'Oh it's just the drugs'

[Wednesday]

SO CLOSE to my first (proper) lucid! I was playing magic cards with my brother in my room and I was quite stoned. I lost the first game and couldn't get organised to play a second - I had shuffled two decks into one another . He went to the toilet and I was alone. I looked around and felt that everything was very unreal - kind of distant and hazy. I attributed this to the pot. I thought that I should check if I was in a dream anyway, so I flicked my light switch. This is dumb but I thought it did do something because my room was lit (dumb because I think it already was). Then I looked out my door and saw that next to my room was a new staircase leading up to a new floor. "Plausible," I thought, "could have been built while I was away all that time doing random stuff in the postapocalyptic tundra" (previous stage of the dream). Anyway, I'm just high. That was annoying. Anybody else been fooled by their dreams into thinking drugs were responsible for 'dream signs' et cetera?

[yumester]

One time my friend gave me gills so when i jumped in the water, it would make sense to breath. Keep working on LDing though! Next time you think about drugs or if you are under the influence of drugs, do a reality check and make sure to really question if you are awake or not.

[Wednesday]

Seems like a reasonable thing to do! I'll try that, although I may seem strange. Speaking of which, I enjoy asking others to be part of reality checks. For instance "You are Not dreaming, I swear." (It seems to have a bigger impact when others say it...)

[yumester]

Seems like a reasonable thing to do! I'll try that, although I may seem strange. Speaking of which, I enjoy asking others to be part of reality checks. For instance "You are Not dreaming, I swear." (It seems to have a bigger impact when others say it...) Unless i misunderstood your post, i think you are misinformed on what reality checks are. They arent for making sure you are awake, but for seeing if you are dreaming. Having someone else convince you that you are NOT dreaming is the exact opposite of what you actually want.

[Wednesday]

Unless i misunderstood your post, i think you are misinformed on what reality checks are. They arent for making sure you are awake, but for seeing if you are dreaming. Having someone else convince you that you are NOT dreaming is the exact opposite of what you actually want. You're probably right, I haven't read much about it. I just interpreted the term to mean simply determining the state you're in. My idea was to familiarise myself with (or rather become more aware of) the quality of the world during waking life and dreaming. Hopefully that would lead to a greater chance of recognitising dreaming when it happens. But it seems to have created this problem where I've recognised similiarities in dreams and psychotropically altered waking life, mistaking one for the other lol.

[Robot_Butler]

Easy mistake. It is way too easy to fool yourself, especially if you assume you're drunk or stoned.