I Have The Weirdest Dreams Ever...

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Basically, I have the most bizzare, wacky, weird, wild, twisted dreams ever with a fair level of vividness, but I don't become lucid. I mean, last night I dreamed that I was serving this ghost, and had to do some really strange stuff for her, but I still didn't think of it as out of the ordinary. I also don't seem to have a dream sign. Does anyone have ideas about how I can make myself notice stuff like this when I'm dreaming?

[dreamship]

Pay attention. Just having good recall isn't enough. It is important, but not enough. I just woke up from a dream where I lived in this strange apartment and had a bunch of people over none of them I know in reality. They were all dream made up people yet I did not notice this because I was not thinking critically. I was just there, doing whatever and not thinking at all. Kind of like we all do in life. Asking questions, thinking for yourself, and all that is not only important in life but in dreams also or you are just on automatic and just do what it is you have been trained to do in ordinary life. So, record your dreams. Read them and revisualize them and see yourself noticing all the strange things and saying 'this isn't real because' or 'this isn't possible because' 'this is a dream and I will recognize that it is a dream when I am dreaming again.' My dreams used to be like yours in that I'd be talking to movie or book characters and having adventures that had no basis in reality and that was what helped me become lucid. The fact that you aren't even though your dreams are very obvious is that you are not paying attention. It is just a matter of time and effort. Don't stress over it or you'll just make it worse. Now my dreams, as I am very much older now, are more 'normal' and regular world like so it is harder to become lucid and I think I am not having as much interest in lucidity any more because once you have walked through walls, flown, it becomes boring and also can cause problems in your real life if you want your dream world more than you want your real life. I am an extreemist and could not work a balance between having a fufilling real life and dream life. I hope that it will not be the same for you. I guess the key is balance, effort, and relaxation and non-judgement. Might try meditation to train your brain and yoga. I've been trying them though I haven't been lucid in a while.

[Shadow Dreamer]

I have weird dreams aswell One was two days ago, i ran away from home and went to live on a houseboat just up the road from where i normaly live(except i live in the mountains) i had to jump from the dock to the boat and i didn't make it and fell into the water where i ended up swiming with a dolphin

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Thank you for the advice, Dreamship. I will definatly put your sugestions to use. Shadowdreamer, that is exactly the kind of dream I have; afterwords I'm like; what the keff? how could I not realize that that was a dream? I just read the "arouse your brain" post, and it seems to be talking about this. Once again, thanks for the advice.

[Folqueraine]

Maybe the problem is that you are also super open minded ? I know it's been one for me. I'm very oftenly visited by ghosts in my dreams, but I dont realise it's a dream because I do believe that they exist and have had some experiences, in real life, that, I think, were encounters with departed souls. What I've been trying to do is become hyper rational and to doubt everything, even things that before were very normal too me. I do RCs much more oftenly, for instance if I have a feeling of déjà vu, if suddenly everything seems too quiet, or if the tea towel is not where I expected it to be... The things is really to doubt all things that are out of your routine and to do RCs all the time.