Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

I try to add 2+2. It equals 5. I then push my fingers through my hand and it works. I don't become lucid at all though. I just go along with the dream.

The sun was setting in the north but I thought that it's normal in winter.

While running: "How easy I can run, just like in a dream!"

I dreamt this morning that I was at concert. Irl I have tickets to one of my favorite bands in a few months; it occurred to me in the dream that hey, wait a second, this concert hasn't happened yet. Am I dreaming? I quickly tried an RC. My fingers didn't go through my hand, I tried numerous times, expecting them to go through. I thought, and this could totally be a dream. But I guess not...

I woke up so mad at myself...

A couple nights ago I had a dream with waves in it (which have been a reoccurring dream sign) and I thought to myself wow another dream with waves In it. I guess that was good enough for me

Originally Posted by Hedwig

I dreamt this morning that I was at concert. [snip]
I woke up so mad at myself...

That's like the time I did a nose-plug check -successfully!- a dozen times on the way to class... and concluded that my nose must be broken.
I, too, woke rather mad at myself....

1. I was writing my dreams... on the sand.

2. Dried bananas in my drawer. I was thinking that they are good for dreams (which I read on DV lately).

3. Someone shot me (pretty vivid) and I was alive.

4. I was falling asleep (in a dream) and I recall some dream about flies. Then I got out of bed and tell this to my dad (still in dream) and he said that I was talking about flies indeed and about killing them and I thought that it's impossible (because I don't kill them in RL) so it must be a dream. But I thought I'm awake anyway.

5. I got an appointment at the office on August 31 and I was counting how many months is it. I had a problem with this but I didn't get lucid. And my result was probably even correct.

6. Gravity was rotated to 90 degrees.

So much not aware ;_;

I've had several instances where I acknowledge that I'm dreaming, think about dreams/lucid dreams, or tell other characters it's a dream, but never become lucid. I suspect it's a common frustration though.

Last night I thought 'this is just like a dream', looked at my hand and saw 2 thumbs, looked back and had 2 of all my fingers. Then looked at my other hand and had 2 of all the fingers on that hand. I though I must be so tired I was seeing double and set about trying to find somewhere to go and get some sleep!

Actually delighted this was my first proper reality check in dream, so not all bad.

1. I noticed the 'jump time' but didn't get lucid or anything.

2. Someone showed me his DJ. He had mental problems and I thought that he should try to fix them in LD.

3. Reading some old dream in my DJ (which never happend).

That's "my" thread...

1. I looked in my grandpa's garage and I thought that it'll pop in my dream probably (because it's so nice and vivid).

2. I was viewing photos, one of them was from my backyard and I thought that it would be a good idea to draw on it my dreams (digitally I mean) (I was thinking about thread on DV and my dreams).

3. School. The teacher was asking us about sth and I knew the answer. I told it to a person next to me. It was about LD of course, also there was sth about poppies (in my 1st lucid were red flowers).

I was trying to type commands on the computer but was having nothing but trouble typing. Then I started to wake up and seemed to notice but failed to recognize the situation was fictional and still felt I needed to do what I was trying to do IWL. I think I was even trying to force the dream imagery to come back just so I could. I slipped back into the dream, had more extremely aggravating problems, but eventually accomplished what I wanted, thinking I was doing it in waking life now, until I actually woke up.

I was looking at a map of France, trying to figure out how I would get to that amazing rollercoaster in the east of France (which doesn't exist) with public transit. The train routes were shown on the map, and along one of them 2 words were written: Lucid Dreaming.......

Last night : I tell someone : " There's a 60% percent chance I'm not dreaming right now."

As I watch four attached sea containers flying through the sky, I question, "How is that thing even flying?" Moments later, it crashes into the ground.

...yep, that happens every day. Nothing to see here, move along.

I was buying several different items in a grocery, and as as I where about to pack it all down. The cashier told me what the cost of it would be, and as I heard it. I could at once tell that that price have to be wrong, it is just to cheap for all this. And right after that thought, I looked down at my groceries and "realized" Oh yeah it's mostly rice that I bought. And then I casualy scrape thogheter my groceries that was now turned mainly into loose rice.

My grandmother was tube skiing behind the boat. As the boat decelerated she coasted up to me. I said "grandmother, you look sooo young! You didn't look that young even when I was a little boy!" I felt her cheek in amazment. Part of me thought I should do a reality check, but then I forgot about it. (grandmother died in 1970).

I once had an absolutely weird dream about eating salted and crunchy pieces of a skull, while witnessing an alien who could go back in time with the exception of his heart which kept pounding in the "normal" direction of time...
I thought to myself: "This sh.t is totally f.cked up. Like, totally... I'm sure this is a dream. But that's fine by me, it's very entertaining."

As I an messing with a malfunctioning light switch, “Oh well, the lights are not supposed to work in a dream anyway.”

One time my face was melting off and my eyeballs were sinking down into the sockets. I looked like a dehydrated zombie. I should have realized it at that point, but I think I was freaking out too much. No more zombie movies for me.

The other day I dreamt that I was sitting at my computer and the clock said like 2:39, yet it was fully bright outside (the way clocks work here, in the afternoon it would have said 14:39 not 2:39, 2:39 would have had to make it 2:39AM). I was like "How can it possibly be this bright at 2:39AM? That's impossible". You'd have thought this would have been my cue to perform a reality check, but after much looking back at the clock, and then back outside, I simply decided that it must be 2:39PM and the clock just displays differently now.

Sure enough when I woke up, I noticed the time thing as a potential dream sign - and immediately went back to sleep. It happened again, and I was lucky enough to catch it this time, and perform a reality check, after which I became lucid.

In my dream my friend told me that he is LDing right now and he was so happy and excited so I congratulated him.

That of course didn't make me lucid

One was weird. I was involved in a car chase with some gang members I had just been getting into it with. Along the ride I realized it was a dream, but instead of getting the rush of awareness like I've known in the past... It was like time stopped for a minute and an "on screen menu" popped up asking if I wanted to be lucid. I realized that the dream was getting unstable and I was about to wake up, and decided that saying yes would wake me up immediately while saying no would let it last a little longer, so I said no. The dream did indeed end shortly after. So that's actually a little confusing. I guess I was less deciding about whether I'd be lucid (in the definition of knowing it's a dream) and more deciding whether I wanted the awareness and control that can come with it, which I think I correctly concluded that I wouldn't be able to stabilize at that time.

One was mildly infuriating. I was at work, and things were completely off. I was going to lunch and checked the time on my phone which I clearly read as 11:78. So I assumed my phone had glitched and I started counting past 60 to figure out how many minutes after 12 it was.

I started LD'ing to deal with nightmares... had a nightmare last night in which almost all the scariness came from the fact that nothing seemed to make sense and I couldn't figure out how I'd got into the situation to start with. Apparently that didn't prompt me to do any reality checks though...