From: ericnet@comcast.net
What a great question!
This has been the cause of many 'lost' lucid dreams in my case.
I think the difference between dreaming you're lucid and being lucid, is in
the act of trying to sustain the lucidity.
We too quickly try to 'do' something, instead of just alternating between
our hands and whatever is in front of us.
The 'effort' to remember to keep changing focus, and the fact that each
iteration between the hands and the dream image causes more solidity, makes
it quite obvious that we are lucid.
I've been stuck for years now, but I'm giving it another try!
Good luck!
"Nur Lan" wrote in message
news:d3bcqa$tg$1@news.iucc.ac.il...
> Hi All,
>
> I used to subscribe to this group several years ago while I was exercising
> lucid dreams techniques, and which I quit after a few weeks of no apparent
> success.
> Now I'm retryring it with more devotion, and within only two weeks of
> exercising MILD (first week and a half were devoted to improving my memory
> using the exercise mentioned on Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming / S.
> Laberge) I had already had two lucid dreams.
>
> My question is (and thanks to those who kept reading beyond the tiring
> exposition :), how can I really be sure that my lucid dream was not
> actually a 'regular' dream, in which I dreamt of being lucid?
> Recollections I've read about lucid dreams described them involving a
> feeling of 'hyper-reality' and a striking sense of consciousness. In my
> dream I remember saying 'this is a dream', looking at my hands(I can't
> recall ever doing so in a dream), and trying to hover over a waterfall.
> But still I don't remember feeling this sense of striking reality and
> consciousness.
>
> Can it be, after weeks of reading and thinking of lucid dreaming, that
> I've only dreamt of being lucid?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nur Lan
>
>
>
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