Am I dreaming? No. But I really was dreaming....

[donjuandominguez]

Has this happenned to you? You are dreaming and you ask yourself if you are dreaming and you say no. But you really are dreaming and you don't realize it until you wake up. Several nights in a row this has happenned to me. Last night I was in Lotus position meditating when I realized I was flying down the highway going really fast. I laughed and said, I am dreaming. But for some reason I did not get 100% lucid. The night before, I saw a clock on the wall and I did a state test. When I looked back it was a store window. I said I am dreaming. But I did not get 100% lucid. This is really odd. I know I am dreaming and I tell myself I am dreaming but I only get into the pre-lucid phase. If anybody knows how to deal with this, advice would be appreciated. Juan

[gvoigt21]

yea man i hate that, sometimes i do reality checks and get results that would suggest that i'm dreaming, but i either make excuses as to whats going on or i don't seem to fully appreciate that i am in a dream and dont become completely lucid. This is just a suggestion that i am also in the process of trying, but i am practicing making my checks more elaborate and involved so that in a dream they may have a greater impact. Instead of just looking doing a reality check on a clock, i now follow it with other tests like reading, object function, or even seeing if i can fly...of course only when im alone. But im hoping that by practicing a series of checks in a row, visual and physical, if i can get that habit stuck in my brain, that when i do them in succesion in a dream, it will reinforce things stronger and might "wake" me up.

[Entity]

That's happened to me once. I had a dream that I was in a car, the sky was a weird color. The dashboard of the car had a clock on it. I looked at the clock, then I looked at it again a few seconds later. The clock moved forward five minutes. I didn't think I was dreaming. It was annoying when I woke up.

[Vors]

I remember one time when I was dreaming and something really wild was happening, I forget what. I kept telling myself, "There has got to be a dream". So I did reality checks and none of them worked. I was completely 50/50 on whether or not I was dreaming. I remember doing checks on more than one clock, and every one showed a different time whenever I looked. And I remember very clearly thinking, "Damn, how am I supposed to do reality checks if all my clocks are broken???". Woke up without ever deciding if I was dreaming.

[OpheliaBlue]

Originally posted by Vors And I remember very clearly thinking, \"Damn, how am I supposed to do reality checks if all my clocks are broken???\". lmao! I guess my advice would be to modify your reality checks. Sticking your finger through your palm or some other impossible feat should do the trick.

[Greg]

Weird... I was actually coming onto the forum to say the exact same thing! It happened to me last night!! I "woke up" and walked into my bathroom, looked out the window and saw New York city. Obviously, this was weird because I live in a small town and I thought, "Better do a reality check" so I plugged my nose and held my hand over my mouth to see if I could still breathe and I could!! I actually said, "I am dreaming" but then when I tried to control things, or, at least gain some kind of lucidity... it didn't work. I think my dream was actually less clear than just a normal dream! What do I do??

[Alca]

yes it happened and its really frustrating... but i guess its better than nothing

[captain ahab]

I almost had my first lucid dream last night, but the reality checks failed me. I was dreaming that i was riding a bike and i realized that i had 2 helmets on, which made me sure i was dreaming. But when i did a reality check, trying to stick my finger through the palm of my other hand, it didnt work. then i tried to fly and it didnt work. i couldnt think of any other reality checks at the time, so i forgot that i was dreaming.

[Torcher]

Try to touch something, actually visually and "physically" touching an object, I've noticed, brings you into the dream like nothing else. After that, try flying to test what reality you're in. Once flight is possible it's your game from there on. -Torch