Questions

[Mrs. Jones]

uh, sorry new intro. Mrs. Jones, age 15 I'm sure that: -I've experienced more than one lucid dream before. -almost all these occurred before the age of 12. -almost all these were nightmares. -I had conceived a way to consciously, while dreaming, rid myself of the nightmares. -I've learned of lucid dreaming 3 years ago and (half-heartedly) tried to intentionally induce them. -I haven't had any since. -Even so, I've come pretty close. Once I was able to consciously think, "I'm dreaming" while dreaming, but wasn't able to convince my dream self. I didn't have that lucid feeling. -something like that. Questions: -Is it because I stopped having nightmares that I have no more lucid dreams, or -is it because I've deliberatly tried to induce them that I have no more lucid dreams? -Are there different levels of lucidity? Does semi-lucidity count? -In that near-lucid dream, was I semi-lucid, or was I fully lucid for only a moment? Or were my conscious and my dream self unable to merge? Also: -I'm pretty sure I have above average dream-recall skills. -I think I seem confused. -Sometimes while I'm laying in bed to sleep, I think I'm awake, but at the same time, I start walking in my mind, like a half-dream, then after that first or second step*, I jerk awake, feeling nothing beneath my feet ('cos I'm laying down, horizontal), even though I was only thinking of walking, not actually doing it. I thought I was awake, then I woke up! I think some might see this as my astral projection leaving my body while I sleep or something, but I don't know. Because sometimes I see a sidewalk. *I feel as though I've been walking a little longer though.