Dreaming of a Lucid Dream

[Sylph]

Hi, all! I just found out about LDing some 4 days ago, while doing research on dreams for something I'm writing. I was blown away! Before I even started to read what people used it for, my mind was racing through the possibilities. If I could learn how to do this, it would be, quite literally, a dream come true! Anyway, since then I've been through the foruns learning all I can, and started right away to tell my brain to "pay attention" and doing RCs and stuff. I never had LDs, but after all the reading I started to wonder if I don't already have some level of awareness in my dreams. I can sometimes replay a bit of a dream because it didn't turn out the way I wanted or because I didn't get to see something clearly. I have some amount of control when I fly - I've learned in time how to resist heaviness or bad winds that usually come at the end of the dream. And just the night before finding out about LDing, I had this dream where I was by the sea and found myself thinking how incredibly realistic the sunlight looked bouncing off the water like that. Then I went down to take a closer look, wich caused the water to change somewhat and lead me to think "OK, maybe not real life realistic, but it'd still be great in CG"! I suppose ordinarily that would be a good sign, but I've been a little concerned that my brain won't take a hint, though. Apparently, most people usually dream of pretty ordinary, everyday stuff - making it easier for weirdness to stand out - but for someone whose dreams (both real and waking) are such a part of "normal", everday activities, it probably won't make much of a difference. I've always dreamed of monsters, flying, fight scenes of all kinds, spellcasting, superpowers, meeting story character's or even being one. I don't think I ever dreamed of such a thing as a light switch! In my dreams, light comes from the sun and moon, light spells and, on one ocasion, Gambit's glowing cards! And then, tonight, I got to see the first effects of all the sugestion work. I was dreaming I was lying in bed and saw my spectral arms raising out of my body. They were skin colored, although slightly orange, but were a bit transparent and looked as if someone at taken a rubber and erased the inner side of my forearms and my thumbs. And I was like "Oh, cool, I'm dreaming! I didn't think it would be this easy!" I got up of my body and made it whole again. That's when I realised something was off. "Tsk! This ain't a lucid dream, I can feel my eyes gummed shut!" LOL! I could feel my sleeping body - the drowsiness, heaviness, and my eyelids trying to open, apparently! I guess I was struggling between my sleepiness and my will to get a hand on my dreams, and that prevented me from going completely under. I kept on dreaming for a while, trying stuff I had thought about doing in a LD (which worked, btw). Still, it was a normal dream and I knew I was dreaming. So, it seems that even if the brain spots the signs (and they can't come any clearer then this) it won't care! I know I still have a lot of training ahead of me, but I was wondering - does this happen often? Knowing you're dreaming and not knowing. Or caring? Oh, yeah, sorry for the rambling. I'm just excited about all this, had to share.