Was I close to becoming lucid?

Well I just took a nap and I had a pretty weird dream. The first thing I could remember was I was on the top of this mountain at a bus stop. It was kind of like a jungle and all of a sudden out of no where this bus came that was a mix of a trolley and a bus (like a trolley with wheels). Then the driver rang this bell and was like "Ok everybody ready to take a tour of Cuba?" I was just like "woww how did this bus just get here and why am I in cuba?" I was like "Maybe I'm dreaming." So then I was rc'ing. I did the nose one and i could breath through my nose. Then i was like ok i must be dreaming but then I was lucid but i couldn't even control it. I was like semi-lucid or something. I knew i was dreaming but everytime I startred to do something everything got blurry and unclear. Then i just woke up.

Was I close to becoming fully lucid? If something like that happens again what could I do to become fully lucid?

Thanks, s4ndm4n

Start rubbing your hands together to increase the stability. Another thing you could do is start spinning, i'm not sure what it does since i've never tried it but I guess it does something good lol.

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Originally Posted by Axel

Start rubbing your hands together to increase the stability. Another thing you could do is start spinning, i'm not sure what it does since i've never tried it but I guess it does something good lol.

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Yeah it was so weird though it was like i was trying to become lucid but the harder I was trying I could tell I was getting closer to waking up maybe because of excitement or something.

Idk what to say, maybe dream naps are just not very stable dreams?

actually, i heard that taking naps increases your chances of having a lucid dream. but then again, im not so sure. i havent tried it.

I recently had a dream of Cuba too...and it also had a bus...weird!

You weren't close to becoming lucid, you WERE lucid! You got it, but then you lost it. It's nothing to worry about, just a few things to keep in mind for next time is to use a technique to increase clarity right when you become lucid. Here are some things you can try:

-Rubbing your hand together
-Spinning
-Yelling something like CLARITY or VIVIDNESS
-Stopping and reassuring yourself that you're in a dream, not rushing into things

Better luck with your next LD!

I agree with superlox3.. you were lucid and his suggestions are good ones!

Lucidity has nothing to do with "control" (meaning that you can be in a lucid dream.. but still not be able to affect any changes). Lucid dreaming is merely the "awareness" that you are dreaming WHILE you're dreaming.

The reason you kept losing your lucidity as soon as you gained it was because you were trying too hard to gain control. You must have been trying to move and see with your real muscles and eyes rather than relax and recieve input from your pseudobody in your dream. If you try to relax and let your pseudobody take in input from the dream (basically let your brain tell itself that it is sensing things :P), and if you keep it clear in your mind that it is a dream, you will eventually be able to keep it vivid while controlling it.

If you're the visual type like me, then I've found that examining a single object brings that object into focus to the degree of reality, and if you slowly expand your area of focus the whole dream world can become just as real as reality. If you work better with sounds then just listen closely to one of the sounds in the environment. If you're tactile then feel something, or rub your hands together (which is what they always say to do o.O).

I think I had this ld becuase just before I went to sleep I was reding a book about lucid dreams then i actually fell asleep with the book in my hands so I think my mind was on lucid dreams right when i fell asleep so I think that helped.