Being lucid feels like...

You're on drugs...

For me anyway. A couple of years ago I experimented with some legal drugs. Never gonna do it again because it made me feel horrible and didn't have any cool effects like I expected (no hallucinations or anything). I felt like my thought processes were behind me or something. It's hard to explain, but I'd think about doing something for a second, and before I could think it through properly I'd be doing it! It wasn't something I'd want to try again in a hurry.

Anyway, I had my first Lucid a year or two ago after years of being interested in it. It came out of nowhere. In the last 6 months or so I've had about one lucid every 2 weeks or more (which is amazing for me) and I come on this forum about everyday so I guess that helps.

So the last Lucid I had was really great. It lasted for ages and I knew it would. I found myself doing useless things though like I needed to go to the loo so I did, then I thought "why am I wasting my time on this?!" The way I felt in my dream was the way I felt on the drugs, I wasn't really 100% aware. I had a couple of "lucid objectives" before I went to sleep, so remembered to carry them out, but I couldn't think of anything else to do and I know there were loads more things I wanted to do.

I would class them as being quite high lucidity with quite a bit of control, but I was kinda hoping I'd be more "myself" in the dreams...maybe it'll come in time.
Does anyone else feel like they're not totally "themselves" when they're lucid?
Or can compare them to any drugs they've taken? I mean in the way you act and think on drugs more than weird stuff like hallucinations.

yeah i would say that I do not have 100% control when I am lucid, like while I am lucid i will believe something that I would not believe in real life. but after time it becomes better. If you read other's experiences you'll see that some have quite good control, and they have been trying to get lucid for a loong time so it seems.

I wouldnt agree that it feels like drugs, or the drug i have tried. and what "legal" drug will affect you like that? M-J for me does not feel like lucid dreaming. i have way less control in my dreams.

Well I tried "Druids Fantasy" and "Purple Ohms", they both had the same effect. Made me feel kinda numb and the thing about the thought processes, the view I had of the world on them was somewhat like when I'm lucid. I wouldn't recommend them either as they didn't do anything but make me feel all numb and not be able to sleep.

That's the only comparison I can make as I didn't feel totally like myself, I've only tried those two drugs, nothing else, maybe it's just the effect they had on me.