Thread: When You Know It's a Dream, But You're Not Lucid... (Pseudo-Lucidity)

This is the problem with the term lucidity. I mean let's say that you know you are dreaming and you scream "I am dreaming!" But are completley unaware that dream characters aren't real and that your physical body is laying in a bed and the most annoying of all, you still think that the dream situation that happened before you got lucid is important...

Does this mean that you are generally aware? In my eyes... No. Although when I was a beginner I might have reasoned differently.

Let's pretend you are a stone collector and your goal is to find a stone, obviously. Let's say you never have seen a stone before and you find a grain of sand, then this if of big value to you. But when you then find a big rock, well then the grain of sand look pale compared to the rock.

Lucidity simply means "Being aware that one is dreaming while dreaming" but remember that we are slightly aware of the dream when we dream as well, otherwise we wouldn't remember the dream at all. So for me I think awareness is a better word, because awareness to me means that you have knowledge of things. While lucidity only means to be aware of one of these things which is the knowledge of knowing that one is dreaming. Since that knowledge is very undefined it is obvious that we will have trouble understanding what it really means.

Lucidity is just a small part of all the things that awareness can achieve.

Awareness simply means to know something and the more you know the more aware you are. If I am aware that I am dreaming, have a body laying in a physical bed, are in control of the dream and know that the dream situation isn't important well then we talk about that kind of awareness we usually associate lucid dreaming with and long for.

The problem with this pseudo-lucidity or lucidity at all is that nobody else can decide if you were lucid or simply dreaming that you think you were lucid, only you can truly know.

If you don't think you was aware while dreaming it, well then that's probably right.

But at the same time, does it matter really what it was and what not? The important thing is what you get out of it. I have learned lots of things about myself from normal dreams and experienced many adventures. If you have a low-aware dream and still experience lots of fun things, then it doesn't really matter if it is lucid or not right?

So see the value of the experience itself and you will appreciate both lucid dreams and normal dreams because they are both the same thing.. DREAMS!