Thread: Was this a low-level lucid dream of some sort?

Originally Posted by Yuusha

Last night I had a dream where I definitely remember feeling wonderful about the fact that I could fly, and I would do wicked somersaults in the air and whatnot and feel wonderful about it, and I even kept levitating for a while after reaching the ground, just because I could.
And I sort of had this nagging feling in the back of my head that it was because I was "in that special place", although I cannot exactly say that I was fully lucid or anything - it was more a feeling of being in the unique realm where everything is possible, and where I knew that I was "lucid", without fully understanding what that word meant.
Is this perhaps some kind of low-level lucidity of some sort?
I definitely felt that I was on the very brink of being lucid, at the very least.

I would say 'yes'. Calling it 'lucidity' (even at a low level) could bring problems with semantics, but there are certainly levels of 'awareness' that come close to being lucid, and even lucidity, itself, is not black and white, as others have said. It's common to get into that state of mind where "I know that this isn't right, or shouldn't be happening, but I'm not aware enough of my orientation to know that I'm actually in a dream". This are much more 'aware' dreams than normal, and could mean the dreamer is but seconds away from actually figuring it out (becoming actually lucid).