the forums or google.

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Hi, iv had 2 type of lost lucidity moments....the first is where everything goes dark and then i wake up.....the second is when the lucid dream has a story going on in which i follow whixh causes me to forget im lucid...so i go from dream to lucid dream and back to normal dream.All my lucids happen from normal dreams....i realise somethings odd then i get lucid. =)

so there is no bizarre sensation or discomfort or emotion that occurs when you slip back into the dream? I guess I haven't had one in a long time so I can't remember, hoping to have a lucid soon, going to bed early for WBTB tonight so here's hoping!

I can't say I've ever had a bizarre sensation or anything when I lose lucidity. Usually losing lucidity is either because you have an FA and think you're actually awake, or because you get too caught up in the realness and vividness of the dream that you forget to remind yourself that you're dreaming. In either case, there's not really a transition - one moment you're lucid and the next you're not. In most cases, I've found that losing lucidity still gives you an exceptionally vivid dream for the rest of your sleep cycle.

I think the "bizarre sensations" may be referring to the HH during a DEILD, where you wake up for a short time before falling asleep again. These HH are totally normal and safe, though they can seem pretty weird if you've never experienced them before.

It's a very subtle shift, the awareness that you're dreaming just slips away and you're still active in whatever scene you were in before that happened. Often there is a transition at the end of my LDs into a new dream scene and I come out in the new scene still feeling present, but just no longer realizing that I'm dreaming.

I usually have the dream fade into black on me and then I cannot get it back. It feels like falling asleep.