Missed an obvious reality check

**wesnaw** · 07-17-2012 03:49 PM

I dreamed that I woke up in my bed and I looked around for a bit, my room was pitch back and I heard my mom's exercise music coming from downstairs (my mom usually exercises very early in the morning) so I thought it was almost morning already. What was strange was when I looked out the window, I saw that it was still in the middle of the night so i thought nothing of it and went back to sleep in the dream. When I woke up in reality I went to grab my dream journal to write in but could not recall anything. I meditated a little in order to dream recall and that's when it hit me. I usually sleep with the light on and when I woke up in that dream, there was no light on in my room. (When i woke up in reality, the light was on -.-)

So do any of you guys miss easy reality checks?

**imfivebyfive** · 07-17-2012 04:30 PM

All the time. It's really frustrating.

Sometimes the dream characters will even seem to be trying to get me to 'wake up' in the dream world. They have even given me little hints, such as they start talking about lucid dreaming, and yet I still miss it.

Don't focus on the missed attempts though. It just means your on the boundary between worlds and your one step away from getting lucid.

**Supernova** · 07-17-2012 04:49 PM

Don't worry about it. Think about it this way: we all miss numerous such things every night, even if we don't remember them.

**skuthepoo** · 07-17-2012 11:25 PM

I miss so many of them, I feel your frustration! Once I've woken up, usually half of the events that occur are dream signs. That I've missed haha. Every now and then I catch them though. Persivere, I'm sure we have all been there. Happy dreaming

**isthisit** · 07-17-2012 11:33 PM

Aww man, I do it a lot! I dream of teaching other people how to lucid dream all the time. I dream of WILDing too! Just look at it as your hard work beginning to take effect in your dreams