The BIG "Was this a LD?" Topic

Jay_Walker, congrats on your LD. Maybe try to keep reminding yourself that you are lucid next time. As you go through the dream say things like “increase lucidity” or “I am lucid.”

wow Lybi, that is very impressive. It sounds like you are describing a WILD experience, or an OBE. Only you can decide on which it was, but it was one of the two. I’ve read people say “If you have to ask if it was a LD or OBE, it was most likely an LD”
So I say yes, it was a lucid dream! Congrats! :happy:

I had a Lucid dream last night.
I was lying in bed (in the dream) and for some reason just decided I was dreaming… so I was like “wow… this is a dream” I tried to get up, but it was really hard to move, and my vision of my room was waving around, as if I was underwater or something, and all blurry.
So I managed to get up and then decided to see how realistic the dream was, I did a load of stuff inside first but I totally cant remember what I did… then I went outside, and I remember feeling the heat of the sun, after that I think I lost lucidity because I remember only fragments of what happened.
Next thing I can remeber is I think I was lucid again, and I went inside and found a mirror, I was going to try the teleporting to other places through mirrors thing.
It was cool going through it, but when I got through I was just in a totally black place and there was nothing there except blackness.
I woke up, and lay in bed thinking about how the dream didnt seem so realistic when I thought back on it. But I wasnt actually awake, I was still in the dream… lol…
because then I woke up for real, and was totally confused for a while…

The only thing is, my lucid dreams arent good, because after I wake up, they just feel like normal dreams.
:sad:
It feels like just any other dream now, and like it wasnt me doing all the stuff in the dream, which is why I am never sure if its an LD or not…

If this is what all LD’s are like, its making me think maybe its not worth the effort, im just hoping that they get more real…

It is the same for me. Last night I had a dream were I looked at my hands and the things in my dream. The dream I had after that, wich was not lucid at all seems more vivid then the other one. I think this is because I used a lot of my dreaming atention to look at my hands and stuff, but I think the more I do this, the more dreaming atention I will have and the more vivid the dreams will become.

Arg, I’m dreadfully confused. I ddn’t go to school today due to sickness so I mainly slept. That’s not important. Anyway, I had a dream where it was just black and I was thinking I would have a lucid dream. Then it showed me on a beach and suddenly I thought “this is a dream! I must be lucid!” and so I thought since I was on the beach, I would do what I’ve always wanted to do in a lucid dream, be a mermaid. So when I tried. It just went to another dream. When I woke up, it just seemed like another dream and didn’t feel lucid at all. So, was I actually lucid? And how is it supposed to feel after waking up?

It sounds like you may have had a False Awakening. Next time you “wake up” from a LD, perform a RC to make sure you’re really awake.

I didn’t wake up right after that happened. It just went on to another dream. I was recalling the possible lucid dream when I had completely woken up and didn’t go back to sleep.

That’s a rather common experience. It mostly happened because you weren’t lucid enough, so after a while you lose awareness and become non lucid again. Because you recognized you were dreaming, I’d say you were lucid indeed, though it was probably low or medium level. The next time you become lucid, repeat to yourself regularly that it’s all a dream. Stay aware of this, and you have less chance to end up back non lucid.

Good luck! :smile:

What seemed like another dream? Was it actually a dream?

It isn’t “supposed” to feel like anything. We are not the masterful weavers of your sleep experience, determining the every detail of your encounters… you are!

Generally it feels like normal, then I remember about the dream, and I get a bit of an excitement rush.

I’m really only interested in the theory and was never planning on actually having an LD. So I never kept a DD or tried to remember my dreams. So I will need help on deciding whether this one was or not.

I’m getting ready to go to a new school called the Ursuline which is in Essex and its like the afternoon, I think to my self - I live in Northern Ireland why should I go to this school ah this must be a dream I can do whateva i8 like. I’m in a garden at that point (everything fizzles out after i think bout it bing a dream) and I see a bicycle. I get a cool idea to do what they did in ET. I get on it and start cycling really fast n i start to fly but I only get like 3 meters above the ground - but it was really cool (i had to keep remindin myself that its a dream. I go inside and theres a coffee table and I see this sheet of paper on it. I decide to try using magic. I hold my hands near it and it starts to rise - I show off about it to my mum and then I go back. Then I try to morph something - i decide a fairy cake - first thing in my head. It wouldn’t work at first but then I tell myself its possible, cup my hands and produce a really tiny one which annoyed me.
Then I tried to morph Johnny Depp - wudnt work so I transported myself to the ‘set’ of POTC in the middle of a fight scene and got stabbed by a pirate and woke up…

THERE!

is it one?

sure sounds lilke one to me!
Congrats! :happy:

Then why are you “still” posting in this thread? :razz:

Doing the stuff might help with the theory, besides which it is Fun.

Yeah, sounds lucid to me too.

:help: Hi. I’m new here, and I have a question for the lucid dreamers. A little about me: I’ve always had good (sometimes excellent) dream recal.
I started a dream journal a month ago, and have known about lucid dreaming for a little over a week. I’ve been doing some research on becoming lucid, and I remembered a dream I’ve had in the past. I’d like to know: Was I lucid? Only at a low level of ludicity? Or was it just an exciting, vidid dream?

I love all things Medieval, so I enjoy when my dreams have medieval themes. In one dream I had a couple of months ago, I was in a medieval battle. (think ‘knights in shining armor’) It was vivid, and somehow fun. I never said “Hey, I must be dreaming!” But I think some part of me might have known, because I wasn’t worried about doing harm to anyone, and in real life, I would have felt terribly guilty. Like I said, I had fun with it. I was killed, at the end, and I remember seeing black. It didn’t scare me, however. (In real life, I have a terrrible fear of death.) I remember thinking “Darn, I died!” Just before waking up, and I was really annoyed that I wouldn’t get to fight anymore.

So, what kind of dream is this? :eh: I’ll be greatful for any help I can get on this subject. Thanks for reading.

-ThisDarkHour

Hi ThisDarkHour! Let me first say, welcome to LD4all! :happy:

If you’re into medieval stuff, then you must have had some awesome dreams! I bet it’s a great topic to dream about :smile:

Now, about your dream… A dream may be called a lucid dream if you truly realized you’re dreaming. A LD involves a certain degree of genuine self-reflection. You know you’re dreaming, and you see everything with your own eyes. You’re not longer walking blindfolded through dreamland. If you’ve acknowledged to yourself that you are indeed dreaming, while also realizing this, then you’re lucid. Ofcourse there are many levels of lucidity possible, going from very low-level to super high-level.
In this dream, you weren’t worried about what might happen to you in that dream, so that’s already a good sign. But the question is, did you know this unconsciously or were you truly aware of the nature of the situation so you really knew consciously that nothing could hurt you? From your description I’d say you knew it mainly unconsciously. There was an intention towards lucidity, but it wasn’t strong enough to break through, so it remained unconscious. I’d say you were prelucid, which means you realized something was very wrong with this picture; you didn’t really know the true nature of it, but somehow you knew nothing could really hurt you, without truly realizing you’re in fact dreaming. To jump from prelucid to lucid, you need to be critical enough towards the dream events so you start questioning the very nature of that “reality” itself. This jump can be hard for some, but once you succeed, it should get a little easier the following times.

Hope this helps :smile:

Good luck with your medieval dreaming! :content:

yeh it was fun actually…maybe i will actually TRY to LD…so that next time i get a snog out of johnny depp lolz…nah im really interested now…the strange thing was I had that dream and a REALLY vivid ND while sleeping in someone elses bed at their house (they werent in it)

Hi again! I’m back to say two things:

  1. Thanks for helping me understand my dream.

  2. I had my first lucid dream last night!! :smile:

It only lasted for 30 seconds to a minute, but I’m still glad that I was finally able to have it, even though it was a low level of ludicity. I got really excited when I realized I was lucid, and tried to do too many things at once, which I think woke me up so soon. Also, everything started dimming/growing blurry. I think I panicked, and put too much effort into trying to stay in the dream.

I know that you’re supposed to stay calm, and I’ve heard of the spinning technique, but does anyone know of any other ways to stay longer in a lucid dream, or anything I could do to make the dream more vivid and/or gain a higher level of lucidity? I’m looking for more unknown things that have worked for other people. I’d really like to be prepared for next time. :wink:

Congrats ThisDarkHour on your first lucid dream :happy:

When I feel the dream fading I focus on something like an object, taking in all the details and try to block out any thoughts to do with real life.
Sometimes my dreams get unstable if I’m moving too fast as well (e.g. running down the stairs - I have to slow myself down)

I found a few more ideas here

Congrats with your first LD, ThisDarkHour!!

Other techs to stabilize the LD are: rubbing your hands, touching or focusing on a dream object, or you could yell “stabilize my dream NOW!!” If you want to reach a higher level of lucidity, you could yell “increase lucidity NOW!!” or something alike.

Good luck :smile:

I think i had an ld last night
i am pretty sure it was an ld. but just to conferm it with everyone.
i was going to sleep and then i noticed someone else rolling on my bed as if they didnt know i was sleeping in it. I was like f this, who the hell is waking me up this time, got i got up slighly to see who it was but my eyes were all blurred as i had just opened them. I saw a figure of someone around my age and i yelled out a “ugh!”. I said that coz i wasnt thinking strait and was wondering why this person was in my room. He replied with an “Argh!”. I got quite scared at his point as i didnt have a clue why he was in my room. Then i realize, hey… this must be a lucid dream, so i tried to fly out of my room but the instant i did that i kind of went out of picture. Then i went back to my normal thinking in my bed. The ld ended and i was bak in my real body. My heart was racing too!
It seamed so real! More real then my normal dreams!
the ld didnt last long though.
when the ld ended i woke up but with my eyes closed. Then i decided to have a pee. This was rl

this would be my first ld right?

Hi exidez!

Yes I’d say you were lucid. You truly realized you were in a dream, although the dream is really strange. It seems more like a weird FA.

But nonetheless… you were lucid :smile: Congrats! :happy:

Good luck with your next LDs :content:

im looking forward to it.
lets see if it will last longer this time…