Thread: Did i have a dream ABOUT having an LD???

Is it possible to DREAM that you're having an LD? i spent the night at my friend's house and stayed up until 2am, woke up at 7:30. I lay on the couch kind of napping/going in and out of sleep for quite a few hours, and at one point i dreamed i saw my best friend lying on my bed and then i heard myself think (say?) "OH, I'm DREAMING" and then i felt a WHOOSH and suddenly I was dreaming that i was on my friend's couch (the actual one i was really on in "awake land") and I knew I was dreaming (i knew i was still asleep because i could see a box in front of me but there was no box in the real life room.) or maybe i was only DREAMING that i knew i was dreaming????? at any rate it was in first person not third, and no matter how hard i tried, i couldnt' move in my dream! what the heck was going on??????

Hey RP.

I hear this question a lot and I'm still not sold on the phenomenon of "dreaming you're lucid." If you're looking around you, and you know that what is going on is a dream, regardless of whether or not you can control anything (even your own body,) then that is an LD. As long as you are conscious enough to realize that you are not actually living out the scenario in waking life, then you are having a lucid dream. The strength of your lucidity can fluctuate from knowing you're dreaming with no control, to knowing you're dreaming while having full control of every situation around you at all times, for the entire length of the dream. (Which is rare, to my knowledge.)
But to answer your question: my opinion is yes, you were lucid, simply not enough to stablize your dream state enough to actively take part in it..

Hope this helps.

Last night, the only night so far that I have intentionally been lucid, I had three LDs. Two of which occurred as a result of "going to sleep" in my dream. With the first one, I woke up into my original dream without realizing that the first dream was in fact a dream. The second one, however, was a true transition from one dream-stage to another, and when I woke up, I woke up into waking-reality. I have a feeling that this method of attaining lucidity may be very effective for me, and possibly some other people that have had trouble with some of the other more common induction techniques. I think it keeps happening to me because throughout the course of the day, I think pretty much ONLY about lucid dreaming.

I did a succesfull WILD in a dream. (never done a succesfull one IRL lol )

I allso once dreamt I was dreaming with my eyes open, but still way the 'real' world. (the primairy dream world. I didn't saw the dream-in-the-dream-world. )

Wow.. funny how I just randomly found this topic (not even looking for it) while having only just thought about the possibility of it today.

I of course had previously thought of "LD in a dream" but I think I made some headway today- (while driving I know, I should've been concentrating on the road).

Anyways, I think it doesn't matter if you're dreaming that you're having a LD- the effect is that you ARE having a LD. Just like if you lucid dream that you're awake, you may aswell be awake- if you dream that you're lucid, you can act as though you are lucid. Lucidity in any "dream equation" ( ) overrides all other considerations and makes you lucid.