Thread: My Dreaming mind is dumb

So last night, more accurately this morning, I had a lucid dream(that I remembered). I'm happy I had one, and since this is only my 3rd time, I figured I'd share it.

I dreamed that my family got home (maybe from eating out somewhere?) and I went towards my room but apparently there was another room right next to mine. Inside, I saw a friend from school blasting some music (kind of like a party but with no one else. Going inside the room, I noticed that I looked just like my room. The same desk, the same dresser...ext. I left and went to the kitchen, when I finally thought "How could my friend be living with me... I must be dreaming!" I looked at my hands and sure enough, one was messed up. I remember trying to calm down and rub my hands together and look at my surroundings, but I can't remember what happened after that.

I was so dumb not realizing that I was dreaming!

I had something like that happen once. I was "reading" some book with no words, and there was an author. Couldn't get a look at it very well.

Originally Posted by dave1701

I was so dumb not realizing that I was dreaming!

Well it sounds like you did realize you were dreaming, maybe you just forgot at some point? It's usually harder to remember the non-lucid parts of a dream, so maybe that's why you can't remember what happened next.

When you become lucid, it's important to stay focused and not get too involved in any task that could take your mind off the fact that you're dreaming. I don't know if that was the case with you though, based on the information you gave.

Don't worry, it happens to just about everyone here. Your logic really does get messed up in a mysterious way when you are dreaming, but that's good that you caught it

I wouldn't feel too bad. Slight back-story before I explain what happened in my second LD: when I first discovered lucid dreaming, I talked to my dad about it. He thought it was stupid and didn't understand why anyone would want to waste their time on it, unless you were a hippie. Well, my second LD ever and I'm actually in my house and it was exactly as it was in reality (very very rare for me in a dream). I saw my mom's cat which we had just put down because it got very sick and was like 15 years old. I knew then I was dreaming. To double-check, I looked at my hands and my stove's clock: 6 fingers on the left hand and the time continually changed. This was 100% a dream and I knew it. I went into the living room and there is my dad. I start to leave the house and he asks where I am going. I told him this was a dream so it didn't matter. He started telling me that I was crazy and that this wasn't a dream. I tried proving him wrong by doing reality checks again, but they all failed me. Somehow a DC of my dad talked me out of lucidity, thusly making the cumulative time of my LD roughly 7 minutes. I was shocked that I was so easily dissuaded from my conviction that I was in a dream, but since then (this happened like 3 or 4 years ago) I've learned that it was just a newb LDer mistake. My dream mind is still kind of dumb like that, but I've improved since then.