A awesome way I became lucid!

**RecklessDreamer** · 02-07-2011 05:12 AM

When I fall asleep and started dreaming I was in a garage talking to a dwarf, lol I don't know why it is a dwarf I play WoW a lot I guess. But all the sudden I started saying wait somethings not right, theres something wrong, somethings very not right here. And I just screamed at him "I'm Dreaming!" and the dwarf just imminently turned his head and picked up a pole and started attacking me. But that part was like form the movie Inception. Anyways that's only the part where I became lucid. It was the mose epic way to become lucid if you are a big fan of the movie Inception!

**ElectaGuitar** · 02-07-2011 05:57 AM

Whenever I realize I'm dreaming something always attacks me too xD

**Arra** · 02-07-2011 08:55 AM

Before you even mentioned Inception it was my first thought when you said the dwarf started attacking you. I guess the parts of your subconscious that are taking your DCs seriously feel undermined when you imply they don't exist.

**GuyCecil** · 02-07-2011 05:31 PM

It's hilarious how stupid we are in dreams. Whether it's talking to dwarves or dead relatives or delivering exploding pants to a priest, only rarely do we ever suspect something is strange. "Wait a minute! *Checks number of fingers* Six fingers, yep, it's real."

**Peetee36** · 02-07-2011 06:26 PM

Well, why would we? Nothing's abnormal in dreams because we don't compare it to reality (When we're not lucid of course). Reality could in fact be extremely weird, but it isn't to us.

**GuyCecil** · 02-07-2011 09:02 PM

The part of the brain that allows for critical thinking and logical evaluation shuts down during dreams for the most part. That's why we think that having a gunfight with Dracula on the moon isn't all that unusual. I'm always amazed and amused when I wake up that I never suspected a thing.

**Arra** · 02-07-2011 10:05 PM

It seems more to me that it's the part of us that holds memory of our waking lives that mostly shuts down, not the logic part. I've seen some video that said the logic part shuts down, but my experience leads to me to question that. I can remember dreams in which I've had to solve problems, think critically, and given the situation I don't seem to have much trouble doing that. Maybe the logic part of the brain is shut down a bit, but I think the fact that we don't realize we're dreaming comes more from our loss of memory of what our normal lives are supposed to be liek.

**GuyCecil** · 02-07-2011 10:10 PM

That may be it too. In my experience I don't seem to remember much from waking life in non-lucid dreams. But I do believe we have trouble with logic in dreams, because I have rationalized having six fingers by thinking "must have grown an extra." And talking vegetables.

**Caden** · 02-11-2011 04:03 AM

I think logic and awareness are 2 different things. I can solve complex problems with perfect logic yet I am not aware enough to know that 6 fingers is not possible here, or is it? It was a dream after all.

**Peetee36** · 02-11-2011 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by Dianeva

It seems more to me that it's the part of us that holds memory of our waking lives that mostly shuts down, not the logic part. I've seen some video that said the logic part shuts down, but my experience leads to me to question that. I can remember dreams in which I've had to solve problems, think critically, and given the situation I don't seem to have much trouble doing that. Maybe the logic part of the brain is shut down a bit, but I think the fact that we don't realize we're dreaming comes more from our loss of memory of what our normal lives are supposed to be liek.

I agree with that. Since we can't remember that the normal thing is to have 5 fingers, when we have 6, our brain just sees it as what's their, and that it's completely normal.