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The logical parts of your brain are off or not fully awake during dreaming, even lucid dreams. Which is why you don't recognize your dreaming most of the time. So even when you become lucid, these parts of the brain are still off.
I'm always retarded in my lucid dreams. The first time I became lucid, I was on a bus (in the dream), and the most exciting thing I could do was make the bus fly. Even though I wanted to try the portal task from July.

I find that I get lucid dreams when I start to question if I'm dreaming (i.e. when my logic kicks in), so maybe you were just semi-lucid? Because I've also had a lot of dreams that I realised I was dreaming but couldn't care less (i.e. my logic hadn't kicked in). In a perfect lucid dream, you are both fully aware and in full control, so if you think you might be lucid, just act like if nothing were different from real life. If you enter your dream with preconceived notions of limits to your dream control, then you are screwed from the start .

Yeah, you only have as much control as you believe you have. And I've also had plenty of dreams where I know I'm dreaming and don't carew about it

Hey there,

I found for me that it helps to have some sort of "dreamplan" or "dreamgoal" about what I want to achieve when I become lucid. And often that involves as a first step to take a moment to relax, let myself fully appreciate what it means to be lucid, and solidify my dream (by focussing on various dreamsensations, usually through touch, sight, sound and smell).

Its very easy to get rushed for me. "Oh my god I'm lucid quick I have to go do this before my lucidity ends!". Not a good thing I find that taking it slower, calmer, giving yourself time to just appreciate the dream and your dreamstate helps me not only to be more lucid and aware, but extend the lucidity period as well.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, before going to sleep, ask yourself what you want to do when you become lucid, and tell yourself not to rush things and take your time. It helps for me at least

-Redrivertears-

Yes I have had dreams where I am lucid, but my "memory" isn't fully functioning which is why the Task Of The Month sometimes evades me since I forget to do it. But then I have dreams where the memory kicks in and I remember what I want to do.

It's unrelated, but whose phone number is that in your signature?

ah I see thanks, yeah usually when I'm lucid I become a power hungry retard who just enjoys blowing things up with telekinenetic powers, I never think to fly and do other fun stuff, I just get so absorbed in what the hell I'm doing that I don't get time to think about what other cool stuff I could be doing.
Maybe thats a loss of lucidity.

Hey there,

Personally, I think Lucid Dream is a very loose term, which can be applied to a great many type of dreams. What one person considers a lucid dream isn't exactly what another considers a lucid dream.

For me, I tend to think of lucidity as being on a continious scale, meaning you can be more or less lucid from one 'lucid dream' to the next.

On one extreme you get dreams where you know you're dreaming but don't actually do anything with that knowledge (I call these Awareness dreams).

On the other extreme you get your full blown lucid dreams where you are completely conscious, even remember that you're lying in bed sleeping or what you did while waking yesterday, and can make active and conscious decisions.

There's degrees inbetween, such as dreams where you know you're dreaming and use dreammanipulation to change minor aspects of the dream, but still passively go along with the theme or plot of the dream itself.

The lucid dreams you've had are probably somewhere along that scale. That's good though, it means you've learned how to become aware of the fact that you're dreaming, now its just a matter of training and practicing that awareness to become more and more conscious as you go along.

Anyways, that's just my experience,

-Redrivertears-

sounds good, shame i can't choose when I become lucid

Redrivertears has got the absolute right idea about all of this I think. I find that in many, if not most of my lucid dreams, I know I'm dreaming, I understand that I'm in the dreamworld, but I don't care, and just go with the flow. Then when I wake up I get mad that I didn't do something cooler.

It's really normal really. You'll improve the more you do it. As Redrivertears said, don't rush to do something cool before you "loose lucidity" or wake up. Just take a step back, enjoy the dream, and take it slow, and these occurances like the one you describe will happen a lot less frequently, and you'll be in control more.