You're awake, but slip into something like an hallucination.*
Anyways, I've always to some degree known I was dreaming. It's not something I'm that concerned with, just that I minorly or somewhat notice, and I never try to 'control' my dreams. I let 'big mind' take me places. Of course, I don't have 'nightmares', either.
* A lucid dream can begin in one of two ways. A dream-initiated lucid dream (DILD) starts as a normal dream, and the dreamer eventually concludes it is a dream, while a wake-initiated lucid dream (WILD) occurs when the dreamer goes from a normal waking state directly into a dream state, with no apparent lapse in consciousness.
The latter I think is more significant.
Consider it high comedy....sincere tragedy....whatever...don't take it personally.
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Hmm. I thought 'lucid dreaming' was like having a vision....
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