was this a lucid dream?

Ok so i was using the wbtb technique last nite and i woke up at 6 and cud not recall a dream so got up for like 45 mins then went back to bed trying to use the MILD technique.. after i woke up again i cud remember a dream i had the first time i went to sleep b4 i got up.. i was in some room and i looked at my hand to see if it still said " dream " ( its my reality check ) and i remember it saying dream but then loads of other words appearing and disappearing up and down my arm.. then i felt a rush if exitement then i woke up at 6 and cudnt remember it.. so i cudnt remember it at 6 but i cud remember it the second time i woke up :/ wierd

Yes, it was an undeepened, unstabilized, excited and short Lucid Dream

Congrats!

CONGRATS..... and bummer :(

if you realized you were dreaming then it was a lucid dreaming.

sounds similar to my first and only lucid dream... I got so excited that i woke up after 2 seconds of my reality check. my biggest question is this: DOES it count as a lucid dream if you start the dream knowing that you are dreaming, but don't care enough to do a reality check? This is something i did a couple weeks ago and i can't decide whether i should count it as a lucid dream. I feel like it wouldn't be fair and as you may have seen, i've classified it as half a LD. maybe it was just a semi-lucid dream (?)

Yeah I think it counts as an LD (though its borderline). As for you The Adventurer I think thats a semi lucid dream. Like you kinda suspect youre dreaming but not enough to do an RC.

Never heard of this reality check?
Should give it a try, anybody ever tattoo'd "reality check" on his hand? xD

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Originally Posted by The Adventurer

sounds similar to my first and only lucid dream... I got so excited that i woke up after 2 seconds of my reality check. my biggest question is this: DOES it count as a lucid dream if you start the dream knowing that you are dreaming, but don't care enough to do a reality check? This is something i did a couple weeks ago and i can't decide whether i should count it as a lucid dream. I feel like it wouldn't be fair and as you may have seen, i've classified it as half a LD. maybe it was just a semi-lucid dream (?)

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Lucid dreaming: Knowing that you are dreaming. Having control or not, doing something or not.

Ive had lucid dreams before and I have NEVER done a reality check. I just sometimes realize Im dreaming without having to do a reality check. I think being athletic in my dreams is enough of a reality check for me. If im running fast its a dream. If Im somewhere I dont know where I am and the last thing I remember is going to sleep and I dont remember waking up its a dream.

I have the word: "Aware" written kinda small on the top of my hand in PermaBlack marker. Every morning a write a new number next to it. That way during the day when I see my hand, I constantly keep reminding myself to be more Aware and Alert... and of RCs, if the word or number change, it is a sure sign.

Two days ago i wrote: Aware -013- I went to bed and did a reality check and it read: Aware ?52110? or something.. So then I knew it wasn't real.