Hi there everyone,

New member here. I googled best lucid dream forum and dreamviews came up the most so here I am. Anyways, I signed up to ask if what I experienced last night was a true lucid dream or at least the start of one?

Over the past month I have had a recurrent nightmare where I enter a set of stairs and instantly become trapped in what appears to be an infinite staircase. The first time I dreamt it my son had run up into them and I couldn't find him. The staircase went every which way in many different directions and dimensions, kind of like the staircase in some of M.C. Eschers art work.

The second time I had this type of nightmare again, the staircase was super trippy and geometrical and infinite and I was petrified I would never see my loved ones again. This dream actually gave me a day or two of lingering anxiety it was that emotional.

The third time was last night and this time as I entered and became trapped in the trippy infinite staircase, I became conscious of having been here before and that it scared me in the past so I was able to push myself through the membrane of the stairs/dreamscape (for lack of a better description) and escape them. I soon woke up after I escaped the staircase.

When I woke up I instantly thought that that nightmare may have become lucid, does it sound like it to you guys, have I accidentally stumbled into a lucid dreamscape?

Funnily enough, a few nights ago before bed I thought about the recurrent nightmare and thought to myself that next time if I have it I should try and become lucid and escape out of it! It was more of a random thought more than anything and I didn't think more of it but maybe that was all the intent I needed so that next time the nightmare happened, I was prepared?

I've never had anything distinctly lucid in the past besides one time where I was having a regular dream and next minute I was hurtling through a black void at incredible speeds and became aware and conscious of the fact that I was, and I also felt G-forces comparable to a rollercoaster or something similar. I thought of that more as an out of body experience more than anything but I guess it could kind of fall into a lucid dream category too.

I've always been intrigued by my dreams and have had some amazing ones in my time but they were always what you would call a usual dream where I wasn't aware I was dreaming. Always wanted to be able to lucid dream but never gave it much effort.

Anyways, would love to hear some opinions on this. Thanks for reading everyone!