Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

Look in the mirror. I have a werecat lion face. Hmm. Weird. *brushes teeth*

For me it also has to be the archetypical issue of realizing that I'm dreaming without becoming lucid. It shouldn't even be possible but has happened quite a few times to me recently.

More like a "Stupid Way I've Lost Lucidity", but I had this lucid dream a few days ago where I was 'woken up from' on a flight of stairs by my sister. Apparently I was sleepwalking; never did that in real life so I should've RC'd. I also ask her if I'm still dreaming, and she says no. And I believed her Damn DCs...

Originally Posted by StaySharp

For me it also has to be the archetypical issue of realizing that I'm dreaming without becoming lucid. It shouldn't even be possible but has happened quite a few times to me recently.

I call this "Simulated Lucidity". I wrote about it here. (It's post #6)

Yesterday I spent 15 minutes reading posts in this thread. Tonight I dreamt of my deceased grandfather and thought: this is weird, because he's dead. I performed two reality checks, that surprisingly gave me false negatives. Then I assumed I wasn't dreaming and got really scared because I 'actually' was seeing a ghost. Then my grandmother appeared next to me and told me not to worry, because it was 'just normal'. Stupid.

Maybe not so much “stupid” as rather interesting: I was playing an intriguing RPG-style video game, but later it was more like I was watching a recording of myself playing the game previously. I started getting confused when I began fast-forwarding it and feeling like I was actually seeing into the future because I didn't remember actually playing those parts yet. I began thinking that something wasn't quite right about this, but then it's not clear what happened next—I can't remember, or the dream hit a discontinuity and switched subjects before I could ponder it enough to become lucid.

I just got a new laptop in the dream. I remember thinking, "I sure hope I still have this laptop when I wake up." Woke up without a laptop and without a lucid...

"hey look, it's that mysterious place I always see in my dreams! except since I'm seeing it, it must actually be real. nice!"

Originally Posted by blueblue79

"hey look, it's that mysterious place I always see in my dreams! except since I'm seeing it, it must actually be real. nice!"

Yep know that one: "Wow look at the sky and the clouds. they morph and look soo awesome like in my dreams"

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

Yep know that one: "Wow look at the sky and the clouds. they morph and look soo awesome like in my dreams"

dream logic can be quite hilarious!

Originally Posted by blueblue79

dream logic can be quite hilarious!

Like, for instance, just now:

A giant (20 feet tall, huge) stone statue comes flying to pick me up and take me to a party. As I reach my arms up to let me pick me up, I think something like "If I weren't so awake, I should probably check to see if I'm dreaming", but of course, I don't.

And later on, I gave wine to an adult friend, who then became her young daughter who drank the glass, I find the mother and tell her while laughing "if <name> is acting strange later, it's because FryingMan got her drunk!". I rarely name my DV self in dreams.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Like, for instance, just now:

A giant (20 feet tall, huge) stone statue comes flying to pick me up and take me to a party. As I reach my arms up to let me pick me up, I think something like "If I weren't so awake, I should probably check to see if I'm dreaming", but of course, I don't.

And later on, I gave wine to an adult friend, who then became her young daughter who drank the glass, I find the mother and tell her while laughing "if <name> is acting strange later, it's because FryingMan got her drunk!". I rarely name my DV self in dreams.

missed reality check, people morphing into other people, and calling yourself by a username... the dream logic checks out!!! lmao

Originally Posted by simone93

Ok, once I was lying down on the pavement, surrounded by chickens, telling everyone to be quiet because I was trying to have a lucid dream.

LMAO!!!!!

One time, I was in some unknown garden where my sister dug up her dead dog from the ground. I think to myself,"What? This isn't real! This has to be a dream!" and try to push my finger through my hand. My cousin looks at me and asks my brother,"What is he doing?" My brother says,"Pfft. He thinks he's dreaming." in a sarcastic tone. I get distracted by it and don't become lucid. -_-

Many things can happen to you while you lucid dream. I once dreamed that i was astral projecting on a square in a dress, it wasn't pleasent

I was jumping and flying in the air and thought, "wow, I can jump pretty high even though I'm not in a dream"

I can't believe this happened.

I woke up and had trouble getting back to sleep for a long time but decided to treat it like a WBTB. I told myself I'm going to have a big, important LD next and that I'd better be prepared for it, that I was confident it would happen, etc. Sure enough, when I finally got back to sleep after a couple of hours, I was riding in a car and saw something that seemed “dreamlike” and started checking to see if I was dreaming. Whoo, incubated LD, right?

Well, I was having a bit of trouble with the RC because the result was ambiguous (though this in itself is a dream sign that I usually eventually figure out), and then right in the middle of that, we got pulled over by a cop. We got nervous, I got distracted (and to make matters worse, found I somehow didn't have my seatbelt on), and forgot about it and eventually woke up without ever verifying it was a dream.

I guess I didn't come up with the most well-planned dream narrative for lucidity in this one.

1. A pride of lions is hanging out on the backyard lawn of my childhood home (which in the dream is covered in vibrant, green grass, itself a lucid miss because of the drought, that lawn is a dead wasteland now).

My thoughts about this: I do not want to have to pick up their giant turds.

2. Some restaurant kiosks have opened along the brick wall of the house across my childhood home (thoroughly residential-only neighborhood).

My thoughts about this: Hey, this is a great addition to the neighborhood!

3. I'm making out with my ex-gf DB on the couch, while at the same time I'm calling my ex-gf DB who lives on the other side of the country and leaving her a voice mail message that she should travel and come visit us.

4. I get up and walk across the cafeteria to say hello to my ex-gf DB (big DB night, there was at least one more of her) before she leaves. My eyes are on her the entire time, she never gets up, but when I sit down and say "Hello there!" she is not there any more.

5. I'm saving my friends whose feet and hands are bloody and deformed because the bad guys tortured them by forcing them to walk around using old cans as shoes.

6. My son insists that his brown monochrome monitor is OK, the problem is that the ones with red and green explode with that cable. Oh, and the neighbor's house just outside the window suddenly catches fire from an explosion or meteor or something.

And that's just a sampling. Big night, and not whiff of lucidity anywhere.

I was talking with my Business class teacher about lucid dreaming, and I was able to fully recount the experience of my first WILD.
The cringe is real

A couple of times:

* I saw a woman riding a white rocking horse with blue spots. I though this was wierd and did a nose pinch reality check and I could breathe... but by then, I was in a more realistic environment. I did the nose pinch RC again and I could breathe but I didn't think much of it.

* I was with some people and we were all wondering what day it was. I thought it was Sunday. A boy in the dream said it was Tuesday. The actual RL date? Saturday. I don't know how I missed becoming lucid from that.

A night full of dream signs. Of particularly "can't believe I missed it" level:

+ I'm sitting at a table with some other people. There are lots of little bits of things on the table. Every time I look at one, it floats up in the air a little bit and settles back down. I'm amazed what a coincidence it is that the wind blows exactly the thing I'm looking at like that.

+ I'm telling a couple from "my group" about how I dreamed earlier about our group (a group of friends going to prom?) going to a swimming pool.

I attempt to WILD. In the following dream, I'm having a conversation with my younger brother about lucid dreaming. He tells me the way he does it is to just let his body go and then he's in the dream. I tell him that I have trouble lucid dreaming and that I should take his advice.

A few days ago I posted here saying that zombie apocalypse is a dream sign for me. This all took place within a zombie apocalypse dream. DOH.

One time I dreamed I was going to a dinner with some widows from a church. I was sitting at a table with an old lady who was in her mid eighties. We were waiting for the others to come in and the waitress came and asked us if we were ready to order and the old lady said something like "Are we really in the restaurant right now?" I thought the old lady was senile and told the waitress we will order when the others arrive.

If I had taken the old lady's question more seriously I could have become lucid. Maybe that old lady DC wasn't senile after all.

Today I dreamed I took my cats for a walk on some grasslands... and then went home without them. In the next dream, I have to take a train because I was suposed to meet with my mother, but then I remember that "yesterday" I forgot my cats those fields. So I get out of the train and run home to check if they are there. If they weren't, I would have to search on all those fields and hope they are still there. I'm really worried about them.

When I enter my room, I see all my cats sleeping on my bed (my three cats, and three extra kittens) I was so, soooo happy and relieved I wanted to cry. 'This is a dream! A dream! It's a dream come true!', I say.

I "reality check" (by slapping myself softly >.>) to make sure it's not a dream that I'll wake up from. But I don't, I'm still there, the cats are still there... Whew, good thing this isn't a dream, I wouldn't like to have woken up in a catless house. Now I can relax... So they really came home by themselves since that far away! ... But, wait, since when do I have six cats...?

... Then I wake up.