So close.. yet so far away :(

**benzilla04** · 05-08-2012 09:38 AM

I've been trying to have an LD for about now

I've been doing reality checks and keeping a dream journal

Last night, I remember dreaming and I was at my old school with friends. I can remember our teacher coming up to us and giving us a test.. I openeded it to find it was about dreaming and lucidity..

I even asked the teacher "Do you know what Lucid dreaming is?"

Unfortunatly I never done a Reality Check in my dream.. I was kicking myself this morning

I was so close to having an LD

Anyone else have any scenarios like this of their own?

**littlezoe** · 05-08-2012 01:42 PM

It's nothing unusual when someone's awareness is not high enough.

If you practise more, things like this will make you lucid more often.

**Raspberry** · 05-08-2012 01:45 PM

Try MILD, I think it's rather underestimated, but it's really effective. It'll reinforce LDing into your subconscious and you'll catch these moments easier.

**Rubens** · 05-08-2012 06:24 PM

It happened to me some times, in a dream of mine I looked at my hands like doing an RC but stopped in the middle of it and didn't get lucid oO

**Ladusence** · 05-09-2012 01:01 AM

Aah, I know how irritating that can be

I had this somewhere when I began lucid dreaming too, spend a lot of time on these forums before I went to sleep.
Its in my dream journal here:Bicycle duplication.
So I basically did something, somebody thought I was crazy but I told him it could only be done in dreams, without realizing it was a dream in which I found myself.

**roman67** · 05-09-2012 08:11 AM

Sometimes, it also happens with me. I do RC like pinching my nose to know about the dream.

**smouse** · 05-09-2012 08:15 AM

ive done the nose pinch rc, realized in the dream that it worked and got excited, but then didnt clue in to the fact that I was lucid. It pissed me off soooo bad haha. Dont worry about it though, like 2 weeks after that I got my first lucid dream and it was awesome

so your almost there, any night now.

**vinny** · 08-07-2012 06:34 AM

You understand your close yet? You just have to keep working your way up. Trust me i was easy to jump the boat and say ld /sp is fake. just out of frustration.
Never lose sight of the gift that is in store.

**PaschaR** · 08-07-2012 06:58 AM

Last night i had 1,i was talking to my cousin then i told him that i was dreaming so i ran outside and tried to fly,he was smoking a blunt and laughing,then i start believing it was real life again so that killed it

**Koorza** · 08-07-2012 04:46 PM

Something similiar happened to me about a week ago.

I was talking with my friend and the conversation went like this :

Friend: Dude, you know you're dreaming right?
Me: Yeah i know.

Didn't get lucid :/

**skypie** · 08-07-2012 05:42 PM

i was also so close

looked at my hands..i remember they were blurry and i started examing the scene...

i was so upset at myself once i woke up

so close fuuuuu

**HatsuneMiku01** · 08-07-2012 06:13 PM

ive had a dream somewhat like that once where i was looking for binaural beats on an iphone so i could try it that night and i didnt even realize i was dreaming...