Was I lucid?

Quest for Lucidity
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I know the typical answer to this question but i dont even know if i was dreaming. hears what happened:

i went to bed and since i naturally wake up between dreams, I was able to try the WBTB technique about 6 hours into my sleep cycle. When I went back to bed I repeated a mantra to keep me focused and attempt WILD and MILD as a back up. I start my dream with a false awakening and remember thinking to myself that this is too real to be a dream (i was wrong) so i dont preform a reality check. i continue with the non lucid dream. This next part is where i’m uncertain what happened. when i “woke up” (i’m not really sure if it was a false awakening or not) i was virtually paralyzed. I thought to my self that this could be a false awakening so i attempt to do a reality check by looking at my hands. With effort (i’m basically paralyzed) i manage to look at my hands and i have trouble keeping my eyes open and it appears as if my hands are transparent. its like a ghostly image of my hands. I decide i might be dreaming and since im virtually paralyzed i imagine myself floating to try to get on with a lucid dream. It doesnt work. All of a sudden I wake up (defiantly for real) and am not paralyzed anymore.

Cant decide if it was a really bad and short false awakening that led to a lucid dream or just sleep paralysis . It only lasted for about 30 seconds.

I’ve never had a lucid dream yet but i’ve been trying for 24 nights. I tried the WBTB the day before also and had also had a false awakening at the beginning and end of my dream. so i figure the WILD technique is fit for me over the MILD. Any thoughts or suggestions?

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Hi and welcome :wave:

It’s hard to be sure sometimes in these in between states. It sounds like SP to me, but as you were able to move your hands (your dream hands, I imagine) you might have been close to entering a LD.

I suggest you keep trying, this is clearly a good sign you are close :smile:

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Thank you,

I’m not sure if it was my dream hands. I had trouble opening my eyes and I was looking through my eye lashes so the transparency could have been a combination of being half awake (perhaps half paralyzed), looking through my eye lashes, and i think i might have been waving my hand though i think i was just dizzy and it just appeared like i was waving it. It was like i got beat over the head with a baseball bat and knocked out and when i woke up i was dizzy and ‘out of it.’ not dizzy like after spinning in circles and getting a headach, just dizzy in that my vision is shaky.

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I believe that that truly was an LD, since I’ve had several LDs similar to that one, in which I was completely paralyzed. I’ve found that it is quite easy to “unparalyze” yourself in a dream. All you have to do is imagine a wave of energy going up from your toes to your head, removing the paralysis along the way. Then you can simply get up and enjoy the dream. :cool: