Thread: How can you be partly lucid?

Originally Posted by lucid4sho

Theres countless degrees of lucidity. Its impossible to say a percentage because its relative and I don't know that it can be maxed out. Partial lucidity is generally considered having awareness while dreaming without being present enough to exert real control over your thoughts and actions. Its more like watching a movie. Lucidity is knowing your dreaming and controlling your thoughts and actions to the degree similar to your waking self.

Although even being "completely" lucid may not necessarily mean that you have 100% dream control. Consciousness and control over the dream are two distinctive things. You can be 0% lucid and still have complete dream control and play “God”, or know all the way down to your toes that you are in a dream but barely be able to control anything, even your body in the dream. However, if you are "100%" lucid, you can rationalize in your dream and if something isn't working the way you want it to, you can sometimes work around it.

Originally Posted by psychology student

partial lucidity, is when I think that you know that you are dreaming on a base level, but are still partially influenced by the delusion of the dream.

For example, you could be lucid, but still be fearful of a dream lion, even though you recognise that this is a dream and there is no reason to be fearful.

Very true, and with that partial lucidity, even if you tell yourself that it is a dream over and over, you still may not be able to control that fear.

The reason that I started trying to lucid dream was because I remembered having a partial lucid dream before, where I woke up, vividly remembered my dream, and fell back to sleep again being aware that I was dreaming. That, for me, is partially lucid.

Ya Shift, I definitely agree. During non lds I sometimes have great control over the dream, though theres no conscious intent, and during some lds I have little control of the dream, just conscious intent in my own thoughts and actions. I'm glad you put a 100% in quotes, because obviously awareness can't really be measured by percentage.

I have had experiences where I was in a dream and knew I had 'powers', could use them, but I didn't fully comprehend that I was dreaming. I have also had situations where I knew I was dreaming, but could not recall anything from the waking world. One time I even had a full-on lucid dream with the strange exception that I wasn't a character. The DCs couldn't perceive me, yet I controlled them and the environment. So there are a lot of ways to be 'partially' lucid.

To have a lucid dream simply means to realize you are dreaming.

That does not mean to realize you are dreaming...
and to have super powers
and to realize that since it is a dream nothing can hurt you
and to notice all the illogical stuff
and to be able to exert god-like control over the DCs and enviornment
and to breathe under water
OR whatever else you may assume LDing means.

LDing simply means to realize you are dreaming while in a dream. That is is.

So, people often call LDs where they have no control, are afraid of stuff, ect a "semi-lucid" or a "low-level lucid."

Originally Posted by drewmandan

I have had experiences where I was in a dream and knew I had 'powers', could use them, but I didn't fully comprehend that I was dreaming. I have also had situations where I knew I was dreaming, but could not recall anything from the waking world. One time I even had a full-on lucid dream with the strange exception that I wasn't a character. The DCs couldn't perceive me, yet I controlled them and the environment. So there are a lot of ways to be 'partially' lucid.

I know what you mean. I could push around a pickup truck and mind control it as it sped down the hill, because i knew i could do that in dreams, but i didn't become lucid.
Also, in another dream, I was "100%" aware and focused, and did jack all, coz i couldn't fly and i was outta town so i had to walk.