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I was reading a few posts and some people have been saying that you're never fully lucid... I thought if you realise you are dreaming then you are lucid dreaming. If thats not entirely correct. Then why isn't anyone FULLY lucid and how do you become MORE lucid?
Thanks.
Throwing the definition out, I would say 'being completely lucid', is not 'being' at all.
'Being' aware, but not of anything, including yourself, or your awareness.
The definition for lucid dreaming seems silly when looked at with levels of awareness in mind.
Some people say they are lucid, but have no control, some say they have control, some say they let it be, etc.
Once you know it's a dream, you jump out of it, it's not possible to become non-lucid again until you get distracted and let go of the heightened awareness. Non-lucid I say in terms of awareness, not the definition, but they do fall hand in hand.
Thanks now I understand.
being lucid just means that you know that you are dreaming.
to me being fully lucid is also realizing what that entails, that your entire world is nothing but a figment of your imagination and can be manipulated as such.
Lucidity simply means you're in a dream and know that you're dreaming. That is precisely what the definition of the word means.
"levels of lucidity" are very subjective qualities of a lucid dream, and depend on the person expressing it. For me, fully lucid means that I have relatively decent access to my waking memory, know 100% that everything is in a dream and remind myself of this to have precise dream control, am able to remember to stabilize a dream and recall dream goals, and have no fear whatsoever of my dream environment. But, this depends. You can still be completely lucid and aware that you're in a dream, and something you're attempting can not work. You may realize 100% that you're in a dream, but can't access that memory from waking life. Maybe you're aware but forget things, just as you can be aware but forget things in real life. Maybe you're lucid, but you realize that no matter what you can still feel pain, so you're afraid.
Really, being "completely lucid" doesn't mean anything. Make up your own definition, set your own standards, because as far as I see it, it is completely impossible to come up with an objective scale for lucidity since we have no way of comparing our dreams to each other in an appropriate manner to make such a scale.