Dreams are too normal

[Paradox-db3]

Lately, my dreams have been too normal. They're so close to reality it's too hard to recognize them as dreams (while in them, of course). Things that could actually (and do actually) happen IRL are happening in my dreams which is not only boring, but making it very difficult to achieve lucidity. Does anyone have (or has anyone had) dreams like this, and how did you get past this barrier? I'm having no success with WILDs, by the way. I want to recognize dreams from within. A DILD or MILD preferably.

[shotbirds]

Happens to me every now and then. Just have to recognize the feeling of being 'unaware' i suppose.

[SleepyCookieDough]

I don't really know how to answer but my first time having a LD, I was in a meadow and as I was walking in the hay, my feet would sink under so I thought I should stop walking 'cause I didn't want to have hay in my feet so i went back and wonder what I should do. That's when I became lucid. It was completly random and had nothing to do with realising how weird things were around me so I guess you could still do it.

[Hukif]

Well... you can always use the memory RC, unless you got only FA, then again it just started recently, right? So it shouldn't stay there for much lol (unlike me... since I can remember its been that way) And if it does... you can always try new RCes <.<

[reapsltd666]

I've had false awakenings like that, but not entire dreams. I usually snap out of it when I look a a digital watch. so try doing that RC (looking at a digital watch)

[Abra]

Describe to me a dream, in full detail, beginning to end. One that you think exemplifies "normal/ordinary" dreams.

[Techno]

I used to have very realistic dreams. Though after a while I stopped worrying about being able to notice the differences between then and slowly but surely my dreams started to become fantastical. It's all a matter of how you predict your dreams to be.

[Paradox-db3]

Yeah, Daniel, I think I've been feeling the same way. I just need to stop thinking/worrying about my dreams so much and soon, they'll be back to the great dreams I've had in the past. Describe to me a dream, in full detail, beginning to end. One that you think exemplifies "normal/ordinary" dreams. Okay, here was a dream I had about two or three nights ago: I was at work, working with someone I knew from years ago. We walked through the school's gymnasium and outside, there was a construction crew working on the road. They were near the south end of the school. The next day, I noticed that they were near the north end of the school, and they had a van parked awfully close to my car. I needed them to move it and the man who owned the van said no. I casually said, "Yeah, you're gonna move your van". And he did. Then, I got inside my car and trid to move it forward, but it was stuck in some deep snow. I eventually got unstuck. I woke up after feeling I was safe out of the deeo snow. Okay, so in the dream, everything was almost exactly as it really is. IRL, last week, there was a construction crew outside, just like in the dream. I have been parking on the street, but in order to get my fav. spot, I had to back up the car into deep snow (because the graters cleared the roads and piled up the snow where I park). I haven't actually got stuck (yet), but the bottom of the car has scraped the snow as I drive home after work. The only different thing that was in my dream was working with someone I hadn't woked with in years (about 12 years). Other than that, everything else was totally plausable. Oh, and the school looked different for a brief moment. Looking back, there may have been some signs that indicate a dream, but it just happens all so fast that I forget to remember I'm dreaming! You know?