Real life -> dreams?

[seriouscentaur]

So earlier yesterday I was looking around a store for some dark jeans for a midnight game of fugitives - it's like a big scale version of tag, except there's only one search group and everyone else is running around on foot trying not to get spoted - and I had a random though about how the shopping I was doing would go down in a dream, that I'd ask an employee for the pants and he'd say I should just go to the spy section or something. But here's the thing, that night I actually had the dream! Now I'm trying to figure out how to do it again, maybe even get lucid or something. Anyone had something like this happen to them?

[panta-rei]

Well... Pay more attention to life. Keep thinking that life could be a dream at that point. This will help with lucids. Throw in reality checks and other things, and you'll be golden.

[Hazel]

This seems a lot like dream incubation. I've had it to happen as well, especially if I'm thinking about it right before bed.

[seriouscentaur]

Well sort of, but it wasn't a planned thought or anything. It just randomly popped into my mind. Maybe my subconscious is trying to tell me something? Haha

[The Cusp]

Yeah, you were just psyched for your tag game and that just supercharged any thoughts related to it, making them more likely to appear in your dreams. For effective incubation you need to be able to focus on your subject and let it captivate you. Especially if you can get excited about it or charge it with any strong emotion.

[Paradox-db3]

No one really believes this stuff, but it's fun to say.

[Burned up]

So earlier yesterday I was looking around a store for some dark jeans for a midnight game of fugitives - it's like a big scale version of tag, except there's only one search group and everyone else is running around on foot trying not to get spoted - and I had a random though about how the shopping I was doing would go down in a dream, that I'd ask an employee for the pants and he'd say I should just go to the spy section or something. But here's the thing, that night I actually had the dream! Now I'm trying to figure out how to do it again, maybe even get lucid or something. Anyone had something like this happen to them? Well if you could use that as a way to get lucid then that's some result all right. I don't think there's much difference between daydream-kind-of thoughts and real dreams. Both seem to arise in the same way except that during the day we get distracted fairly quickly and the dream ends. I can't help thinking that's happened to me too. But I'm also sure that if I wanted it to happen, it wouldn't.