Thread: What's it like to lose lucidity?

Just wondering, it seems like an interesting transition, but I've never personally done it because I always wake up at the end of my lucid dreams. So what does it feel like to move from lucidity back to your normal dream state?

to me, its like i fall back to sleep, like a loss of conciousness
because, once you get distacted its like zoning out in real life, if you know what i mean...

You remember it but you can't remember the transition. You just like..lose lucidity. I have no idea how to explain it. There's really no feeling...

My logic goes haywire. I'll start applying my insight to completely unrelated things, and make connections and assumptions that I know are false in real life. Everything feels faster, and I also feel like I'm trying harder than I was while lucid (trying harder for what, I do not know). Most of the time, I lose my original focus completely.

This sounds nothing like when I lose lucidity!

I just forget that I'm dreaming, like it slips my mind.

You wouldn't know you were ever lucid in the first place so you wouldn't know

Exactly Zezarict - When you awake, when you remember (which is all that matters. You could've did every single dream goal but if you don't remember it.. you never did) there is no change in thoughts or feeling.

Originally Posted by jarrhead

Exactly Zezarict - When you awake, when you remember (which is all that matters. You could've did every single dream goal but if you don't remember it.. you never did) there is no change in thoughts or feeling.

That's not entirely true. I've had plenty of dreams where I've lost lucidity and I remembered the entire dream, nonlucid, getting lucid, losing lucidity and everything in between. There's no reason I would forget just because I lost lucidity--I would still remember the whole dream just as I'd remember any other dream.

Originally Posted by jarrhead

Exactly Zezarict - When you awake, when you remember (which is all that matters. You could've did every single dream goal but if you don't remember it.. you never did) there is no change in thoughts or feeling.

I don't see why you wouldn't remember a dream even if you lose lucidity

I'll have to agree with Desert Claw. It's like IWL. Most people aren't "lucid" IWL all the time. Some are rarely ever lucid. You get distracted by something and forget it basicly.