Talk:Pre-lucid dream

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[edit] Semantics

If a dreamer thinks he's awake, then realizes it's a dream, everything between these events is a pre-lucid dream, as it becomes lucid once the dreamer realizes he's dreaming. Yet, if he questions if he is dreaming, but doesn't reach the right conclusion, and eventually wakes up for real, it was never a lucid dream, and pre-lucid would be an inaccurate description. -24.149.203.34 (talk) 13:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Right. In this case, don't take "pre" to mean "before" in the literal sense. It just means it's the amount of lucidity that comes right ahead of a lucid dream (not necessarily in time though). Even though this might be confusing, there are 3 good reasons given in the article for using "pre-lucid" instead of "near-lucid". --BennyD (talk) 20:02, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sentence I Deleted

I feel the sentence I have deleted belongs rather in the article on lucid dreaming. In any case the criterion proposed is not fool-proof as, particularly in a Type 2 false awakening, one can seem to wake up in one’s own bedroom.Ranger2006 14:03, 11 September 2007 (UTC)