Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

Being reminded that I'm in a lucid dream. Part of my technique is that I have to make the dream feel as normal and stable as possible, as if it was a waking state, and sometimes things present them selves which I recognize to be out of the ordinary, and this reminds me I'm dreaming and causes me to wake up or lose control of the dream state. For instance one of my best LD's was of me exploring a suburb street where I was capable of testing the physics of the world that were identical to waking reality, such as touching objects, looking at how light behaves, observing my self in reflections and so on, but it was a tape recorder in a garage that when the music played came out like scrambled garbage and that gave me a wake up call that I was dreaming and caused me to lose the lucidity. I guess I was being too cocky and tried to achieve too much, tried to test too many things in such a short space of time, instead of taking it slowly and remaining calm.

On the TV there was a musical about one of my favorite video game series. “Man, that´s almost RC worthy.” I thought. Guess who didn´t perform a reality check afterwards. I became lucid later that night though.

During a stressful dream, I turned to a DC and calmly said, "I can always reset if I have to, I just don't usually like to resort to that."
And then continued on with the stressful dream, non-lucidly.

During a dream in which I see myself from a third person perspective, an animal appears. The animal, a fox or a dog or something like that, is on fire.

The DC 'me' I'm seeing believes the animal was created by some kind of spirit or dream guide to present a strange situation, only possible in dreams. The DC 'me' starts suspecting it's a dream. I, the actual me, the one who is really dreaming that, don't.

It was yesterday. I was about to become lucid but my eye hurt from my contact and it woke me up every single time before I made the transition.

Oh Lord what does it take!? I met ~Dreamer~, and did "playful/joking" RCs in front of her has a way of introducing myself as a lucid dreamer. Did hand check, they looked wrong, ignored it. Did nose pinch, repeatedly, every time I could breathe, I explained this by thinking I just hadn't gripped my nose well enough, kept re-gripping and trying again, eventually explained it away by saying "Oh, that's so unreliable, anyway" and continued on, non-lucid. Then I saw my/her friend's hand and it was totally deformed with stumpy fingers. Then saw the blue sky and was surprised because it had just been stormy earlier, I rationalized this by saying "the weather must have changed when I went over the mountains".

Alan Wallace telling me about all these neat kinds of reality checks. You would think that was enough. It wasn't!

^^ That's a moderate facepalm, but I was *doing* them! And they all indicated dream! And I didn't care/wasn't paying attention! AAAAAA!

This morning, I run into Vladimir Poutine who happens to be a random guy working as a cashier in a subway. Everything "normal" so far, yet I notice a dead corpse of a woman just behind him, completely rotten with flies all over it. Vlad seems indifferent to that dead body, and I personally invent whatever illogical reason to explain that, then I continue dreaming, non-lucid.

Last night I had a conversation with a friend from high school (who I haven't seen in probably 5-6 years) about how I had missed her as a dream sign 2 days prior...

When hot guys drop their pants etc. and there is sudden sexual activity between me and random people who I only just met.

A few days ago I did a RC in a dream and found I was lucid because I had no fingers, and so I was about to summon a certain DC but then after I knew I was dreaming, I still thought that the people around me was going to think of me as crazy if I told them even though the dream was fake and none of it was real.

I was putting a condom on my penis.

Last time I checked I didn't have one of these.

Originally Posted by bemistaken

I was putting a condom on my penis.

Last time I checked I didn't have one of these.

Haha, seems to me that last time yo checked, you DID have one : D

FA of waking up, telling my cat that I have to get up for work, making coffee... Ugh, then I had to do it again.

On bus, ask driver for a special stop, he takes off on a cross-country shortcut on a gravel path that tilts 60 degrees or more to the left, a guy dives into the bottom shelf in a set of drawers that then shuts in the middle of the aisle, I think "OK this is bizarre" do a nose pinch and keep doing it because air is leaking out, I must not be holding my nose firmly enough. This is becoming a very very disturbing trend.

I was in an elevator (often a dream sign) I pushed a button but then realized it wasn't the right one was labeled like HR or something so I pushed another one nope still not right (what like I can't read these buttons (possible dream sign)) I just kept pushing several. So the elevator decides to go Willy Wonka on me and jumps out of the building and takes off across town, I can see it is picking up speed and getting near the street, then it is cable carring it across town and I am worried about other traffic, then I notice a police SUV driving along side and matching our in town speed which I would make at like 55+mph. Police car are an RC sign, so up comes my hand, but I am looking past the hand at the female cop driving the car, ah yes very revealing armor indeed, also I am still concerned about cross traffic and keep turning my head to look out the front of the wanka-vator-cable-car, then back past an unknown number of fingers, sure I am counting to TWO but I'm not counting fingers who knows how many of those I had.

LOL @ this thread

My dream was hitting me repeatedly with my toilet disaster dream sign, but I didn't pick it up...
Busy public toilet, broken lock, room on a steep slant, someone else's giant log of poo ON the seat, falsely blamed for loud embarrassing noises, almost fell into the toilet when I sat down. I gave up on trying to pee
and walked out of the toilet block without questioning reality.

A really unbelievable series of WTF, why didn't I get lucid?! dreams this morning:

I had a really vivid dream this morning where I came upon my best friend MR's fenced "plot of land", and in there he was digging a long, deep, narrow (not more than 1 foot wide) ditch. I kept looking at that ditch and wondering what he was doing with it. Where there pipes down there? What is going on with that ditch? I keep looking at it it was so weird. I kept calling him to see if I could help. 3-4 times I called he never answered. Finally he answered and gave me (never saw him it just appeared in my hands) a wet sort of rotting piece of lumber to throw away. I looked at this piece of wood, it was a long 2x2, one end of it had been torn off of some piece of construction. I didn't know where to put it, he told me "over by the kitchen" (this was a naked plot of land with piles of lumber here and there). The whole thing was just bizarre and dreamy from start to finish but I never noticed.

In another dream water was rapidly rising in the canal, threatening to flood the city. "Oh, that's OK" I think, "it'll just drain right back into the river."

Then I have a "people who won't get out of my way" dream where this woman and her little boy just won't let me go by. Then my wife's pants are somehow down around her legs and this little boy is peeing and it sprays onto my wife's legs and panties (she doesn't notice), the mother of this boy offers to give me her phone number so they can offer compensation for the damage.

Then later some weird old guy hits me in the head (twice!) with a baseball-bat-sized baguette. He's also got grenades. Move along, nothing strange here!

Originally Posted by Dreamer

[toilet disaster]

Well, these have thankfully worn off for me, but now I suppose after reading this I'll have to suffer through a few more.

My friends stole my dream journal and were reading dreams that never happened.

I am in a meeting, sitting in like desk chairs like from school, I recognize a few coworker types so it must be a work meeting. What is that noise (I went to sleep with white noise set as rain), oh looks like my white noise generator is a bit loud for this meeting, a few people are looking my way, so I reach down beside my school desk/chair and find a speaker with a dial on it I twist the dial a bit and the white noise becomes less loud.

This is an example of real world stimuli leaking into the dream, amazing that while in the real world I doubt the sound was affected by my dream twisting of the dream dial on the dream speaker, in the dream my perception of the white noise did lessen.

sadly under the rain sound I had been playing on a continuous loop the following

but it had stopped. It is talking about how to stabilize a lucid dream.

Even so perhaps turning down virtual white noise stabilized the non-lucid dream, as in my experience real world stimuli only tend to leak in at the end of dreams. After turning it down I dreamed on for many minutes

One time while I and a dream character (he was a demon disguised as a human) were being chased by a swarm of I think wasp, and far off in my head I heard "I'm dreaming"
I didn't become lucid...and I ended up unconscious for the rest of the dream. Dang wasps are EVIL! Had to watch the rest of the dream without a body.

Coupla days ago, I "awoke" (FA) in the crazy bowling alley (dangit, I fell asleep waiting for a free lane, and slept past closing time!), then I started telling the DCs all about the dreams I had had earlier in the night (accurately), then was reading from a paper posted on the wall about dreams I had (false). I also couldn't discern the time on my watch (and I don't wear a watch!).

I was in the elevator of an hightech building : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Moby_Hotel.jpg
When I reached the top, some people greet me and ask for following them in a room.
In this room, there is abour 7 or 8 DC, wearing eccentric and ellegant black suits, like thoses of the movie "Matrix" : https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...2b5cc8fbfd.jpg
They explain me that I'm here for a lucidiy test.
The plan is, I seat on a black sofa, then I take some pills with a glass of water. The effect of the pills, somehow like a drug, is to loose lucidity, so the goal was to overcome the effect of the pills and go lucid, only with my motivation, determination, etc, etc.
There were a TV, and when I took the pills, I was instantaneously absorbed by the TV, like a zombie (I never watch TV in waking life, anyway).
I tryed to overcome the effect and become lucid on my own determination, like stop watching TV, looking around me and to wake-up.
The DC was saying "good... resist, yes... resist...", which means "resist to your natural abilitie to go non-lucid, and become lucid by yourself".
At this time my dream point of view changed to 3rd person, and I experienced another dream in a parralel way, like 2 dreams simultaneously...
During the "test" of lucidiy, I failed to become lucid, but I'm positive thinking because I think my subcouscious organized this experiment to help me become lucid in a dream I guess (it's the second time it happen to me, the previous time a DC was asking me to perfom a reality check, but I failed and answered "no we are not dreaming, everything seems to be logical and realistic..."