Mental Conundrum in Pandora's Box Form (False Lucidity)

This afternoon I awoke (~3:00pm), ecstatic that in that session of sleep I enjoyed three (count 'em! three!) consecutive lucid dreams. However, I noticed something in one of them that kind of bothered me.

During a dream I said something about dreaming, followed by the usual "wait a minute, I'm dreaming right now! time to have some fun!" I was trying to change something, my physical appearance, but I was having great difficulty with it. I made a mirror appear, but the image returned from it was microscopic. I tried to make the image bigger, but it only got smaller. I had very little control over those things around me. I started to question if I had any control at all.

This afternoon I got to thinking, did I become lucid at all during that dream? I know I acknowledged that I was dreaming, I felt pretty glad about it and mentally felt lucid, but could that have all just been part of the normal dream? A dream about being lucid, without actually becoming lucid? I don't know. Anybody else suffer anything similar?

i wondered that too about my first LD.

what exactly would differentiate a "real" lucid from a "fake" one? after all, it's all fake in some respect... would you react differently to the dream environement in a real one vs a fake one? would you remember it any differently?

what convinces me that my LD as "real" as it should be, was that i did a reality check which failed, and i acknowledged that, and that i took action to correct fading (looking at my feet for a bit). this i think shows that i was aware that i was dreaming, isn't that alone the definition of lucidity?

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Originally posted by voidofform
what convinces me that my LD as \"real\" as it should be, was that i did a reality check which failed, and i acknowledged that, and that i took action to correct fading (looking at my feet for a bit). this i think shows that i was aware that i was dreaming, isn't that alone the definition of lucidity?

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Great response voidofform! :goodjob2:

As long as you knew you were dreaming it was a LD. Sometimes you just have those dreams where things don't go the way you want them to.

I once had a dream about becoming lucid but i wans never lucid. It could have been a dream about being lucid but if it felt lucid and you acknologed it then it you were lding but remember you dont always have control in a lucid dream.