Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

Excerpts from recent non-LDs:

I was teaching a DC how to look for dream signs. Didn't pick up on any myself.

I was trying to help Rai become lucid.

I've had heaps of dreams about virtual worlds lately, either being in a game or an unexplained virtual reality. I keep missing them!

I keep missing the fact that the setting of my dreams are settings I have never been to in waking life, old strange layed out homes that I don't recognize and somehow does not tell me THIS IS A DREAM!!!

That or having my personal defense knife and it seems to go through the sheath and never stay in place correctly which is impossible, or things that keep changing colors....if that does not ring a bell I do not know what will that I was dreaming.

Running in slow motion like a rabbit, analyzing my movements and thinking to my self: "Now I understand why it's so difficult to run like this. It doesn't happen in my dreams where I use to move faster this way..."

I had a false awakening from a LD last night and spent ages trying to record the dream, but everything kept going wrong and preventing me from writing it. Not only did I miss the opportunity to become lucid again, but by the time I woke up for real, I had lost a lot of the memories from the actual LD. D'oh!

I kept trying to arrange a make-out session with my cute girlfriend, but everybody kept interfering.
I was eventually in a rowboat in a body of water trying to get close enough to shore so my girlfriend (who was on shore) could join me for a make-out rowboat ride, but when she climbed in the boat so did my guy buddy.

My girlfriend sighed and said "I'll just do some dream yoga poses (haha!) while you show him the sights".

I then started rowing us around and said "don't worry if the dream collapses, after all I started it."

lol I had a dream about lying on my bed trying to have a lucid dream....

I'm tired of every time getting to do impossible things that definitively cannot be done during WL thinking to myself, "there it is, finally I got to do it (finally it happened), and what was it that cannot be done in WL but just in dreams!? Ha!...

I often almost attain lucidity. By that I mean that I am semi-aware that I am dreaming. So I'll be running away from someone and think "Why don't I just make them fall into a hole" or something, or I'll be escaping from someone and leap up onto a rooftop, then into a tree but the branches are thin, I'm too heavy, so I think "I'll just make myself lighter". That last one actually got me lucid, but I am often in this state of semi-awareness in my dreams since I decided to start focusing on dreaming and lucids.

I went into the supposedly very old ruin of a house, opened a door of a hanging cabinet, and bird-droppings and a little bit of grain came out from the bottom of a small closed wooden box in it. Then followed a living budgie (I had to look that up) in blue/white. It came dropping out as well and flew away, with me wondering how it could possibly have survived in there so long.

And then I thought, if this would be a dream, then I would prefer it dead. But mummified, not rotten as a vivid after-thought.
Then I came to wonder why I think, I would like that better.

This seems to have been asking too much, and that was it then with this short relapse into reflective thought...

I was doing an induction technique and when I noticed sign's that indicate I'm in a dream I thought I was focusing too hard and I decided to call the attempt a failure... in the dream.

I'm taking advanced chemistry next year, so I dreamt that I had this asshole of a teacher for biology taught the class...

Why won't I realize that I'd never have to see her again. /:

Discussed my lucid dreaming background including start date and count with three hipsters

Seeing dream signs multiple times (flying, controlling fire, running at an EXTREMELY slow pace, lights not illuminating room properly, having four limbs, teleporting, seeing people I haven't seen in ages randomly, seeing fictional characters etc...)

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

I was talking to Xanous on DV, and he was telling me about different lucid powers that I should try while I was dreaming, which I tested and reported back the results.

It wasn't completely missed, as I was obviously aware that I was dreaming at the time, but there wasn't a moment of realisation where I became fully lucid and took control.

Major Facepalm: I see a guy wearing an outlandish bright outfit that is an advertisement for Aurora and iWinks (the lucid dreaming mask which is still in production). I talk to him and find out he works there! He's a manager. I tell him that "I just had my 46th!" (lucid dream, expecting him to completely understand what I'm saying). My wife comes up and I make the "shhhh!" sign to him so he won't give me away. We sit together and talk about REM detection, remee, my remee settings, then I'm in his place and he offers to program my remee with unofficial settings on his homemade remee programming circuit board....

The Ol' SC is really trying to help me out here, I gotta start cooperating!

DOH DOH DOH!

The other night I had a dream about going to a railroad and putting coins on the track and seeing the train smash them. I brought a bunch of coins, and a train was approaching, so I was searching my pocket for a .10 Ruble coin, but couldn't find it! Then I was like, "Oh, that's right, I already lost that one on the railroad in real life". So instead I put a 70 (??) cent coin on the tracks. And yes, the day before that dream I did put a .10 Ruble coin on train tracks in real life, and lost it. I find it really funny how I actually implied that I wasn't in waking life, yet still didn't realize that I was dreaming.. Fail..

This morning i dreamed about being at my old highschool with a friend, walking around and looking at old class rooms of mine and telling old stories of my time there for some kids.

After i while i notice that my shoes are gone from my feets, and instead of doing RC i get confused and my friend ask me how they look like. I tell him which brand, style and color then i go looking for them and suddenly that dream is over.

The worst part is that i woke up earlier that morning to get in SP and induce a LD, that almost went good except that some coughs from the room next to mine made me loose focus so i gave up and changed sleeping position and fell to sleep the normal way

But i had two places in my mind meanwhile in SP and the HC, a beach and the freakin school i later dreamed about!

Edit:little bit dissapointed i went back to sleep and managed to get a dild that gave me a short but sweet LD. Lucky me

Sure this is pretty typical, but when I first heard about watch checks I applied it in a dream, then managed to convince myself that the numbers changed because I'd pressed a button and changed the timezone.

Normally the nose-RC works very fine for me, but I remember two incidents where I waked up with the urgent need for a facepalm.

In one dream I was doing the nose-RC and I surprisingly found out that I could breathe through my closed nose. Mmmmmmh. I did it again, same result. And then it hit me: Oh yes, that's because I got a cold a few days ago. That's why I can breathe trough my closed nose. What else? *Aaaargh!* In that moment it was absolutely logical for me.

The other dream I got one step further. I did the nose-RC, could breathe through my nose and realised: I'm dreaming! I got lucid and was that fascinated of breathing through my closed nose that I did it again and again. I totally forgot what I wanted to do and completly absorbed I lost my lucidity....*noooooooooo!*

Woke up (false awakening), did the nose RC. I could breathe but didn't realise that I was dreaming (I was just like 'oh that's normal').
This happened to me quite a few times now, anyone who has got tips for this?

Wow, this is getting even more stupid.. Today I had a dream where me and a few friends were sitting at a table, eating. I looked under the table and there was a paper saying "Don't forget to RC every day". And then I said out loud: "Oh no! I didn't RC even ONCE today!" And so I closed my eyes (IDK why) and did the finger-through-palm RC. I moved my finger really quickly though, and my friend told me that that's not the right way to do it, she angled my finger a bit differently and I did the RC again slower, but it worked and the finger didn't go through! Then I also did the nose RC, and I was able to breathe.. but I thought I just didn't clamp it enough. Then I pinched it harder, but still was able to breathe.. so I just decided to PRETEND that I can't so that my friends don't think I failed the RC! Doh! After that I wanted to ask my friends how they knew about RCs and if they had lucid dreams before, but the dream ended.

After that I had a fake awakening, did the finger-through-hand RC and again it worked even though it shouldn't have! So basically, I had 3 chances to become lucid last night, and screwed up all of them lol.. Well, even so, I feel like I'm making some progress, and am close to getting lucid again.

Originally Posted by Martijn0162

Woke up (false awakening), did the nose RC. I could breathe but didn't realise that I was dreaming (I was just like 'oh that's normal').
This happened to me quite a few times now, anyone who has got tips for this?

Heh, I guess I might need to work on this too.

Few days ago I wanted to kick myself too. In dream I wrote a post in facebook about lucid dreaming - I wrote that lucid dreaming is amazing, that everyone should try it, bla bla bla but didn't even think of doing a RC. Well, mistakes makes us wiser, while writing this post I did 2 RC.

I can only say that I deserve the tweedledee-of-the-month award for this one;
Instead of explaining what I did, I think I'll just give a word for word account of what I said to myself in a dream quite recently.

"I really wanna jump across these buildings, but if I fall... Well, it's a dream since I'm napping right now, so I suppose I'll just wake up if I screw up."

Didn't go lucid that whole dream. Somebody give me my trophy.

Originally Posted by Realumpco

Didn't go lucid that whole dream. Somebody give me my trophy.

You Win!!