Thread: Lucid dream uncertainty

If you had a dream, where you realised you were dreaming, then you've had a lucid-dream. The amount of time, the control and the recall doesn't matter. If you member realising, that you're in a dream, then you've been lucid.

You can eventually start reality-checking, though. It's a simple way of determing, whether you are, or are not dreaming. Check out the tutorial sub-forum, for the Reality-Check tutorial.

I'll try to double check next time although I did became lucid in the first 2 dreams by reality check. Still, I felt unsure of if it was a dream or simply disoriented awakeness imagination. Maybe I shouldn't wonder too much and see what happens next. In any case, I'm just glad to have found out about lucid dreaming. Thanks Marvo.

What reality-checks are you doing? Use the nose-plugging method, if you can breath through your nose, while it's plugged, then you're most definitely dreaming. Remember though, always do 2 reality-checks.

I simply looked twice at something and if it changed I knew I was dreaming. I'll start doing some daily nose plugging reality checks, twice each times. Hope it picks up. thx

If you're borderline sleeping, it sounds like hypnagogic imagery. I find these quite easy to identify as dreams, but I don't really count them as lucid.

They are however a good opportunity to become lucid, as the eventually turn into normal dreams. If you can keep your awareness as you enter as part of the dream, then you're lucid.

I can't reach the hypnagogic state reliably, but for the ones I do remember, in the majority of them I usually know it is some sort of dream.