 So one of the most confusing comments or emails I hear is somebody saying I think I had a lucid dream But I only realized it when I woke up. Now firstly, that is wrong. You can't have a lucid dream Without realizing that it's a lucid dream. Otherwise, it's not a lucid dream I know this sounds a bit like a paradox, but it's true You can't wake up and then suddenly remember oh that was a lucid dream because you should know you should know while You're in the dream. It's sort of like if you play a video game for two hours, for example You don't then put the game down and then say oh, I accidentally played a video game You know you were playing a game from the right from the moment you started playing it because you decided to play and you were in control of the character and you picked up the controller and you decided consciously or You know, you at least realized I'm actually playing a game now It's the same thing with lucid dreaming you would realize that is the whole point of it You the realization that you are dreaming and the awareness and the sporadic Sort of critical thinking that happens in a dreaming state and have spontaneous lucidity where you suddenly realize you're dreaming But it is exactly that you realize you're dreaming You can't then have a normal dream wake up and then suddenly remember that you were lucid because that doesn't make sense You can't have an accidental lucid dream where you didn't realize it was lucid until you woke up because that's just a normal dream Thanks for watching guys this video and this channel was supported by my patreon followers who are updated in the description of every video at The time of uploading please consider giving just a dollar a month to support this channel or just click the links in the description You'll find links to various lucid dreaming products articles techniques and tutorials if you did enjoy this video Please click the notification bell and subscribe and I'll see you next time Why are you still watching that you should have clicked one of my related videos by now, right or subscribed or gone onto my website or something like that