I did 4 reality checks and told myself it was a lucid dream but i didn't attain lucidity, why?

**may** · 06-12-2012 12:53 PM

I had this dream exactly a month ago: i was with some friends complaining about something while i was trying to push my fingers through my hand and one of them told me it was a lucid dream, so i tried to convert a cardboard picture of an ice cream into a real ice cream and it worked. Later in the dream i was in my room, i looked at my watch and the numbers were changing (the hour was something like 30:57). I moved a little and tried to jump to see if i floated back, but i didn't. Then i looked myself in the mirror and the colors of the dream changed to sepia and black & white. I tried to control them and they returned to their normal color. Then i told myself "this is a lucid dream". I remember the door was open and i looked outside, my mother was standing in her room looking at me. When i woke up i asked her if that happened and she said no. I did 4 reality checks, my friend told me it was a lucid dream and i told it to myself later, why didn't it work? I'm so frustrated because it's the closest i've been to a lucid dream and i have been trying for more than 2 months!

**Highlander** · 06-12-2012 01:34 PM

Hello & welcome,

Originally Posted by may

...one of them told me it was a lucid dream, so i tried to convert a cardboard picture of an ice cream into a real ice cream and it worked.

You DID have a lucid dream, otherwise you wouldn't have done the ice cream trick!

Originally Posted by may

...Then i looked myself in the mirror and the colors of the dream changed to sepia and black & white. I tried to control them and they returned to their normal color. Then i told myself "this is a lucid dream".

You had very good awareness as well. Also you have to remember that all dreams in nature are quite fluid. You have different levels of contol in a lucid dream. You don't always get full contol in them in my experience.

Often I get it where the RC check does not work myself. I even had a lucid dream (like yours) where I must have lost control and started stabbing myself in the left hand with a black ballpoint pen, trying to get out of the dream like an RC gone wrong.

Try exploring all your senses when you find yourself in a LD again to see if that helps. The other thing to watch out for is over excitement and false awakening moments - those can be confusing and frustrating.

Good luck!

**may** · 06-12-2012 02:03 PM

Thank you for answering, i'm so happy to know it was a lucid dream! I thought it didn't work for me and i was useless.

**Highlander** · 06-12-2012 02:19 PM

No problem! Glad I could help!

I do agree LD can be frustrating at times. No LD I find is the same. For example the last LD (See my DJ entry for yesterday - http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/robstar/ - June 11, etc.) I had probably less than 5 to 10 seconds of lucidity. So a very short one in my case.

Carry on your practice and/or favourite technique - there are plenty of tips and tutorials on here to help.

Regards.

**gab** · 06-13-2012 10:09 PM

Moved to Attaining Lucidity

**n00bf0rlyf3** · 06-15-2012 07:59 AM

Had the same sort of thing 2 nights ago, it sucks I know :\

**xdream** · 06-15-2012 11:12 AM

Given the description that you gave and the fact that you did RCs and told yourself that you were lucid dreaming, it was most likely a lucid dream. Usually when you become lucid there is a 'eureka' moment where you realise that you are in a lucid dream, So if there was not one of those it is possible that you had what I call a 'fake lucid', where you sort of know that you are in a dream but do not become lucid, act differently or even really care. I had my first lucid on the first morning after I heard of lucid dreaming. After that however I had to wait about a month for my next, then they came almost every weekend(as I slept in).