Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

A couple nights ago my brain was trying very hard to give me clues in my dreams and I was completely oblivious the whole time:

- My husband telling me I shouldn't have a lucid dream on July 4 because I'll sleep too heavily when fireworks are going off

- Driving in a car on the freeway in a red sports car (which I don't have). I notice that the acceleration feels very wrong, very dreamlike. "But this is really strange because I'm NOT dreaming!" I think to myself. "I shouldn't do a reality check because I'm driving and that wouldn't be safe." I finally convince myself to do a RC and it doesn't work because I'm so sure I'm not dreaming.

-Showing two DC's my dream journal and explaining to them how I use it to help me lucid dream. I show them a few entries and it doesn't look right, my handwriting is a lot larger than it is in reality and certain letters are darker than others. I tell them that my dream journal is just looking strange at the moment and my entries are not usually that messy.

-My husband is DJing and starts playing I the Mighty's "The Dreamer" (a song that was posted here on DV). He's playing around with the beginning of the song, so it keeps repeating "hey lucid dreamer... hey lucid dreamer... hey lucid dreamer" Yep, I'm still oblivious.

ALL IN ONE NIGHT. Go me! I've got lucidity on the brain, at least.

Meh, i get lucid at least 1 time each night no exception, but there are at least 3 other dreams where i lose it. Example: I am driving a plane on the street. Suddenly, an alarm goes off and i look down, just to see a bunch of garbled things like dreamlucidcheck etc, did not do anything, then the plane went through a mountain and i thought "todays technology is weird, now planes can go through stuff!" while seeing signs with a red cross, the crossed thing being the world Reality "They must have horribly misspelled the word in the cross!". This just happened. I wonder why sometimes it's impossible to pick up lucidity. :panic:

Last night I dreamt i was at an A Capella performance, and my watch started beeping. I was trying to make it stop for about 5 minutes. I ended up chucking it across the aud before anyone looked at me like i was a jerk for letting my alarm go off. I continued watching the performance for about ten minutes. When i woke up I realized it was my watch in my closet going off like it does every morning. I had left my closet open but the watch was covered in cloths. the closet is usually open so its not loud enough for me to hear while dreaming, and im too lazy to turn the alarm off and i dont really know how. So i just let it ring until it stops everyday. But the way it was placed last night made it the perfect volume to notify me that im dreaming without waking me up. I wonder if I can my my actual alarm clock do this as a dream sign. hmm...

Last week I had 2 dreams like that in a night.

I was in front of a sink, except it was missing a basin. I did a few RCs, but I wouldn't accept that it was a dream.

In the second I saw a man who I thought was part of a supernatural dream team of sorts, but he wouldn't realize that he was "dreaming". I decide to help him, so I go up to him and do a nose plug RC and say "I can't breath, so I'm asleep!"

This morning I was having a dream that should have been lucid but wasn't quite there. I was flying around and was at least conscious enough that I remembered that I really wanted a flying carpet. I suspect if my dream would have gone on longer I would have become lucid but my girlfriend called me just before I began my search for a flying carpet.

This morning I did an RC by simply looking at my hands for about a second or two without bothering to count my fingers.

Sucks!

The stupidest, most moronic things I've failed to notice in a dream since starting my attempts at lucidity:

Flying Fish
Hamster morphing alligator-like jaws
Being a different creature entirely (I dreamed I was an orc, instead of being human. Someone tell me *why* that didn't make me do an RC?!)

My favourite missed attempt was, I think, my brain trolling the heck outta me. My reality check is the finger-through-the-palm trick, which I do whenever I pass through a doorway.

I had this dream where I was walking down a path that was just hundreds of doorways, and every time I passed through one I would put my finger through my palm and look at it. Sure enough, my finger came out the other side. But instead of becoming lucid, I pretty much saw it as a normal occurrence and kept doing it hundreds of times.

When I woke up I was so pissed off at my brain.

I THINK I may have just screwed up a WILD, but I might have been imagining it so I don't know.
My mother woke me up early turning off the light in my room and then just left me to sleep, so I decided to try a WILD seeing as it was roughly 6 hours after I went to sleep and that was supposed to be a good time or something.
So I lay down really still and counted my breaths and just relaxed in general. After a little while, all of a sudden my hands started to be a bit tingly and I had a really weird falling sensation in my chest and stomach. It was like... a rush, like they were collapsing in or something.
Maybe I was just imagining it or something, but it seemed to me like what was supposed to happen when you start to enter a lucid dream (I may be wrong though, so correct me if I am) but I got such a shock from it that I immediately opened my eyes and sat up, and the rushing feeling left me :(.

Another annoying thing that happened, was that in one dream, I KNEW I was dreaming, but it still didn't go, like, properly lucid. It was still foggy and I wasn't in control of the actions, it was like I was witnessing myself doing things rather than actually doing them, as usual. Ugh.

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Originally Posted by TooCoolForNames

I THINK I may have just screwed up a WILD, but I might have been imagining it so I don't know.
My mother woke me up early turning off the light in my room and then just left me to sleep, so I decided to try a WILD seeing as it was roughly 6 hours after I went to sleep and that was supposed to be a good time or something.
So I lay down really still and counted my breaths and just relaxed in general. After a little while, all of a sudden my hands started to be a bit tingly and I had a really weird falling sensation in my chest and stomach. It was like... a rush, like they were collapsing in or something.
Maybe I was just imagining it or something, but it seemed to me like what was supposed to happen when you start to enter a lucid dream (I may be wrong though, so correct me if I am) but I got such a shock from it that I immediately opened my eyes and sat up, and the rushing feeling left me :(.

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Don't be sad, that's really cool! You were totally on the edge of WILD. Those sensations you felt: tingly, falling, the rush, they're all landmarks to help you get there. The only thing now is how to use those sensations. For example, I get vibrations all over my body, mainly face head and hands (like your tingles and rush perhaps, a little different for everybody).. the main thing at that point is to remain calm, and let those sensations do the work for you, for a few moments. I'll wait a few relaxed seconds, focusing on the sensations, and letting them devour my whole body without dissipating. Then I'll either "open my dream eyes", or try to imagine a scene unfold in front of my eyelids. In the latter version, it's almost like my eyelids become transparent, and I can see my room, and I can get up and start my LD, and I never lost awareness from awake to this lucid dream.

I'd like to direct you to a thread that talks in depth about all the different sensations that a dreamer experiences while going through all the various possible WILD phases: http://www.dreamviews.com/wake-initi...ntry-wild.html. WORTH THE READ.


Anyway, back on topic: I had the teeth-falling-out-dream AGAIN last night. For me it's never a tooth here and there, rather HUGE chunks. Like impossibly large clumps of teeth that are all connected, and couldn't possibly have ever fit in my mouth. I have several dreams like this every year and I should really be getting over this by now :/

Two times last week, although the most memorable:
- I received more than 5 shots and was bleeding to death. I was scared like hell when I thought it must be a dream. Then got back to the dream part where I was able to kick the bad guy's ass although I forgot it was a dream.

My stupidest dream sign I missed was I was looking at my had and only had 3 fingers the only thought that came to mind was dam how am I gonna play xbox 360 now.

Good to see it's 6+ years and running.

Twice, on consecutive nights, I asked dream characters "Am I dreaming?" They told me no both times and for some reason I believed them.

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Originally Posted by HyperNova

Good to see it's 6+ years and running.

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Congrats op! I love reading this thread.

About 3 weeks ago, I had a dream where I observed the visuals created by a woman neighbor whom I knew was lucid dreaming. I told myself "she is creating her dream reality from her own mind."

In another dream not too much later, my mother was commenting on some DC, and told me, "he is a lucid dreamer."

Doh!

I had my longest non lucid dream today morning after I slept an hour more than usual.
It was quite disturbing in some parts. For instance, during the dream I murdered an old woman..

It was filled with stupid stuff as well.


1) Khaled El sawy (An egyptian actor famous for being a cop in almost all of his roles) was the detective investigating my case.

2) My mother in the dream was just another Egyptian actress.
Oh and the woman i killed was an actress too!

3) In one part of the dream, the detective chased me into a dungeon. I came up with a very intelligent plan, which was to die to one of the huge spiders that were lurking in the dungeon, so that I would re spawn at home -_-. and it worked! :shock:

Although these were all stupid and could probably cause a more experienced member to become lucid. They're pretty normal for me to miss!

The most stupid part of the dream, or rather ironic was near the end of it.

Where I was extremely exhausted from running away, that I started crying wishing that this was just a nightmare, and that I could just close my eyes and everything would end. I didn't try to wake up though because I thought to my self.
" Don't be silly, nothing strange has happened so far so this must be real! " :oops:

And I continued with the dream..

The other night I had a dream I was a Shared Lucid Dreaming Camp in front of my old house by the country. They said that everyone there, including me, was lucid, and I believed them.
A little later I accused them of being DCs, and tried to fall asleep so I could wake up in the real world.
It was only when I woke up I discovered I didn't gain lucidity through the whole thing :doh:

I'm at a computer looking at a movie database site and type lucid dreaming into the search box. I'm immediately transported into a fantastical backyard scene with multicolored trees. I figure that this happened because the search only returned one result so it immediately took me into the movie. I walk over to a picnic table, sit down and ponder how in 10 years I'll more fully understand the meaning of the movie.

Earlier in the night in a different dream, my friend had a chihuahua named LaBerge. :)

A friend of mine asked me 'Are we dreaming?' and during five minutes I explained her why we were not dreaming. :bang:

"Hmm . . . you know, I think that this might just be a dream. I remember that one popular RC is to do simple math problem. Okay, I'll try that one: two plus two equals six. Yep, definitely not a dream. Oh, hi there, Mr. bin Laden!"

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"Hmm . . . you know, I think that this might just be a dream. I remember that one popular RC is to do simple math problem. Okay, I'll try that one: two plus two equals six. Yep, definitely not a dream. Oh, hi there, Mr. bin Laden!"

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CNGB,

OMG, I laughed at this so hard I started crying :cackle:

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Originally Posted by bemistaken

CNGB,

OMG, I laughed at this so hard I started crying :cackle:

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I was laughing while writing it, so I'm glad other people thought it was funny! :D

A few days ago a friend told me that i was dreaming, and i said right out what i wanted to do. Then i woke up

I'm on a roll this week with missing obvious cues:

At a psychic's, but I'm behind bulletproof glass and have to type my question. I say I'm a lucid dreamer but haven't had much success lately and ask for help. She sends me a magic spell that I'm supposed to read out loud, then charges me $4. I ask a secretary for a printout instead because I don't feel comfortable casting spells in public :roll: