Was it a lucid dream?

[NKTH]

I've read a lot about lucid dreaming and became interested in it a couple months ago, where my friend told me about it. He tried to convice me trying it, but I was too scared of the sleep paralysis.
Then, some weeks ago, I dreamed, that i was in a small room. It was all green and i thought too myself: "Well, this is unusual." And i realized, that it had to be a dream. I did npot go through any reality checks. Suddenly everything got bright and clear it was like I started focusing on every little detail. Nothing was blurred at all like most of my dreams, but it looked real. So I went through a door on my left side and came into a very colorfull room. It reminded me of super mario. Then everything blacked out. Later i had a dream where i wandered in a super mario world. I wasn't lucid during the second dream.
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A couple of days ago I had another dream. I was in my old school with my old classmates. I talked with a girlfriend while my german teacher told us about how hard this schoolyear was going to be. Then i remembered, that i had changed school, so this had to be a dream. Everything got blurry and i found myself under my bed in my room. Still in the dream. I started counting my fingers. On the left hand, i had 5 finger and on the right i counted 8. Suddenly i felt a big power inside of me. I felt unconquerable and strong. So I lifted up my bed, which is pretty heavy and throw it to the other side of the room. I looked in my mirror and I was naked. I looked at my body which looked like a bodybuilders. It doesn't look like that normally. It kept starring on my body until everything started to get blurry. I had read about this so I layed down and tried to stay in the dream. But i woke up.

So my question is:
Were these to dreams lucid dreams? Or was i dreaming that i had a lucid dream. Because i wasn't sure if i had total control.

I have never tried to achieve lucid dreaming before, I have just read a lot about it and I am very interested in it.

[Finnick_the_dreamer]

Having control of your dream are not the same as a lucid dream. They are similar , but not the same. In my first lucid dream I didn`t have total control, but i was definently lucid. The first times it can be confusing, but i`m sure you had lucid dreams. After all, you did know you where dreaming. Congratulations!!

Hope this helped ...
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[NKTH]

Thank you!
I think I will try to achieve lucid dreaming.
It was a cool dream.

[roman67]

I can’t tell you about your second dream but in your first dream, you realized that you were dreaming and it means that was your first lucid dream. Congrats for your first lucid dream.

[alppdcjr12]

Just as in waking life, if you're paying attention to the world around you, you are being mindful, then so in a dream if you recognize the true nature of the dream you are lucid. However, given the nature of what it means to be in a dream, to be projecting a world around you as if it were real and relating to it as if it were real even though you are consciously aware it is a dream, there is a certain element of non-awareness as well. Part of the lucid dreamer's quest is finding the knowledge that the world of dreams and even the world of reality are illusions and finding just how deep that truth goes: the projections of our ego, our relationships to those projections, and even the ego itself, which is nothing without its projections, are a series of complex illusions. When you recognize you're in a dream, you're lucid--great job! That was the first big step. If you are uncertain about how lucid you are, then take some time when you realize you're dreaming to let the information sink in: this is all a dream. This body is part of the dream. This part of my mind in and of itself is relating to a reality that does not exist in the objective sense. You'll find yourself feeling powerful in proportion to your awareness!
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