Is it possible to have half an LD? because I think I did...

Quest for Lucidity
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Last night before I went to bed I decided to read the entire book “Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming” because I was so frustrated with two weeks of failure. I made sure to pay extra close attention to the part about reality checks because I felt that was the area I was most lacking.

Well I must have planted some kind of subconscious command in my head because without really doing MILD I managed to remember to ask my self if I was dreaming. Nothing even triggered it I just held my nose and tried to breathe through it and found that I could! :thumbs: I then tried to jump to see if I could fly but only noticed a slight increase in air time. Soon after that I went to the mirror and saw that my reflection had a strange blue aura around it.

Now here is why I’m not sure if it was an LD: I never once felt like I was totally in control of the dream. The entire dream took place in a small bedroom and it never once occurred to me that I should leave it. Also, I remember telling myself to spin if the dream started to fade but I never did. All in all, it felt like I was never really using my full mind to be lucid; it was like half my brain was acknowledging that I could control my actions and the other half was still just writing it off as a dream. Later that night I once again remembered to do a reality check in a different dream but quickly lost lucidity. :cry:

Despite the fact that they didn’t seem to be full LD’s I’m still excited, because it seems that any progress is good progress when it comes to LDing.

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I got the same thing my first time. Someone told me (I forgot who, if thats you, please PM me so i can change it) that control takes a while to build up.

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I can relate, that’s pretty much what happened in my first LD.

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it dosent take time for control to build up ive had amazing lds near the beggining and low level ones around where i am now which is 27 so i think that someone should post something about completedly opening your mind in your lds.

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I know exactly what you mean…I have LD’s like this from time to time, in fact, the majority of them can be described like this.

Just keep trying!

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This is a low level ld , its like your conciouscness is working partly , to avoid this kind of things , what you wanna do is , just remind your self in the dream that you are actually in bed , and its just a dream , Some times one might realize he is dreaming but not fully , therefor he will act like he is dreaming , but not truly understand the meanning of it.
even if its a high level LD , remiding yourself from tiem to time that is a dream can help the lucidity , and prevent you from going into a normal dream which some times might happen.

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I realize the difference now because 2 days after I made that post I had my first true LD.