Semi-lucid dreams???

Just recently, I eased up a bit on my personal lucid dream quest only to suddenly start having them. The catch is in each dream I know I'm dreaming and I'm testing things out to see what I can do but it feels like I'm not fully lucid.

This last week I've been able to change scenery, have super strength and flight but it's like my mind is hazy or isn't in gear somehow. I know I'm dreaming but knowing is part of the dream.

It also occurs to me that many of us have problems with lucid dreaming because we try too hard. I naturally wake up early in the morning but many times I'll check email and just decide to sleep another 2 hours or so.

It was in the cases where I wasn't actually trying for lucidity and woke up/got a drink/checked email/whatever and went back to sleep where it all worked.

What's strange is the first lucid came as soon as my head hit the pillow. I closed my eyes and saw my feet as I was standing on grass somewhere and off I went.

that happend to me the other night , like in my dream i knew i was dreaming but wasnt lucid...kinda weird

Yea, that happened to me the last night as well. I knew i was dreaming but i didn't have full control of myself and the dream kinda ran itself. I don't know what the proper term is yet, but i call them dream-currents when your dream has more control than you, yet you know you are dreaming. I use the term dream-current around my friends because in a dream current, it seems like you dream drives you to do something and you don't reach lucidity until you achieve a higher level of awareness. And I say when you break away from the current (a.k.a gained a certain amount of awareness), then thats when you reach true lucidity and can do whatever you want.

well, those are my thoughts ;)

Has happened to me on occasion. Sometimes I go in and out of awarness, following the dreams story, yet I find myself aware for moments, where I can change what happens around me. I'm DD by the way... I'm sort of a natural, cept it happens rarely to me.

There has been a lot of discussion about the "semi-lucid." The LD where you know you are dreaming, but still have illogical dream thinking, just follow the dream, have little or no control, or just feel hazy.

The truth is all LD are different. There are "levels" of logical thinking, control, dream clarity, and independence to leave or change the dream plot.

A lot of people spend a lot of time and energy chasing those "ultimate" lucid dreams where they can do, be, feel, and change it ALL!!!! However, those dreams are few and far between, even for the "best" lucid dreamers.

Most LDers, once they can become lucid at will, eventually find that while those "ultimate" LDs of power and adventure are fun and all it is their "lower" level, or "semi-lucid" or even *gasp* non-lucid dreams they enjoy the most.