Really Weird Dream Experience!

[onyxfyre]

Alright, so I had this dream last night. The dream was that I met a nice couple and became friends with them, and they invited me to dinner. They made me chinese food, and it tasted...Wait a minute? I can taste in a dream? lol anyway it tasted great. They showed me how to cook with a pan floating on boiling water. I thought to myself, "I know im dreaming, so I might as well try it right now". HOLY CRAP! I knew I was dreaming, but I didnt get lucid. How strange. Anyway, thats half the problem. The other half? I had the same dream going on all night. In fact, I woke up several times, and while my eyes were half open, I WAS STILL DREAMING! It didnt make sense, so I went back to bed being really tired and the dream continued from where it was at. Does anyone know the reasoning to these weird problems in the dream?

[Raphael]

I knew I was dreaming, but I didnt get lucid. This is a paradox Try doing a reality check to remove all doubts you may have. Once lucid you should stay focused, and continually remind yourself that you're dreaming. If you get too involved in any one task you may lose awareness.

[ty4TheAdventure]

Exactly. When you know you are dreaming you ARE lucid. The issue you appear to have had was with awareness which can vary in a lucid dream. Often you will be quite aware when you know you are dreaming. Sometimes you won't be. In order to avoid this, you should make it a habit to stabilize your dreams as soon as you become lucid. There are some tutorials on DV for dream stabilization. When you do this right after you become lucid, you increase your awareness and you experience vivid lucid dreams for much longer periods of time. Great job so far! Keep at it and you'll have some great and aware lucid dreams

[onyxfyre]

thanks for the post. The truth is, I dont think I acctually was lucid, since I thought that the things I was dreaming of were real because they were similar to things I wanted to do. Im guessing that I just randomly said that "I knew I was dreaming" even though I really didnt know. Im so confused XD!

[lotsofface]

Of course you can taste. You have all of your sense in the dream, because you use the same parts of your brain. Dream food is delicious. I've taught people how to become lucid before in a dream and not become lucid myself, I understand the frustration. I've also had failed reality checks. You just have to really test yourself and be present in the moment.

[Haerodiel]

I had the same dream going on all night. In fact, I woke up several times, and while my eyes were half open, I WAS STILL DREAMING! It didnt make sense, so I went back to bed being really tired and the dream continued from where it was at. Does anyone know the reasoning to these weird problems in the dream? Alright, this part I can explain. For me, being the extreme not-morning-person that I am, there are nearly infinite different stages of half-awake for me in the morning. There's the "just awake enough to be somewhat conscious of my physical surroundings, but just barely so, so that once whatever external stimulus is making me awake (noise, etc.) goes away, I will be sound asleep once again" all the way to "I'm way not tired, but I don't want to leave this dream, so I'm going to keep my eyes clenched shut and try not to move too much so that it goes on" and everything in between. I very frequently will wake up just a bit, but enough to open my eyes, and decide either that I'm too tired to wake up, or just want to continue my dream and will go back to sleep, and the dream continues. In this way, I've had some dreams that go on for a long time. I usually forget the very beginning of it, though. Additionally, when this happens, I get a certain amount of control over my dream. (May not work the same for everyone, but it does this for me) I can "rewind" my dreams. If, as it's going along, I decide that I really don't like what happened, I'll rewind and do it over again a different way. Some times this happens several times. I had one dream where I was a jewelry thief, and the police were after me. I kept getting cornered, so I'd go "Ok, that way didn't work, let's try escaping another way." And that way wouldn't work, so I'd try again. And again. And again. And I kept getting cornered with no way of escape. Finally I just went "Screw it, let's start over from the beginning!" So I rewound to the point I stole the jewelry. I wouldn't say I'm lucid when this happens, though. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I know it's a dream, but it's not an active conscious thought. I should know, too, because I just left the dream and came back into it, so I should know it isn't real. But all this has happened before I really knew about lucid dreaming. So hopefully when this happens again I'll be able to take full control of the dream. But anyways, that was a bit off topic. Long story short, I've had plenty of experience with partially waking up, going back to sleep, and continuing the dream you were in before.

[Crux]

I've had that same thing before in a dream where I said 'hey this is a dream' but I never really became lucid, ie conscious. It's like just saying the words without them meaning anything. Or it could be just instant/momentary lucidity then you don't hold it and are immediately distracted. Like, 'hey this is a dream' then 'OH LOOK A BUTTERFLY!' *chases butterfly (which is actually a dragon...it's green...and spuffery [that's spikey and fluffy at the same time])* Ya know?

[cedward1]

This happens to me now and then. Just last night, I dreamed I came across Leonardo Dicaprio. I laughed at him because he didn't know if he was awake or dreaming, and told him that his totem wouldn't work. I smugly thought about how I knew I was dreaming, and this so-called expert didn't. The thing is, I didn't grasp what that meant. It was just a dream about a dream in which I was "lucid" and Leo wasn't.

[apsinvo]

First post here! I've been lurking for months. Not sure why I haven't signed up sooner I've done a RC in a dream before and not become lucid! Only the once though. I was in my parents house (where I lived for 24 years). I always seem to end up there in dreams. My mum, dad and brother and one of his friends were in the hall with me. I turned to my dad and said "one minute, I'm just going to go and check if I'm dreaming." he just replied "OK then", as if I hadn't said anything strange(!) I went out the front door, and jumped in the air about to fly, nothing happened, I just fell straight back down as I would if I'd done it in reality. I came back in and said, "I guess not" and then just got on with the dream unaware