Thread: Ld Or Was I Just Awake And Imagining...

so i woke up around 7 to 8-ish AM, and doze back to sleep
after a few minutes and i guess i was imagining things because
it felt like i was awake but sleeping, erm almost like i was
daydreaming but i don't really know if i was awake or just
imagining that i was havin' a LD, then i think i started havin'
a nightmare or something and i was thinkin' about dream
spinning to get out of the setting, so i guess i tried to in my
mind and started spinning in my imagination but i felt like i
was twitching physically(sorry bad grammar), but when i woke
or rather thought i woke up from dreaming, my heart was
beating like crazy, could it have been a dream where i thought
i woke up but really didn't ? :S,

ps. do you know how to control nightmares, or get rid of them?

Originally Posted by afraid

so i woke up around 7 to 8-ish AM, and doze back to sleep
after a few minutes and i guess i was imagining things because
it felt like i was awake but sleeping, erm almost like i was
daydreaming but i don't really know if i was awake or just
imagining that i was havin' a LD, then i think i started havin'
a nightmare or something and i was thinkin' about dream
spinning to get out of the setting, so i guess i tried to in my
mind and started spinning in my imagination but i felt like i
was twitching physically(sorry bad grammar), but when i woke
or rather thought i woke up from dreaming, my heart was
beating like crazy, could it have been a dream where i thought
i woke up but really didn't ? :S,

ps. do you know how to control nightmares, or get rid of them?
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No. Lucid Dreams are distinguishable by their lifelike intensity. So if you can think that it MIGHT BE just your imagination, then it automatically disqualifies.

Hey, afraid!

I have this experience every so often as well; it's like a dream per se, but without any sensory quality. You can't see, hear, touch, smell, or taste. It seems like a lucid dream, though, because you actually feel a physical reaction afterwards, and could swear that you realized you were "dreaming".

Leo's right, though. You will know a lucid dream when you have one. I guess this could be considered daydreaming plus, which is actually maybe a good way to relax oneself, and maybe use it as an auto-suggestion to go lucid. (i.e. say to oneself before attempting sleep: I want to have THAT dream, but for real this time. You get the idea! )