Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

I had a dream, and in the dream I went to sleep. I was then in a dream's dream and I realized I was dreaming and tried to go lucid in the dream's dream, but not in the original dream.

Most of the time I don't have time for or cant do any other methods apart from DILDs.. I dont do dream checks very often either so my chance of changing from a vivid-lucid into a truly lucid state is quite hard...

One time though I managed to float around the place and pass through a wall - I still didn't become lucid

Ok, I just had this very crazy dream that I was riding my goped (which I haven't used in 6 years) and after a bunch of stuff happened I accidentally missed my turn on the road and pulled into this neighborhood. There was a chimney, like the house had burnt down, and there were cows all over the lot.

I distinctly remember thinking to myself: "Wow, that is pretty strange. That's definitely something I don't see every day." I started to ride away and then I was like, "That's the kind of weird stuff I'm supposed to do reality checks for!" So while riding the goped, I tried to do the finger-through-the-hand technique. It failed, I merged with traffic, and continued to ride down a very realistic road almost all the way to my house. Damn, but that was close!

Originally Posted by Shift

Ok, I just had this very crazy dream that I was riding my goped (which I haven't used in 6 years) and after a bunch of stuff happened I accidentally missed my turn on the road and pulled into this neighborhood. There was a chimney, like the house had burnt down, and there were cows all over the lot.

I distinctly remember thinking to myself: "Wow, that is pretty strange. That's definitely something I don't see every day." I started to ride away and then I was like, "That's the kind of weird stuff I'm supposed to do reality checks for!" So while riding the goped, I tried to do the finger-through-the-hand technique. It failed, I merged with traffic, and continued to ride down a very realistic road almost all the way to my house. Damn, but that was close!

Lol, THATS why you should block your nose and try to breathe through it instead of putting your finger through your hand. perhaps the dream knows that you cant put your finger through your hand and it stopped you from doing so? whereas when you block your nose and try to breathe through it, breathing is actually quite abit more complex than sticking your finger through your hand
And if you don't know where i'm coming from, bad luck

Originally Posted by Estatica

Lol, THATS why you should block your nose and try to breathe through it instead of putting your finger through your hand. perhaps the dream knows that you cant put your finger through your hand and it stopped you from doing so? whereas when you block your nose and try to breathe through it, breathing is actually quite abit more complex than sticking your finger through your hand
And if you don't know where i'm coming from, bad luck

Oh, absolutely not. I've done the finger-through-palm technique and had it work at least 9 times now. I used to do the breathing one, until it failed and I realized it was stupid anyways. I mean by that logic, why would you be able to breath if your nose is plugged? And why would that be more complex?

The true RC is actually a combination, that way it is fail proof. I think the reason it didn't work this time is because I was concentrating on holding onto the handles of the goped and not so much the RC... I know from experience, if you don't hold on and keep it straight, you fall and it hurts (which I did right after in the dream)! Plus I assumed it was just a reminder to do an RC, not something that may have actually cued me into lucidity, if you know the difference.

But damn! Ah, well, at least I'm on the right track.

It's all because of this man:

Last night, my friend and I were playing tag only not with hands but with guns. Even worse was I got shot in the face and hand and just decided, "I guess I lose."

My stupidest missed chance at a LD happened a couple of nights ago. I was at this strange house picking up a date and was being introduced to the father. He gave me a very firm hand-shake, almost crushing. So, I squeezed back and his fingers came off. Neither of us even mentioned it, I just held these fingers in my hand as the hand-shake ended. I guess we were leaving to go on our date, and the dad turns away from me when I put my hand on his shoulder and said, "Hang on, you'll need these," and handed him back his fingers.

One time I had a dream where I was in a classroom talking to someone for quite some time... about lucid dreaming. I even handed them a bunch of papers about it that I had printed out (Whilst Awake) the day before.

Close, but no cigar.

Originally Posted by ClouD

It's all because of this man:

I listened to his entire podcast series. It's kind of interesting, but doesn't help as much as you would think.

Originally Posted by i make it rain

well i hope you became at least part lucid before the stabbing part. because otherwise ummm....i hate to break it to you, but you might become a serial killer in a few years.

Well, that was actually something I made up because it didn't sound as lame as "I didn't give a damn"

The most obvious LD that I missed was when my teacher jumped out the window and Dream was written all over the walls.

Just last night, I had a FA that I was getting ready for school. Everything felt so real except for when I viewed my mirror. My teeth looked very odd but the thought of that being a dream was very far because I thought I just ate something that terribly stained my teeth, until I really woke up.

A while back I had a dream where i was trying to gain SP in one of my computer solution classes. The teacher had thought I was spacing out and moved me to a different seat.

I woke up very frustrated.

I woke up and started to writing down my dream, desperatley trying to remember every little thing. Then I really woke up and started writing down that same dream, including the part in which I woke up and started to remember the dream. What a loop! (the first one was obviously a false awakening).

Last night, I had a dream that I owned a "WILD machine"

When it beeped, you put your hands on it, and it did a WILD for you.

I never became lucid.

i've had many dreams where i've been talking to my friends about lucid dreaming.
and a couple of weeks ago i was "lucid" inside a normal dream. but not actually lucid.

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!

Originally Posted by Futura

Last night i had the craziest dream i was walking around with all my friends and all of a sudden i was like "shit!!! I lost my daughter!" and i was running around looking for her.only thing is i dont have a daughter.

Holy crap, that was funny!!! I actually have a daughter, so at first I was thinking, "what a horrible feeling" until I read your last line!

Anyway, I posted this somewhere before. But once I tried to attain lucidity by placing a glass of orange juice on my headboard and told myself that when I dream about this orange juice, I will know I am dreaming. Well, I dreamed about that orange juice alright, and while I drank it in my dream, I could not remember what I was supposed to remember!

Just last night I was with my aunt, and I didn't want to leave her so I said, "What if I go outside and the sky looks different?" She didn't respond. I walked outside, and sure enough, the sky was a bright green color and the clouds were gone. Everything else looked kind of inverted in color. There was a lot of yellows and reds. My aunt yelled, "Tornado!" as if the sky turns green when that happens, and I ran inside. -_-

The other night I was dreaming and I looked at my hands and counted my fingers, and there was six and all I could say was "I'm dreaming!!" and then I sat there and persuaded myself I wasn't cause having six fingers wasn't possible... I swear I think I'm retarded sometimes haha.

I woke up and I was so pissed.

That's very good, Futura.
I had a lucid dream, and I started trying to spin in order to teleport somewhere. I could feel the lucidity fading away, but I was still spinning. My thought was, "Oh no, I've woken up and started spinning in real life- this didn't work, I better go back to sleep."

A few hours after I woke up I realized that my bedroom is the size of a closet and I would have woken up my roommate if I had actually been spinning around, not to mention the floor is covered in junk. So much lucid dream time wasted!

The moral is, always reality check when you wake up.

Last night in a LD I was folding some clothes. When a pair of clothes I was folding started to float towards the ceiling. I hurried and grabbed them so they wouldn't get away and looked at one of my friends next to me and was about to say "Did you see that?" but just shrugged it off.

Being hunted by horde of some kind of hellhounds in a city that was floating on air. I was dressed with clothes that glowed magically and I was carrying a halbert that had glowing runes and about 2.5 meter blade. Tripped and fell from the sledge. During the fall that seemed like 20 kilometers a person that many people propably call a dream guide ( I tend to think him as my subconsious that has a form in my dreams) was circling me and lamented that : " Is this how it will end? Geez, your gonna get us both killed" then he smirked and said : " Oh wait, we cannot die in your dream can we?"

I just yelled at him that " Don't distrub me, I am trying to make a plan how we get out of here alive!"

And I fell through some kind of fabric to some room unknown to me. Then my attention got taken by some girls I know who were dancing outside the window.. and well.. there was absolutely now hope anymore to remember to do RC or whatsoever

Human mind is truly strange.