Thinking You're Dreaming When You're Not

[Super FZL]

I have this fear in the back of my mind that I will think I'm dreaming one day, when I'm not. Has this happened to anyone?

[King K]

I had this feeling when a close relative of mine died, it's horrible, I kept doing reality checks but they all failed, hopefully this will help me to induce lucid dreams more frequently.

[sluggo]

yes! someone else has the same problem as me. actually it hasn't happened to me for a while but I used to get super paranoid about this while I was dreaming. I'd do RCs and they would suggest that I was dreaming, but everything was so mind-blowingly real that I had a hard time accepting that this was a dream and I started worrying that maybe I took some type of drug or something that made me think I was dreaming when I was really in RL....it's a very creepy feeling! but with more LD experience you will start to trust yourself that you are dreaming and you'll get over it.

[ninja9578]

No, don't worry, that's won't happen unless you are schizophrenic or narcoleptic.

[oscepott]

Almost every time i wake up at night and get up, things seems wery wierd and i keep on doing RCs and wonder why they are not working. Sometimes at day to but that is more rare. I dont think it is so bad.

[Scarred_for_life]

A few nights ago I couldn't get to sleep but was extremely drowsy and I could swear that I was in a dream but my RCs indicated that it was real life

[b12]

One time i was taking a walk to the gas station at night, this was right before winter, and all the leaves on the trees were colored and the wind was a cool breeze and everything was just...wow. What an amazing night. So i'm walking, and just looking around at everything...everything was so vivid, i could hear, smell, even taste the air, i kept doing reality checks but i wasn't dreaming. I couldn't believe i wasn't dreaming, that was the most surrealistic night i've ever had.

[Garlic]

I had the fear, the first time I killed my self... all it did was wake me up. I woke from the fear of killing myself, not because I killed myself though to be fair when I do kill myself I wake up... well I enter the black abyss of no escape... one of my goals is to be able to reenter a dream upon entering the black abyss without waking up, I have done it in the past but I'd say my success rate is like 2% and just judging by how many times I've entered it compared to how many times I haven't I just choose not to go there. The closest thing to a nightmare I get to is the black abyss. And now that I think about it it is probably tied to closing my eyes... when ever I die in dreams I close my eyes. Perhaps if I kept them open I wouldn't enter it, I'm not gonna test it simply because I don't want to go there. Entering the abyss is a wasted night for me. You just gotta release your inhibitions and go with it. The one thing that has helped me deal with death is that I believe when we die we go on a dream that never ends. The only reason I haven't killed my self is because of the effect it will have on the people in my waking life... I know it seems stupid but I couldn't be guilty for an eternity... it would be my hell. If lucid dreaming has taught me anything it is that anything is possible if I believe it enough. When I die I no longer perceive the waking life. What am I doing when I am not perceiving the waking life? I'm dreaming, it only stands to reason that the same would happen when I die... at least I firmly believe that. Disclaimer: Please note I got these beliefs from my experiences lucid dreaming and they are entirely subjective. If you ever become proficient at lucid dreaming do some soul searching and come to your own conclusions, NEVER use someone else's because you are not me, I am me... this works for me, it will not work for you. I have thoroughly thought this out and I have only given you a rough summary... I could probably write a book on this if I felt like it, lol.