The BIG "Was this a LD?" topic - Part VI

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huH? not quite sure what you’re asking. Thanks for the quick response!

Before I went to bed, I went in with the focus of Lucid dreaming via realizing/being aware when I’m in a dream (that’s what you’re supposed to do, no?).

So when I realized how unrealistic things were (at this time I was dreaming), that’s when it caught on to me - “ah! dude you’re in a dream now! This stuff isn’t real!”

It seemed I clearly mentally told myself this via observation/reasoning.

First of all, I’m very sorry for my bad english. But I hope you can understand me anyway.

My friend had this dream, I don’t think it’s a LD but he wants to know, and since I’m very new to this I don’t know. As I said, I don’t think it’s a LD but he said that “it felt like one”. I don’t know how it can feel like one since he isn’t sure that he had a lucid dream yet.
But enough of that, here’s what he told me:

He was in a strange house in the middle of the night when it was dark and there were only one lamp on the second floor, and he was on the first floor. So he walked up some stairs to the second floor and looked through a window, there was an old man there looking at him and shaking. Then he (my friend) got afraid and he thaught “lucid dream” and then everything started to blink in different colors, and then he woke up.

From that piece of your post, it does sound like you were fully aware of what being lucid meant. If the dream felt hazy it could be because it’s a lower level lucid dream and the ‘awakening into another dream’ sounds like a False Awakening

It’s possible that the term Lucid Dream can appear in dreams without you actually being lucid. What matters is that you are aware you are dreaming. Without knowing if your friend understood the implications behind saying lucid dream (By that I mean he thoughts were something like “I’m Lucid Dreaming” along with an awareness, during the dream, of what that means.) it’s hard to say.

Hey,
Right, until this morning, i always questioned my LD one time, and though other than that, i hadnt had one. This morning i was led in bed, letting last nights dream come back to me, because it was kinda wierd and as if i was falling, a huge weight on my body, and i remembered it, and i had looked at a oven clock, which had rune symbols on it, and thought “Thats not right” and i was lucid for about… well, i managed to write 3 a4 pages about it this morning, and 1 with just rough thoughts of it, and then i was reading about LD on another site and it said why have them if you dont remember it ? i i thought well what if i have been but cant remember i was, even though i do remeber my dreams. It wass then i remembered a reacuring nightmare i used to have when i as ill, i would be walking down a corridor it was very dark dungeon like, there where rats and bats, spiders and other bugs and every 10-12 ft was a small tourch on the wall, and i would be walking and all i oculd see at the other end was me floating there dead and there was a gaint hand holding me with a light around it and as i got closer it stays the same distance away (Kind of like the dreams where you run down the hallway and the door moves away). The another hand comes down over it and a evil looking fuigre come out of my body and goes into the hand and forms a painting and the frame and hangs it on the wall (The painting are hung all down te corridor, as far as i run, under every torch). when the painting is hung a beam hits the body i see (me) and as it joults i feel myself joult to, and i fall to my knees and them it gets up and looks at me and i start to hear voices saying dont look at the walls faces and then i would realise the paintings killed me, and then i know i realise its a nightmare, I THINK, coz i remember telling myself to not look, but when i told myself, i could fell it in my physical body to, but then i would make myself look at it, at that time i would wake up and puke, and i knew in my dream i would do that if i did, as if my concious mind was telling me in my dream… What do you all think ?

thanx for help in advance
Liam(4-20_)

That doesn’t sound like a fun dream. :bored: As for if it is lucid, you might have thought that thought the instant you woke up or as you were semi-awake. If you had this thought whilst dreaming it sounds low-level lucid. Personally I think it’s more likely to be a thought as you were waking up, it’s a good sign though. :grin: You just need to realize earlier. :wink:

I think I had my first LD last night, but I’m not sure.

I was in some sort of building, a really big one. Suddenly I made a RC (the one when you try to push your finger through the palm of your hand), and it worked! I tried another RC just to be sure, this time I tried to breathe while holding my nose. I could still breathe and I got this strange feeling in my body.

I got excited and ran to the first DC I saw, it was a young woman. I did the finger RC and told her “Look! I’m dreaming!” She got a bit angry and didn’t say anything, she just walked away from me. I didn’t care so much about that so I found the exit and got out. I ran really fast and tried to fly, so I jumped up really high and then flew in high speed towards the clouds. I don’t remember much from the flying part, but I think I fell on the ground.

I got so excited that I didn’t know what to do next. Suddenly I saw a book with things to do in my dream. I started reading and decided to teleport myself to New York.

I can’t remember what happened next, probably woke up.

The thing is, it felt almost like a normal dream, except the part when I did a RC and got that strange feeling. I don’t remember smelling or feeling anything. Maybe I dreamed that i dreamed of having a LD?

It seemed to me that all my lucid dreams have felt different to my normal dreams. Describing exactly how they felt different is quite difficult. When you say you had a “strange feeling” that could have been because you were lucid. It felt pretty unique to me too. You need to remember what you were thinking during the dream. If you knew you were dreaming and what that meant, you were probably lucid. From what you have said, I think this was a lucid dream that faded into an ND.

ok, so i only heard about lucid dreams yesterday. i think i had 2 lucid dreams last night, but not sure. the first one i remember thinking, better not write that one down lol. my second one:
(not sure if its lucid though)
I was in a steel cage and said, “I want to be above the ocean.”
I went above the ocean and tried diving in but as soon as i touched it, i was in an icy tundra. then i woke up.
is this weak lucidity?

I wouldn’t say that this was a Lucid dream, since you didn’t realize you were dreaming, it’s possible to not know you are dreaming but still affect the dream with conscious thoughts. I believe it is a good thing that this is happening, it’s not a huge leap from affecting your dreams without knowing you are dreaming to suddenly realizing, “How come I can change things?” Closely followed by “I must be dreaming.” :grin:

Well
a few days ago, while I was dreaming, I accidentally saw my reflection and I looked so strange, I don’t know, just like I a ghost. I said to myself `Hey! This can’t be real’ and I tried to do a RC (the nose one) but I couldn’t move my hands. I tried again and again, but I woke up.

Do you think that was a LD? Or maybe I was dreaming about lucid dreaming? And why couldn’t I do the RC? :\

Haha on the first page of this forum a guy says he had the problem of not really remembering. I feel like I became lucid for a while (specifically remembering that I told myself I would remember this when I woke up), but when I did wake up I was like… was that normal dream that I had control over? Or was I lucid.

It sounds like you’re well on the way to being lucid there. I’m not sure you can say this particular dream was lucid, you would need to have actually realized that you were dreaming for it to be lucid. It does sound like you were questioning it though. Only you can say how much you felt it was a dream, or whether you just thought it was strange.

You have to ask if you realized you were dreaming during the dream. It’s possible for lucidity to play a part in a dream, without you realizing that you really are lucid at that moment in the dream.

Yeah I’m pretty sure I was, but I didn’t know if it’s way too early in my practicing to think I had one already… That’s the other thing, my dream recall is much too poor to remember clearly, but like I said, I specifically remember telling my self “I am going to remember this when I wake up” after I got the tfeeling I was lucid

There is no requirement that you have practiced to achieve lucidity, many people have lucid dreams without even knowing what they are. It’s possible you could have told yourself you wanted to remember this reflexively. Only you know whether you told yourself to remember because you liked the dream, or because you realized you were dreaming and wanted to ensure you’d not forget it.

Yeah I realized and I told myself “remember this when I wake up” Like I did know I was dreaming. It was cool =D

Hello, I am new to this and I’ve been on this message board for 30 minutes looking for what I’m talking about, so I thought I would post in here.

I took a nap after staying up late the night before a few days ago, and instantly after laying down began to feel fuzzy, I knew I was going in and out of sleep. Soon after this (a few minutes I’d guess) I was dreaming. I was in the passenger seat of a car with my friend, and we were parked in a grocery store parking lot with the windows down. A lady came up to the window and started talking to my friend but she was making absolutely no sense, but my roommate could understand. I knew something was up, and, after reading about lucid dreaming a few days before, said in my head, “Waaaait. This is a dream.” Instantly everything froze in my surroundings and I began very slowly zooming towards the driver window. I felt like I was being held tight for some reason. I noticed that everything around me was so vivid and everything was so quiet. Then I began to worry about my body sleeping in my bed, that I would stop breathing (because I was laying on my stomach), but just said “oh well” and continued. Right as I thought “Ok, now let’s try something!”, somebody in the hall outside my room (I’m in a dorm) slammed their door, and I woke up.

Was this an LD? I really think it is because I was conscious in my dream, not just realizing I was. I was worried about my physical body. But I think the reason I felt like I was being held was because of my body laying on my stomach. Anyways, I know this is a long post and you guys get a lot of these, but any help would really be appreaciated. Thanks a lot!

This has happened to me a lot, and it happened twice last night. I think it is beetween WILD and DILD. It happens when I wake up too early (Usually at 5 or 6 am, the “juicy dream period”, as I call it) I then fall asleep again (or try to) and shortly after loosing consiousness I find myself in a dream. I then may or may not notice I am dreaming, but this state is a very light sleep and it is very easy to wake up, I feel I can do it instantly if I want, as if I really weren’t asleep. But in tonights’s sleep, It happened twice, once while I was falling asleep, the other as usual. In the first I was playing ping-pong (something I am learning in real life) I didn’t know it was a dream until noticed that there was no longer a ball but instead a wine bottle, then I inmediatly woke up. Then I had a normal dream (really cool I tried and did use four assault riffles at the same time) then I woke up because of allergy then I felt asleep again and in the next dream I got a bit lucid and some control. After I tried controling to much I woke up.

I think I had my first LD a few nights ago.

I was riding on a bike with a friend trough the treets of GTA: san andreas. Suddenly we stopted. I looked at my bike and realised their was a vital part missing. It was then that I realised I couldn’t have ride that bike since it should be impossible. I must be dreaming! I had a strange feeling that I have never had in my life. Everything became very clear. But I was too enthousiastic and woke up after a few seconds.

Thats the typical 1st LD. Don’t get disencouraged. :smile:

Congrats on your first LD! :clap:

Next time, try to keep yourself as calm as possible. If things start to get fuzzy, try spinning around in circles – I’ve heard that helps.