Thread: Fake Lucidity?

OK, so the other night I had an interesting dream. It was after I had woken up in the morning, I decided to try to WILD. I layed down and eventually drifted off into a dream. I dreamt that I had woken up and went to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror and noticed that I was wearing braces, which I found extremely weird bc I dont have braces. I then took off the braces which came off like a retainer would (?) and noticed I had an underbite, which I also found very strange because my brother has an underbite, not me. So this triggered me to do a reality check.
I did the finger thru palm, and it WORKED! I pushed my finger right through my palm. Now this is where it gets strange.
I knew I was dreaming, but didnt become lucid really. I started to stare at my hands and noticed I started to get tunnel vison, and everything was blurring, so I tried to stare at the wall, but it didnt help. So I started to rub and touch the bathroom wall, which really helped. I could feel the actual texture of the wall. I then went around the bathroom and random things started to happen (nothing too special), and eventually I found myself back in my bedroom. I tried to turn on my bedside lamp, but it didnt work. I tried several times more, but it still didnt work. I then remember closing my eyes in the dream and opening them in my bed, awake, with my hand on my bedside lamp and me staring at the wall of my bedroom. I think this may have been a false awakening, because it just didnt feel like I was actually awake. I drifted off to sleep a moment later.
Now what was strange about this was that I WASNT actually lucid. It felt like I had control after I did the reality check, but it wasnt the same feeling I have had when I become lucid. It was almost like I was still in a dream, but I just started doing things I would have done IF I had become lucid.

Was this just an *extremely* low level of lucidity, or could I have tricked myself into having a dream about doing things Id do when im lucid?

I can't see how it could NOT be a lucid dream. You even did a RC, and then knew that you were dreaming. A lucid dream is a dream where you know that you're dreaming, regardless of how the dream "feels". You don't even have to be able to control the dream for it to be a lucid dream.

Originally Posted by Luminous

I can't see how it could NOT be a lucid dream. You even did a RC, and then knew that you were dreaming. A lucid dream is a dream where you know that you're dreaming, regardless of how the dream "feels". You don't even have to be able to control the dream for it to be a lucid dream.

But I didnt "know" I was dreaming. Gahh its really hard to explain what it was..I was hoping someone else had experienced something like this so they could relate..

Originally Posted by LucidFreedoM

But I didnt "know" I was dreaming. Gahh its really hard to explain what it was..I was hoping someone else had experienced something like this so they could relate..

I know exactly what you mean. People like to call it semi-lucidity.

I would agree with your assumption that it was a low level LD. It sounds just like it to me.

I would often get very frustrated, when I was just beginning lucid dreaming, because I would often get low level lucids, and I was starting to wonder if there was such thing as a high level lucid!

I recently figured out something that really helps for me. Maybe it will help for you too? As soon as I become lucid, I think about how sometimes with low level lucids, it seems like it didn't actually happen in the moment, and it was just you remembering it when you woke up. I think about that, and try to apply it to the lucid I'm in, and try to make sure that I am totally, 100% lucid, so that there's no way I can forget it. Sounds pretty obvious, but it works for me.