The "was This A Lucid Dream" Thread =)

[DecemberFire]

Hey, I'm new here. Anyway, I just started researching Lucid Dreams and am going to take the steps to try and experiance them, but I have one question first. I've read that often times newcomers will enter a LD and then immediatly wake up due to the excitment. I'm not sure, but I think this might happen to me. For as long as I can remember, every once in awhile I'll be having a dream and then suddenly and violently wake up. I'll usually jump straight up or kick out or something of that nature. Is that what the reading means when waking up as soon as it starts? I'm sorry, but I can't really recall if I ever become aware I'm dreaming. Only that it happens while I'm dreaming.

[anti_nation]

Hello everyone. i got bored so i came to help out. if anyone needs me message me. Decemberfire, im not really sure of your question because im kinda new too but i bet i can help.

[wolfgarr]

Hello, i'm new around.. well i have a problem defining what dreams are... i've had this for at least 10 times.. in this cases i always figure out that i'm dreaming.. and instantly.. everything becomes white.. preassure in my head is beggining to grow.. and then this vision comes.. it is like watching really old projection.. black and white .. old movie.. it is like a vision.. example.: there is a cyclop woman.. with one eye.. and behind there is an evil man.. and he pops her eye out with a fishook.. and then laughs. it is all in black and white.. but it is not as everybody describes LD.. i dont have control over anything.. there is not even me in this dark visions.. but this happens every time.. i realize that i'm dreaming.. and occasionaly it is even.. supported by a term hmm... i dont know how you call it... i say "sleep freeze (paralysis) " and those strange body vibes.. which are as i read occasionaly followed after LD.. what are this images, visions.. i see?

[donutdude]

If you realize that you are dreaming in a dream, but can't control anything ... Is it a lucid dream?

[gameover]

If you realize that you are dreaming in a dream, but can't control anything ... Is it a lucid dream?[/b] Yes it is. I don't know why everyone's so concerned over wether it qualifies as a lucid dream. It is what it is. There's infinite levels of awareness.

[donutdude]

It's becuase that is what the threads name is ... "Was this a lucid dream"

[szs]

Hello, first of all i am sorry abut my english i know its not very good. But anyways here is the story: i was taking nap at day time , then i woke up and tought to myself i cant sleep right now. SO i went to my kitchen talked to my girlfriend about stuff (dont really remember about what)and then we did that adult stuff and then suddenly i wake up and i was very confused. At first i able to control my body (like for first 2-3 min.) but after that it got very weird i was like feeling everything i was doing but i coud not control my body.(and actually i a m not even sure did i feel things i just dont remember did i feel or not but im bretty sure that i did) so i have few questions: 1. can i have a lucid dream whitout even trying? (i mean whitout doing thouse exercises) 2. was it even a lucid dream? 3.and if it was then why coud i only control my body for the first couple of min's. ? and once again sorry about my english if u didnt understand anything just ask and i will try to explain what i meant.

[QwinsepiaSquared]

Hey, welcome to the forum! 1. Yes, you can have LD's accidentally. 2. As long as you were aware that you were dreaming, it's a lucid dream. It doesn't matter how much control you have, or if you had any at all. 3. LD's can have different levels of control. Sometimes you'll be able to exert power over every last detail in your dream, and sometimes you'll have no control at all. It just varies, and for many people they have less control when they first start out. Oh, and your English was fine.

[droppertowns]

Hey I had a lucid dream this morning for the first time in years, at least I think it was, I dreamt I was walking down a road and I went into a newsagents to buy a paper then I was walking home but I couldnt find my way back, I noticed a girl rushing past me really fast, impossible fast for real life, at that point I thought I must be dreaming and I felt like I was trying to open my eyes but I resisted. I saw my bedroom appear like a veil over my dream then dissapear then I figured if I was still dreaming I should be able to fly, at that point I started flying and I caught up with the girl, then I felt my eyes open again and I saw a glowing figure sitting on my bed watching me, this freaked me out and I felt my head shake then I woke up. I've had a few lucid dreams through out my life, one thing that always sticks out is the intense detail of things, I remember one dream where I was starring at my curtains, the fabric glistened and the more I looked the more detail I could see, the dream ended when I noticed the back field behind my house was covered in thousands of black birds, I panicked and woke up. I don't why but when I get scared I wake up, probably from watching nightmare on elm street as a kid

[Vex Kitten]

I'd say you were lucid. Lucid with possible false awakenings. Heh, that sort of sounds like a weather forcast. In my best weatherperson voice, 'Tonight will be lucid with a 40% chance of false awakenings' Dorky, i know.

[tddanae]

I use to have Lucid Dreams quite often then I went through three very difficult years and have nearly lost the ability altogether and want to get it back. I do have an occasional one by accident, but it's rare.

[l3xicon]

Yeah

[getawesome51]

There have been two times where I think that i may have experienced lucid dreams. In one instance I searched for dream signs and upon discovering a seated, immobile, semi-frightening man, realized that I was dreaming and immediately woke up. There was an errie, strange quality present about the man that alerted me to the fact that i was dreaming. I am new to this web site and would appreciate it if someone could tell me if it is common to awake upon realizing that a dream has become lucid, and how this can be avoided in the future. Both times, I woke up and had difficulty returning to sleep.

[imlame]

Sometimes when im falling asleep, I keep a setting in my mind and try to go into the setting and turn it into a dream as im falling asleep. I tell myself that im dreaming as im lying in bed but as soon as I start drifting off, I forget that im dreaming, and I go into the dream for around 2 minutes. But then as soon as I remember that its a dream, it fades and im awake, but still lying in bed with closed eyes. The thing is that its still pretty early into my sleep when it happens and I dont know if it was a full dream or if I was just thinking up the dream as I was drifting off. would you call it a LD?

[openwatersurfer]

Ive never had a lucid dream, apart from this, which MIGHT have been one. It was YEAAAARS ago when i was in school, and it was a dream. ib my dream i was in a small lane near my school. I knew i was dreaming, and asked this boy (who always annoyed me back then) to kick me, so i would wake up. He said he wouldnt, because he was "not doing that sort of thing aanyore" i think i eventually woke upp.... Was this a lucid dream?

[jallanson]

Hi all, long time reader first time poster =) I've been reading these forums for a while, and i've been using the subliminal message program on my PC. I've also been keeping a dream diary but i keep forgetting to write in it when i have to get up early for school. About a week ago i had a dream where i thought hey im dreaming - this is a lucid dream - but then i seemed to get distracted or the fact wasn't interesting or something - and i carried on walking. I was thinking about that dream when i went to sleep last night, as well as having used the subliminal message program earlier. I THINK i might have had a lucid dream last night. It started where i was going to a customers house to fix something (my work involves messing with peoples PCs). When i got there i saw he'd somehow plugged a lightbulb into it's socket using a USB cable. This didn't worry me, but what made me realise was that i seemed to remember dreaming that before (although i didnt when i woke up) which made me think - hey im dreaming! I tried counting my fingers as an RC ... i somehow got confused (ok i admit it im not that smart ) but it seemed like i had roughly 8 fingers .. since i was having trouble counting my fingers i tried holding my nose - and i could breathe - i got really excited and felt myself waking up so i calmed down and i stayed in the dream. When i turned around instead of the cutomer from work there was a friend from school - we then walked out of the building we were in (gets sketchy here ... bad dream recall) and walking down the road i met another friend (female) who's coincidentally a natural lucid dreamer, though she doesnt have that great recall. I groped one of her boobs for some reason that seemed more sensible at the time XD and she slapped me. i said sorry and we kept on walking. I remember stopping at some point when it was seeming vague to do the "increase lucidity" thing. I remember looking at an archway with a green garage door next to it and thinking ... whoa look at the detail! At some point i remembered that i culd try and bring people into my dreams ... i immagined another friend being behind a door and tried opening it but it didnt work, so i tried it with a pie or cake or something instead .. that didnt work either. I went into a supermarket at some point and then i think i had a false awakening, i remember waking up lying next to the friends i was with in the dream ... i forgot to do a reality check there and so continued dreaming normally until i woke up later. Sorry for all the pointless detail there - do you think this was a real lucid dream or just me immagining i was having one ... from my sketchy memory of it it didnt SEEM that different from a normal dream although i seemed to have control. I think it would be easier for me to tell with better recall, i best work on that Cheers, Jim

[rootbeer]

I almost always know when I am dreaming...and I often find that I can manipulate my dreams. This happens most often when it is a scary dream. I become kind of concious, and can change the dream to another dream. Is this lucid dreaming?

[juniordinosaur]

hey, i am really new to this site and to this whole idea, but i have done something like this before kind of.. i have always been fascinated with dreams and such and then a few months ago a few friends and i started doing this new thing we call wordblah which is basically- well, this is how i do it anyways: i sit in the corner of a silent room with the lights off usually, sometimes on though, with my computer on my lap, take a minute to completely relax and clear my mind, close my eyes, and kind of like half fall asleep, but still typing, and type anything that comes to mind, and after a while you kind of fall asleep but you just keep typing and typing without realizing it and sometimes you can do it for like 10 minutes and you write the weirdest stuff.... they tend to get morbid too, at least they did for me and my friends. (once i predicted my death, to the second, and its in about 10 years...) "I am in a box within a box within a box and if I was eternally in a box I think I would like it to be round. Not round like a hat bod but leiterally spherical. But then I ma not sure how tat would work because I don’t kno w if I would want it to rol o rnot bc it if dorolls then I woill probably be really annoyed and never able to relax bcause if I make the slightest movement I t will roll and set everything off but if itdoesnt roll I will never be able to reach the otp and I think that might be worse and theres an old man with gry hair and an underbite at the post office and he is handing out letters like candy with arms that are not his and they are flying out and he is magical but hes not, you kow and the stairs lead down to him in his window with th elettters flying out and onejust amost hit me in the face! Haha and a purple ring I isn the sky and it is maey by a et and step back soom out with my peripheral vision I can see that that is the pupil of an eye that the palane was drawing see I just have to take a step back and lok at the hwhole fuckin picture to fiture everything out. How is the plane drwing in the sk y iwht purple crayon smoke I don’t know but he it she manages it somehow" sorry that was too long of a quote probably. but i wanted to know, is this lucid dreaming, or anything like it?

[bluefinger]

I was wondering if this dream counts as a lucid one (I achieve lucidity at the end, but I don't lose it because I lose focus, but because my alarm went off and I had to get up for university ^^; ) Anyway, the dream itself started in a square, with a bunch of random people and one of my flatmates and me standing around. He suddenly shouts "Hey! Let's all show off our cocks!" to which everybody goes yea and starts pulling down their pants. I just stand there and eventually when they turn to me I just say "Eh... I'm not exactly well-endowed... more like average", but my flatmate just shrugs and says "Its okay... wait, I know! Let's all party!". I ask where and he just answers "I know just the place... come on everybody!". So I follow him and somehow I turn up at this house, though he is gone and I'm surrounded by a completely different bunch of random people. In this house, we are all just talking and wandering around, and I then go up into the attic and I see this baby getting dragged along with floor, laughing away as things get knocked around or down. So I realise that the attic is haunted with a poltergeist. Going back downstairs, I hear screams, and as I run into the kitchen, there are bee's everywhere. So I go into this cupboard and pull out a huge can of insecticide and start spraying it everywhere, soon killing all the bees. Sighing with relief, more bugs come, so then I'm spraying away so to kill them all or make them go away, but the waves of bugs keep coming. Eventually, just as I run out of bug spray, I see and hear a swarm of hornets build up outside. Knowing that I must do something before they come in, I run out of the kitchen and run upstairs. *Lucidity begins here* I stop at the top of the stairs, realising that I was dreaming. Everything was quite fuzzy, so the first thing that came to mind was to spin around in order to get me more focused on the dream. Now that I start spinning, I begin to feel less detached and more aware of everything, even though I had closed my eyes. Then, just then.... my alarm clock went off. So then I had to wake up (not much choice... uni has priority) Oh well... at least I took the step of realising I was dreaming within a dream. I think that counts as my first DILD? No?

[Lunalight]

^^^ Yes! People, the difinition of an LD is "being in a dream while knowing you are dreaming." It does not matter if you woke up right after or not, or if you had no control. As long as you knew you were dreaming, it's an LD. (Sorry if I sound annoyed. It's because I am.)

[bluefinger]

^^^ Yes! People, the difinition of an LD is "being in a dream while knowing you are dreaming." It does not matter if you woke up right after or not, or if you had no control. As long as you knew you were dreaming, it's an LD. (Sorry if I sound annoyed. It's because I am.) [/b] Ahh good good.... don't be mad Anyway, thanks, I just needed to confirm it was one (been a while since my actual first lucid dream ^^; )

[rootbeer]

^^^ Yes! People, the difinition of an LD is "being in a dream while knowing you are dreaming." It does not matter if you woke up right after or not, or if you had no control. As long as you knew you were dreaming, it's an LD. (Sorry if I sound annoyed. It's because I am.) [/b] I'm sorry you're annoyed, but I am new...please have patience

[Lunalight]

I know, it was supposed to be a joke but apparently it just frightened you. It's just it explained it at the beginning. Ah well, I'm sorry. Good luck with dreaming.

[bluefinger]

I know, it was supposed to be a joke but apparently it just frightened you. It's just it explained it at the beginning. Ah well, I'm sorry. Good luck with dreaming.[/b] I was joking too... ^^;

[Diotam]

Usually, I'm pretty good at judging Lucidity, but this one has me stumped. Okay, I was in a dream that was completely random. Something about stealing a Grade 7 test from my old elementary school (which is only K-5...) and having to do that test before I became lucid. After being chased away by some old man, I download the test off the internet. I do the test, and my friend tells me to go to sleep and see if I have a lucid dream. So I go to sleep. Now, I am dreaming within a dream. I know right away I am dreaming. For the first time ever, I actually have full control. It's an amazing experience. I look down at my hands, I count 12 fingers total. However, through all of this, even though I have complete control, I am thinking that the dream I just came from about stealing the grade 7 test is the real world. So I dunno if this counts as having an exceptionally vivid dream about being lucid, or being lucid.