Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

I don't know, if it really qualifies, since in the end I did get lucid, but it's an amazing example for what one is all able to explain away or have explained away by helpful DCs:

Veery strange. What I remember is being in a huge flat, very high ceilings, and there stood a maybe three/four meter big faun about. He didn't do something at first, was just there, like a huge devil, but in brown and not making an evil impression at all. Rather like being some sort of prehistoric faun, megalo-faun or something.
Huge brown-furred legs...

I asked a woman, what he would be doing there and she said, he belongs to the story, we would be filming. Instantly I was also in the know, ah - riight - that faun from the story! Meanwhile I was only surprised, why he would be in this specific scene, where I thought he wouldn't be. Instant explanation from her: yeah - but the audience loves him, we put in more material with him.

Some this and that and then the faun suddenly comes up to me, and grabs me, and seems to want to take a closer look at me, lifts me up into the air, and I get really afraid all of a sudden, and loose optics, and then I get lucid.

I guess it was fear, what had eradicated all optics - I just hung in the void. Tried all the pretty tips for optics, wipe my eyes, pretend to take a hood away and put glasses on - nope. Woke up from that.

I was standing in the bathroom flicking the light on and off getting annoyed it wasn't turning on when I said "Man, if this was a lucid dream and not a normal dream I could do anything I wanted." And then continued to try to turn on the light. *Facepalm*

In a dream I remembered I want to practice MILD, so I did. In this dream MILD I visualized myself becoming lucid. The visualization started to be really vivid dream and I had full control over what I do in this visualization. So basically I had lucid dream where I did whatever I want, but I though that it was just really solid MILD visualization.

"Hmm . . . so what's on TV today? I don't even like TV. Not sure why I'm watching it. Oh, look! It's a new show! What's the title? Lucid. Hmm. I wish I was having one of those right now."

Trying to do a wild in a dream, laying still for what felt like a long time then giving up and thinking how else I can become lucid. -_-

Wow so for you guys that stuff is rare?? Damn, makes me think I will never realize I am dreaming.

Here we go:
Swimming through a kilometer long pool on the force of my own rocket propelled feet.

Riding through a completely beige world with all the human architectural landmarks turned upside down.

Witnessing a gigantic crab break the roof of a stadium, come in, and wreck complete chaos.

Jumping off of a skyscraper doing a roll after landing and standing up unharmed.

Being shown how to fly by a wolf in a place that looks like a town from coca-cola's Christmas truck commercials.

Yeah, the list keeps going. I never had a slightest bit of suspicion, not even a wonder

Fake LD in a dream

During a dream, I went to sleep and found myself falling into darkness. My dream self realized I was dreaming...but I didn't >.< I "decided" to fall faster and it made the skin on my neck and face vibrate. It felt weird and very nice. Then when I was done falling, I stood up and tried to visualize some things in the blackness. I saw the outline of shapes when the fake LD ended and I woke up in the dream I was having before. During the whole time, the dream was still controlling my thoughts and feelings, so I wasn't lucid

I had a dream in a dream. And in the dream in a dream I was almost hit by a bus and almost died. Because I was freaking out about almost dying, I reassured myself I was only dreaming but didn't gain lucidity..... meh....

I was in a bathroom, and thought to myself I have never seen myself in a dream mirror, then I noticed a mirror, so I looked into it. My face looked good but seemed to be rendered as if cut from a picture with the lasso tool in Photoshop it had no edges. I thought OK now I know what I look like in a dream mirror and continued on in the dream.

It was the end of the world, but I felt fine. Yes like the song, lol. The moon had fled away and the seas were flowing to the planet's polar regions, but I'm all just going along with it all non-lucid like.

I think I just topped my so that is what a dream mirror looks like miss

I was just on a train talking to a woman when the glare from her glasses momentarily blinded me
it was coming from the monical like lens between the other two
when I was able to see clearly I could see she had THREE EYES
I was thinking I should ask her does her third eye manufacture her melatonin or does she still also have a pineal gland
when her glasses were off and her eye was closed she looked almost normal except for the eyelashes and slits in the middle of her nose

(I was using 40Mg melatonin at the time, the dream was ultra realistic quality and she was otherwise just your typical middle aged woman)

Originally Posted by cooleymd

(I was using 40Mg melatonin at the time, the dream was ultra realistic quality and she was otherwise just your typical middle aged woman)

Is that 40mg as in FORTY MILLIGRAMS?! That's a massive dose of melatonin! 1mg is sufficient for most people as a falling asleep aid, and 3-5mg is a large dose for promoting REM rebound. Compared with what our bodies produce naturally, 1mg is already a pretty large dose, comparatively. With supplements, the notion of starting with a minimal dose and working your way up to a (reasonable) max dose. It doesn't matter that melatonin is "natural" because it's produced by the body -- anything safe in small doses can be dangerous in large doses, be careful!

Is that 40mg as in FORTY MILLIGRAMS?!

Yes I took 3 X 10mg of Melatonin 50% fast acting 50% slow release at about 12:30am after waking from 4hrs of sleep
(each also contains 10mg of B-6)
Then at about 3:00am I took one more of them

The total was 40Mg ingested, but the peak concentration was probably no more than 17Mg, the half life is really short
and the bioavalibility is not that good either (for exogoneous). Once you reach steady state you will only have about
a quarter of the long acting dose in your system. Tho the dose was probably still falling from a higher level when
I hit the last 10Mg.

Its not like I'm using it to fall asleep, It is for increasing vividness and make the dream more bizarre in hopes of
triggering.

The night before I took 50Mg (at 1:30 after 5hr of sleep) but never got back to sleep, at high doses it causes insomnia mostly

My girlfriend was robbing the bank.

I just remembered one. I was at a bookstore buying a whole bunch of books about lucid dreaming, then people I haven't seen for years were like "What if this is a dream!" and I told them "The only way to find out is to do a rc." So I put my hands up in front of my face as an example but didn't count them. -_-

I was talking to WakingNomad about a dream I (falsely) remembered sharing with him.
Then I realised we could be sharing a dream right then as we spoke!
I obviously recognised on some level that I was dreaming, but this did not spark conscious lucidity.

Tonight, I was talking to a DC. We were talking about how many LDs we had 'that night'...

I had a dog who ran away, and I see him in dreams sometimes. I decided that if I see him I will RC. I did this in a dream but it "didn't work" and I went on with my dream business. Dammit!

just a few minutes ago, i woke from a dream......
i dreamt i was explaining to some total stranger what lucid dreaming is.....and to add insult to injury as i was explaining it there was a tv in the room and a documentary came on talking about Lucid dreaming being the new craze.......

I had a dream last night where I walked out of my house to follow a DC. As I follow her, I see about three cats in the area including one which actually talks, asking me "What are you doing here?" I don't register this as weird, nor do I when the DC starts to multiply. In fact, I rationalise it as a cloning issue.

But the worst one is, later both Tim Curry and Johnny Depp show up in my house and I just accept it. Argh, should have reality checked!

Good. Only 1 more year left for this thread to survive till everything fits in place. Good.

Ooooh. I was so mad when I woke up. I was flying through a plateo area and there was a big crack I came apon. I flew down and was in my backyard. I see this big rat and I lose the ability to fly. I try twice and say

"DUH. just do what you would do in a Lucid dream. (Which is to bounce and run until I am flying.)" :/ ugh. I still hate it.

I had a dream a couple of days ago, where DV was an actual class where everyone met. They even mentioned lucid dreaming techniques. One guy was being dragged; I asked what happened, they said he violated rules and now he is banned. And their was a supervisor passing by me, and to look like a good student I did a RC, but no result.

There was a giant full moon in the sky, literally big 1/3 of the sky but i did't get lucid.
I supposed it was only getting closer to earth. :/

Originally Posted by WanderingSoul

There was a giant full moon in the sky, literally big 1/3 of the sky but i did't get lucid.
I supposed it was only getting closer to earth. :/

Ah ha! In reality it's actually getting further away little by little... but then your mind would probably make sense of it being hundreds of millions of years ago when the Moon was much closer to the earth. It's amazing what the mind will make sense of.

Mine made sense out a movie theater shootout with guns yet none of the bystanders really panicking, a guy shooting and missing me from point blank range, and me shooting him literally with my gun to his head and him being totally unaffected by it. My mind somehow made enough sense of this nonsense and I didn't become lucid

What a great thread though some of the reasons are priceless.