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

I posted a few days ago about my really short first real LD(yes, the really long wordy one..sorry..just hard for me to make stuff short :)) Well I forgot to put, and it was long enought, that when I woke up, I could remember the whole dream perfectly. But after I got out of bed, I could still remember a lot of the dream, but It seemed like I never was lucid. In the dream, I knew I was, but now...I almost doubt it was lucid(but I still know it was, just hard to believe..hard to explain, but it doesn't seem as real now as alot of my non-LD ones. I think I read somewere that it's normal for your first LDs to seem lame and far-off....can any of you relate? If they are always like that even when you get experienced and get total control, I don't think it's even really worth having them. I am not discouraged(unless they are alwasy like that) I am still really motivated and excited to have a good one.

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:

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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.

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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!

I feel like this after I've woken up from lucid dreams, quite often actually...
It doesn't bother me too much though.

Sometimes that happens to me, sometimes not. Sometimes I feel like that after a meal. "Wait... did I just eat? I am so hungry!"

The problem probably lies in your memory. The dream can seem perfectly real at the time, but if you don't make a point of remembering it, it will fade like any other memory. Does it seem less memorable than your last vacation? Or your breakfast yesterday?

I know exactly what you mean. I've made two threads about it but no one seems to give me much help about it.

People are misunderstanding you. They think you only thought you were lucid but were not. You were, and it seemed perfectly fine at the time, until you woke up and then it seems foggy and far away. Am I right? I know this, it happens to me quite a lot.

I'm putting it down to my recall (so i'm gonna work on that) but it could be something else, I don't know.

Maybe it's the fact that e.g. when youre drunk and you remember fragments you think "did i really do that?" as you're thinking back from memory. In a lucid dream you are consciously aware of it being a dream and controlling it, but i guess when you wake up the fact that being aware you even had a dream at all is recalling and memory makes you think twice about whether you were ACTUALLY doing those things consciously or whether its a memory of you thinking you did it. This is with the sub conscious knowledge that you were asleep in your bed not physically doing anything with your body at the time and you woke up in the same place you went to sleep.

I guess when you think deeper on it, the fact you were there being aware of the dream and thinking that to yourself in the dream means lucidity anyway.......k im confusing myself and rambling but yeah my opinion on it because i know how you feel.