Post your Doh! moments here - near misses

**RationalMystic** · 02-20-2012 09:49 PM

Hey everyone I've just joined Dream-Views and am planning on begining regular practice tonight.
While I'm waiting for that breakthrough moment, I thought I'll share both the most annoying and enthralling WILD attempt I've to date:

I had landed my first succesful lucid dream two weeks ago but due to having to move houses just afterwards, I did'nt really get a chance to attempt another till we moved fully over. At the time, I had to share a room with my bro which didn't make things easier for me. I had inexplicitly woken up in the middle of the night and decided to take advantage and attempt a WILD. Next thing I know, I wake up sometime early in the morning which during the winter might as well be night. However something didn't quite feel right in the air. I had a strong suspicion that I was in a dream and decided to do a reality check. I pinched my nose and found I couldn't breathe. I still felt strange though and tried again. Same result. Then I tried to materialize a pineapple in my hands (don't ask lol). It failed. I still felt weird and contemplated running into my parents room waking them to see if they would react weirdly but at that point, I felt that I was being a bit daft. I decided that this must be real and went about the rest of my day normally. You can see where this is heading don't you? When I woke up in the morning, explictives strove to rush out my mouth.

So you ask, why did I find this enthralling? Because while I was questioning my reality in the false awakening, everything looked so vivid and real yet I immediatly felt a strange sense of suspicion. My own awareness was more reliable then any reality check. Many people (including me at the time) think that a reality check leads to you questioning reality but it ran the opposite way here. Thats why I consider ADA the ultimate tech for inducing LD's.
Have you had any near misses to lucidity and if so, what did you learn from them, if anything?

**Rothgar** · 02-20-2012 10:44 PM

The time I recall as being my biggest miss was when I was describing lucid dreaming to a DC and how cool of an experience it is. Never dawned on me that I was dreaming.

Oh, that reminds me of another one. I had just pulled off a bank heist and had gotten away. I remember thinking that if I had got caught and sent to jail I could always LD there.

**RationalMystic** · 02-20-2012 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Rothgar

The time I recall as being my biggest miss was when I was describing lucid dreaming to a DC and how cool of an experience it is. Never dawned on me that I was dreaming.

Oh, that reminds me of another one. I had just pulled off a bank heist and had gotten away. I remember thinking that if I had got caught and sent to jail I could always LD there.

Lol sounds like the case of the absent minded professer to me! I think the likelyhood of this happening is hightened by how often do you talk to people about lds in real life (outside the web) but thats just a theory

**ShadowOfSelf** · 02-21-2012 11:34 AM

Lol cool stories, i've had quite a few, the worst one would probably be when I believed I was in someone elses dream -__- trying to help some guy become lucid to fight of this other guy with a gun, me - "C'mon man your dreaming! you can do what you want! just tell him to go away and he will!"

Lol, I facepalmed so hard when I woke up.

**Deatheraux** · 02-24-2012 09:27 PM

My biggest fail was grabbing my nose and being able to breathe in a dream, but thinking I needed the controller to the xbox 360 to actually have a lucid...

**Zyangur** · 03-03-2012 07:21 AM

I had a really big fail a couple nights ago.

My friend was struggling really hard to do something. I was just like "It's ok we are dreaming so you can make anything happen". I kept telling him that, but we wasn't listening. I never realized I was dreaming though.

?!? Why didn't I realize I was dreaming DX.

**RacyBiscuit** · 03-03-2012 07:41 AM

Two nights ago, I was dreaming and this guy and I was talking. He was fascinated at the fact that he could morph into anything in his dreams. He closed his eyes and I could tell that he was trying to morph into something, as if I was in a dream. Never at that point in time did the thought occur in my head that I may be dreaming. *facepalm*

**lazerblade** · 03-03-2012 07:42 AM

I've had many almost lucids. Probably the most epic fail was when I jumped out of the car I was riding in, onto the back of another car that was speeding the highway(this made sense in context, like most dreams.) As I was struggling to get a good grip, I wondered if I was dreaming. Then a turn came up and the excitement of trying to keep from falling distracted me until I forgot.

**Quietus** · 03-03-2012 12:39 PM

I've had a couple of times where ive gone to RC, but had DCs distract me with the most silly and obscure things. Last time was when my sister brought me a plate of baby sweetcorn before i could look at my hands properly. Apparently this was more important to me than RCing haha

**Nexi** · 03-03-2012 03:37 PM

I had a dream where I had actually gotten on dreamviews and started looking stuff up on how to lucid dream =.= I was like "WOW really?" when I woke up...

**kevojy** · 03-03-2012 10:11 PM

I really did do a facepalm after this one.. I had a false awakening and started writing down the dream that I had just had (and I suppose I was still in) in my dream journal. I was really set on getting the entry down so I could go back to bed but the words weren't coming out right at all. I suddenly realized I was in a dream. Annoyed that I couldn't write the dream in my journal (and afraid that I'd forget it) I woke myself up so that I could do it for real. The realization that I just gave up a lucid dream to write down a regular dream (it wasn't even that great) just made me lie there for a while.. I think the title of that entry was just 'fail.'

**hassman789** · 03-03-2012 10:16 PM

Well pretty much every time I have become lucid (only slightly), when I wake up I am discouraged for a few seconds thinking "darn it was just a dream..."

**Cinder** · 03-03-2012 11:57 PM

I dreamed I was a DC clone of myself.
Damn that impostor.

**lucidboy** · 03-04-2012 01:39 AM

Ive been having a lot of dreams that my dream powers are real... I will move something with my mind and instead of realizing im dreaming i think its real and get really excited. And when i wake up i'm pissed off because its not real and because i was stupid enough to think it was and also because i wasted a lucid opportunity

**lifeinsteps** · 03-04-2012 07:21 AM

The other night I did a WBTB and went to lie down and attempt to go into a WILD.

I laid down and went through sleep paralysis, and then afterwards, opened my eyes. I got up and looked around. Everything seemed normal. Decided to do this a second time. Laid down and went through sleep paralysis. Got up. Looked around. Realized that in the prior awakening, I didn't have a desk. In-fact, half my furniture had been missing and I paid it no mind. That's what I call a "near-miss".