Recently I looked up in the sky and saw the sun had taken the form of a giant football. I thought “that’s strange” and then laughed and explained it away as a hilarious mod within a video game! In waking life we do this all the time but usually with less silly and illogical explanations. For example you may see a man dressed as a clown walking down the street and think “That‘s weird?” but conclude “He must be going to a fancy dress party?” We go about our lives believing there’s a perfectly good explanation for everything that happens and we do the same in dreams. The dream doesn’t help as it reacts and builds upon your explanations and will often change to fit your belief. One time I was doing a text change RC on a billboard, I looked away and back again and saw the text and imagery was changing, indicating I was dreaming but then I thought “wait, is this one of those digital billboards that change?” and sure enough the dream used this belief and turned it into what I mistook it to be and I didn’t become lucid. You have to be vigilant and look out for those moments and treat them as a dream sign, a reason to go “hang on, I just explained something away, I could be dreaming right now”. After noticing this in my football sun dream I realised how absurd it was and became lucid.