Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

Last night I had a dream I lit a pepper and started getting high with it.. Then I noticed it was a pepper and ATE IT.... 😐

I had a false awakening where I convinced myself that CanisLucidus and I had just shared a dream about dinosaurs.
No RC, just straight onto the excitement about having irrefutable proof of shared dreaming.

I cannot believe I'm still riding that god damned cart in that impossible position and thinking: Finally I was able to do it!!! Eh? What was it that just in dreams!!!

Waking up in the middle of the night and then going back to sleep, then inside the dream remember the waking up and thinking it was a false awakening and i was actually dreaming.
Telling yourself how stupid you are for missing a lucid dream inside a dream, is an all new level of stupid.

Breathing underwater, being in a house I moved out of 4 years ago, and hanging out with people from Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, just to name a few.

A couple times I've been in a dream but thought I was doing visualization for MILD. One time I literally looked at something cool in the dream and thought, "Man, if this were a dream, I'd focus on all this awesome detail to stabalize." But no, it was definitely some visualization.

I had a dream before where I shouted that I am dreaming but instead of becoming lucid, I ran around in a circle.

A few nights ago, I had a dream where I told myself "I will become lucid in a moment..." and then shamefully finished the sentence with "...but first, I need to do some chores around the house."

Never got to do it then

I dreamt of posting on the forum lately, twice now, after saying, I wouldn't do that. It seems I simply forgot. Anyway - that should have been enough - but it was on topic, about the supposed dangers of lucid dreaming, and I was encouraging fearsome people without experience to go for it, start right now...
I didn't RC myself, neither had them do it - that would have been really interesting.
What happens when you ask a DC to RC?

I'm pretty sure people will have had worse incidents but mine's pretty stupid too.

I was in a classroom in my highschool even though I had already graduated from there. I was in the middle of a lesson and the female teacher's hair kept changing colour for no apparent reason. At this point I was already aware something was off, and after the lesson I approached her and asked why her hair kept changing colour. She just smiled and shrugged and I thought "Meh, whatever it's probably nothing".

Protip: Never ask dream characters for confirmation or this happens

Last night I had this classic dream of using a toilet that was in the middle of a room full of people, and this made me feel very uncomfortable.
Then I realized that I had seen a real bathroom not very far away at all, and I was thinking to myself "why didn't I pick the bathroom instead?".

I guess this counts as a "context dreamsign".

During all the dream, I talked about dreaming and dream journaling. This would have been a normal layer 0 if it hadn't been for a DC which came to me pointing at me and shouting: "she's the dreamer! My sister won't believe me when I tell her!". I didn't even come close to asking myself if that could be a dream. A real shame.

Just had a dream last night where I was with somebody and they said "You know we're dreaming right?' and I said "Yes." Still did not become aware.. Although I knew we were dreaming, I thought I was already in a dream so like I fell asleep in the dream and went to a next level dream which isn't possible... Ah the tricks your mind can play on you.

I was looking at a youtube channel with all skydiving videos and, there was only one Lucid dreaming video....the dude has like over 100+ skydiving videos but, one about Lucid Dreaming...I must be stupid or something...

hey guys, great post....im new here...of course u can see....
just wanted to add a couple of my experiences.....

A few nights ago..i dreamed I was an astronaut.....but i was riding in a recreational vehicle....with my cousin...(who I havent seen in years)......im riding in a RV...with some hispanic guy driving it....and ten semi-trucks wrapped in yellow plastic pass us by.....after they pass us on this highway, i walk in the back and theres a huge audience of papparozzi taking my picture. Some guy hands me a certificate and people clap.----
i hold up the certificate, AND I CANT READ WHAT IT SAYS......so then, in my "moment of clarity" i say out loud, "I cant read this", and then I TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN and i still cant read it. .....so i shrugged it off, and continued this maniacal farce.........didnt go lucid the entire time.

I remember a dream from a few months back and we were walking, dont remember where, but it was on a tour type thing with two of my friends, and I had done an RC, with my hand clearly in front of me, and it didnt get me lucid.
Good job, me.

I cannot believe how I miserably failed this one: I'm extremely happy for something. I get back into my extremely over sized grand parents' demolished house (it looks like a neighborhood), when I find myself euphorically dancing alone on the ruins of a street-yard mixed with some other WL landscapes. I realize it uses to be a dream sign. I check for the tattoo which is partially covered by the sleeve of my jacket. I pull the sleeve to better see it and it looks PERFECT!!! not just the same, but "Perfect". A little bit lighter, but it's perfectly shaped, better than the real one, it's amazing the amount of detail I can see. I turn to see around thinking to myself "I must be careful because of sometimes I missed it this way". I try to levitate, and nothing happens "Of course because it's not a dream!" I go on dancing alone with my euphoria when I notice it's raining and the ruins look just wonderful. So I decide to take a picture of it before it's not there anymore. Then I look for a proper place under the ruins of a balcony to take the picture before I get distracted with some other thing...

I must review my concepts once again...

The stupidest way I missed having DILD is doing Reality Check when I saw my dreamsign (ex-best friend). When I see her, I do RC and it fails. So from now on I will not do RC when I see her, since I don't have any chance of seeing her in real life, when I see her next time, I know I am dreaming.

Mine was when I was in this house, and a guy was there singing Giz Edward's "Layers of a Lucid Dream," and all I did was say "Hey, I know this song," and walk away.

I did a RC, realized it was a dream but I was skeptical. I was too doubtful to fly out the window of the moving car I was in so I decided to try to make it lightning, it didn't work (I tried like 3 times) and so I slipped out of lucidity.

Originally Posted by battler

waking up in the middle of the night and then going back to sleep, then inside the dream remember the waking up and thinking it was a false awakening and i was actually dreaming.
Telling yourself how stupid you are for missing a lucid dream inside a dream, is an all new level of stupid.

lmao

Talked with someone about binaural beats. (but it was ok because I had a LD later that night)

I just started with this for a couple of days, no ld's yet, only stupid ways I missed opportunities to become lucid... Last night was the most stupid way so far; I went to sleep with the intention of dreaming about our deceased cat (couple of months ago, I was with her when the vet injected her). I rehearsed that I would be dreaming if I would be seeing my deceased cat, and was planning a rc. I thought this would work, my dead cat made a lasting impression.

Intention worked: I see my cat in my dream and what follows is an vivid, intense non-lucid dream of seeing my cat again, quite nice actually. After a while a start arguing with myself: "It is a little strange, my cat was dead, but now she isn't anymore... she is really sick, ok, but she lives - how could this be? Could it be that the vet said he would kill her, but that he didnt? Yeah, that could be it! She escaped after all these weeks and found our house again! mmmh, wait, this is not very realistic....." and - poof, awake in bed. :'(

Originally Posted by Wolfdog

I just had a dream today, where I got the slightest idea I could be dreaming, but, my dream self stopped and said: "You know, I could get lucid but, I think it's best if I engage the dream in a non-lucid state." I mean, seriously? Really? My dream self chose to go non-lucid, like REALLY?

Oh I know this - had it many a time. I always feel like hitting myself and hard, when I wake up from such a dream.

Originally Posted by Battler

Waking up in the middle of the night and then going back to sleep, then inside the dream remember the waking up and thinking it was a false awakening and i was actually dreaming.
Telling yourself how stupid you are for missing a lucid dream inside a dream, is an all new level of stupid.

Originally Posted by Box77

I cannot believe how I miserably failed this one: I'm extremely happy for something. I get back into my extremely over sized grand parents' demolished house (it looks like a neighborhood), when I find myself euphorically dancing alone on the ruins of a street-yard mixed with some other WL landscapes. I realize it uses to be a dream sign. I check for the tattoo which is partially covered by the sleeve of my jacket. I pull the sleeve to better see it and it looks PERFECT!!! not just the same, but "Perfect". A little bit lighter, but it's perfectly shaped, better than the real one, it's amazing the amount of detail I can see. I turn to see around thinking to myself "I must be careful because of sometimes I missed it this way". I try to levitate, and nothing happens "Of course because it's not a dream!" I go on dancing alone with my euphoria when I notice it's raining and the ruins look just wonderful. So I decide to take a picture of it before it's not there anymore. Then I look for a proper place under the ruins of a balcony to take the picture before I get distracted with some other thing...

I must review my concepts once again...

Maybe you should review your RCs - how about nose-plug? Very reliable in my experience, while looking at one's body or levitating is not.

Originally Posted by Elaol

The stupidest way I missed having DILD is doing Reality Check when I saw my dreamsign (ex-best friend). When I see her, I do RC and it fails. So from now on I will not do RC when I see her, since I don't have any chance of seeing her in real life, when I see her next time, I know I am dreaming.

Same as above - you need a proper RC, which won't fail you! Don't just rely on a dream-sign, that's risky.

Originally Posted by WammesW

I just started with this for a couple of days, no ld's yet, only stupid ways I missed opportunities to become lucid... Last night was the most stupid way so far; I went to sleep with the intention of dreaming about our deceased cat (couple of months ago, I was with her when the vet injected her). I rehearsed that I would be dreaming if I would be seeing my deceased cat, and was planning a rc. I thought this would work, my dead cat made a lasting impression.

Intention worked: I see my cat in my dream and what follows is an vivid, intense non-lucid dream of seeing my cat again, quite nice actually. After a while a start arguing with myself: "It is a little strange, my cat was dead, but now she isn't anymore... she is really sick, ok, but she lives - how could this be? Could it be that the vet said he would kill her, but that he didnt? Yeah, that could be it! She escaped after all these weeks and found our house again! mmmh, wait, this is not very realistic....." and - poof, awake in bed. :'(

Exactly - dream-signs can be so unrealistic and you actually do realize this in a dream, but your inner explanation generator conjures up a convenient confabulation.
Had that so often with one of my main signs, the house I grew up in, which has been torn down for a long time. But I keep finding explanations - like I have been lied to, or that only part of the estate has been sold, and part of the house spared - and more elaborate nonsense.



My own stupid lucid fail from last night:
I was suspecting, and strongly, that I'm in a dream by noticing inconsistencies, like not being able to look out of a window. The view was just exactly like the optical problems, I tend to have in some lucids - thankfully that's getting less common and less bad lately. Hard to describe, but characteristic. I was silly enough to really concentrate on the view instead of RCing, though, and when it finally fell into place - I concluded it wasn't a dream after all.

But I was lucky to catch another opportunity in the same night; really telling myself after waking from that window dream, that in case of any suspicions - nose-plugging would be my first action. And it worked!