I had a crazy lucid dream and I have a question
I won't go too deeply into the content of the dream but It was exhilarating when I woke up. I could never imagine being that "present" while in a dream. I was absolutely certain that I was awake. I had a coherent train of thought and an actionable plan, which is a far cry from the dreams I usually have where I'm anxiously dragged from one place to another for reasons I don't understand.
However, after a few weeks. I started to feel a bit stranger about the experience. I was thinking about what it actually "felt" like to be in the dream, I remember seeing color very vividly and possessing the ability to think ahead.
All the same, I strongly feel that there is a part of me that's "present" right now that was "present" in the dream, & here's the kicker: I also feel like a part of me was absent in the dream. like a baseline hum of awareness. My dream self woke up in a strange rearranged version of my apartment and didn't think twice about it. But the baseline hum in me would have immediately recognized that something was wrong, were I awake.
Additionally, when I remember the dream in my head, it now has a strange black outline around it. I remember my field of vision being full in the dream, but when I think back on it, it's like an oval surrounded by blackness.
Does anybody have any experience with this? I don't even know what to make of it, this happened to me randomly.