Thread: hello everybody!

So uh, how's it going? I just joined, but I've lurked around these forums occasionally for ~6 months w/o registering (sad, right ). I have had like 20% effort to lucid dream for a while, but never been consistent enough to make any progress. Now though, I want that to change. I have started to keep a dream journal, and am conditioning myself to do RC's and all that fun stuff.

Also, I have one question for a kind soul who wishes to answer. A few weeks back, I had honestly the strangest experience in a dream I've ever had. Basically, (don't remember what happened before this) I was in my kitchen and was all excited because I realized I was in a dream. You could say, hey, a lucid. The strange part was that it wasn't a lucid. I told myself I was dreaming, but I wasn't actually lucid (this sounds really weird, I know.) Also, in my (fake) excitement I ran outside onto my deck and jumped up in the air trying to fly, but nothing happened. My dream body then sadly realized I wasn't dreaming (even though I was) and I got embarrassed because my dad was watching me hop up and down on the deck.

Anyways, the question is what in the hell happened in that dream? Thanks in advance, and I'm glad to be a part of Dreamviews!