Thread: Second LD..and some more cloud washing needed.

Hey people!

So. so. so. so. I had my second LD! Great news, right? Probably, except for the fact that I THINK I had my second LD, and I'm not sure.

The doubt is the same as my first. But let me elaborate and tell you how I reached the LD.

I put on some white noise as music, and relaxed my entire body. I imagined up a dream, and let it go it's own way, while passively following it.

In a few minutes of lying down, my body was probably asleep and I was conscious that I was dreaming.

Now this is the cloudiness that you need to clear from my mind: How do I know if I was actually just really relaxed and awake, and was imagining things, almost like day dreaming with my eyes closed......or if my body was really completely asleep and I was LDing.

That it what confuses me. It's almost as if I cannot draw the line between visualization and lucid dreaming. I did not fall ASLEEP and end up having a period of REM sleep and then lucid dream, which is why I'm confused. I just visualized a dream, passively followed it till I think my body was asleep, and my mind was conscious of it.

So, how does a lucid dream really feel like? This is what mine felt like, does it match up?

I did a number of things in it. I spoke to a turkey. I created winter in my head. I sky-dived. I visited my old house again, and spoke to my dead grandmother. I had sex with a woman I always fantasized about, and I kissed my ex really passionately. I also got closure from my ex by imagining her saying farewell.

I did all of this really consciously. I could feel the wind when I was sky diving. I could feel the heat when I was in the throes of passion. Sometimes things were not so clear, and then I said "clarity...clarity" and it became clearer.

I guess I'm re-iterating the same thing again and again-- so I'll stop rambling and end at my question:

How in God's name do I know if I really did experience an LD or if I was just relaxing and visualizing the whole thing up like a day dream?



THANKS!