I'd like to hear if any of you have had light-hearted lucid experiences where a DC tells a funny joke. You know, a joke that would be funny in the real world.


It was an LD goal I thought of extemporaneously last night. I was in a kind of VIP room of someone's penthouse party, on a really tall building. Wow it must have been 70 stories. Anyways, I wasn't really looking out the window, but since I had to get into the room first by navigating impossibly from a 3rd person perspective from the outside of the building, I knew I was dreaming, and proceeded to party knowing this was my place. Still, it's kind of fun to hold back lucidity for a while around DCs, as a little experiment to see how they react. They usually do not behave any differently.

Then I walked out to the party and telepathically broadcasted, "is there anyone here who represents my creative side?"

Everyone looked around and moved aside to let a few people who were sheepishly raising their hands in a way to mean, "you mean me?" One was a girl among a group of girls.

Now making her the center of attention I said, "yeah... do you know any good jokes?"

"Sure!" she said, happy to be talking in front of everyone.

I sat back to let things play out, curious.

Nothing she said was funny. She spoke entirely too quickly, in that characteristically valley girl sort of gossip quickness, and took entirely too long. When she was done a modest amount of people laughed. "Who's next?" another one of the creative girls said, excitedly.

This could be fun, I thought, a sort of competition. One of them came out of their own, and said something that made more people laugh. I laughed with them in good cheer but had been disappointed at my subconscious.

I was trying to stay in a mindset of objectivity, to see a really good objectively funny joke. Apparently that side of my subconscious was not manifestly attending this party.

Then for my own amusement, I picked out someone who in real life was never funny, and had them go next. That's when the dream ended. My mind went totally kaput at the thought of what they might say.


Serves me right. Comedy's like 90% in the delivery... But in dreams it's 100%. You could be looking at a cheesecake and something would just tickle that part of your brain and cause you to laugh. And it would be really really funny in a dream.

But how about in real life?

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My poor DCs. I expect too much from them.