Thread: How can you be partly lucid?

Originally Posted by bobbby

I have never had a lucid dream that i can remember, but i read is some posts people say they are like 50% lucid or 90%.

Wouldnt you either be 100% or 0%???

Its a good question but sometimes you become lucid in ur dreams and cannot control everything or you can even slip back into a dream. I have done this not so long ago i was having fun in a lucid and then im talking to some woman and i even said in my dream wtf im i doing then i lost lucid and fell back into the dream.

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.

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.

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."

I am only satisfied with my lucid dream when it is life like, i.e. I get the full sensory perception of being there.

On occasions I know I am dreaming but the visual aspect is not so detailed and vivid or I may not have the sensation of touch etc. In cases like these I generally get the feeling that the whole experience is fairly weak.
I agree with seeker28 about the definition of lucid dreaming, but it's just easier to say something like "I was about 50%" lucid rather than explain how the experience was lacking.

I think other lucid dreamers know what we mean when when we use this terminology, so as far as I am concerned it's a valid and useful way of expressing ourselves

Originally Posted by bobbby

I have never had a lucid dream that i can remember, but i read is some posts people say they are like 50% lucid or 90%.

Wouldnt you either be 100% or 0%???

Simple. Just like when you are drunk.

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.

Originally Posted by bobbby

I have never had a lucid dream that i can remember, but i read is some posts people say they are like 50% lucid or 90%.

Wouldnt you either be 100% or 0%???

Strangely, no. Your mind is never fully awake when dreaming, or you would probably wake up. There's always going to be dream elements. A low level of lucidity means that you're partly aware and slipping in and out of consciousness. A high level means that you have good control.
There's the state of being lucid (you are or you aren't) and levels of lucidity.