Fake lucid dream or low lucidity?

last night i had two dreams but there was something about them that have questions about. in the first, i was in an adventure and started flying with a paper airplane. i started out fine but started falling. when i was falling i yelled, i’m dreaming, kind of like if it was going to save me from falling. i then started floating and realized it. i saved myself but after that, couldn’t do anything.

in the second, i was in a room and was hiding. my brother found me and we strted talking. then, a copy of him told him i was an enemy. i was all shocked saying woah. theres two of you. i am dreaming and jumped away trying to fly.

The only thing is, in both cases, i didnt want to do any of it. i didnt mean to save myself in the first or fly in the second. was i even lucid?

In both cases you recognized that you were dreaming, therefor you it was a low lucid LD. If you were doing the exact same thing, but didn’t have a moment where you knew you were dreaming, it would be an FLD.

For example, the other night I did something strange in a dream and thought “oh, that’s something I’ve done in an LD before” but it never clicked that I could have been dreaming then. Therefor, FLD. Another time I thought “hey, I’m dreaming!” and then proceeded to climb to the top of a slide because I was under the impression I had lost all my power and had to defeat a certain DC to get them back. That was a low lucid.

any way to increase lucidity from there?

Yes, for sure. The best thing is to have a set of goals in mind for your next LD. If you think “hey, I’m dreaming… now I need to go eat something,” you’ll probably have better control since you are setting the scenario, not your SC. Also, yelling “increase lucidity” is a great way to do it, but you have to be lucid enough to do it :tongue:. Above all, give it time. The more LD’s you have, the more you’ll learn to control them.

thanks. I’ll just keep filling in my Dream journal and just keep at it. :smile: