This isn’t the usual flavor of “was this a lucid dream?” In this case I thought it was a dream but now that I look back on it I suspect I could have been awake. Anways, I was having a dream that I was in school and when it was over I woke up rather smoothly. After that I remembered about the DEILD technique and started visualizing the dream scene. I don’t entirely remember the sensation I felt but it basically felt like I got sucked into the dream and I kind of blacked out. After that I was in my bed and right away I did the nose reality check and it worked! However, after I immediately failed at making my bedroom wall explode with mere willpower I did another reality check and apparently I was awake and I was also suffering from slight numbness in my limbs. I see two options here: 1. that I had a lucid dream and transitioned into reality after getting so excited about that, but didn’t really notice because I was obviously in the same bed or 2. that I was just awake the whole time and somehow screwed up the reality test (which doesn’t seem so unheard of considering the mental state you are in after immediately waking up).
Besides my general description, I have one piece of evidence suggesting it was a lucid dream. If I were awake and had screwed up the nose breathing reality check I would have sharply intaken breath but in the “dream” I slowly and steadily inhaled, suggesting that I wasn’t quite in my waking body.
Anyways, what are peoples’ thoughts? Was this a lucid dream? Have you had any experiences similar to this? Suggestions?
Thanks in advance