Sometimes I will have dreams where I can control everything within it, but the second I realize it I wake up. Is this technically a lucid dream or not?
As far as i know, this is a FLD. You control, but aren’t aware it’s all a dream. Waking up when you realize it’s a dream is common for new people. I think that goes away eventually, and you’ll start being able to stay asleep when you go lucid.
There are also a lot of suggestions as to how to stay lucid at that point if you look around.
I had a dream like that few days ago. I’m in a dream and I do things, I think about things and they happen, but I’m not aware of the fact that it’s a dream so it’s not lucid dream and I would separate this kind of dream from FLD. FLD might be the dream where you do things you would do in LD but not with this kind of awareness.
I think that we are lucid to some point in most of the dreams and sometimes this kinds of LD’s do come to surface, like your dream and mine and if we are lucky we do realize that it’s a dream and then by terminology it’s a lucid dream…
I think you are close to lucidity…
Good luck!
I’ve never heard of an FLD until today. Thanks for the replies.