Just read the thread moinsQ and felt I needed to reply with my own.
A couple of days ago, I had what I believe was an LD but I’m not positive. Judging by the ages of the students, I suppose I was outside of some middle school. Couldn’t remember how I got there but once I had passed some teacher/school official I stopped dead in my tracks and said to him “this is a dream”. For some reason I was frightened that I knew I was dreaming even though I never experienced fear like that in an LD before. I spent the rest of the dream trying to get away from the general area I was at and I was being chased because they thought I was insane. All the while, despite how I knew I was dreaming, I couldn’t control it(that thought never crossed my mind anyway), and I had such a stupid, irrational fear about nothing. Care to analyze?
FLD, no question about it.
You may have gotten lucid for a very short moment, but then slipped back to the story of the dream- And this spark of lucidity caused your dream to take a different turn, and it ended up as it did.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the definition of an LD one being aware that they are dreaming? Again, throughout most of the dream, I KNEW I was dreaming.
If you knew you were dreaming it was a LD. Period.
But knowing if you knew can be tricky… Saying things like “I’m lucid!” isn’t enough to prove you knew. It has more to do with how you feel, I think, and how the vividness and stability is, I guess…
My first FLD was long and stable, which was really weird since all my LD’s lasted less than a couple minutes…
As MovieMe said, you might have had a moment where you were conscious of the fact it was a dream. LD’s and FLD’s are really close.
I mean did you just repeat over and over or remember the phrase i am dreaming?
Or were you able to realise what the statement meant and its various connotations?
Not long ago i had a similar LD that was fairly short, i was in a forest of giant spiders and became lucid, tried to get rid of them and found my powers impotent as i doubted the dream, thats when the fear kicked in.
It may be that while you knew you were dreaming to some degree some part of you didnt want to accept it or found it very hard to believe.
That happens to me often. I realize that I’m dreaming but I can’t controlling, I just go along with the dream even though I know that I’m dreaming… I call it a low-lucidity dream.