Thread: Do lucid dreams always seem like they didn't happen when you wake up?

My first LD was pretty realistic, but I lost my lucidity after I got my senses (like feeling my legs when I walk, smelling the salty water, etc.)

That sounds about as horrible as pancaking your left nut. Are you keeping a dream journal?

hey, you might want to read this quote:

This is where things can get confusing for people, especially those outside of Lucid Dreaming.

It is like the Ego and the Id. Your body may not contain the essence of your ego in anyway, shape or form. Your ego may simply be the observer. This is YOU. But you, as in your body, would be the id.

In this scenario, you may have a dream where 'you' say "I'm dreaming!" but YOU do not actually realize it. This is the conflict between dreaming id ('you') and your dreaming ego (YOU).

The 'conscious you' is what you want to say "I'm dreaming." If you consciously realize you're dreaming, and actually feel as if you are dreaming, realizing that it is as such, then you are Lucid.

it's normal, and had happened to me a lot, in the dream I'm sure I'm lucid, but when I wake up....when I wake up I become really aware of what happened...

No..I don't keep a dream journal. I should, but I just feel too lazy in the morning. I really want to have a lucid dream, so I should keep one. But the dreams I do remember, I can remember really well for a few hours. The next morning I can only remember the main parts yet. It's kinda wierd. You know when you have a dream, you live it. I will 'live' through my whole dream, but then in the morning I won't remember. But, when I see something related to my dream, the whole dream comes back, and I remember living it. Like if I have a dream where I play football, if I see a football, the whole dream will come back. That happens all the time. When I wake up in the morning to my alarm, I remember all of the dream I was having. Then later in the day, I will see something related to one of the dreams I don't remember at all, and then I'll remember it all....sometimes I remember 2-3 dreams a day that way. Yea, I know it would be better just to remember them right away.

Mariano-Yea, I have read stories where people say "I'm dreaming!" But they aren't lucid. Read my post of that dream: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=89283

I knew I was dreaming, because I did something on purpose. Read the post...

Go to the dreamjournals section. Stickied at the top is Banhurt's dream journal. I use it. Don't like the one by my bed, and that's on the computer. Can add favorites, analyzes tags, and even puts it into published for for you. Look at my dream journal. All I did was copy/paste afte rhitting publish.

hey freakydreamer, the only person who can know if it was a lucid dream is...YOU!
there isn't another person, just you can determine what happened on your dream, what did you felt, and if you were aware that you were dreaming, and become LUCID, or not.

bye!