Thread: Does this count as lucid?

You knew you were dreaming, so you were lucid.

It is lucid if you are aware, yes, but I wouldn't count it as my first or on my LD count.

I think there's a difference between lucid dreaming and being aware that you're lucid dreaming... Lucid dreaming is realizing that you're in a dream... Realizing that you're lucid dreaming is realizing all of the possibilities that you have in the dream...

Originally Posted by NightLife

I think there's a difference between lucid dreaming and being aware that you're lucid dreaming... Lucid dreaming is realizing that you're in a dream... Realizing that you're lucid dreaming is realizing all of the possibilities that you have in the dream...

Exactally.

Originally Posted by NightLife

I think there's a difference between lucid dreaming and being aware that you're lucid dreaming... Lucid dreaming is realizing that you're in a dream... Realizing that you're lucid dreaming is realizing all of the possibilities that you have in the dream...

Ohh...god. I love that moment in a DILD when you have just become lucid, and suddenly it dawns on you...you can do whatever you want.

You. Are. God.

I just live for that moment.

But , every DILD I have I’m barely conscious

That was lucid. Sometimes you just feel retarded in dreams. Friggin' dream locic...

Originally Posted by The Cusp

That was lucid. Sometimes you just feel retarded in dreams. Friggin' dream locic...

Yeah, b/c the logical part of your brain is asleep w/ the rest you! Thats what really sucks, I mean, I can be talking to someone, look away from them for a second, look back and end up talking to someone else and still think that it's normal!

Yeah, b/c the logical part of your brain is asleep w/ the rest you! Thats what really sucks, I mean, I can be talking to someone, look away from them for a second, look back and end up talking to someone else and still think that it's normal!

This happens when you're awake also! There have been several amusing studies where a subject was engaged in conversation with someone when two workmen with a large board walk between the two people. The other person is then switched out for someone else. Much of the time, the subjects don't even notice that the person they were talking to changed. So don't be surprised if your brain doesn't pick that up in a dream either. Our brains don't waste energy and focus keeping track of things we assume. We assume the person we're talking to won't change, so the mind doesn't focus on it when awake or asleep.

Originally Posted by Ellipsis

This happens when you're awake also! There have been several amusing studies where a subject was engaged in conversation with someone when two workmen with a large board walk between the two people. The other person is then switched out for someone else. Much of the time, the subjects don't even notice that the person they were talking to changed. So don't be surprised if your brain doesn't pick that up in a dream either. Our brains don't waste energy and focus keeping track of things we assume. We assume the person we're talking to won't change, so the mind doesn't focus on it when awake or asleep.

Haha, that is pretty funny yet very interesting. I never thought that happened in RL, but then again, I tend to have trouble distinguishing some people from others sometimes, so this makes sense.

And btw: I never pick up people changing in my dreams until I wake up, unless Im Lucid, of course, which is a rare occurrence.