Thread: 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.