Thread: Have you ever falsely thought you were dreaming and acted a fool?

Didn't happened to me, i usually have dreaming 'feeling' when i am lucid which didn't happened to me IWL. But if you have problems with that i'd suggest using different and/or multiple reality checks, so you wont mistake it.

Not yet, but this is apparently a deep-seated fear of mine. I have a lot of almost-lucid dreams where I miss the opportunity to become fully lucid because of this. For example, I'll be nervous about trying to walk through a wall because if I'm by chance not actually dreaming, everyone around me would see me faceplant into it. I hope this will go away once I'm at the point where I consistently remember do my reality checks and stabilization while lucid.

No, but I have talked about "that cool dream I had last night" in dreams a few times.

Haha no, never had that happen in waking life at least. When I have particularly bad luck though I question myself, like when a rock busted my car's windshield 4 days after I bought it I can tell you I did several reality checks when I got to work. One time in a dream though I just absolutely KNEW I was dreaming and I tried to take flight out the front door of my dad's house. It didn't work and he was watching me, I decided I wasn't dreaming and felt stupid. Then right after that a giant eagle landed in the doorway and I attacked it with a knife, so go figure.

Originally Posted by amiana

Not yet, but this is apparently a deep-seated fear of mine. I have a lot of almost-lucid dreams where I miss the opportunity to become fully lucid because of this. For example, I'll be nervous about trying to walk through a wall because if I'm by chance not actually dreaming, everyone around me would see me faceplant into it. I hope this will go away once I'm at the point where I consistently remember do my reality checks and stabilization while lucid.

Hey that sounds like me I typically repeat RC several times when I'm in LD before I start doing anything.

Originally Posted by Spunk

Have you ever falsely thought you were dreaming and acted a fool?

No. The cues of waking life are clear and plentiful enough that it ought never be confused with dreaming. On top of that, as your LD'ing skills improve and your experience mounts, it becomes even easier to discern the dream from waking-life reality, and vise-versa.

Yes, asking yourself if this is a dream during a RC is a good thing, but that is far different than actually assuming that reality is a dream (especially after doing the RC!). If you ever reach that point, get help.

I felt tempted to jump off the cliff once... I work as a Psychic Medium and I am up there all day long in addition of meditation, etc... to the point of Waking life feeling like a joke and unreal... so wanted to jump because it felt very dreamy, but since I knew I had not done a reality check, I felt it was a good time to do one, and well, I was awake and I am typing this, so nothing happened.

No. The closest I have come to that is I will often have a memory, and it can be as simple as buying some groceries, but it turns out the memory wasn't real, it was a dream.
Also, one time I played Assassins creed for so long, I found myself looking at buildings and sizing up the handholds (for climbing!), but that isn't really what you were asking, its just another mundane way to lose touch with reality a little bit.

Once or twice... once I tried to use telekinesis and ppl just looked at me like wtf are you doing? I was just like nevermind...
Second is we were out to drink and we lost one friend (3 of us went out), then as soon as we lost it it got real dark, it started dreaming and.... in short the one who stayed with me thought that I'm a little crazy.

Stephen LaBerge wrote in EWOLD "Probably the only people who should not experiment with lucid dreaming are those who are unable to distinguish between waking reality and constructions of their imagination." suggesting that most of us can distinguish it. I think it is way more likely to incorrectly identify a dream as waking because while we are dreaming we do not have the full access to our reason, and in the befuddled dreamy state may decide that something is realistic when it is not. However, the inverse is much less likely to happen unless someone has a mental issue or is on drugs or other judgement inhibiting substances, I think. Most of us, when awake and sane and sober have enough reason that we can figure out conclusively that we are most likely awake. Unless those people who believe that all life is a dream are correct, in which case most of us are delusional most of the time while we think we are awake.

I'm kind of leaning toward the 'all life is a dream' notion myself, actually. So many old spiritual texts discuss this (mainly eastern ones), and I have experienced a few spiritual-type occurrences myself which have indicated this may be. Its not to say that I believe my actions in this world don't have consequences, more that when in a dream I realise my actions have consequences so I act accordingly as my life will be affected by them (in the dream), but when I wake up I realise they were inconsequential. So, I tend to feel that, although I attempt to live my life with clarity and awareness, I am waiting to 'wake up', and that really, the things in this life that we believe matter, like social status, cars, careers, physical appearances etc, really don't matter at all. Oh, and deep down, secretly I am waiting for my 'super powers' to kick in fully !

In fact death is like waking up. No matter what comes after death, you can't take anything with you from this life. It all comes down to the experiences you had during your life not what you accquired. At least we have no scientific hint yet to believe you could take something with you
There are many parallels between real life and dreams. In some way I like that idea. It takes the edge of lifes seriousness and makes it more fun and easy.

'Tis not something I've ever experienced. I like to make sure I'm definitely dreaming before I go about my lucid business though, so that may have something to do with it

Originally Posted by Sageous

No. The cues of waking life are clear and plentiful enough that it ought never be confused with dreaming. On top of that, as your LD'ing skills improve and your experience mounts, it becomes even easier to discern the dream from waking-life reality, and vise-versa.

Yes, asking yourself if this is a dream during a RC is a good thing, but that is far different than actually assuming that reality is a dream (especially after doing the RC!). If you ever reach that point, get help.

Can you expand on this a bit more? The part about never being confused because the cues of waking life are clear and plentiful.