Thread: How do you know if you are really lucid dreaming?

I mean, what if you are just having a non-lucid dream about having a lucid dream?

Originally Posted by puppycat

I mean, what if you are just having a non-lucid dream about having a lucid dream?

If you don't become self-aware you will just wake up once it's done as it was a regular dream.

low-level lucid dreams are similar to non-lucid dreams about being lucid. When you have a fully lucid dream, you'll know the difference though. Think about your last dream that took place in a real location. Next time you are there stop and look around. Think about how much more conscious you are, that's sort of the difference. It's hard to explain, it's just the level of consciousness that you have during the truly lucid dream.

i ask them to define consciousness if they can not i do not teach them

hahahaha

Personally, I never thought lucid dreaming required "being conscious while asleep." I figured all that was required was to know you were dreaming, being -conscious- of that fact, and thus able to act upon it, not to regain full -consciousness- while still asleep.
Anyway, from what I understood about lucidity, dreaming you are lucid is exactly the same as being lucid. Like daydreaming about daydreaming, or metathought. You are daydreaming or thinking.