A couple of nights ago, I seemed to have a Lucid dream. I know that I realized that I was dreaming, but when I woke up, it felt the exact same s a normal dream, and when I looked back at it, it was all dark and gloomy. What happened there?
Lucidity doesn’t always equal vividness, or harmony in the psyche. I had one lucid dream with the texture of a very forgettable and dull dream, and I’ve had not only lucid dreams where I had stifled control but lucid dreams that spiraled into nightmares.
Personally, I’ve pinned it down to how, while I could mechanically awaken my conscious functions in a dream… there was stuff that needed badly to be processed and sorted out, that I kept resisting with my lucidity because I wanted to have fun-- or just escape. They were very deep-seated emotional issues.
Or do you mean something more like a “false” lucid dream?