Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

I'm so excited to try out a new toy, it's an astral projection machine! I dial in 10 minutes on the timer, watch a hypnotic light switch on and off... I feel drunk, then weightless... and then I'm floating! I fly around the room, ecstatic, yelling "THIS IS AWESOME! It's like a lucid dream, but I don't have to be asleep for this!!"



I'll show you, stupid machine, I don't need you.

Man this is a wicked tough dry spell. Let me count the ways just last night:

+ I'm playing with a toy light-saber, I think this would be a great tool to help incubate a lucid dream about having a light-saber.

+ DC tells me I have chapped lips. I notice then smacking them together that they feel a bit puffy. I look in a mirror and see I have like 4 hair-roller-sponges pressed together instead of lips. "Yeah, they're pretty chapped" I say........!!!!!!!!!

+ We're driving by a supermarket then all of a sudden we're parking our car inside a small office. I'm embarrassed by this. The car is all of a sudden the size of a child's toy push car. I start pushing the car (which is still really heavy) around, to get it out of the office, all the while telling the office workers how my first car was really small and I like really small cars.

There was a good one right when I started lucid dreaming a few years ago, or at least practicing lucid dreaming. Lucidity was written everywhere, literally. I'm not typing figuratively. It was all over the damn place. I woke up and just banged my head against the wall a couple of times, probably in attempt to knock myself out so I can redeem myself, but to no avail.

Some days back, I had been concentrating on recognizing a dream-sign - our old house - if it shows up - then I´m dreaming.
It is ripped down in real life - and it used to be at the other end of Germany, too.
I was always sad about it being gone.
So next dream - I stand in front of that house - and think, whoa - it looks soo real - thank the heavens - I am not only dreaming of it again.
Looking at the fine-grained texture of the outside wall - didn´t come to my mind to for example look at my hands instead..

Originally Posted by StephL

Some days back, I had been concentrating on recognizing a dream-sign - our old house - if it shows up - then I´m dreaming.
It is ripped down in real life - and it used to be at the other end of Germany, too.
I was always sad about it being gone.
So next dream - I stand in front of that house - and think, whoa - it looks soo real - thank the heavens - I am not only dreaming of it again.
Looking at the fine-grained texture of the outside wall - didn´t come to my mind to for example look at my hands instead..

A sort of similar problem I've been having: I transferred to doing virtual school this schoolyear and ever since Summer break started I've been constantly having dreams about transferring back or being in public school (not really sure what it means). I keep telling myself that I'll do a reality check whenever I'm in school but I never think about it when I dream about it--I think I've actually transferred back to public school.

Usually with dreamsigns I learn to RC when I see them because I see them in waking life and form the habit then--but I never see school, because I don't go to it, so I'm trying to think of a workaround.

Originally Posted by StephL

Some days back, I had been concentrating on recognizing a dream-sign - our old house - if it shows up - then I´m dreaming.
It is ripped down in real life - and it used to be at the other end of Germany, too.
I was always sad about it being gone.
So next dream - I stand in front of that house - and think, whoa - it looks soo real - thank the heavens - I am not only dreaming of it again.
Looking at the fine-grained texture of the outside wall - didn´t come to my mind to for example look at my hands instead..

Appearing in and around my childhood home is my #1 dreamsign. I vigorously incorporated this into visualizations/mantras last month and got a handful of lucids. I need to keep it up. It annoys me every time I appear there and don't get lucid, because I live very far away from it and almost never go there now.

I dreamt I got so drunk at a party I was really spazzing on the floor instead of being where I thought I was literally thinking it is all a dream without actually thinking the entire thing was one

Once I checked DV and i looked over something that said what if this is all a dream. I skip over these usually but I looked around and commented on how its not a dream because everything shined perfectly in this pitch black environment

Once, I was actually lucid and it felt so real, I said to myself; 'let's go lucid now'
And bang, I woke up.
LDception

I had a dream about meeting my crush. I didn't know what her voice was like in real life, so I thought "Sweet! Now that I've actually heard her voice, I'll be able to put it in my lucid dreams!" and I didn't bother doing a reality check. The really weird thing, though, is that once I actually did meet her in real life, her voice was very, very similar, if not exactly like it was in the dream.

Saw a third of my house missing, like cut off and asked my dad what the fuck was going on, to which he replied "One third of the house is missing" (Like.. no shit)
Didn't suspect a thing

Last night I dreamed I was in Spain. I walked down a street and was looking at some dark blue rainclouds. A streetsign caught my eye, saying "Lucid Dream Avn". I thought it was odd, but I never came to realize I was dreaming. Damnit brains

Originally Posted by wouterjongeneel

Last night I dreamed I was in Spain. I walked down a street and was looking at some dark blue rainclouds. A streetsign caught my eye, saying "Lucid Dream Avn". I thought it was odd, but I never came to realize I was dreaming. Damnit brains

That's really good though! That means your getting more and more aware, the idea of lucid dreaming is now growing in your subconscious and with time it will improve and seeing signs like that will make it a breeze for you to become lucid :3. I was actually really excited when something like that happened to me, it's progress!

In the toilet.I peeing but my pee went upward and still i felt that pee is "normal".

I said "This is too realistic to be a dream." ...

A few times I've talked about LDing with dream characters...

Missed dreamsigns.

I just remembered all those dreams where I needed to pee and then crazy things happened. An asian guy was attacking me with a squirt gun while at a urinal, filthy pipes were too close to urinals, a gang entered the bathroom, strangely designed toilets, etc.

(middle of the night waking, dozing off while doing recall before voice recording), I dream hitting the button on my voice recorder app to record my recall, I realize this is not reality and wake myself up to record....doh!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

(middle of the night waking, dozing off while doing recall before voice recording), I dream hitting the button on my voice recorder app to record my recall, I realize this is not reality and wake myself up to record....doh!

*Face Palm* That is really unfortunate.

This is before I knew about lucid dreaming, but I crashed my car into a fence completely destroying the front end. I told myself not to panic because I was dreaming and just mindlessly walked away.

One of those multiple facepalm dreams:

+ staring up at a 30-foot tall wooden wardrobe. "Man that's big". D'oh!

+ riding in an open-topped car and noticing the swirling mist of a ghost following and thinking "oh crap a ghost". D'oh!

+ banishing said ghost when it materializes on the seat of the car next to me as a middle aged woman by making the sign of the cross on it and putting a cross on its forehead and saying "get out of here!" D'oh!

+ walking around in the ghost's son's house who bought it with the $40,000 he got from selling the dead mother's Olympic bronze medal in swimming (from 1976 or 1934). D'oh!

+ looking in to the cavernous "living room" which is a swimming pool (the mother after all was an Olympic swimmer!) and seeing a cat in a cat swimming suit doing the backstroke. All I can think to do is look at the cat suit. D'oh!

+ walking to the end of the room and watching 3 men doing office work in an alcove (one is Will Ferrell) where all the office equipment is under the level of the water, and thinking "it must be hard to do office work with paper under water". A voice answers "it takes a hard man to do a hard job." D'oh!

I had a dream recently where I was losing the dream, I suppose about to wake up.. mind you I am totally just normal dreaming, but for some reason my dream self knew I was about to wake up so I rubbed my hand together to make the dream more vivid. Which worked!! and it prolonged the dream. It was awesome to get a clearer vision of the dream after doing this totally in dream mode! After I woke up I was kicking myself for not becoming lucid and recognizing I was dreaming

Recently I was dreaming that some people where chasing me because they wanted to interrogate and torture me. I was hiding and trying to call a friend, but I couldn't dial the numbers correctly (which is one of my dream signs) ... so by the 3rd or 4th attempt I recognized the oddity and thought "this must be a dream!! (looking at my trembling image in a mirror*) yeahh it's a dream, but the fear it's so f#$%&* real!!" and instead of flying away or something like that I lost lucidity because of the fear and fell into the dream again

The other night I had a dream where I was in another person's dream, chasing them around and trying to convince them that they were dreaming. I didn't realize that I was the one dreaming until I woke up. Then I /facepalm'd

Yes it is. I've nearly had two lucid dreams this past January. I had a lot of free time because of an Injury, so I decided why not practice Lucid Dreaming? I realized that I was dreaming, but once I became too excited and then the other time it was the alarm clock. One of the times I realized that I should be sleeping of all things! Everything got so vivid but then I woke up each time. My sister can do it on average twice a months and she always remembers her dreams. I'm still trying to figure out what I am doing wrong.

I've had this happen to me twice in the past couple months or so.

First: I have an app that beeps randomly, making me do a reality check. I showed it to my cousin. In my dream, he had gotten the app and it was beeping. I got mad at him and told him to turn it off. He told me I shouldn't be mad at him since I was the one who had told him about it, and then he proceeded to count his fingers. I looked at my hands for a second, then was like "duh, this is not a dream, now turn it off!"

Second: in my dream, I was checking Dream Views. And the forum was a Word document.

I did every reality check their was, did not work.

So I summoned my subconscious, worked...

but still did not become lucid. .-.

It happened again.
Sunbathing with my mother on the balcony of the house, she sold and which is ripped down.
I turn to her and said - you know - for a while I have only dreamt of this house a whole lot. But since we are really here, and all the time (I dream of it a lot) - how can that be?

She said - yeah - she sold the ground, and didn't tell me, that it would still stand - behind the two big apartment houses, I had seen, when I had been coming here to look.
Somehow I was sceptic, because we didn't own that much ground and there was a hill in it - but I thought - ah - that's the earth from where they built the new ones.
And then of course I got into a tirade how maximally unfair this would have been of my mother, to for years have this secret, and I can only dream of it.
While she sunbaths etc.

But it was muuch closer than just dreaming of it! Mantraing on it starts to work maybe?