I honestly can't tell if I was lucid or not.

[siuol]

We all have those dreams where we dreamed we were talking or thinking about lucid dreaming but never made it, but I had a dream that took that a step further, and I don't know if I was lucid. I was talking to one of my friends about lucid dreaming. He said he didn't believe me, and I then told him that we were in a dream already, and he looked around and realized I was right. As the dream progressed I started doing things I would do in a lucid, running fast, jumping high, and looking at items, and thinking that even though they were from my mind they looked as vivid as in real life. The thing is though, I never felt lucid. I don't remember a moment where it hit me that I was dreaming, and it felt like a non-lucid, but I told my friend we were dreaming, and acted like it, especially the looking at things to notice how vivid they were, I only do that in my Lucids, and while I was doing it I was thinking about how good my dream was. I think this has something to do with the MILD+Visualization I've started recently.

[Puffin]

I've had dreams like that before; I'd summon objects, fly, and even teach a DC dream control... but I wouldn't be lucid. My guess is that just like how day residue (things we think about or do during the day) makes its way into our dreams, so do lucid experiences, actions and memories as a whole. It doesn't happen too often, but when it does, it can be a bit confusing because you're not sure if you're lucid or not. But as always, the key factor in whether you were lucid is awareness. If you didn't know you were dreaming, or have mental clarity or consciousness, it wasn't an LD. If you had a vague level of awareness, as in you knew it was a dream but weren't chomping at the bit to go do stuff, it was probably a semi-lucid. Based on what you've written, I'd say it wasn't a lucid.

[Naiya]

I think it's one thing to say "this is a dream" and another to fully believe it or realize it or be aware of it. It's really hard to tell in this case. If you knew it was a dream , you were lucid. But if you were just saying those things without fully being aware or understanding their meaning, then maybe not.

[siuol]

Thanks for the responses. I'm thinking I was semi-lucid, but this one was really confusing. What really got me was that I was changing the vividness and thinking about how cool it was that my mind was creating the images, I only do that in lucids, and I wasn't going through the motions, I was thinking pretty clearly. In additon to that when I told the dc we were dreaming, some people tried to kill us, and I told my friend that it was my dream so he didn't have to worry about it and I would help him escape since I could create the enviornment how I wanted (used dream control to have a river on the other side of the building for us to float away on). I knew I was dreaming, used control as usual, thought clearly, and the quality of the dream was the same as my lucids or better at points the only things missing were the feeling of lucidity you get, and even though I had control, it felt like I wasn't in control of the dream, just certian aspects of it. Even if I become lucid randomly (nothing made me stop and think) I will get that feeling of realization (kind of feels like I just remembered the name of a word I had forgoten and needed to remember). And as far as the control, it is kind of like how people say they have trouble breaking out of the dream scenario and get distractted. Im probably just going to add more rc's and that first moment of lucidity into my visualization to fix this.