Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

i love this thread. i must have rolled over and slightly woken up, yet managed to go straight back into the dream about 20 times this morning...without truely getting lucid once

The most annoying one ever has to be...

Waking up in the morning, and remembering that you just dreamt you was giving a lecture on lucid dreaming to about 50 people, explaining the concept of dream control and reality checks etc but yet I was completely oblivious to the fact I was dreaming!

Last night I kept falling into a dream within a dream, realizing it was a dream, then waking myself back up into a FA. This happened at least 30 times and I still didn't become lucid. On my WBTB, I got up and was cussing myself. Then I went back to bed and had quite a nice DILD. My recall was quite poor.

Woke up (in a dream) and thought "i'm kinda sleepy, i'm gonna try to have a WILD" so i lay down and commence the steps to WILD. I eventually did and had a WILD within the dream I was already in. I had little dream control and eventually lost it and "woke up" back into the first dream, happy that I had a WILD but upset that it was over so quick.

This whole time of course, never realizing that I was already in a dream to begin with and didn't have to WILD. Those false awakenings are ridiculously convincing. :E

I was with some girl (in a dream) and some guy came in and started to levitate. I got angry and shouted "Oh, so you have to be better than me in everything, even lucid dreaming!"
Aaaand another dream was almost completly about me searching for information about LDing.

I've become lucid a few times and didn't care. Just continued dreaming normally. Probably reflects my attitude towards LD in reality, right now I can't bring myself to care about it.

This morning actually. In my dream, it was like a normal day, and at one point a noticed an "A" on my hand (That I actually have in real life), that reminded me to RC, I actually didn't do anything, but just said "Nope, not a dream", then I started talking to someone about something I read on DreamViews.

I took B6 and said, "This will help me become lucid." and I fell asleep in the dream.
My mom drove a black car which I have never seen before.
And lastly, I wore a funeral dress because my pet gerbil died. I don't even own a gerbil.

I've had some good (bad?) ones.

1) I'm sitting on the porch, watching ominous clouds go by. My dog tells me he'd like a weathervane on his doghouse. Then he says "Those are the freakiest cows I've ever seen." He's right, they're some sort of strange cow-hippo thing. A tornado goes by and blows them into the sky. None of this strikes me as strange.

2) I find myself in high school. I am well past high school... and am so in the dream, too, wearing suit and tie. Rather than think "This is a dream", I decide this is obviously some sort of Kafkaesque government screwup and proceed to be as annoying and disruptive as humanly possible (along with a lawyer likewise stranded in the classroom) in the hopes of putting more pressure on whomever to straighten out this intolerable situation. (Side note: if I ever need a lawyer in a lucid dream, I'm summoning that guy, mostly for humor value. Some time into the class, he hit upon the tactic of treating history class as a court proceeding and began banging his briefcase on the desk and shouting "Objection!", or would cross-examine students the teacher called on. When the DC teacher threatened to call his home, he told her to tell his wife he's a bad boy, "maybe she'll spank me". The teacher broke down and cried and I (and everyone else) practically died laughing)

3) A drunken midget tries picking a fight with me while a marching band with strange, fractal sousaphones goes by, playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in G Minor. Neither the belligerent midget, nonsensical instruments, or exceedingly strange piece for a marching band to be playing make any effect.

4) I open a dresser drawer after waking and it's full of snakes. I close it and open a different drawer and it's also full of snakes. This doesn't cause any other reaction than "where are my god**** clothes?"

Hmm I guess seeing hades in the underworld and working for him would be a pretty big tip off.

I guess that having your house full of water, having 100 little babies swimming there trying to get away from a sea monster that tries to eat them, then later, babies swim to drawer for safety and monster turns to bug, and I end up killing it with a toy hammer...

...this is pretty normal way to not notice that I am dreaming.

Just last night, I dreamed I had woken up and gone into the kitchen to make cookies. I thought, "Wait, I'm not usually up this early when I don't have school..." and did the nose test. It worked, but I was so concerned with my quest to make cookies that I never bothered to tell myself I was dreaming, and thus the opportunity was lost. I think I was also distracted by a chocolate chip-studded baked potato.

sitting a class with one of my close friends, a slut that we never talk to, a slut i occasionally use lol, but the two never talk to each other, and the class room was like 6ft x 6ft full of people painting picture with coffee as ink? wtf i must have something wrong with me lol

I dreamed of lucid dreaming, and my brother woke me up in my lucid dream, so I went back to sleep (in my dream) and had another lucid dream. But actually i was never lucid, i just recalled a normal dream

i had one just the other night where i was teaching this girl about reality checks and i was telling her that weed stops you from dreaming
still pissed about it

In one of last night's dreams, I'd put my hands in dirt and they started to itch. I put them in a stream to wash them off, and they immediately felt better. That in itself isn't that strange, but then I pulled my hands out of the water and noticed these bumps that had disappeared in real life a few days earlier. Still, the part that annoys me is that I was staring directly at the bumps on my hands and didn't bother to count my fingers.

A few days ago I felt very secure about that I would have a lucid dream that night, I just had such a good feeling about it. And then I ended up having a non-lucid dream about lucid dreaming. I dreamt that I had a very vivid and exciting lucid dream. I remember doing reality checks and getting happy about it and running around with a bunch of friends telling them how happy I was that I managed to become lucid. Later on in the dream I walked around telling people about that awesome dream I had. I was kind of disapointed when I woke up in the morning.

lol my dream last night i stole a semi drove around and cops were black/white tanks. and the cop pulled over the guy in front of me, woke up and was like... wow.......

My town was being ravaged by three giant tornadoes that were shaped like veiny dicks. I don't quite know how I didn't realize it was a dream.

I was surrounded by school friends. The teacher was showing us how to become lucid with a ruler.

God dammit.

I was in the kitchen cooking something while I was explaining what a lucid dream is to a friend of mine. The lucid dreaming discussion lasted about 15 minutes or more (dream time). When I woke up I knew I had to facepalm myself before I do any reality check lol.

Usually, to become fully lucid, I have to speak it oud loud that it is a dream.
Once I became aware that I was dreaming while a friend of mine was present. So I didn't dare to say that I was dreaming, because I feared to hurt his feelings by telling him that he wasn't real... :-D

Just the other day I caught myself in a dream debating with myself on whether I should know this was a dream! I caught this weirdness and was woken up by the strangeness of it. Woke up like "WTH?"

I have this recurring dream where I'm either back in high school or I'm taking high school classes during my college break, and I realize several weeks into the term that I've missed all of my calc classes (or science, history, etc.). I keep meaning to recognize it, but I've never become lucid from one of these dreams.