A dream of a dream or the real deal?

Hello dear Dreamers,

I am right now pretty excited because I am almost sure I had my first Lucid Dream last night! But then again, I am NOT sure at the same time because… well a few things.

First, it started pretty cool and for the first time in my whole life I actually remembered to do a reality check in my dreams totally random. I tried to poke my thumb through my hand. But in my dream, it didn’t work. So then I saw suddenly my friend and then I asked her if I could count her fingers. Her left hand had five, like normal, but her other hand had seven fingers and I grinned at her and told her this was all a dream. Then it felt pretty lucid AND I actually came to do things that I wanted to do in my first Lucid Dream. But it was all pretty odd! When I woke up and thought about it, it sometimes felt like I was just dreaming. But you know, a dream OF a lucid dream although I did have sort of control over it because otherwise I wouldn’t have to get to do the stuff I wanted to do. For example, jumping through an alice in wonderland like hole to get on a ship I wanted to go badly. I even met characters that I wanted to meet there, but they all acted pretty odd and in one moment the dream changed and I THINK I had a view on myself and I looked totally different and gave out to my brother that suddenly was there. That’s the point where I am not sure if it was really a LD or not. Or if that woman was just someone else and I thought it was me.
The dream ended shortly after that, but it was odd because one of the characters I met in my dream told me that he didn’t want to be this character and it felt like it was my brother speaking, which was odd.

So… I am pretty sure it was sort of a LD but not 100% or maybe that’s just what the first LD feels like? Still I am pretty thrilled that I came that far!! And I want to do it again :happy:

It was a LD. The level of lucidity can fade a bit during a dream which can sometimes make you doubt if you were lucid in the first place. :sad:

congrats!

Here’s the thing; a dream within a dream is still a dream. It doesn’t matter how you got there, the fact is that you are dreaming. If you think “hey, this is a dream,” then you were lucid.

A lot of people get the misconception that an LD will feel completely different from an ND when you wake up. This is not always true. You can do things to help increase your lucidity, such as yelling “increase lucidity now” or making sure to pay attention to small details, and this could help keep you from having dreams that feel so foggy when you wake up.

as llong as you had a moment that you realize you are dreaming you are lucid :happy:

and that is probably one of the best part of the experience…
when I had my first one I lost lucidity after a while of flying around too lol