Last Night's Experience

[Dream Sailor]

Last night I had an ironic thing happen to me, with all the lucid thinking on my mind that is. I dream I am at a girls house which is a new setting to me. We get ready to watch a boat racing video with her two friends, which seemed a bit awkward at the time. Anyway, to give a few details, I had to walk out to my car in the dream. When I went through a door in the house coming back in, it looked very crappy and I broke the door when I pushed on it. The boat racing movie was starting, and I was yelling to "hang on" and not start the video yet, because I was trying to fix the door. (^None of this really has anything to do with the following besides that I wanted to tell the whole dream.) So suddenly I am sitting down after watching the movie, and one of the girls mentions something about dreaming. I bring up lucid dreaming, and they are interested. I very briefly tell them about the previous few lucid dreams I have had, and go right on to explaining a few things abut them. I remember when I was talking about the previous lucid experiences I have had, my speech was rather slow to gather and speak the details of those dreams. It was like my mind was very slow to recollect and assemble the sentence; I had to think deeply to finalize what I was saying. I do not know if it was the specific task of remembering and speaking an event during a dream, or what exactly caused my slowness at that time. Anyways, I tell them about sustaining your lucidity once you have it. I say that you can either rub your hands, or spin around. I rub my hands together very well and create some heat while telling about how it helps. I then tell them how to reality check. I use the plugged nose as an example, and at this very time even think to myself if I should do my usual reality check myself. She does it, and this moment is so real I decide that there is no need to reality check myself in which the dream finishes then after. Well that's it, nothing crazy, just the ironic fact that I was teaching someone how to lucid dream, in my own dream, yet didn't bother to check for myself.

[Burns]

Haha, one of those "Doh!" moments! We all have them too. Good job spreading the word about LDing - even if it is to your dream characters. Hey, actually, I think you were kinda close to doing the November Lucid Task - asking a dream character if you're dreaming. Try again and maybe earn yourself a badge!

[really]

Haha, cool. Sounds interesting. Strange what the mind can bring about reality at the time isn't it? I have had similar experiences... But what I am doing now, instead of doing a physical reality check, I think for a few minutes (a long reality check) to convince myself that 'this is real'.

[QwinsepiaSquared]

Funny how the mind works like that, isn't it?