Thread: Confusing Contradictions

This happened about 7 minutes ago so its still fresh in my mind, anyway I was laying in bed trying to remember dreams cause I couldn't remember any. I think I feel back asleep but I could have been wake dreaming, which I do a lot. This was at around 5:49 - 5:59 am
In the dream I remember being somewhere non vivid and looking at a tv, then I was watching jeopardy at a QT-like gas station on a couch and screaming at the tv because the guy made the stupidest mistake ever in the history of jeopardy. Suddenly I get up and I get sort of a feeling that I'm dreaming. It felt like I knew I was dreaming but I still looked for proof anyway. I think I might have been slightly aware, not entirely sure but possible. The first thing I did was make a mental note of which people are there, the people in my dreams always switch out inexplicably with somebody else and it always goes unnoticed. My contradiction came when I saw a 13 year old friend of mine mopping the floors, I walked up to him and as I was doing so realizing that I was becoming lucid, I got excited but I remembered if I ever became lucid I would need to calm myself down, I did so and the dream continued long enough for my to say "Why are you cleaning" to my friend he said something inaudible but it felt as if my subconscious was mad that I figured out I was dreaming. The dream immediately ended, when I woke up and mind you it wasn't a false awakening the time was 6:09, not even long enough to reach a REM period, yet the dream was ridiculously well built and vivid. I can even tell you what was on the shelves in the gas station.

So heres my question, was this a lucid dream? Note that the realization of being lucid didn't come with any accompanying feeling. If this is a lucid dream this will be my first one! Thank you guys for helping!

Sounds like an LD.

Actually the whole WBTB thing is based on the idea that you can go to sleep and go almost immediately into REM sleep by already having your delta-wave sleep. It takes almost no time to have a dream- how many of us have heard our alarm, snapped it off, fallen back asleep and had what seems like an hours-long dream only to jump up 15 minutes after the alarm went off.

So with that in mind- sounds like an LD. Next time try to remember to look around you, and force your brain to keep rendering (so to speak) the dream. Even if you already looked at the room when you look around you again, touch objects and rub your hands, you're forcing your brain's attention on creating the world. This can help pull you back down when you start to drift away from the dream.

Yup. Looks like a textbook WBTB, to me. Congratulations.

I'd agree with this but I forgot to mention I did a lot of moving around before falling asleep again. I got up leaned over the bed side tossed and turned for a while easily enough to mess up a WBTB.

Not really. You can stay up for a short amount of time (up to about 10 mins, I believe, depending on what you're doing), without messing up a WBTB.

Alrite cool then, guess I'll have to start a lucid dream journal then.