Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

I once had a dream with my grumpy old professor prodding me with his finger, shouting with raspy laryngitis, "You're dreaming! Come on, you're dreaming!" Needless to say, I am still learning how to lucid dream.

At a friend's place. About to leave. Looking down, I see A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming. Do I take it home or lend it to my friend? Or realise I'm dreaming!! Haha anyways...

Today I had a big dream, non lucid, after waking up and going to sleep again.

Anyway, in the dream I remember thinking out of nowhere "is this a dream?" I even remembered feeling that someone in front of me just partially entered a wall for a few seconds. Anyway, I reached this state of questioning my reality, and what do I do? I actually remember vividly looking around and thinking "No, this is not a dream, it's too real, I'm awake," without so much as a simple reality check. Mind you, that I never did this awake, I never really tought "no, this isn't a dream." And I actually was going to do a reality check, but then I looked around and simply decided that the prospect was ridiculous.

I'm still so amazed and happy about this. I feel this is really solid progress for me. I actually thought a dream was too real to be a dream... serves me right for having preconceptions about something I know nothing about, I guess. Still, I'm so excited guys!

Looks like i have a good candidate for the "stupidest ways you failed to get lucid" thread.

WBTB INC R&D meeting

I am working for a company that's making a brand of lucid dreaming apparel. I was looking at the prototype for a wbtb pj shirt in a board room. We are sitting around a round table and looking at a powerpoint presentation on marketing and design of our new apparel. It's white with our logo and long sleeves with vibration cuffs to wake you up after a certain number of hours. It also can detect the presence of rem sleep and will hit you with the 40hz that bring on lucid dreams. I remember being excited to be a part of the team to bring this to market.

lucidity training session.

I am in a endless dark empty room with an older British white man with a beard. There is a single source of illumination from above that covers us and about a ten foot radius around us. we are standing about five feet apart. He is giving me lessons in lucidity dream techniques. He is lecturing on methods of stabilization and different ways to do dream manipulation. At different times I know that this is either Robert Waggoner or Obi Wan Kenobi.
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This guy had yarn woven in and through the holes in his head and as I was removing the yarn for him, I asked, "why in the world did you let someone drill holes in your head?" Come on!

I had one this morning. My husband and I were walking looking at christmas lights on houses and trees. No snow. I looked at a house and noticed it wasn't finished, and thought how stupid to have such little lights on with a roll still there. I looked at my husband and looked back at the tree and a bunch more was done, and I thought Oh, I guess more was done than I thought. After waking up, I was like seriously?! Come on!!! lol

Originally Posted by tblanco

Looks like i have a good candidate for the "stupidest ways you failed to get lucid" thread.

WBTB INC R&D meeting

I am working for a company that's making a brand of lucid dreaming apparel. I was looking at the prototype for a wbtb pj shirt in a board room. We are sitting around a round table and looking at a powerpoint presentation on marketing and design of our new apparel. It's white with our logo and long sleeves with vibration cuffs to wake you up after a certain number of hours. It also can detect the presence of rem sleep and will hit you with the 40hz that bring on lucid dreams. I remember being excited to be a part of the team to bring this to market.

lucidity training session.

I am in a endless dark empty room with an older British white man with a beard. There is a single source of illumination from above that covers us and about a ten foot radius around us. we are standing about five feet apart. He is giving me lessons in lucidity dream techniques. He is lecturing on methods of stabilization and different ways to do dream manipulation. At different times I know that this is either Robert Waggoner or Obi Wan Kenobi.
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ok i think you win......LOL

Last night I was sitting on a pier with some relatives watching some incredible stunts in the sky. People were doing stunts with surf boards, jetskis, kites and other cool equipment flying in the air like gravity was no issue. I immediately realized this could only be done in lucid dreams. So i told the guy next to me that they had to be lucid dreaming to do that. Then I said "but the weird thing is...how are they able to project their dreams like this so we can see them?" I never did figure that out.

i had one last night! i was looking in a mirror and realized i wasn't in the right body, then my hair changed color and style. i knew it wasn't possible and was very alarmed, but never once thought it might be a dream. i woke up very unhappy with myself!

Standing on deck of childhood home looking out at view, notice a tree shaped like a person, it comes alive and I get a "lucid rush feeling," and I think "Wow, I've just gotten lucid *while awake*! This is a new kind of lucidity, can't wait to tell Sageous about this!"

I had a funny dream where there was torrential rain and I was outside in a strange city. I pulled out my phone and I decided to call someone but I kept pressing the numbers instead of the call button. I was yelling at myself in the rain going, "Why won't this stupid phone work! Work you dumb phone!" I felt so frustrated at that moment, I started crying hysterically and the dream people around me didn't even notice that I was there. Out of the blue, a little boy walks up to me and says, "Miss, do you need help?" I said yes. He took the phone and dialed a number and with ease, pressed the call button. I took the phone back from him and someone picked up on the other line. This was my conversation:
Me: Hello?
Other person: You're dreaming.
Me: What?
Other Person: ...
Me: Stop making up stories.
Other Person: I'm telling you the truth. Calm down.
(At this moment I was really mad at everything, I threw the phone at the ground and it broke). I woke up from the shock.

I saw the words 'lucid dreaming' and didn't think to do an RC.

Last night I saw a water fountain and one of my MILD targets was to reality check every time I drank water. I thought about realtiy checking at the sight of the fountain but never drank from it so didn't become lucid. Oh well, another shot tonight.

I was staying at home while the others took a trip out of state, but the dream scene changed to where they were, which confused me into thinking I had somehow accidentally “teleported” there without having brought anything for the trip! I said that I needed to figure out how to teleport back home, but since I couldn't remember what I had done to teleport there in the first place, I just lied on the floor and tried meditating/self-hypnotizing myself into being back home or something. I eventually succeeded in “teleporting” back to my waking-life bed and bedroom.

I was laying in bed after a FA. I was somewhat paralyzed, and my legs were floating above the bed for some reason. When I inhaled they rose higher until they were pointed straight at the ceiling, and when I exhaled they came back down. I was kind of panicking because I heard one of my parents coming down the hallway towards my room, and they'd think it was weird if my legs were floating up in the air, but I couldn't move to do anything about it.

Luckily, I became lucid about 2 minutes later from something else, but still...

I almost had one incredibly stupid. First, I was reminded of two previous dreams I've had, then I appearently thought the dream had ended, even though I was in the same spot as before, and thought I should write about thinking about dreams while in a dream in the "Stupidest ways you've missed becoming lucid" thread when I woke up. Still not lucid. Eventually I became aware that I was dreaming, but not until a while after that. So meta...

Last night I dreamed that I was telling a LD support group about a lucid dream i had last night. Later my wife showed me her new dream journal for lucid dreaming.

I was so close to one last night... okay, so the dream ended into a false awakening, which of course I didn't realize even if i was in a room that I had never seen before and was with my two friends. I talk to one of them for a second, then wake up into another false awakening, where I'm about to do a reality check, when suddenly my friend interrupts my ranting and says she knows about lucid dreaming too. I reply with something, and then she says that I don't have to do a reality check, because this is reality. Like and IDIOT, I believe her, and wake up for real, performing the reality check and realizing I missed and easy chance at lucid dreaming.
SO. CLOSE. My thumb was literally right next to my palm, and I could have easily done it. For some reason, I was doing in slow motion. Dangit.

i too have had countless dreams where i have full conversations with dream characters about dreaming/being lucid in a dream or obvious dream sings and it just doesn't click. i wake up feeling like an idiot

Last night I dreamt of driving a car. When I hit the brakes, they didn't work, and the handbrake didn't work either. I sort of skidded across a crossroad and saw the cars around me bump into each other. I thought: "Didn't I read somewhere that brakes tend to fail in dreams?" but didn't become lucid or think of doing an RC. Later I had an accident and my car ended up upside down. I just started to rock forwards and backwards until the car flipped onto the right side again and drove on.

today I woke up and had the perfect opportunity for a DEILD attempt. I remembered a few dreams, I could have focused on one of them and re-entered it.
too bad.

I was at an amusement park in my dream so I take out my dream journal and start writing down what's happening. I was literally writing about my dream while in my dream but I somehow didn't realize I was dreaming.

I had a hunch I was dreaming so I tried to do something, don't remember what, but like standing on my head or something like that. I failed, and thus came to the conclusion I wasn't dreaming.

exerpt from DJ:

... I start discussing LUCID DREAMING. I say to everybody as they gather around, "How do you know that you are not dreaming *right now*!? You have to do reality checks. What makes a good reality check? Well, rubbing your hands for one" [oops!] and I rub my hands. I look around and people are doing weird things like pulling on their eyelids. I think about finger-through-hand. I say "Pinching your nose and trying to breathe through it is an excellent reality check!" Then I pinch my nose and inhale, I can breathe! "See! Look at me, I'm pinching my nose and I'm able to breathe!" I'm holding up my left elbow high and reaching over and pinching my nose. I grab it tightly to make sure no air can escape, and I do another big inhale and exhale through the pinched nose. This gives me a funny feeling, I'm wondering what this means for the people all around me. I think I say (or just think?) "See? You're all dream characters!" [upon recalling this dream later, I groan "you've GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"]