Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

i was swimming and i dived below the surface of the water. I was breathing under water. I actually started wondering why i was breathing under water so what do i do? i go ask some DCs. they told me that it was possible as long as alot of water didnt get into your lungs.

Originally Posted by lucidboarder

This is just sort of a general question. Will your abillity to pick up on oddities improve over time, because right now i feel like i could be walking with Ronald Macdonald through a battlefield having a nice discussion about school without thinking twice about what was actually going on.

Yes, with practice, your recognition skills will improve. But don't take that to mean you'll always recognise obvious dream signs. Even the best LDer misses most oddities and dream signs. So don't be discouraged if you miss something obvious. Skill improvement is all about increasing your odds, not achieving 100% success.

Funny topic!

One of my dreamsigns is my digital camera, that behaves very strange.

Yesterday I dreamt about taking pictures of an odd dream scene while telling myself:
"Yeah, it's great that the camera is working correctly, now I can take some pictures from my dream and show then in waking life!"

Too bad these pictures were not on the camera when I woke up

Originally Posted by freefire

i was swimming and i dived below the surface of the water. I was breathing under water. I actually started wondering why i was breathing under water so what do i do? i go ask some DCs. they told me that it was possible as long as alot of water didnt get into your lungs.

haha. those sly dcs, they always know what to say to get you forgetting about your problem...

the other day i had a dream where i was being arrested by a female police officer for no reasosn. she was enjoying herself and as i kept asking her what i had done wrong i told her, " you know, if I was dreaming I could just fly away right now." and she laughed, and then i wished i was dreaming.

Last night I had a dream where a woman asked me to use my superpowers to make a head of garlic grow larger so she could roast it. I placed it in the palm of my hand and closed my fingers around it.

Confused about how I could accomplish this task, I then thought to myself, "how would I do this if I were dreaming?"

Lets see, once i had a dream that i had to give a speech on lucid dreaming at a school i had never seen. Before i gave the speech i wanted to grab some food so i drove to sonic. In the parking lot i saw a friend making a drug deal. His drug of choice in the dream... a blue matchbox hotwheel, I reasoned with myself that he must be a rare hotwheels collector

Haha. Of course, the obvious "You're dreaming! You're actually just dreaming right now!"

And the "Perform a reality check." That one's pretty bad as well. I have a lot of electrical problems in dreams too, which is a sign. Always miss it.

this thread could go on forever, as it probably should

last night i was in a public restroom and above the urinal was a do-it yourself shaving thingy, with cords and whatnot. I said to myself, "thats bizarre, maybe im dreaming...nah its too real"....and felt ashamed for doubting almighty reality...upon waking however i shook my fist at that dream

I was in a dream where I was telling something really important. In the middle of my sentence I awoke from the dream to be in my bed. Tired, I thought to myself, "Damn! That was important, I have to get back into the dream to finish telling them!" So I shut my eyes, and sure enough I slipped right back into the dream and finished the conversation, never realizing that I had just woken and up and should've become lucid.