Dreaming about LDing?

[Sethir]

I found this site two days ago and lucid dreaming sounds like an incredible experience, so I intend to have one. Although, I might have had one last night: I was in a white room with a fridge. I opened the fridge and the light didn't come on. I pushed the ice button and nothing came out. I thought, "I must be dreaming" and just accepted it, no reality check. I took a few deep breaths, so I wouldn't get too excited, then thought about where I could go beyond the door. Suddenly, my eyelids became really heavy and I closed my eyes. I had to force them open again but when I did, I saw my room. I reached for my dictaphone to record this, went back to sleep and didn't remember any other dreams. And that was either an FA, or I didn't use the dictaphone right (a possibility as I'd only used it that night and still had my eyes closed), since it was blank in the morning. A few things seem odd to me about my lucidity: I assumed I was dreaming after a perfectly logical situation; from what I've read, the dream will fade or end suddenly but I sort of fell asleep while lucid; I didn't feel any excitement about my lucidity - I just accepted it. I had been reading Dream Views all day and was thinking about LDs while I went to sleep, so is it possible I dreamed I was LDing? Or is that just too surreal and it was actually an LD, just a rubbish one?

[skysaw]

Welcome to the forum! It sounds to me like you were indeed lucid. You may not have had the most exciting or vivid LD, but I think it was one nonetheless. It's quite possible you had a false awakening, as that is very common among LDers. I have on several occasions "wakened" from a LD and tried to write it down, only to discover I was still dreaming!

[1342576]

In my first lucid dream I had a false awakening, and I tried to find my dreamjournal but it wasn't there. The fact that I then found myself on a neverending spiral staircase covered with moving vines somehow escaped me to be dreamlike.

[Redrivertears]

Hey there, Remember that the term "lucid dream" really covers a very broad spectrum of awareness in dreams, ranging from 'knowing you're dreaming and that's it' to 'full blown consciousness with the ability to make any choice you want and even remember your waking life and earlier dreams'. Your dream sounded like it was a "lucid dream" according to common definition of it (although personally I call these sort of dreams "awareness dreams"), because you did know you were dreaming, after all. Although you might not have been fully conscious yet, it is certainly a good sign. It shows the idea of lucidity is starting to enter into your dreams, and you're starting to become more aware of the dreamlike nature of your surroundings. Keep it up and you'll be having dreams in which you're more 'lucid' in no time. Good luck! -Redrivertears-

[Sethir]

Aah, thanks Redrivertears. I just read a post about the levels of lucidity and I must have been aware yet not in control, like you said. Well, I guess it's a start and I hope there's more to come!

[DeadDollKitty]

No, dreaming about lucid dreaming but not really being able to do whatever you want is not a lucid dream. You were in the stages of LDing, but not quite there yet.