Hey everyone. I think I have had several low lucidity dreams before where I have briefly become aware that I was dreaming, but this dream I had last night seemed a bit more lucid, and the irony is I haven’t been practising for a few days. I was in the garden of our old house and I wondered: Am I dreaming? I approached some people and facial details seemed good so I did two reality checks, looking at my hands and trying to push my finger through my hands, both of which sort of failed. I then tried to fly but jumped onto the top of a car, and tried to manifest objects or people but the dream started to fade so I thought Am I dreaming again, and the detail increased. I don’t think I was fully lucid, because I felt I had to do something to help my sister in a previous dream, but I guess this was low level lucidity?
The level of your lucidity completely depends on how much you believed it was a dream.
Sometimes you can have dreams where you know something isn’t right but aren’t completely aware of the actual dream-state, and this probably counts as low-level lucidity.
However, if you knew that you really were in a dream and that your real body was asleep, then it was a real lucid dream.
So if you cognitively realized that “hey, I’m dreaming all of this right now!” and actually knew what this meant then yes, it was a lucid dream.
Congratulations, getting the first lucid dream tends to be the hardest part, so now that you have succeeded with this step it will get easier and easier from here on if you keep your motivation up.
Hi Laurelindo, thanks for replying. I suppose there are degrees of lucidity. I will admit that I didn’t have full lucidity, but it is the only dream where I was questioning my reality and trying to control stuff, even if I wasn’t completely aware that my body was in bed.