I feel so stupid

[TheBermuda]

Lately, I've been having a lot of near-lucid dreams. I'll be doing something in my dream that is clearly impossible, such as speaking fluent Japanese, and I'll think, "Of course I can do this! I'm dreaming, duh!" But the dream never becomes lucid, or in-control. I know I'm dreaming, am fully 100 percent sure, but I'm unable to take the scene into my control. Does anyone know how to prevent this?

[Dreamer 316]

I don't quite understand what your saying but if you knew you were dreaming then you were lucid.

[TheBermuda]

I wasn't lucid. I acknowledged the fact that I was dreaming, but I guess I didn't really comprehend the meaning of what I was saying, and quickly got distracted. That keeps happening to me. Sorry if I was being ambiguous.

[Dreamer 316]

Ok i think i know what your saying, sort of. Perhaps you could do reality checks so when that happens you will do one and you will realize you are dreaming and become lucid, if your not doing them already that is. I don't know.

[Caradon]

It sounds like your having a case of partial Lucidity. It happens to me often too. Yeah, try to remember to stop and do an RC that could help. Try not to get caught up in what's going on around you. just stop and take note of your surroundings and think for a moment, clear your head, and get your bearings. It's bound to click soon.

[elguapo]

I definitely know what you're talking about. I haven't found any real patterns but really i have found it hard to control. Do your dreams become less vivid? and isn't almost always towards the end of the dream?

[schematics]

Sounds to me like what most people who don't know about lucid dreaming think is a lucid dream. It's one of those dreams you have when your dream self proclaims he/she is dreaming, but your actual physical sleeping self does not become lucid, i.e. aware of its dream state. An analogy could maybe be, partial lucidity is when you're watching a movie of yourself saying, hey! I'm in a movie theater watching a movie of myself! As opposed to real lucidity when after seeing yourself say that in the movie, you become aware of yourself and get up off of your seat and exit the movie theater into the dream world.

[spockman]

I know what you are talking about. Generally in my partial ludicity I know enough to know that my actions won't have consequences but not enough to understand that I may be able to control anything. I use this to do things that I want to do in real life but aren't socially acceptable. (For example, in my partial ludicity dreams I greet people with a swift smack to the rear. 'Hi!' SMACK! 'What's up?') So I take some advantage of them but very little. I think as I, and you, get better partial ludicity dreams willstart out as partially lucid but turn into fully lucid dreams.