Unfortunately justifying wierd crap in dreams

**tehmuffinman** · 07-19-2011 03:42 PM

I keep having dreams where something happens that could easily give me that first lucid that I so deeply crave but I'm making up excuses for the oddities and I can't get past doing this.

Example: I recently found a tiny replica of the One Ring in my room and started wearing it often to see if I would start seeing it in my dreams. Well after two days of wearing it I did. The thing is, it only fits on my pinkie finger. So the other night I have a dream where I slide the ring onto my INDEX finger and I hesitate when I do this because I realize that it has never fit onto my index finger all the way before. I put it on and take it off a few times more to see why it suddenly fits now (this is good I suppose, that I'm at least questioning an illogical event?) and my mind made up the excuse that if I put it on fast enough it could easily slide onto a larger finger, yet that's impossible.

What should I be doing so that I stop making excuses for these impossible/illogical things? At first I thought maybe I need to logically question in real life when I see impossibilities occur but then I realized how stupid it was to think I'll question impossible things when they happen because if they're impossible, they won't happen. /facepalm/

**Firebat11** · 07-19-2011 04:17 PM

Sounds like you might wanna try "All Day Awareness". I get where you're coming from. Just last night, I hijacked a Lamborghini (it was fun) but I didn't give a damn. Check out King Yoshi's Guide on ADA, it may be what you're looking for. Hope that helps =)

**tehmuffinman** · 07-19-2011 04:34 PM

Yea I read Yoshi's guide on ADA just recently and I've been trying to do it whenever I can but I always get distracted by my thoughts and only observe everything for a couple minutes at a time. I guess I just need to keep at it until it becomes a regular thing and probably couple it with RCs so that when I notice things I don't just say, "Oh hey! That's weird! Okay bye!"

**Binsk** · 07-19-2011 11:11 PM

Practice doing reality checks whenever anything ODD happens. It doesn't have to be impossible, just slightly out of the ordinary, or even just enough to cause a double-take. Make sure to ACTUALLY question reality when that happens. This way when something impossible happens in a dream, it will register as odd and you will do a reality check to make sure, even if you make a justification.

**Robot_Butler** · 07-19-2011 11:20 PM

Keep a list of these oddities in your dream journal, or highlight them somehow. Right before bed, read through your old entries to remind yourself not to miss this stuff.