Thread: Post your "close to lucidity" moments

Originally Posted by ld master

I have been having alot of "close to lucidity moments lately like finding something strange and then considering doing a reality check but then eventually deciding not to or doing a reality check and then waking up as i am performing it. Like the other night i was watching this football/soccer program Gillette Soccer Saturday and there are a couple of ridiculous scorelines like one where Liverpool lost 10-2 to West Ham, which i was like wtf is going on this can't be right. After a while of thinking about whether do do one i decided to and as i was counting my figers i woke up and another where i was watching Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction (great programme) and was so close to performing a reality check but didn't and many others.

Post in your "close to lucidity moments".

Hi, they are frustrating to say the least.... But it also gives an opportunity to look back and ask what went wrong and try my best to correct the problem. Usually my close to lucidity moments is when I see my dreamsign (My Little Pony theme) and remember that I have to do an RC. But I rarely actually do it in the dream..only think that I should. Problem for this is that IRL I also tend to skip doing RCs even when I see my dreamsign only doing them sometimes. Like that time I was at my grandma's house that looked nothing like it IRL and as I stayed longer there the place became a shopping mall and there was this shop selling nothing but MLP stuff. I was on the outside of the shop looking in and remembered I was to do a RC but was distracted by a guy looking at me from inside the shop so I walked away... Btw I loved that Beyond Belief show with Jonathan Frakes....

IMJ

Yeh it was a great show. What i do if i am distracted when doing a reality check is later on i revall i forgot then perform it, it's paying off too.

Try never to let anything distract you when performing a reality check because it happens alotin dreams and it will pass on to them.

I have 2 main ones in my head right now.

The 1st one was a dream I had last month. It was a Harry Pottter dream, and in it Harry gave me a Birthday card that said "You Are Dreaming!", but I didn't get the hint!! And in the other dream, I was at a Bull Riding contest. For some reason, my shoes weren't on. I happened to look down at my feet, and there was an extra toe on both!!

so sad...

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

I have 2 main ones in my head right now.

The 1st one was a dream I had last month. It was a Harry Pottter dream, and in it Harry gave me a Birthday card that said "You Are Dreaming!", but I didn't get the hint!! And in the other dream, I was at a Bull Riding contest. For some reason, my shoes weren't on. I happened to look down at my feet, and there was an extra toe on both!!

so sad...

I don't think you are going to get a bigger hint than that, a birthday cake with you are dreaming on it. I wish i could get hints like that.

Last night i was living in my old house in the dream and i went to town to play football and i noticed people from my old school walked onto the pitch and i was thinking why are they here, they don't live near and i felt i was close to doing a reality check or becoming lucid.

Yesterday I had a dream where I woke up and my girlfriend was in the room topless and I realised that since she never does that I'm probably dreaming but as soon as that happened I woke up.

Then this morning in my dream I got out of bed instinctually knowing I was dreaming for no reason whatsoever. I went to the bathroom and peed like a dog, deciding to do a reality check when I was finished but when I did the reality check, I woke up immediately.

Another close one was six months ago when I first found out about lucid dreaming, I had a dream that I was in a labratory, waiting in the lobby so i could ask one of the scientists about how to induce a lucid dream. There were signs all over the place with things like 'ARE YOU DREAMING?' and stuff like that. In the end someone told me that the scientist was too busy to talk to me and then I woke up without ever realizing that I was dreaming

Last night I decided to WILD, but when I reached the dream state I was afraid to do the nose-plug RC (my favorite) because I thought it would disturb my drift into SP!

Needless to say, I had to WILD twice in oder to get to a lucid dream.

I was listening to some binaural beats with my eyes closed. All of a sudden I get vibrations and a big purple light comes at me. I could have done a WILD, right there...but I jumped myself out of it.*takes a hammer to face*

I was in the middle of an RC (biting my tounge to check if it hurts, it's important that I pay attention when I do it because otherwise my dream-self just acts like it hurt) and a DC next to me made some sort of loud noise and I got distracted

I came close to doing a WILD this morning, though I had to get up to go out.

I didn't get sleep paralysis, but I started seeing really vivid images that looked as vivid as waking vision, but when I looked at them really closely they dissolved back to nothing.

Must have been really close :/

One time, I realized I was dreaming, but I couldn't move.

Not fun.

Originally Posted by Mman19

One time, I realized I was dreaming, but I couldn't move.

Not fun.

I have had that lots of times-not great.

Originally Posted by mylucidworld

Post in your "close to lucidity moments".

I had two chances, my mind didn't want to register these two reality checks sessions.

I was on a rowing bote (like he second level of tomb raider) and I did the nose plug realtity check, didn't work because I couldn't breath with it plugged.

Second time, I was in a game shop. I do two reality checks, two people want to start a fight with me. I get curios, so I hold my nose, I can't breath. I release, then I look at my hands, fairly normal.

What the hell happaned there?

Originally Posted by Jdeadevil

I had two chances, my mind didn't want to register these two reality checks sessions.

I was on a rowing bote (like he second level of tomb raider) and I did the nose plug realtity check, didn't work because I couldn't breath with it plugged.

Second time, I was in a game shop. I do two reality checks, two people want to start a fight with me. I get curios, so I hold my nose, I can't breath. I release, then I look at my hands, fairly normal.

What the hell happaned there?

This could have something to do with your waking reality checks, do you do them routinely (not really believing that you could be dreaming) or genuinely? because if you do them without actually believing that you could be dreaming then you will expect the reality checks to pass and in dreams expectation plays a big role. As for the dream characters wanting to start a fight with you

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=48462

Thanks for the information.

But in a way, if it wasn't for that little bastard with a white shirt who tried to beat the shit out of me, I would of never reality checked. I would of knocked his fuckin' head off anyway.

Last night i was watching a football match and a team scored and there was no pause in play after the goal, not only that but then the team who just scored run up the other end and tryed to score up there as well. I thought but i believe just as i was about to realize i was dreaming i woke up.

Mine I feel, is the worst. It only lasted around 30 seconds. I was in the middle of a stadium, like the Colosseum. The seats were full and everybody was shouting, "You're dreaming! You're dreaming!"

Originally Posted by Meakel

Mine I feel, is the worst. It only lasted around 30 seconds. I was in the middle of a stadium, like the Colosseum. The seats were full and everybody was shouting, "You're dreaming! You're dreaming!"

I wonder what message they were trying to get across?

I think this belongs in this thread. http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=29419

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction? is a great show but i's not on tv anymore for me i've seen alot of weird things and just not realized it was a dream. Alot of the times i see an old cat or dog i used to have but don't realize i'm dreaming :p

Ahh! I watch that show, it's interesting. But what does that have to do with lucid dreaming?

the original poster referenced it in his dream

I don't get you.

Is it perticular episode? PM me.

Last night i had dreamed that i got up from my bed and i looked at the time on my stove, it had read 5:56 and i told myself there is no way i slept in to 5:56 pm so as i realized i was dreaming i woke up.

Last night i dreamt about travelling. Me and a friend of mine were travelling somewhere and we met some guy. We sat down at an outdoor table, he gave us a glass of water, but i didn't quit trust him. He smiled and walked away. Then a van came driving towards us very fast, it stopped.

I thought 'if this goes bad I'll do a RC and realize that i'm dreaming, so there's nothing to worry about.'

Then some peruvian folkband got out of the van and started doing their thing. Afterwards they became a little annoying, the dream continued for quite some time, i remember battling one of the peruvian girls who turned into some sort of demon, i captured her in a big sort of aquarium, lots of crazy stuff happened, but i did't get lucid.

I was pretty disappointed when i woke up, how could i not just do a RC and become lucid, while i'm already pretty sure that i'm dreaming?