The different ways that I have screwed up my lucid dreams.
sloth:
Time with Dream Views: Four weeks
Number of lucid dreams attempted since joining: Four.
Number of lucid dreams experienced since joining: Four.
Number of lucid dreams ruined for stupid, stupid reasons since joining: Three.
HORRIBLE FAILURE #1: The first one was nice and clear. I fell right into the dream, and found myself in a wooden room. Everything in the room was wooden. I thought it looked nice, but I didn't like it inside. I wanted to go outside, so I walked through the various rooms, looking for the door. I found it down a hallway. Outside was forestland. The forest reminded me of home, and I instantly became homesick. I got sad, and bailed out...
HORRIBLE FAILURE #2: Again, I fell right into this dream. Everything was nice and clear. This was one of those powerful dreams that you don't get everyday.
I was standing on a hill. I looked around, and I could see for miles. I was impressed with my dreamscape, and stood, admiring it for several minutes.
On one side of this hill was a very large cliff. At the bottom of the cliff, I saw a small twinkle.
I figured that my dream was trying to show me something, so I turned around, and dove backward off the cliff, letting myself fall until I was nearing the bottom, where I took control, and glided down softly. I usually have fun with my flying.
The twinkle was a doorway. It occurred to me somehow that on the other side of the doorway was waking consciousness... the real world. I thought, 'Wow, if I go through this door, and enter actual consciousness, while in a dream, I will be able to move things with my mind when I am awake AS WELL as when I am asleep.
I stepped through the door to waking consciousness, and well... woke up. :roll:
HORRIBLE FAILURE #3: Happened yesterday morning.
This one started out blurry. I was dissappointed, but decided to try to make the best out of this dream. I started working on making things clear, and I was losing the battle. I knew that I was looking at a rug, but it was terribly blurry. I tried commanding everything to become clear, but it didn't work at all. I became frustrated.
Suddenly, I heard my girlfriend yell out, 'Brent!'
To which I responded, 'What?'
'Are you ready to open up the dog?'
'No. I'm trying to lucid dream right now. Leave me alone.'
I became so angry about being interrupted that I woke up, to find my girlfriend comfortably asleep beside me.
...Open up the dog!? WTF!?
...and what made me think that I was acutally shouting across the house while in a dream?
I'll keep this post updated with all of my latest FAILURES.
-sloth
**edit: First few lines. Number of lucid dreams attempted SINCE JOINING.