Thread: Can one dream of being lucid

I recently had a dream that was kinda lucid. I was in a flower shop which had the shape of a strawberry which made me suspicious. That feeling of suspicion turned into excitement when I realized that I had to be in a lucid dream. I felt kind of superior to my own brain cause I had finally tricked it. However, I woke up only seconds later. I am not sure whether I had tried to avoid that by quickly rotating around my body's axis. I remember some kind of rotation but it could have just been the dream fading out. If I did rotate that would have been a conscious action and I would say I had a lucid dream. But if I did not rotate, I would not have done any actions during that short lucid dream. If I had been conscious, I would definitely have done anything cause I had been planning what to do in that moment for a couple of weeks. So my dream self did not behave like my conscious self would have behaved. From my point of view, the dream would therefore not have been a "real" lucid dream and I just dreamed I was conscious. Is that possible or can a dream be lucid without me actually doing something?

The dream is lucid as long as you know you're dreaming, so it's possible the dream can be lucid without doing anything. The dream was not fully lucid due to your lack of memory, but it was lucid.

Having a dream of a lucid dream is possible, I have had this happen to me before several times. It is as if the idea of lucidity is being approximated by the dreaming mind, but the mind is still unaware, and ones actions are nothing like what they should be in a actual lucid dream. I have even done WILD methods during a normal dream, which caused me to float and phase into another dream space, over all it was a strange experience, even tho I had it in my mind I was dreaming, it just did not really sink in, the idea became a kind of dream plot in itself.

Yeah, there are definitely some states hard to clearly define. I had a dream where I dreamed I fell asleep and then became lucid. It seemed and felt like a low level lucid dream...I was aware I was dreaming I guess, although I was really in a dream within a dream. I give myself credit for a lucid dream, although others might say I only dreamed of being lucid since my assumption of what was my true reality in which i was dreaming was wrong.

Yes, I have also done this many times. Though, I now chalk it up to low level lucidity, personally. I think it is possible to dream of anything really. Lucidity being one of those things.

It's kinda like in waking life, you can just go through the motions of stopping, saying to yourself that this could be a dream and doing a reality check with no real critical thinking or anything, and then going on without even remembering that you did it. Dreaming of a lucid dream is similar to this to me. It's like the emotions aren't there enough for you to have enough lucid dream 'feeling' to consider it a lucid dream although you technically did become lucid by most standards if not all. If the emotion(excitement, wonder or whatever) is not there it just feels like you only dreamed of having a lucid dream.

I could be off, that's just my take on it.

I've had dreams where I've fallen asleep and actually attempted to get a lucid dream and got lucid as a result, but that doesn't sound like what happened with your dream. Your dream sounds more like what most people refer to as a semi-lucid dream, or a low level of lucidity, like rastro13 says. In these dreams, you don't just go through a script like usual. You fully believe that you are awake, and are capable of consciously thinking and making decisions during these dreams. I've had dreams where I've been semi-lucid like that, and similarly to you, discover I'm dreaming, but somehow I don't become fully lucid like you'd normally expect to. Instead, I stay at the same level of lucidity/conscious awareness and nothing much really comes of it, if anything at all. It seems really stupid, but it's happened a handful of times. In this case, you were lucid, but you had a very low level of lucidity, so like in my examples, nothing really came of it.

This might be off topic a bit but this thread reminded me of the time when I was fully lucid but couldn't remember somebodys name. I read about them many times but it just wasn't coming up into my head in the dream. I know I was fully lucid because I made decisions fully aware it was a dream and even remembered the task I wanted to do.However, the name wasn't coming up. It was near the end that I tried to recall the name to summon them but I ended up waking up without summoning them.

Thinking about it your lucid was pretty short. Its possible the excitement could have gotten to you and you did not think about your task but its also possible you weren't able to remember.This is kind of confusing to me but usually when I'm semi lucid I'm still attached to a dream plot in some way or I'am fully convinced something absurd is true while knowing its a dream.