I believe I may have had a lucid dream, that is, a dream in which one is aware that one is dreaming.
In the dream, I was in a grocery store that was in a town that I used to live in. At one point, I saw a train
travelling along the street in front of the store. Since there was only a road out there and not RR tracks,
I thought, "I must be dreaming!".
The dream was different from that point on. I had a more definite sense of "will", an ability to move around
deliberately, in a way that I never have in normal dreams. The scenery in the dream was also more "solid",
it did not change as it does in normal dreams; I could look around and continously see the same scenery.
I walked out to the front of the store and looked at the train running off into the distance, and a also saw a strange,
but possible landscape. I was able to look around at everything, much as I can in waking consciousness. Then the
whole thing began to fade, I was aware of this too, and tried to resist it, but I then woke up.
I have had dreams like this before, but without the revelation that "I must be dreaming". Typically, I just find myself
with an amazing ability to fly, or just run really fast. But the "free will" and vivid scenery is there. And it always ends
with a fading out of the experience and waking up.
Now, did I actually have a lucid dream? Or did I just dream that I was having a lucid dream?
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