Lucid Dreaming Or Dreaming That I'm Lucid Dreaming?

A few nights ago, i was having a dream where i suddenly stopped myself and realized that I was dreaming. I tried a reality check, and this proved I was dreaming. I tried to fly, but only got a few feet off the ground before falling and hitting the ground. When I woke up, I was pretty sure that i did not actually have control over the dream and that I had only dreamed that I had been lucid dreaming. I have only had one LD before now and it was much different. It felt completely different from a normal dream, and i noticed more detailed things in my surroundings. The dream I had the other night felt like a normal dream, except I remember thinking that I was in control, at least until I woke up, which is when I began to doubt myself .

Has anyone else had a similar experience or does anyone know if I was having a regular dream or an LD?

You had probably just slipped into another dream.

-Edit- OK, I know what you mean now. Sorry. Anyway, you probably just weren't that lucid. A lucid dream is a lucid dream, whether you're dreaming you're lucid or if you really are, as far as I know.

I feel ya, I've done the same thing before. I dreamed I was dreaming before, and in that dream's dream, I became lucid, but when I dream up from that dream, I realized that I became lucid in my base dream and simply thought of it as an actual event. Kinda weird.

I had a dream a few nights ago and have not talked about it because it was really strange. Anyway in this dream I was attending a school for Lucid Dreaming. It was a class on how to LD but not once did I really realize it was a dream. The weird thing was that in this dream I realized that Lucid Dreaming was really just another form of consciousness that most other people already have. Not true I think.?

To have a lucid dream, or to dream that you were lucid. Is there really any difference?

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Originally posted by MartinB
To have a lucid dream, or to dream that you were lucid. Is there really any difference?

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There can be. To really be Lucid (to have a ld) is to realize you are dreaming. To dream of being lucid may just be a dream and you don’t realize it’s actually a dream like most dreams. I think

How do you become lucid but not realize it's a dream? That sounds like a contradiction. Although it does seem hard to draw the line sometimes, I admit.

I had the most impressive and longest lucid dream I've had so far a few mornings ago. But I've noticed that in this and the last couple of lucid dreams, I do what I had been planning to do in my next lucid dream for the most part, but not always exactly in the way I had planned, and sometimes I forget to do things or make decisions that I suspect I wouldn't have actually made if I were, say, fully awake. Or I will simply "miss" unusual occurrences that wouldn't happen in real life as being unusual. All this despite the fact I know it's a dream.

The weird thing is that while I appeared to have free will in these recent LDs, when I woke up I had to wonder how much free will I actually had, and how much was illusionary. I couldn't help but wonder if I had been following some sort of predetermined "script", so to speak, without realizing it.

Is this normal for lucid dreams, or does it simply indicate that my lucidity level wasn't quite 100%? This is the first time I remember wondering these things after having a LD.

[quote]How do you become lucid but not realize it's a dream? That sounds like a contradiction. Although it does seem hard to draw the line sometimes, I admit.

I had the most impressive and longest lucid dream I've had so far a few mornings ago. But I've noticed that in this and the last couple of lucid dreams, I do what I had been planning to do in my next lucid dream for the most part, but not always exactly in the way I had planned, and sometimes I forget to do things or make decisions that I suspect I wouldn't have actually made if I were, say, fully awake. Or I will simply "miss" unusual occurrences that wouldn't happen in real life as being unusual. All this despite the fact I know it's a dream.

The weird thing is that while I appeared to have free will in these recent LDs, when I woke up I had to wonder how much free will I actually had, and how much was illusionary. I couldn't help but wonder if I had been following some sort of predetermined "script", so to speak, without realizing it.

Is this normal for lucid dreams, or does it simply indicate that my lucidity level wasn't quite 100%? This is the first time I remember wondering these things after having a LD.
II don't think many people have achieved 100% lucidity. I think we are all working for that and looking forward to it someday.

It's completely possible. It's happened to me before. You just think that you know you are dreaming, but really you aren't lucid. When you are truly lucid... you usually get that special feeling knowing you are in a dream. Sometimes you just have really low lucidities, but that is practically a dream anyways.