Reality is Too Difficult to Discern
Quite, in fact, while in a dream.
Especially when you are in a familiar setting with familiar people.
I've been down all day about this near lucid dream.
The vivid portion of my dream began with me standing in front of my house; I may have been dreaming beforehand, but I can't recall exactly. Quite suddenly I thought, "Hey, am I dreaming?" Here's where things got complicated. In my last lucid dream, which was about three nights ago, I began it by flying upward. So you can see my logic would be skewed in that I may think that flying would come naturally. Unfortunately, it does not if you have even the slightest doubt whether you are dreaming.
I ran and jumped but didn't go upwards. I simply landed back on the ground. My brief lucidity, which I wouldn't even call being lucid since I still wasn't aware, faded and I figured I must be awake. So I continued down my street to the end of the block and stood on the corner. There were a few people there so I talked to them a bit. It may actually been about dreaming. :P
It ended.
You can see that I would be more then a bit disappointed by this. It gets worse, though.
Later this morning I had another dream in which I was standing with a friend talking with them about the dream I had an hour ago! I told them that it was nearly lucid and really should have realized it. He began throwing a rusty metal rod around so I backed off.
I woke up shortly thereafter.
I'm very sad that I missed two golden oppourtunties to become lucid.
Any tips for reality checks that I could do on the fly? I've already been doing the 'breathe through nose' test but while in the dream I can never seem to remember to do it.
