Lucid Dream OR Dreaming Lucid?

[Lionsroar]

I'm confused.. I've been trying to have Lucid Dreams for like.. almost 3 months now and I think I might have found a small success.. but I'm not sure. The dream was very vague.. it was very long I remember that.. But I think I might have become Lucid at a certain point. What I remember is that I was in some public-hip library, lots of light, and people walking around. Then I realize I can do anything.. So I start.. humping girls. :/ And then some people start laughing at me, on of my friends in fact, so I'm sure this aint real so I try do the Kame-ha-me-ha (energy beam from hands) attack on him.. but nothing comes out. Thats all I remember. So what do you guys think? is this a dream about Lucid Dreaming or an actual crappy Lucid dream? if it is.. its my first.. and most disappointing lol

[archdreamer]

Did you realise that you were dreaming? If so, then yes, you were lucid, for however short a period.

[Shift]

It's hard to tell, only you can know for sure. To be lucid, you just have to know you are in a dream. Knowing that you can do anything (dream control) doesn't necessarily mean you are lucid, and just because you are lucid doesn't mean you have dream control. The details are vague, but to me it does sound like you had your first lucid

[Patrick]

Did you realise that you were dreaming? If so, then yes, you were lucid, for however short a period. Well, actually, you may know you're dreaming without having much control, or a high level of consciousness. You will know when you've obtained full lucidity, because you will be almost fully conscious. Keep trying; you'll know when you get there.

[fenchurch]

Wow, maybe this is more common than I thought. I'm a newbie too and I've really been building my dream recall. This morning I tried a mixture of WBTB and WILD (I was too tired to even know what I was doing as I fell back to sleep), and I ended up with what I think was a dream ABOUT Lucid dreaming. In the dream I was walking with a friend in my college dining commons, and suddenly I thought to myself "I'm dreaming right now". I didn't do an RC or anything, but I just had the idea of that possibility. I should have tried something impossible, but I don't think I was confident enough that it wasn't real life. I WANTED it to be an LD (which in retrospect it kind of was), but I thought I might actually be awake. So instead of flying I ate scrambled eggs (as a vegan this was my own form of risky behavior). Any diagnosis or advice?

[Shift]

I think sometimes the problem is also that while in the dream, you are lucid and know it is a dream, but by the time you wake up and think back on it, the memory has mostly disappeared and you are left grasping at fragments of, "I'm pretty sure I thought to myself that I was lucid...?" which can make it seem like you weren't lucid at all. So keep working on that dream recall also The more experience you get with the lucid state, the more familiar it will be and the less difficult to wrap your head around. The only time that I am unsure of whether or not I was lucid is when I had a lucid dream, didn't write it down, and it faded. Luckily I've had some cues that reminded me of the dream and that I was in fact lucid. So... DJ DJ DJ!!!

[Lionsroar]

Woo.. thanks for replying guys