I had a lucid dream a few nights ago after a SSILD. It started as a normal dream and seemed to go on for about 6 hours (even though in waking life only 1 hour had passed). The dream was incredibly vivid. I was going about the day in the dream and it seemed so real that I genuinely thought I had awoken and been out of bed for about 6 hours. Later in the dream, I thought ‘I wonder if I’m dreaming’ even though I was 100% convinced I was in reality and that there was no way this could possibly be a dream. I decided to do a reality check (not expecting anything to happen), and to my disbelief, found that I was in fact dreaming. I couldn’t believe it; I was shocked. It was as if you did a random reality check in the middle of the day and found out that everything you had done since the morning didn’t actually take place. Anyway, I continued the dream (now lucidly) and eventually decided to just wake myself up to think about what had happened.

Did you ever experience such shock upon lucidity? Have you ever become lucid after being so convinced of your ‘reality’?