Arrgh!

I feel like an utter idiot! I went to sleep last night at about 11:00 had two short dreams, the first one was me on the command deck of a space ship, I wasn't interacting with anyone or anything but the crew kept talking about "Reality Checks". Next I dream I am watching that Cartoon Network Adult Swim show, Robot Chicken, and while I watch it there is are two claymation guys that walk onto the screen and shout in a kind of california surfer accent, "Reality Check dudes!" they stick their fingers through their palms crack huge fake smiles and then there's canned laughter. My alarm goes off at 4:00 so I do a quick check and write down the two short things I remembered, I go back to sleep and have an insanely long and pretty good non-lucid dream it's just like I was being bombarded from all sides with little hints to perform reality checks or that things were just not right with the world.

I was on a college campus out in the middle of the ocean taking some kind of oceanography course, they had stadium style seats in the room and one day I go into class and I slip on the carpet and slide all the way down to the front on my elbows, since the floor is a real steep carpet ramp. It felt really bad and I was expecting to look down and see big scrapes on my arms from carpet burns but there was nothing there and the heat just dissapeared, "whoo, guess I'm just lucky." I guess I'm lucky!!!! I shoulda been bleeding out! how could I not realize that! Wait, things get better, in this college in spare time we play musical games with the professors, and for some reason much to my displeasure I always end up with a snare drum and I always lose, So I decide to research how to play snare drums on the internet, I gave up though because it was near impossible to understand anything on the screen(of course I just shrug that off. ), I turn around the scene changes and I witness/narrate/participate, in a transaction between terrorists and an old rich man. when I am outside the old man's apartment there is a store across the street with cheap little neon signs on it, I startle him we have a chat and we become kinda friends and we both look over at the store and the letters (which like an idiot I commented that they were "on tracks or something") started to shuffle over to one side of the building and pulse on and off, then as I walk the guy back to his door, I look up and talk about how nice the moon looks. The Moon apparently has been graffitied on by picasso, it's got patches of orange and black and purple all over it! How the heck do I miss that hint! I study astronomy for fun! I saw it earlier in the dream and it looked completely normal! You'd expect me to take that hint wouldn't you? But no...so miraculously I'm back at the college again, and it's now 4:39 AM dream time, there are kids wandering around at this time of night, as if it was a normal thing. Now I need to go to the restroom but Brittney Spears is attending this school and decided to have "celebrity bathrooms" and has security gaurding them. SO I have to wander around looking for a bathroom until i get to the lobby where some guys I know from church are getting ready to close the restrooms for the night, after a little persuasion I convince them to let me past, I go in realize from earlier conditioning that if I ever need to go to the restroom in my sleep to wake up. I sit up in my bed, the real bed...I checked. I then just felt so dissappointed in myself. I mean seriously it was like my brain was begging me to get lucid and I missed every opportunity flawlesslylike a mindless idiot.

*sigh* so am I just stupid? How do I fix this? Were there always these calls to check reality I just hadn't known about them until I read about them? I really wasn't thinking about reality checks or anything when I went to bed I just felt so tired I didn't try to, and imagined some of my music playing to get me to sleep.
Man, I feel so stupid, it couldn't have been clearer if someone had walked up hit me with a stick and said I was dreaming.

Eheh, I know how you feel... I had several dreams where I was explaining the concept of lucid dreams to DCs, or discussing techniques to control the environment, and it didn't triggered my lucidity ;)
But I don't think you should feel like an idiot... after all, among the other members who read your post: how many of you DID a reality check when you mentionned the "Reality Check dudes!" :wink: ?

Hmm, well on the positive side, I guess next time some of those things happen I'll be more attentive, since this experience so strongly affected me. It's kind of made me feel resolved to do a check next time I see anything that even hints at it.

I just can't believe I had a dream about reality checks and I didn't do any of them. :roll: Ah well... there's always tonight. So help me I WILL do it.

Well good luck on dat bent :wink: i haven't gotten anywhere yet though.... my dreams aren't very big usually :( this may be very hard for me. i think ill be at this for a while :shock:

Happens to me all the time. I had 2 dreams last night that should have been lucid. It stinks, but each time remembering the dreams will help in the long run. Keep adding dream signs to your list. :)

Yeah... dreams about explaining LDs and stuff....and not bcoming lucid!....It just happens...
Am I dreaming?

well, I've only had about 6 dreams that I've recorded so far and it doesn't seem like there's a big pattern yet, but it seems like there are old people in a great percentage of my dreams, so maybe I should plug my nose every time I see a teacher, just to be safe :)

It's good to think positive. I guess I should see if I can continue to get these sorts of dreams until I finally do a RC that gets me lucid. I wonder why I don't remember to do it in my dreams though? I do it in the day a lot. hmmm.

I even had a dream: a friend rang me to tell me he was actually dreaming --> made me realise I was dreaming --> False awakening where I go on Dreamviews to talk about it!!!
and all that time not lucid

:blue: OH NOOO! I would be so upset after that, getting on in the morning to see what everyone else posted, only to find it's not there. *sigh* you could use the internet in your dream though? I've tried in my dreams but I couldn't make any sense of the screens. I can't believe I didn't realize it then, I just justified it with the idea that the connection was bad. How thick can I get! :roll:

Eh, this night I had a dream where I was suggesting to someone that "maybe that's a dream" and, having a sudden doubt, I did a RC and then I became lucid. That was the first time it worked :)
Your post helped me (just by thinking about it, I guess), so I'm sure that tonight, it will work for YOU too :)

Wow, that's awesome! Congratulations on your first time :)

I'm glad if anything I said helped you out. That just makes my day. I'll keep working at it. got to remember those reality checks.

:bowdown: you are awesome! :bowdown: