Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

I was walking down my hallway (I think I was naked) and I did the nose-plug test. because I was congested, I got a false negative for the reality check, and my dad in the dream gave me a scowl and I drifted asleep. I was pissed when I woke up Dx

Oh I had a bad one this morning. In my dream I did two reality checks that both indicated that I was not dreaming. I tried the nose plug and pushing finger through palm checks. then when I had given up the idea that I may be dreaming I saw a truck with a digital clock on it. The clock was messed up at first and them after staring at it it became clear and stayed clear for the rest of the dream. I attributed the unclear clock to me just being tired and didnt realize I REALLY WAS dreaming until I woke up.

Here is a link to my dj entry http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/wate...ming-no-26547/

Today I believe I had my very first lucid dream, but it was a dream within another dream. I didn't get much sleep last night, but I had 4 hours before I had to be up for work. So here is the dream:

Regular setting in my house, and something happened can't quite remember, but it was weird and I said maybe I'm dreaming, I did a reality check, proving I was dreaming. But here is the weird part, I said "Hey that's cool, I'm dreaming" all of a sudden I'm in my bed (in the dream) and I started feeling the sleep paralysis, and I tried to do the roll over method to enter my lucid dream (within in the dream). But I winded up waking myself up in the first dream. And then the dream carried on normally until other random weird crap happened. And I still didnt go lucid. Then my alarm went off (reality) and I finally woke up for real. Did I really get lucid without dream control, or was this something unexplainable?

Once, when I was a kid, I dreamed I was at a party and I just realized I was in a dream. I was asking people in the dream how to wake up from the dream.

well you became lucid for a short while but then had a false awakening which caused you to lose luciidity.

Some days ago I had a dream in which I was in a classroom during a psychology lesson. The lesson was about lucid dreaming and the different techniques you can use to achieve lucidity. The teacher asked if anyone knew about WILD and I explained the technique... How could I miss that rofl

@Waterknight - Is there a way to prevent false awakenings, or is there a way to gain dream control once lucid?
@Skalord - Thats halarious, sounds like my luck lol

Originally Posted by sim8899

@Waterknight - Is there a way to prevent false awakenings, or is there a way to gain dream control once lucid?
@Skalord - Thats halarious, sounds like my luck lol

Prevent false awakenings, no, but you can gain advantage of them. Each and every time you wake up, do a reality check.

Just a week or so ago, I dreamt about talking to my friend about lucid dreaming. I was explaining all this stuff about how to RC and do everything properly, and it was at least a ten minute conversation. I think I may have even RCed...when I woke up I was like "WTF, REALLY?" I was so ashamed of my fail, lol.

First post up in here and I've gotta post ways I've missed being lucid..

#1:
i went to the library and my dream to check out a book ABOUT LUCID DREAMING! I remember reading the title and seeing the picture of a man's face and everything on it. I woke up and was extremely frustrated that i did not question my dreaming.

#2:
I had a sleep over party with a few friends and we were talking about being False Awakenings and that my friend just had one! Also, I remember rationing out Lucid Pills that same day..


Don't know why I didn't catch myself.

I have a recurring dreamsign where I can't find a decent public restroom, and if I find one there is no privacy. The other night I dreamed I was in a convenience store, and I needed to use the restroom. They directed me down a hallway, at the end of which was a door leading to the women's restroom and a bench along the wall. I found out that the men's actually the space between the bench and the wall. As I squatted down trying to find privacy behind the bench and seeing the women go in and out of their real restroom next to me, I remembered my previous dreams and said angrily "who is the idiot who keeps designing men's restrooms anyway?!"

I have since gotten better at recognizing this sign. Although the other night I had one of the stupidist reactions upon becoming lucid. I have found that engaging my senses upon becoming lucid helps to solidify the dream, so when I realized the old ladies who wouldn't leave the men's restroom were a dreamsign, I immediately dropped to the floor to smell and taste it like I have done in the past in cleaner environments. Ugh.

My mistake is always the same one.

I go to bed, not intending a Lucid or anything at all, and I just relax and let my brain process the happenings of the day, and I feel heavier and I think "Ahhhh almost asleep.." and then I get the visual hallucinations, and then the audio hallucinations.. ..and they freak me out so much I jolt awake. And when I'm awake I facepalm, realizing I've missed the chance for a lucid dream. Again. And then, of course, it doesn't work when I go back to sleep because I'm so worked up (and have a painful forhead from trying to slap my derpiness out of my face)..

I could seriously kick myself for the amount of times I've missed this opportunity.

I'm playing a base guitar. It sounds like an electric acoustic guitar and it sounds awesome. I think "Wait, playing a guitar is hard" after that it sounded horrible.

The night before (recorded it in my DJ) I dreamed about everyone "hanging out" off of sky scrapper windows thinking when the buildings get tipped over they will fly to another building and be fine.

Or the time my parents in my dream where too lazy to drive, and wanted me to drive despite me having no drivers license. It was so hard to drive and felt like I was going to wreck. I finally took the SUV like vehicle into the dirt and some cop pulled another guy over and I thought I was busted and was going to jail.

There where so many stupid times where i should of became lucid but didn't. Like this morning, I was on a train full of justice league cartoon characters and when they all lined up to face a laser came out of no where and made a tunnel out of all of them. They all lived too. Just..Wow

Eaten by dinosaurs and spawned again before dinosaurs to be eaten again

I was fighting three Asian guys, things were getting pretty bloody and then I said "It's funny Cause I don't like gore in my dreams, if makes me feel weird" and then continued fighting without becoming lucid.

Last night I spent the whole dream explaining lucid dreaming to someone and failed to realize I was in a dream. ._.

I was in my bed in a dream and I had four boobs and four penises attached to my chest in an utter-like fashion I grabbed the bottom left penis then thought "oh, ok" and proceeded in going back to sleep

ok that just made me snort out my tea XD

Originally Posted by MissLucy

ok that just made me snort out my tea XD

That would have made me snort out my tea if I liked tea and was drinking tea at that moment. However, I snorted out Irn Bru instead lol.

I quite literally had a blue screen, thought "oh damn I broke it " then went back to non-lucidity

I dreamed that I realized I was dreaming, and tried to wake up, and then woke up. But I woke up still in a dream, because it was only a dream that I became lucid... It wasn't 'til the morning that I went "Hang on, didn't I dream I..... Damn."

Ah yeah, Inception just got real! I get that too XD

I have had a dream where a fish turned into a cat while I was holding it and never noticed that I could be dreaming. Also I have had cartoon characters or anime characters in my dream as actual people I could interact with and never gave it a second thought.

A few months ago, I dreamt I was reading an article on DreamViews. Most of the words were just gibberish, consisting of random letters and numbers. I also noticed the text was constantly changing, and thought to myself: "What's going on? Text is only supposed to change when you're dreaming!".

A few nights later, I had something even worse. I had a dream where I died in the end, and woke up. I noticed it was still early, so I decided to give WBTB a try. I was focusing on lucid dreaming the whole time, and as I went to bed again, I constantly repeated a mantra to myself. Suddenly, as I was still trying to fall asleep, everything around me started to fade, and I woke up. Turned out that after I died in my dream I had a false awakening. I was saying things like "In my next dream I will realize I'm dreaming", while still inside a dream.
This is the only time I remember waking up screaming.