Thread: Question about LD

So I recently began the process to achieving Lucid Dreams and right now I'm just focusing on recall and reality checks before I progress to WILDs.

However, last night I sort of remember doing the pinch nose reality check, realised I was dreaming.

My question is, I don't think I was "conscious", I don't remember being conscious in the moment and never got excited or freaked out when I did the RC and realised. While I understand the definition of a lucid dream, I was expecting to actually be in the dream, like I've consciously woke up in a dream rather than waking up and realising, 'oh my god i realised I was dreaming'.

Have I got Lucid Dreaming completely wrong or is there levels of awareness and kind of conscious, kind of zombie like. What I had felt like it was just a normal dream of me going: 'oh I'm in a dream' rather than being awake in a dream.

It just feels like I recall going oh im in a dream, didnt freak out and just remember when I woke up it felt like a normal dream where I wasn't conscious. I'm also not sure if it ended there or whether the dream continued as I really dont recall anything after the RC.