What the...Did I become lucid or whas it just a dream about it????

[Desertfox92]

So I'm awake for 2 hours now, I've been writing down my dreams and doing my other stuff now I wrote down my most vivid dreams and thought those where the only one however during this last half hour I remembert 3 more small dreams, 2 of them where not so important however dream numer 3 which just came into my mind is special all I remember is walking through this hallway and thinking that it was not clear enough so I rubbed my hands, walked around a corner and started spinning, thing is, I did not control any of this it all happened by itself just like any other not lucid dream. So did I just dreamed about being lucid but did not get lucid that does not sound right

[Nick89]

I suppose you weren't lucid. Yes, you can actually dream of being lucid without actually achieving that state. This happened to me, once. This reflects the relationship with the human mind and the reality - that in fact there is sometimes none I mean, you may dream you are lucid and at that time thin you are - but the reality is different. You've mistaken the word which is only a pointer to something, with the reality to which it tries to point. Similarly, one can think that he is enlightened, or that he is a good person, or even, that he is feeling good right now, or is happy at the moment. Truly, enlightment and happiness exist, but you may have mistaken them for just a mental concept and what is more, when these things come, you don't call them by their name, because you have had a false notion of them. This is the case with what happened to you, I believe. You have a certain, quite vague, yet, concept of a 'lucid dream' and associated it with things like rubbing your hands, clearing your vision or spinning with it. However, the 'having control' criterion did not match. In reality, however, lucid dream is simply lucid dream. You cannot know what it is until you experience it. Don't try to figure out if you were lucid or not, if you had been you would simply know it. In short, dreaming of being lucid is simply dreaming of being lucid. Even rubbing your hands, clearing your vision does not make a dream a lucid one. The crucial criterion of a lucid dream, is that you are lucid in it. Cheers.

[DjSuspense]

Yeah, I pretty much agree with Nick. In short, you dreamed of being lucid without actually becoming lucid. Actually being lucid means you have realized you are in a dream, without waking your physical body up, at which point you can control certain aspects of said dream. Sounds to me like you just dreamed of some RC's you might do to become lucid, rather than actually REALIZING you were in a dream. And like Nick pointed out, you shouldn't really have to ask if you we're lucid or not, because if you know the term and what it really means to be lucid (which just by being on this forum I'm guessing you do) chances are you'll know when it really happens. Also on a side note, I suppose it would be possible for you to have gone in and out of lucidity, or even went fully lucid and just did not remember it somehow.