I'm sure there are many of you out there that accept the definition of 'knowing that you are dreaming', though there are some (no doubt?) that have gone beyond simply 'knowing they are dreaming', especially those who have been experimenting/experiencing longer.


Dreaming of lucid dreaming, I think is often taken as lucid dreaming itself, and determining real control and awareness doesn't lie within the boundaries of 'I know that I'm dreaming'.

I don't know if I have 'lucid dreams' any more. Almost all of my dreams are with high awareness and I have control over them from an objective detached standpoint, as well as being absorbed in them at the same time -- a double pointed awareness which technically doesn't relate to lucidity at all.

Only sometimes do I say "I am lucid dreaming" and recently I have been saying that deliberately to see if it makes a difference, which it doesn't seem to. That said, for the beginner of self-aware dreaming I think that it makes a huge difference, because it helps with the detachment as well as the involvement.

Real control comes from detachment, real sense-experience comes from being involved, together they are what I call a lucid dream, not a simple 'oh I'm dreaming', which lasts for maybe a few minutes because people get so distracted.


The definition as it stands seems to be inaccurate to me, and I've had this discussion before, but I'd like to know what you personally think lucid dreaming is.
If you've had a lucid dream, then what was it like? Was it any different from a regular dream, and how so?

What do you think lucidity is?
And why do you think it is that?