Is it possible I dreamt I'm lucid dreaming?

[SwanDress]

Hi I've been practicing writing and remembering my dreams for a while, and just yesterday I actually read about the methods to have lucid dreams, I mean WILD/MILD. I'm practicing reality-checks by watching the clock but I never remember to do it in my dreams yet. I didn't had any lucid dreams yet. So anyway, I read about it yesterday, and thought I'll try it sometime, when I'll feel I'm ready to try it. and I went to sleep at night and woke up about 6 hours later. I lay at my bed and started remembering in my dream and then decided, if I've already woke up 6 hours after I fall asleep, why wouldn't I try it. So I wrote all my dream and hour later I came back to my bad and started thinking about the experience I had in my last dream, which was some guy I lay in bed with and he hug me. and I said to myself: When I'll dream it- I'll know I'm dreaming. and I tried to think about it but my mind ran away to all sort of places until I fall asleep and didn't get to the scene I was thinking about. But then I was dreaming, and in some point, I lay on some couch and a girl came to me and started kissing me, and then I thought to myself- I'm dreaming! But now everything became a bit blurry, and I knew that when I'll find out I'm dreaming- I need to do something to remain lucid and not wake up, so I started scrubbing my hands but it was really weird cause I felt myself coming out and in the dream, I felt that my real body is starting scrubbing it's hands so I forced my hands to stop doing it and focused on doing it in the dream. it happened 3 more times I think, that my real hands did it, and I kept the dream just a bit until I don't remember what happened but I guess I lost the consciousness because after that I remember I dreamt and didn't know it. So anyway, I wanted to ask if this is a lucid dream? because it feels to me, that because I read about it before I got to bed and thought about it, I just DREAMT I'm lucid dreaming. I just dreamt I tell to myself I'm dreaming and dreamt my real hands were active, but it was just in my mind. What do you think? I would love to listen everything you have to say. Thank you for reading, and sorry for the English mistakes. :] -Sarit-

[Robot_Butler]

That sound like a lucid dream to me. I've definitely had that weird experience of feeling your real body and dream body simultaneously. It is frustrating, but it is a cool reminder of how flexible our consciousness and sense of self can be. In your case, it sounds like your reality checks and WBTB payed off perfectly. The whole idea is to get yourself to have a dream about lucid dreaming. That is, remember to lucid dream while you are dreaming. There are different levels of lucidity. Sometimes, you will know you are dreaming, but still not think clearly. You may still be caught up in the dream storyline, and not really remember who you are. Other times, you feel completely normal and in control, with access to all your memories from your waking life. As long as you realized it was a dream, it was a lucid dream. Hopefully this is just the first of many

[SwanDress]

thanks for the replay! yay I had a lucid dream! btw what is WBTB? I'm not really familiar with all the terms yet... :S

[Robot_Butler]

WBTB is short for "Wake Back To Bed". It is when you wake up in the middle of the night, get your brain working a little, then return to sleep. Here is a tutorial, but it is pretty much exactly what you did: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=64626

[SwanDress]

Oh and I wanted to say something more- I've notice a pattern in my dreams. I dream a lot about sleeping together with a lot of people my age, like in a pajamas party or in a trip, that we sleep together in one room. Now that I notice it how can I understand what it means? what can I do to understand why I dream about it so much? beside the fact that now I can tell that if I'm dreaming something like that I might suspect that its a dream... Is there something I can do or research beyond? WBTB is short for "Wake Back To Bed". It is when you wake up in the middle of the night, get your brain working a little, then return to sleep. Here is a tutorial, but it is pretty much exactly what you did: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=64626 Thank you! yeah I see it's working for me! it worked in the first time I tried it! without I even prepared myself! But I think the powerful thing to me is to think about it a lot before I go to sleep, because I know my dreams and I dream about the things that happens to me every day, and if I went to sleep after watching some TV show I'll dream about something connected to it. That's fun. Another question- Maybe theres a page in here that explain all the shortcuts such as WBTB? I read here and don't really understand cause theres a lot of shortcuts...

[Darz]

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...splay.php?f=75 I think that's what you mean

[ThreeLetterSyndrom]

This: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=71202 or this: http://www.lucidipedia.com/library/i...=Abbreviations is what you're looking for. I personally find the bottom one a little bit clearer, but that's just me.

[Mariano]

eh... As long as you realized it was a dream, it was a lucid dream. I don't think so. I can dream that I realising it was a dream, and that's NOT a lucid dream... I'm tired of saying this..but... when you are lucid, you are sure, I mean, you wake up, and YOU KNOW IT WAS A LUCID DREAM, no matter which level of awareness you had... when you doubt it...then forget it...