Thread: Lucid Non-lucid

I know that sounds stupid but it was. I am in a dryspell big-time, and I have been listening to subliminals trying to help. Lately I keep dreaming about being in bed in weird places, like at work, and I keep dreaming about lucid dreaming--I overhear people talking about it, or I am explaining it to somebody, etc. without ever becoming lucid. Then last night, I dreamed that I was sleeping out in the street. A friend was with me, and she told me she could hypnotize me. She had me look thru a device, and I saw a scene; it was a beach with a lot of people playing in the sun, including the friend, which I thought was hilarious. She beckoned me to her, then suddenly I felt like I was in the scene. Unfortunately as soon as I became part of the scene, it shifted to the street, and all the people were in the street milling around and pushing me and stuff. I knew it wasn't real, it felt just like a lucid dream without good control. I was looking around amazed at the reality of the hypnotically-induced scene. But I didn't become lucid, because I thought I had been hypnotized!

Isn't that stupid? It can't get much worse. I know it was the subliminals that caused it, all that weird talking made me think about being hypnotized.

Sorry, but I can't say it was lucid.
Since I have gained the ability to have lucid dreams, I have had TONS of dreams in which I knew it was not real, and I knew that I had total control, but my brain left it at that. My brain has gotten so used to lucid dreaming that now, even though I know it's not real, I don't need an explanation for it. I just know that I am back in that 'unreal' place where I can do anything.

Ain't it a bitch!?

-sloth

Huh, that is really weird. You've gotten really good at dream control thru trying to become lucid, without always becoming lucid, if I understnd you right. That would almost be as good as being totally lucid, unless you don't really do things that you would choose to do if you were totally lucid.

I have had several lucids where I am physically trapped (in a room, behind the bed, etc.); this was very similar, with the huge crowd of people around me not allowing me to move. It felt just like a lucid dream, the way I am so easily amazed at the realistic quality (which you would think I would be used to now, and move on to more important matters.) But I had a different explanation for it (the hypnotizing).

So weird. The many variations of almost lucid, or control without lucidity, or lucidity without control. In a way, what you say is kind of discouraging, because if "being in the unreal place where you can do anything" is not a good enough dream sign to make you lucid, what could possibly be!? And it sounds like you are better at LD than me anyway.

Yes, it is a bitch big-time. Yet, I observe again, so what? I'd just be sleeping anyway.

They're semi lucids. Learn to love em XD. They can be much fun.

My original intention was not to have lucid dreams. I didn't know they existed, really. I started out trying to study them. I found that if I kept going back to sleep at certain times, I began to gain more understanding of them. At the same time, I had wild fantasies of being able to do anything with my mind. I'm sure that this helped a lot.

I can do absolutely anything in almost every dream I have, lucid or not. My brain has come to understand this, and at this point, just accepts it as being normal. In waking life, when I drop something, my FIRST instinct is to use my mind powers to make it come back. If I have to walk across the room for something, I always feel that it is a big inconvenience, long before I realize why I feel this way.

Originally Posted by sloth

If I have to walk across the room for something, I always feel that it is a big inconvenience, long before I realize why I feel this way.
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Hahaha.... I think you're on to something XD

Dreaming probably plays a huge part in my inherent laziness.

I'm always on something.