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usually when I'm having a lucid dream, I am only able to enact the thing I want to experience mostly prior to the dream. Im aware I'm dreaming but I'm in such a strange state of mind that I only want to do the thing that was on my mind prior to the dream. I never stop in my dreams and think, whoa I'm dreaming, lets see what's the awesomest thing I can do.
Is that normal in them, or do people usually experience complete physical awareness to the extent that they can think things through logically?

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.