Thread: Was This My First Ld?

Originally Posted by Lyla

Please read it carefully and explain it to me if you understand![/b]

I understand. TweaK brought this up in another thread, here: My Biggie Problemo. You should give it a look. Everything I said in that thread pertains to you as well, but I'll answer your questions individually as well.

Originally Posted by Lyla

this is what I remembered from a dream, looking at a digital clock that showed 9:something and when I looked back 11:something, at which point I told my grandma that I was dreaming. From that point on I don't remember anything.[/b]

This was a lucid dream. Why would you have announced that you were dreaming unless you had really realized that you were dreaming? Do you randomly announce that you're dreaming very often in waking life?

It sucks that you don't remember the rest of the dream. This has happened to me many times. It still doesn't change the fact that you became lucid during a dream, which means that you experienced a lucid dream.

Originally Posted by Lyla

When I have a normal dream, even if it's in first person, to me it's like a story, I just do things that seem dictated by someone else, and can reflect on them in the morning. I always saw LD-s as an "awakening" in a dream. (Oh!! I can't explain!!! and I have to leave for school in 3 minutes!!!&#33. So, in this dream, my thought "I must be dreaming" seemed like one of my normal dream thoughts (dictated by someone else aka my subconcious, not the concious)... And I don't feel that I became lucid..but, that may be because of poor dream recall...[/b]

Here's the thing: lucid dreams do feel like being "awake" inside a dream, while you are actually having the lucid dream. Once you wake up, however, you recall them just as well as regular dreams. The only difference being that because lucid dreams are both rare and sought-after (at least for people like us) they tend to be a bit more memorable - but they are still distinctly "dreamed" memories.

It's a little difficult to recall that "awake" feeling that you had at the time, when you are merely recalling it as a dream memory. It's like remembering happiness when you're depressed, or vice versa. You know that at some time in the past you were happy, even though you are not happy at that time, and it might be difficult to even recall what happiness felt like.

So in summary, you're right about it just being poor dream recall. Except it's not that your dream recall is poor compared to normal dream recall, it's that dream recall in general is poor compared to waking recall. Get it?

It could help you to act out or verbalize what you're feeling. Run your hands over the walls and remark out loud upon how real they feel. Smell the air, listen to the sounds, and verbally narrate your internal dialogue. Hopefully you'll remember doing it and if you do, there should be little doubt in your mind that you were truly awake whilst dreaming.