Hi everyone. Just joined the site. I’ve known about Lucid dreams for a while, but just started reading stuff about how to do it a couple of days ago. I’ve not yet had a lucid dream. But I’m not sure what happened last night. I’ll try and explain.
When I was dreaming, I went to do some reality checks. I tried looking at my nose through 1 eye, It kind of looked screwed up, I looked at my fingers which didn’t look right, then I looked at some text or my watch (I can’t quite remember), I then dreamt that I realised I was dreaming. Then I woke up in my dream, pleased that I had had a lucid dream. Even though I hadn’t. I woke up for real a while after that.
Is this normal? I don’t feel that I was lucid at all. It feels more like I was dreaming about doing a reality check, then dreaming about realising I was dreaming. Seemed a bit strange.
If you weren’t lucid, it’s called a False Lucid Dream, where you dream about having a lucid dream. It’s quite ironic! And waking up in a dream is called a False Awakening. Both are considered “close” to a LD! I mean, if you’re dreaming about having a lucid dream you’re just a tiny step away from actually having one! Just keep trying and you’ll get one pretty soon, I’d say 
And welcome to ld4all! 
Grrr, mattias is always faster.
Anyway, yeah…it’s a false lucid dream…So, it’s dreaming about being lucid…don’t worry, this happens a lot…to everyone.
Also, you had a false awakening.I think it’s pretty obvious what it is.
It’s when you dream about waking up, but you don’t really wake up.
Yeah, you are pretty close to lucid dreaming.
Good luck!
Thanks for replying guys. That’s kind of what I thought had happened. Just wanted to know if it was normal. Don’t remember any of my dreams from last night! Never mind, I’ll keep trying.