Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

Originally Posted by Abra

I had a dream this morning in which I read the first words of an otherwise empty notebook. "Lucid dreaming is good for me!"

Another dream this morning I had moved, and my backyard forest was replaced with a lake. I said "I wonder how this will affect my dreams..."

I have more, better ones. I'll post those later.

LOL

I was reading a book in a dream to try to prove to my mum that you can read in dreams, although for some stpid reason i didnt know that i was actually dreaming while doing this test!

once i actually said "hey guys, i dreamed this happened once" when the roof was taken off one of the buildings at school without becoming lucid

When I was teaching some people about LDing, I had an LD in which I was asked what I was doing. I lied and said that I was doing a reality check. "Can you honestly tell me that you are not dreaming at this very moment?", I asked a dream character. He said that he couldn't honestly say that. "Exactly", I said, unless we consciously question reality when we're awake we'll never question it when we're actually dreaming."

I was lying about doing an RC. All the while, I was dreaming. If I'd taken my own advice, I'd have become lucid. That's one of many near-misses.

The stupidest one I missed was the one on the day I had my first lucid dream (and it appeared in my first lucid). It was a the simple words "Lucid Dreamer" etched in the concrete of two different locations.

I dreamed I was trying to herd a bunch of cats out of my house but they just kept coming. I thought to myself..."this can't be real". I went over to my stove to read the name of it to see if I was dreaming but couldn't read the name of it. I told myself maybe the light was hitting the reflective surface wrong so I couldn't see it!

I had one where my wife and I were lounging on the beach. She gets up and dives into the water, tells me to come along. My exact words were, "If I dive in, I'll lose my lucidity!"

Not only was I not lucid, I didn't become lucid after that. Man, I detested myself when I woke up.

I had a dream where i was flapping my arms like a bird to get ontop of a building so me and my mates could break in. My friends didnt know how to get up so i told them just flap ya arms realy fast


One time i walked into my bedroom and my teddybear was sitting on my bed, i said to him "oh hallo harry" and the bear replied "im going to kill you" the bear had a tail and on the tip of it it was glowing blue and he was aiming it at me with a real evil look on his face.

I was lying in my bed, while the last SP vibrations ended. Then everything went black and I just look at my wall and thought "This is it?" and told myself to wake up. The worst part is that I was completely aware I was dreaming. It was like it I was awake all along!

A few months ago - I was at a mall, and I looked in a mirror. My head was gone! My neck went right up into my hair and skipped my face. It should've been a glaring obvious sign that I was dreaming, but I didn't become lucid.

Originally Posted by Loaf

Recently I was running down the street. I said outloud:
"Why is it that I have so much trouble running everytime I am in a dream," but it didn't even occur to me that I was asleep. Stupid.

I lol'd IRL. xD

Originally Posted by I_C_U

Ok, here's one ...

I once had a false awakening I was REALLY sick. I went to my dad and told him I can't go to school cuz i'm sick, but he said ' how are u sick when ur just dreaming '

The whole dream paused, trying to make me notice but I didn't ...

ARRGGH !! I hit myself so hard when I woke up.
( This my first post cuz I couldn't make a new thread at the newbe section ( PC problem ) )

So hi every one

I remember a few weeks ago that I was dreaming about being in my dad's house... Something looked funny about a certain closet I was looking at; it was under construction and the closet in the waking world wasn't. I was like, 'dad, why is this closet like that'? And he was like, 'because you're dreaming, silly!' Best thing of my life because I actually became fully lucid.

I was in a cafe discussing my dreamsigns, and said one of them was to suddenly get dizzy. Then I suddenly got dizzy. I was like "Obviously I'm not dreaming now, but that's exactly what it's like!"

Ugh, last night I had this dream where I was in this weird waterpark, it was kinda like a disco, but on water and it was really cool. I told to myself, next time I lucid dream, Ill go to a place like this one. Then I did a reality check (plugged my nose) and I was able to breathe, and I thought to myself "Damn, I hate when reality checks work in real life" I wanted to shoot myself when I woke up.

Ughhh I just woke up from a dream where, I was trying to dial my boyfriend's cell number, and I kept screwing it up. Like I'd either dial most of it and hit the End button and erase it all, or I just wasn't even dialling the right phone number at all. I stopped walking, stared at my phone and thought, "Technology doesn't work properly in dreams. This has got to be a dream, that's why I'm having so much problems with my phone!" I looked around me for my first RC and thought, "Nah, everything looks too real to be a dream." And continued on walking.

What the hell!

Originally Posted by HyperNova

Isnt it enoying when you've been trying to have a LD for ages, isnt it more enoying when you wake up from a dream kicking yourself for missing a dreamsign or what have you like an idiot.

Well it has happended to me loads of times so please post when it has happende to you.

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Ive had ones where im discusing LDs to people in my dreams and i dont become Lucid or someone tells me im dreaming and i just dont get the hint. Last night i did an RC the one when you pinch your nose, and in the dream i thought that if you could breath while pinching your nose it ment you were not dreaming!

Originally Posted by Volcon

Ill take a whack at this

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My friend came up to me and said hey man itisint this a cool dream? its so cool that were dreaming! then i told him that i cant become lucid becuase my dog was playing chess with the fish and he had him in checkmate.

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I was in a castle and the whole dream was about lucid dreaming, and the guy i was talking to was telling me " when you are in a dream, like we are now, then its smart to do a reality check. but then i started staring at a painting of a demon. it was weird how vivid this dream was even though i wasent lucid.

Originally Posted by Axe555

I'm in some sort of fast food joint and I ask them what kinds of burritos they have and they tell me that they don't know. I get downright pissed over this and as I walk off I have to walk along a ledge and jump down to get to another part of the place. I get mad again and think what a stupid design it is. Then I help herd one of the M&M guys (the red one) to the basement so he doesn't cause any trouble.

I have no idea how I missed becoming lucid in this one!

Rich

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.

Originally Posted by FreeOne

ugh. i got another one. I went on to dreamviews and tried to get on. but it didnt let me. A big screen popped up and basicly said that i had gotten too good at lucid dreaming so they destroyed my account. Then i had an FA that i got on dreamviews and wrote down this expeirence lol

Originally Posted by hydroPWNic

Lol, just last night when i looked in the mirror (in dream) my head was twisted and lopsided, and my nose was around 4 inches long with an enourmous bone off the top that impeded my vision. Somehow i didnt become lucid, and when i actually woke up, i seirously laughed about it. I can still vividly remember what my reflection looked like, lol.

Originally Posted by HyperNova

LOL

I was reading a book in a dream to try to prove to my mum that you can read in dreams, although for some stpid reason i didnt know that i was actually dreaming while doing this test!

These are all SOOO GOOD!

Happened to me twice last night.

The first, time, I was talking to someone about lucid dreaming. I said "Ok, when I dream tonight, this EXACT SITUATION that we are in right now will happen, and that's how I'll know I'm dreaming." My subconscious is an ironic bitch.

Also, last night, I had the thought "most cats have trouble talking, but this one's pretty good.". It wasn't even a cat. It was like, one of those catgirls Slayer's on about. It was literally a teenage girl with cat ears (I know I'm torturing you, Slayer)