I’ve heard time and time again that “if you know you are dreaming you are lucid” is this true? Or just most common explination?
The reason i ask is that because 82% of the dreams i remember i know i am dreaming yet have no control over myself or anything in the dream.
I know that in every dream i have that it isn’t real, or that it is a dream. In some cases i can even sence my “sleeping” physical body i even sence the possition i am sleeping in.
yet this does not even trigger a low level lucid state where i can at least control myself.
I was just wondering if anyone else has similar experiences.
For me, lucidity is only knowing that Im dreaming, control or not. My highest lucid dream was very vivid and realistic, yet I had not any control at all. It was great to know I was dreaming and I wasnt bothered about not having control, because the thought “this is all in my mind!” was in my head
And me, I don’t even say “I was lucid” because it can mislead people. I like to say I knew I was dreaming and it was cool
For me being lucid is being conscious. In your dream you can say you are dreaming without realizing it.
Previous night I had a dream, i remember few of it cause it was one of the first dreams that night, But I’m for sure that I was with a buddy, We were either just experimenting or I was teaching him.
We mentioned that in a dream you can push a finger and your head trough a wall. And so we did. I wasn’t lucid. Even I did things after saying: “this is something you can do in a dream”. It was completely unconscious, it was not the will of my thinker, it just happened like in a normal dream.
Nevertheless I very much enjoy these kinds of dreams, I often find them very relaxing.
Maybe my explanation isn’t very clear, but to me it’s a whole different thing, being conscious that you are dreaming or just dreaming that you’re dreaming.
i’ve had several similar experiences. It’s like you have a sense that your dreaming, like it’s in the back of your head, but u dont realize to like become totally lucid. You dont think to try to control or change the dream, its a weird feeling
hmm i know i am dreaming, and i even know i could control my dream if i so chose that’s the weird thing.
but what really confuses me is how i am able to sense my sleeping pshyical body at the same time, it can be very unnerving at time. Particularly if i become conscious during a dream, somet what scary and in that particular scenario i usually wake up - but when it happens slowly it’s like being in dream knowing i’m dreaming and sensing my own body and hearing any none dream sounds.
