Is this considered Lucid Dreaming?

[peacechild_123]

I'm just curious.
What happened is I have awakend from sleeping (like, really awake)
and I see it's late, and my hall light is still on,
and my brother turns it out when he goes to bed which is usually later then me but never this late, so I decide to get up and check on him.
I get up, and walk a few steps, and realize this isn't my room and I look around and see me, sleeping in my bed behind me.
I sort of realize I'm dreaming, so I keep walking forward.
I get to this huge fenced in hole,
like I'm on the upper level and this is a cut out to allow a view to lower levels,
if that makes sense.
I see a lion walking around the perimeter and one of those huge
Scooby-Doo style pictures,
you know the ones with the eyes that follow you?
It really freaks me out so I pinch myself awake.
Does this count as lucid dreaming?
I can't for sure remember if I knew I was dreaming, even though I saw myself in my bed.
Thanks again.

[idgy]

Hello Peacechild,
It sounds like a lucid dream. You are lucid if you make any conscious decisions whilst you are in the dream. I used to have a similar experience myself. I would think that I was awake and try to turn on the light, but it would never turn on. I would then realise that I am dreaming. Next time this happens to you, tell yourself to look at your hand and then you will definitely know you are dreaming. Good luck.

[JWHDCMD]

A. Two types - There appear to be two type of lucid dreams - malicious and luminous.

- Malicious lucid dream are called nightmares.
- Luminous lucid dreams are the one we wake up saying to ourselves "Wow!"

B. Certainty - There's no mistaking Lucid dreams for they appear almost as if we are actors in a play written not by ourselves, and there is always the thumbprint on it making us aware that they are a cause outside of ourselves.

C. Frequency - Lucid dreams are less frequent and sometimes rare, but not without a purpose.

D. Purpose
- Nightmares primarily to unsettle or frighten, tempered sometimes they can also be forms of purging or testing of the soul - a trial.
- Luminous dreams bring signs, warnings, consolations, etc. and there is no mistaking who is concerned ot that there is a messages or messages.
- They may not make sense at the time, but in time they will as a piece of a puzzle.

E. Understaning them
- If not clear, discuss them with a close friend or spiritual advisor, and then put aside. If they are important enough then life will lead us to encounter them again.
- There will be an understanding in all of them, so we need not worry about them presently, they will be made clear.

F. How is God involved?
- If you are Christian your guardian angel and God will not let you be tested beyond His grace or protection.


Questions to ask yourself about Lucid Dreams to help classify them and find a purpose:

Note: you will already know if it is Lucid or not, there is no question. If there is, then it is not a Lucid dream.

1. Was I at peace?
2. Who was in my dream?
3. What happened to the first person, second person...?
4. How did I interact with them?
5. How is God or his goodness relflected in this?
6. How was I being tested (if at all)?
7. What part doesn't make sense to me now?
8. What part make perfect sense?

[dreamer_86]

wow, that would be freaky about seeing the light on. A few weeks ago, I'd
taken a nap in the afternoon for a few hours, it was light out, I wasn't used
to it being spring yet and being light later, so I'd assumed it was the same t
ime only in the morning and that I'd slept straight through the evening and n
ight and didn't set the alarm, I was panicking like 'I gotta get moving' but I
didn't feel completely rested so I was worried I'd crash halfway through the
day and feel sluggish, I realized it was a little lighter than it was at that tim-
e in the morning, so I turned on the satellite, anything that had an accurat-
e digital clock to make sure what time it really was. I can't tell you how re-
leived I was when I realized that it was p.m and not a.m. usually I have a r-
eally good internal clock but it was like I'd completely lost my entire sense of
the time continnum around me. I was a tad shaken until I got to a clock, t-
hat normally doesn't happen to me.