Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

This time I was being chased by zombies! Plust I was looking at myself in third person.

Originally Posted by TheOneirologist

A few nights ago, I had a dream where I was on a wooden staircase in a forest. For some reason I believed that if you said the same thing once for every step, it'd come true. You can guess what I was saying:
I will have a lucid dream. I will have a lucid dream. I will have a lucid dream.

Whoops, I just posted something in the wrong thread! Fixed!

Just last night, I dreamed that I was attending a class for lucid dreaming. I was doing a test, with questions about lucid dreaming, and I didn't bother doing a RC. >.<
Not the first time I've done that either lol. I can recall a couple times where I was reading about lucid dreaming, in a dream, and then woke up and did a major facepalm. Has to be one of the most frustrating things ever.

I was attempting a WILD. In the middle of what felt like SP, I swallowed. Bam back to being awake not to happy but O well. Just for kicks I decided to do a reality check. I slowly reached up and grabbed my nose. I could still breath. I was like sweet, but then I realized that I grabbed my nose through my bed sheet....... therefor making it to where I could breath........ I woke up the next morning and thinking, WAIT A D^&M MINUTE!!!!!!

Heh lots of these sound familiar! The other night I was having a really vivid dream and had noticed that everything was a bit odd. I spent a while wondering why, before concluding that I must be drunk. The most annoying thing was that I was really pleased with myself for not getting distracted and managing to figure it out.. until I woke up.

Hehe, last night i had a dream where alot of shadow creatures were spawning around me. didn't get lucid... lol

My nose pinch reality check failed about three times, and I ignored it. My finger went through my hand, and I think I ignored that!

This must be the most stupid.

I had a dream I was looking at this very forum and talking to someone about lucid dreaming.

Fortunately, I became lucid later on in the dream, but I am still kicking myself till this very day for this one!

Originally Posted by Samsara

This must be the most stupid.

I had a dream I was looking at this very forum and talking to someone about lucid dreaming.

Fortunately, I became lucid later on in the dream, but I am still kicking myself till this ver day for this one!

It's really not that stupid if the dream eventually became lucid. What I think is really stupid is when people literally declare that they're dreaming in a dream and don't go lucid. Read some of the posts; it happens!

I had a big conversation with my teacher about lucid dreaming. At one point, I said, "I'm still trying.".

This was before I started lucid dreaming. I felt so stupid. >.<

Part of one of my dreams from the night before last:

I'm walking around outside, on a street lined with trees, houses, and small, old apartment buildings. It looks like it might be in Louisville, because most of the buildings seem to be kind of old, and a lot of them are made of brick. A woman with long hair (or possibly a veil or shawl over her head? I'm not sure) and long, flowing clothes is on the street, going along it by floating about a foot or so off the ground. I think, Oh, she must be dreaming.

...Yeah. Evidently, I now take for granted that flying/floating is normal when one is dreaming... and yet, it still completely failed to occur to me that I was dreaming.

In another non-lucid dream last night (DJ entry), I had the following thought: With all these people in the house for the sleepover and all this excitement, my sleep cycle is getting completely thrown off. I'm not going to get a chance to try to lucid dream tonight. That's too bad. And yet, I still somehow managed not to realize that I was dreaming at this point. I laughed when I remembered this thought upon waking up.

I had in-dream SP for the billionth time last night and thought, "this isn't going to give me a lucid dream". Darn failed WILD attempts...

Last night I had a dream within in a dream, one of those whole deals, and in the second layer dream I saw myself in third person going lucid. But I missed the cue and didn't actually go lucid at all. It was bizarre because I was watching myself create and interact "lucidly" in the second dream, but of course I had no conscience control.

A couple of nights ago, I was talking with a guy about lucid dreaming. He didn't know anything about the subject. I was focused on showing him what he can do in order to know if he's dreaming. I was 100% sure I was not dreaming:

me: "How do you know that you're not dreaming right now?"
DC:
me: "Pinch your nose and try to breathe! If you can't, you're not dreaming, as simple as that! Do it right now!"
DC: He touches his nose too fast and puts the same face again...
me: "Come on! Do it like this..." I pinch my nose and I can breathe!!!
DC: He stares at me as I am a weirdo...
me: I think "I have done it wrong", then I do it again pressing hard enough this time... I can easily breathe...
DC:
me: I rise my hand and there's no Reality sign... dream fades away while I was still ?

I probably had one of the biggest possible misses for a lucid dream last night...

A dream with a cool plot is going on, I'm all into it, then I realize I'm dreaming. I do a nose-pinch RC and I think, "Well, I need to keep my focus on this dream (as if it were very important)," and I lost lucidity to be able to concentrate on my dream.

That was worthy of a face-palm.

Originally Posted by Snowboy

.../A dream with a cool plot is going on, I'm all into it, then I realize I'm dreaming/...

Something similar happenned to me...
I just hand checked to see it's a dream, then I decided to follow the dream to avoid waking me up. I asked myself for what I was doing. I supose I remembered because that's all I can remember

I dreamed I was talking to a student of mine who seemed to be into me. He was holding my hand and asking about extracurricular activities in the school. I asked him if he'd heard of lucid dreams. I said something like, "when you have a lucid dream, you're like a god, you can do anything. You can become invisible, fly, tongue kiss your teacher..." And I never realized I was dreaming! Bah humbug!

In my dream in was going to turn the light off in a room. But the light didn't go off and I was like "why isn't it working!?". When I woke up, yeah you know the feeling of just messed being lucid

yet another silly one last night. started running and said to myself 'hmm this is going well, in fact it feels so good it almost feels like when i run in a dream and start floating'

i like to think its just my naive optimism that made me dismiss it in the hope that i was finally doing it in real life. any tips on not being such an idiot ?

once i was looking at my hand ( before sleep ) and i said : the next time i see this hand ill be dreaming .
after i fall a sleep ,, i was looking to my hand and thinking : hmm it remind me of sthng i cant remember what it is ,, and suddenly a screen opened from my hand ,, and i didn't become lucid .

Originally Posted by Puffin

I had in-dream SP for the billionth time last night and thought, "this isn't going to give me a lucid dream". Darn failed WILD attempts...

yeah about that... if im ever in a lucid, or near lucid and i just stop and focus on my senses, alot of the time i will start to buzz like in sp. at first it would just scare me or wake me up but ive been getting used to it and enjoy it now although i still come out of the dream pretty quick. thing is as im already in a lucid, where would i be if i let the sp take over? awake or perhaps into some kind of obe style projection? or is it just like dream practice for getting used to going into sp from being awake?

I don't think this is really in topic but it kinda counts I think.

So I was having this dream, everything looked fine, I was walking along a river with a friend. Then things got creepier and creepier, and I knew it was turning into a nightmare, and we were walking on tons of birds skeletons... I knew what was gonna happen, so I told my friend "let's go away". As we turn around, I see this hideos bird-like monster coming to us screaming...

... and of course, what was my first reaction? "Fuck this shit, I'm waking the hell up!"

I woke up and facepalmed...

last night in a dream i attached a zipline harness to telephone wires, and as i was going down i thought," wow this really feels like flying, ill have to remember to do something like this in my next lucid."