Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

I was having a random dream one night when I suddenly identified some dream signs and realised that I was indeed, dreaming. I got so excited because of this that I made my heart beat really fast. When I felt the dream fading away, I thought 'NO! DONT WAKE UP!' which off course, made my dream fade away even faster. Then I remembered, spinning around in an LD prevents you from waking up, so I tried it, and it started working, the dream began stabilizing! So I started spinning faster.... but here is where I made my mistake.... I am used to closing my eyes when I spin.... and this is what I did in my dream... and POOF! No more dream! Just blackness, which I woke up from a few seconds afterwards.

This past week I'd been working on my own RC where I'd check my arm for a scar I got when I was about 10 or something (I thought maybe in my dreams it would be gone). So the other night in my dream, me and a friend were hanging out in this bar area and there was a huge clock in front of us with all these flashy lights around it... looked really odd. The hands on the clock were spinning around faster than normal, and it was actually my friend who pointed this out to me and suggested maybe we are dreaming. Well my RC failed me cuz I could feel my scar on my arm, so I immediately accepted that this was reality that was it.
I've been told though that feelings are easier to replicate in a dream that visuals, so I'll start restricting my RC to only looking at the scar to see if it's there, see if that helps.

I just did the whole "light switch doesn't work" thing. In a car. The dome lights in our car didn't work, and I just assumed they were broken. I completely failed to remember that that was a dream sign. When I was recalling my dream when awake, I thought it was pretty funny.

Last night, I had something close to a nightmare. I was running down an outdoor hallway of my church from some kind of monster (for some reason, I recalled it as a demonic teddy bear...that's dreams for ya). I ran up to my father (after praying that I would wake up) and asked him how to get out of the dream. After he told me to run into a wooden wall, but before I did it, I thought, "I can worry about lucidity later. Right now I have to wake up!" I then charged into the wooden wall...and ended up in a false awakening. In which I didn't go lucid.

I have a suspicion that I may have been at least semi-lucid there for a moment, but I can't imagine myself skipping a lucid dream for anything, especially since I only have 2-3 per month. How saddening. I always envision myself standing up to any dangers that face me in dreams because they aren't real, but as soon as they do, I run like a coward!

This morning I had a false awakening. I was laying in my bed and looked down the side of my bed next to my wall, and I saw a bunch of dirt clumps all over my carpet with some grass on it. I figured I must have put it there so I continued to clean it up. Then I got out of my bed and walked into my family room where I layed down on my couch. I then fell asleep and the woke up for real hahah. I should I have realized I was dreaming right when I saw a bunch of dirt on the side of my bed.

Recently I had this dream where I was in school, a friend was showing his dream journal, full of all his lucid dreams and I was just like wow, so you're doing it as well...
I also vaguely remember me doing the pinch your nose RC, when I could still breathe I just dismissed it as obviously not doing right.

Last night I had a dream where in my front lawn I found a strange donkey with a strange dog's head. I tried to get on it's back for it to carry me around, but he flung me off and then spoke something to me. I have no idea how I missed it.

My first and only part lucid i remember oiling britney spears then i realized hey i might be dreaming. i should do something more useful than having sex. thats all i could think and remember. i didnt finish either..

Several years ago, granted this was before I knew about lucid dreaming, I had a dream where I could fly. I was excited beyond belief because it was more amazing than I could have imagined. Excited, I turned to my dad and asked him "Is this a dream?!" Wondering how it could be possible in real life, but and the same time willing for everything that I was that it was real. He told me "No." That was all the questioning I did. "Awesome!" Needless to say, I was very disappointed when I woke up.

Okay, so this was from a dream a few days ago..

I'm getting ready to sleep, and I have eyes and a mouth on my left index finger. Apparently it's my pet.
It eventually closes it's eyes and goes to sleep.. good night finger pet thing...
I later wash my hands, being careful not to get soap on my pets face.

The other night I had a dream that I was flying through space wearing a bikini, on a motorcycle.
Like, seriously?

i had a dream last night that was completely normal when i looked out the window at a house that looked exactly as it looks in real life and i remember saying "this looks like a dream scene" and my friends ignored me so i said it twice more but my friends wouldn't listen

hmmm well i have faint memories of kissing this girl several times and I have never kissed her so I assume they are traces of forgotten dreams

My GPS was malfunctioning, so I stopped and asked an older lady at a yard sale how to get where I wanted to go. She couldn't give me any directions, but gave be a couple bags of homemade chocolate candies and wished me luck on my journey.

My teacher was talking to me so I ulled out my earphones. He talked again and I couldn't hear so I pulled them out for a second time, then i heard him faintly. I became lucid after hearing him talk though.

Hundreds. But I can't think of many. One that comes to mind is I looked in the mirror and all my teeth were worn down to the gums. I accepted that as a sad fact and moved on with my non lucid dream...

Excerpted from my DJ entry for the night before last:

I'm at House #1, and for some reason, I have to sleep lying across the foot of my parents' bed. I wake up there from a dream [that I don't remember now]. My dad is walking through the master bedroom and complaining that my sneezing has been keeping him awake. I sit up on one side of the bed and say aloud to both of my parents, “Yes, as a matter of fact, I have been sneezing! Here in the real world!” Meaning, as opposed to the dream I've just been having. I then think, but don't say, If this turns out not to be the real world, I'll be embarrassed. [ I completely forgot that there's this thing called a reality check...]

Yeah. I was kind of embarrassed when I woke up for real.

I where so stupid

Type: non-lucid.
Vivid: medium.

Notes Dream Lucid

This is a dream about a guy on youtube that makes minecraft videos.

I am standing in a line with alot of people.(Like how you stand in the military.)In front of us stands the youtuber.(That I told you about earlier.)He is teaching us about flying. He told us that we should position our palms pointing at the ground. I where thinking that i could use this technique in a dream when I becomes lucid(Why didn't i do a RC?!)I started tho fly around the minecraft world that I where standing in. One of my classmates told me that she where going to find spawn. I followed AK(the youtuber.)to a room made of iron blocks. Whe where going to use our hands to destroy some obsidian blocks. It worked pretty well, I destroyed it in two seconds. One of my classmates couldn't fly so we where going to use the minerals from the obsidian block to make her fly.(wtf?)

I woke up in my bed and started to write this down

PS: Sorry for bad english.

Once I was dreaming about being in class and we were all discussing ow I could prolong my dream. Wow I'm dumb lol

I had just begun to question a dream when i got woken up.. i remember i was wearing pajamas and so was the girl i was talking to and we were in a mcdonalds... right as i was thinking "wait.. what the hell?" my friends mom woke us up..

I RC after going through a doorway but I really haven't gone through any. Another one was when I was at a college and the sun was faded and the picture of the dream was hazy so I asked a guy about it. He said it was pretty strange and I was perplexed and I never RCed even though I RC when things are strange.

I set down a personal dream task to accomplish: flying. Last night, I dreamt I was standing on my driveway and thought, "Hmm, I'd better put some practise in." I then commenced to practise flying in a number of ways with varied success.
Completely unbelieveable how I managed to miss that one.

MFW this thread is still active after 5 years.

Hmm well I was running around a few nights ago in a dream trying to destroy these four boxes that were apparently holding me back from shared/lucid dreaming. I think I even said something in the dream about the boxes being what was keeping me from being lucid at that moment!