Thread: Am I ACTUALLY lucid dreaming or something else?

Originally Posted by Iamerik

Well dream control and being lucid are two different things. You can have control over your dream without fully realizing that you are dreaming, and you can realize that you are dreaming but have no control.

Take a look at the dream control part of the forums, or the tutorial section. Lot's of good information there. It's difficult at first, but once you get more familiar with the feeling of lucid dreams things should get easier.

And yeah, as the other Erik said, stay calm. And if you expect the dream to end soon, it probably will. So keep thinking positive, or don't think about it at all!

Thanks guys for the replies. I think I'll work on staying more calm when it happens again and I'll read up more in the Dream Control section.

erik212-- I've only had LDs using the DILD method. Basically just realizing I'm dreaming while I'm dreaming. I've found that if I do reality checks throughout the day, I'm more likely to have a LD even if I don't perform one necessarily in the dream. I have yet to perform a reality check in a dream, but all 3 times that I've been able to become Lucid, I've set up a timer on my phone that goes off every hour and alerts me to do a Reality Check. And I also do one everytime I see one of my dream signs now too.

I hadn't done that between February and now and that could be why I've had such a big dry spell.

No problem, however, I'd reccommend not relying on the phone for too long after starting routine RCs, because you won't have the phone (ususally) in your dream . It's fine to get you into RCing often, but try to reduce how often it rings, and then try getting rid of it altogether.

Also, when becoming lucid, try to do many different reality checks. Reality checks are supposed to be done believing that they will fail, and once you do them in a dream, you will know the feeling, and try to expect it when RCing while awake. Also, RCing once lucid allows you to see what RCs work, because, personally, breathing through my plugged nose always works, and covering one eye and trying to look at my nose (which should not be possible) always succeed (I do see my nose) for some reason. Try it out next time you become lucid, and maybe incorporate it into your nightly plan of what to do while lucid (assuming you have one).