Thread: is THIS lucid dreaming?

hi, i am new here and i have this experience: several days ago i purchased a utility that generates binaural beats. several times i tried to listen to these beats at very low frequencies before i went sleep and twice i had a VERY POWERFUL dreams where i was feeling like it is a reality much deeper than ever before when i had dreams.

so my question is: is THIS lucid dreaming, or lucid dreaming is something completely different?

thanks for help

no it is not

you had a very realistic dream

a lucid dream is when you are aware that you are dreaming

but i must say that all the time i KNEW that i am only dreaming. it happened in the middle of the night, in the middle of my sleep. i started feeling that i have appeared in a very realistic world which i am a part of but at the background i "knew" that this is only a dream. only the feelings (not only visual) were very real. so i am trying to find out what happened because i never had such a strong dreams and i only think this can have something common to the binaurals i was listening in the evening.

so i started searching the internet on themes "binaural" and "dreamsing" and ended with the theme Lucid Dreaming, which looks very similar to the experiences i had during these two nights.

lucid dreaming has nothing to do with vividness or realisticness(?)

lucid dreaming is simply when you know you are dreaming. regardless of control or vividness.

now it looks like you had a lucid dream, and it was really vivid. good for you, thats quite cool.

oh! thanks for your replies, it helped me a lot. so i am going to continue my research with binaurals because these experiences were simply great! and it will be much greater if i find a way to be able to get consciously to this type of dreaming and even better to the dream i want.

thanks once more.

Binaural beats can be used for lucid dreaming. There are subliminal ones which basically tell you to realise you are dreaming and there are ones that tell you you are dreaming very clearly, (i.e. not subliminal)

They seem to only work for a few people, but you seem to be quite susceptible to them, so I think you should try them out. check out here.

But yea, as Banana said, lucidity has nothing to do with realism or vividness, nor control for that matter. But if you become lucid, it is possible to then control your dreams. But lucidity is only a state in which you realise you are dreaming, and therefore concious.