Missing the most obvious signs ever?

[rvbfreak]

Last night, I had a dream where I was climbing a rock to get onto a playground. When I got there, my friend was shooting hoops. I turned away for a second and turned back. There was a time machine. He went in it and traveled to a different time. Then like 6 other people disappeared, too. When I wrote this in my DJ at 2AM, I was half asleep and didn't think about it. When I re-visited my Dream Journal, I literally wanted to punch myself. How could I miss something so obvious? How can I learn to actually think about this in the dream? My habit of doing reality checks has no effect on doing them in the dream world...

[divinemission]

Haha, yeah this happens all the time to me, too. Although these signs can be extremely obvious, the logic center of our brain at night is shut down. So when we see these dream signs, they don't always register to us. Someone could fly, morph into an animal, and shoot fireballs at and we can still be oblivious, just going about our day like nothing happened. The trick is to perform RCs habitually so eventually we will do one in a dream. Then it will be like, "Oh, hey... I must dreaming!" This is when our logic kicks in. I haven't had too much luck yet...

[DreamLord]

I think 2:00 am may be too early for your brain to be thinking critically. I find that WBTB works really well for me after i've slept for at least 5-6 hours. I looked down at my iPad in a dream last week (after about 7 hours of sleep) and went, "Where's the cover? ... Oh, I'm dreaming!". So even innocuous things can trigger awareness given the right state of mind.

[Dreamzz]

Yeahh same thing happened to me ...the other night I had a dream that I was telling my friend how im trying to lucid dream and I keep a dream journal and a few of my dreams had him actually in it. I can't believe I didn't realize I was in a dream the entire time..another dream I was with my cousin witch I rarely ever see and I was following him on a bike and he was just making ramps out of thin air..they were just appearing right infront of me and I didn't think..am I dreaming? I don't understand this?? How come some people can notice the smallest odd things in there dreams and become lucid?

[Playlaughdream]

Hi, this happens to me every night. I still can´t do reality checks as a habbit but dream signs work a little beter for me. They appear in many dreams as an old house I lived in the past or as morphing dream characters. As for reality checks, I think they suceed not for the check itself but only for suspecting it could be a dream, should be enough to trigger lucidity. Let´s keep trying.

[Angusaurus]

I think 2:00 am may be too early for your brain to be thinking critically. I find that WBTB works really well for me after i've slept for at least 5-6 hours. Yeah, WBTB is great for thinking logicaly. Some links that might help: http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/all-da...gyoshi-113253/ http://www.dreamviews.com/f19/tips-l...ng-life-85009/

[Erii]

haha I know what you mean. A few nights ago I had a dream I was trying to shoot my friend, I shot him 2 times, one in the mouth and he didn't die. I had another dream a few nights ago horses were running around my school. I guess you gotta take the good with the bad... the best thing to do to stop this is to do RCs at weird things in waking life

[Puffin]

DON'T habitually perform RCs! If you do that, you might end up doing a bajillion RCs in your dream without actually considering the fact that you could be asleep. So, you really have to think about whether you're dreaming or not. After all, you can't really know for sure until you do an RC. Think about it - waking life feels real, but so do dreams... So how can you really tell at face value? If you think you're awake right now because you can read all this text, and because the keyboard feels real, consider the fact that when we're dreaming, our mind makes us believe we can understand everything... Until we wake up. The best thing to do is try plugging your nose and seeing if you can breathe, because there's two different results - you can't breathe if you're awake, and you can breathe if you're asleep. Or, try pushing your finger through your palm. An RC, basically. Hope that helps! c:

[Awesomeness]

I regularly do reality checks. But I don't use them to become lucid, at least not directly. What I DO use them for is to maintain my sense of awareness of whether I am dreaming or not. When I reality check I stop and really ponder whether I could be dreaming right now. I look at my surroundings. Do they make sense outside the context of what is happening right now? I look at the world around me. Is it clear? Do my hands look... like normal hands do? Doing these are more like exercises for me rather than something that directly makes me realize I'm dreaming. It makes it so that the "Am I dreaming?" thought kicks in when something odd happens, or just randomly.

[rvbfreak]

DON'TSo, you really have to think about whether you're dreaming or not. After all, you can't really know for sure until you do an RC. Think about it - waking life feels real, but so do dreams... So how can you really tell at face value? From remembering my dreams, I know these facts: there is never wind, it is always quiet/nearly silent (although i never take it into consideration), and 2/3 of the dreams I have had in the past month contain two of my closest friends. How can I 'program' my mind to think and notice these things.