ever want to kick yourself?

[fourspiralarms]

well I just awoke from a dream and i've had a long dry spell.. and never really had an intentional lucid dream (meaning, intend before I go to sleep and actually have one that night). It usually happens when I catch something wierd going on and then I RC and become lucid. So anyway, I just awoke from this dream and in this dream I was outside talking to my step father and all of a sudden the sky turned from daytime to nighttime, like someone flicked the switch. I then started freaking out because I realized everything during the day was wierd and my step father suggested I was "sleepwalking". I went through that whole scenario with the impression that I was "sleepwalking" which should have cued me to become lucid. bloody hell! these dream characters always try and help you rationalize crazy scenarios! After writing in my journal I noticed there were at least 4 dreamsigns (including technology failure.. my car.) in there but for some reason they didn't cue me (the rationalization once again). Does this ever happen to any of you? I thought I remembered reading in EWOLD that lighting usually cannot change, in a later chapter I remember him saying that the limits of your dream world are only on your imagination.. meaning, if you think you can't read a clock, you can't.. but if you think you can you will ect. ect. :mad:
what would help this? keeping better/more journals? more RC's? it's been a long very slow progression thus far to become lucid at will...

[Amethyst Star]

You know, I would actually take this as solid progress! You're getting the idea of lucid dreaming or just dreaming in general into your subconscious. It's a sign that you're going in the right direction, so just keep it up.

As for me, I even tried WILDing in my dreams... twice. Neither time worked, but when I woke up I was like, "Crap!" I've also had conversations with people about LDing and never even thought that I might be dreaming at the time. Ugh, it's annoying, but don't feel alone. I even had a dream once where I took control after I said, "You know, if I were dreaming I would do this!"

-Amé

[phoenelai]

I really hate missing obvious dream signs!!!!

When you wake up you feel like such an idiot when you missed things that were way beyond obvious. Major grrrrrrr :mad:

[DuB]

Lol, this reminds me of a time when I narrowly missed becoming lucid. In the dream I was walking around naked and I started talking to some dudes who were standing around. They made some kind of joke about me being naked, and I laughed with them. Then I said, "Yeah, usually when I'm walking around naked it means I'm dreaming, but I know I'm not right now!" Then as I was walking away I was like ".....hmmm..... wait a minute...." Then I woke up immediately after realizing that I was, in fact, dreaming. :lol: