i think i had a lucid dream today

[WILD time]

hi everyone i had a weird dream today and want to know if it was a lucid dream: i was dreaming about some random stuff and then i had a false awakening. everything in my room was exaxtly the same as it was before i went to sleep (even the same website on my laptop). Anyway, i was lying in bed when i noticed this big shape covered in some sort of blanket moving on the floor next to my desk. This really freaked me out so i reached to turn on my lamp but i was frozen. my body wouldn't move and i couldn't speak. Then i felt myself slowly being dragged off of my bed. At this point i believed i was awake (due to the false awakening) and so was completely freaking out. when i was half dragged off the bed i suddenly thought this is a dream, this cant be happening, so i need to wake up. For some reason i was able to move my head, so i smacked it on the side of the wall and woke up. If this is a lucid dream, i thought that they normally occur in the REM stage but i had only been asleep for half an hour. Also i had no control over smacking my head on the wall but i had realised that i was dreaming. Thanks for reading.

[skendry]

I think you was experiencing hallucinogenic imagery. It happens when your in sleep paralysis which explains why you couldn't move anything. The rest is just weird.

[JamesLD]

a lucid dream is when you realize your dreaming while in a dream. lucid dreams dont always have to be in REM sleep, considering you can have a dream while not in REM sleep

[WILD time]

i was definitely asleep as my head didn't hurt and i woke up.

[skendry]

yes you was dreaming, but not lucid. If you was lucid you would of realized you were dreaming

[panta-rei]

If you didn't realize you were dreaming, you weren't lucid.

[Bizarre Jester]

this sounds much more like an out of body experience. It would explain why it occured outside your rem cycle, and the feeling of being pushed out of bed also.