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.