LUCID OR NOT?

Hi im new to lucid dreaming and recently became interested in the subject after having a very short one. I have tried HILD and WILD, today when i was trying WILD i gave up and went to sleep shortly after. I was asleep for aprox 1hr and the whole time i was dreaming. I can remember most things in the dream like ordinary day stuff gone weird eg riding to school and taking a wrong turn and suddenly being at the beach. Most of the dream was frustrating because i thought i was awake but things kept on changing and i couldnt watch tv or read because my vision was so blurred. Near the end of the dream i actually remember thinking "I might be lucid dreaming" and i tried to experiment to see if i could make cool things happen but i wasnt in control of anything. In any of your opinions does that sound like lucid dreaming? :?

Welcome to the forum! :)

If at any point in your dream, you knew you were dreaming, that would be an LD. Just because you didn't have any control didn't mean it wasn't an LD. Some people can have a lot of control over their dreams and not be lucid. The two things aren't reliant on each other.

You usually will 'feel' when you are lucid dreaming. You will be able to truely relize that you are in a dream. You are classified as lucid if anytime in that dream you are truely realizing that its a dream. Sometimes you can have dreams where you may say you are lucid but its actually just your mind thats saying that and it may not really be you. Its hard to explain unless you have had one.

congratulations on your first lucid dream....the same thing happened to me when i first had a lucid dream, i could tell it was a dream, and i tried controlling things, but i couldn't.....i guess that it comes with experience.....i can just about do it now....but i havent mastered lucid dreaming yet, so when i do.....KABLAMO!!! FULL CONTROL......MU HA HA HA!!!

Now back to the subject. Yes your dream did count as a lucid dream because you knew that you were dreaming... but thats not important , whats important is that you learn from this experience, and whats ESPECIALLY important is that if you can remember the feelings you had when you became lucid, because those feelings will speed up you learning how to lucid dream. because if you can remember those feelings then before you go to sleep, while you are doing the techniques you should try to recreate those feelings for more realistic dreams and a smoother entrance into the lucid state (atleast thats what i have heard).