Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

Recently I had a dream where I was hanging out in my friend's shed, and my other friend walked in the room. I looked at him for a second and thought "he looks different."

It took me a minute to realize that he had the lower-body of a tiger, and 20 fingers (10 on each hand). I was just like "HOLY CRAP, YOU'RE A CENTAUR!" and he was like "Yeah, it's great, you should try it sometime."

I screamed and ran away.

I was jumping in water from a battleship and every time at the moment I'd hit water, I took a deep breath so that water can enter my lungs. I thought the feeling was cool. Then I got to a helicopter to jump from an even greater height. I was scared a bit cause it was really high, but then told to myself "It's a dream, I can't get hurt!" and jumped without realising.

I was in a taxi and complaining about how long we have to drive until home, then the surroundings changed, I was suddenly almost home and I though "hey, it's a dream", looked at my hands but they looked normal and then decided I'm not dreaming.

I was watching a tv-like scene with three kids walking at the bottom of a filled pool. A menacing figure above them began swimming at them, when one kid stopped and asked, "is this a dream?" Following was a voice-over with a caption: "or nightmare?"
A second kid then responded, "no, I think this is a dream. We can't normally breathe under water. This must be a dream." Again, followed by a voice-over, "or nightmare?"

Shortly after, I awoke without ever becoming lucid.

I have dreamed the last two nights of nuclear weapons. The first night I dreamed of nuclear war, so lastnight I made a strong affirmation to rc when I saw a mushroom cloud, and I practiced MILD. I think the rest is pretty self explanitory :/.

Those two dreams could have been "da bomb" if I had have gone lucid. Literally. =D

"your dreaming"

....enough said.

I got out of my bed, and wrote down a dream that I never had in my dream journal, then I started walking around the house and writing down EVERYTHING I SAW in the journal. My math teacher was using the kitchen. Then I woke up and I was SOOO MAAAD that I didn't notice I was dreaming.

Edit: Also, this morning I had a dream where I was at a window, being held up by my family friend (he was holding me up with the pistol from Half Life 2, no less.) And then I said. "There is no way this is happening. I must be dreaming!" Then I threw my head back and shouted "I'M DREAMING!" My family friend was still looking angry at me, as if I never said anything, and I clear my throat and say "Actually, I'm not dreaming"

my room had an "under construction" area outside with sexy construction workers
i didnt become lucid because i tried to turn on a light and it actually turned on
so i was super confused because i read that light isnt supposed to
turn on and off in a dream
and kept thinking everything was real
THEN my dream changed and i was smoking in my bed and i dropped the blunt on the sheets i was super scared cuhs i couldnt move.. then i started screaming n then i woke up mad that i thought it was real

I always have dreams where my dog that passed away about a couple months ago will come run up to me, i'll pet her for a bit, and every time i never question my reality.

Last night in one of my dreams, I was talking to a friend about LDing for a long time on the phone, and then I got into a fight with my dad about it, as he thought it was a pointless and stupid thing to pursue.

Then in the next one, I was on the DV forums for a bit talking about someone.

Man, how could I not catch THAT!?!?!?!?!?!?

Originally Posted by Beeyahoi

Last night in one of my dreams, I was talking to a friend about LDing for a long time on the phone, and then I got into a fight with my dad about it, as he thought it was a pointless and stupid thing to pursue.

Then in the next one, I was on the DV forums for a bit talking about someone.

Man, how could I not catch THAT!?!?!?!?!?!?

Ouch.

This week I started trying consciously again and I was in a supermarket with a friend and we had vodka, but I wanted some juice.
He asked a girl, but she said they didn't have any.
When I looked to the side there clearly was oj there,
so i told her:"Then what's that?" and I looked back and it had turned into shampoo bottles and I didn't question it at all.
Just thought it was my mistake.
DOH!

The dream started with me being in a bus that was heading to school. Just standing there with a couple of friends when suddenly everything blacks out. I "woke up" with me being on the floor and lucid. I immediately got thoughts like: "OMG, you are having a lucid dream!!!", so I thought I should increase the lucidity by doing the finger trick. I started thrusting my finger through my other hand and I saw in amazement how my hand became rubbery, but I started feeling intense pain. The pain was so much that I lost lucidity and continued a boring dream.

I was at a car lot.. all the sudden, chuck norris comes out of nowhere and tries to kill me.. he is throwing bullets at me like someone would throw a baseball.. and just as fast as a bullet.. then i find a gun on the ground nexxt to me.. and the bullets just happen to fit the gun, so i load up the bullets that were from the ground into the gun.. pop out at chuck, point the gun at him and pull the trigger.. but the gun doesn't fire.. i dont remember anyting after that.. all i remeber is waking up feeling really stupid.

Ok it happened to me this night

While I didn't have a lucid dream for a long time (but i'm working on it since a couple of days) I still think it's dumb that I didn't get lucid on that one.

I dreamed that I was lucid, and I told my roommate:
Ok i'm lucid now, what about you?
-Not yet, wait i'm going in my room

(i'm waiting)
shouting at his door: Are you lucid yet???!!!
-Ok i'm lucid!
-All right let's go then...

(nothingness...)

Then I woke up

I just never heard the word "lucid" that many times inside a dream

I can't stand when I don't realise that im in a dream and its blatantly obvious, it's odd how the mind finds absolutely nothing wrong with breathing underwater while in a dream lol.

Originally Posted by lukdwy

I always have dreams where my dog that passed away about a couple months ago will come run up to me, i'll pet her for a bit, and every time i never question my reality.

I often times have a very similar experience but instead of my dog/the petting it's typically my grandfather (who passed in '05) and me hanging out at my grandparents, Yet I've never even questioned it.

I have the ULTIMATE one. I was in a dream and I was in a mansion courtyard and was looking around, and said to myself " Wow, this dream is so vivid! I wonder what dreamviews would say about this dream " AND I DIDNT BECOME LUCID. WTF?!?! Really, I stood there and CONFIRMED AND TOLD MYSELF that it was a dream, but I still didnt go lucid!! WTF!?!?!??! that was the PERFECT opportunity to get a lucid, and I blew it!

I was shopping for some groceries when I get to the butcher's section. Being a vegetarian, I normally don't bother with meat, but at this point I thought to myself, "since I'm dreaming, I suppose it's alright to pick up some steaks."

Originally Posted by Nemo

I was shopping for some groceries when I get to the butcher's section. Being a vegetarian, I normally don't bother with meat, but at this point I thought to myself, "since I'm dreaming, I suppose it's alright to pick up some steaks."

Originally Posted by patrick45

I have the ULTIMATE one. I was in a dream and I was in a mansion courtyard and was looking around, and said to myself " Wow, this dream is so vivid! I wonder what dreamviews would say about this dream " AND I DIDNT BECOME LUCID. WTF?!?! Really, I stood there and CONFIRMED AND TOLD MYSELF that it was a dream, but I still didnt go lucid!! WTF!?!?!??! that was the PERFECT opportunity to get a lucid, and I blew it!

Wow, those two are pretty bad ones guys. For all I know, I might have the stupidest way that I've missed becoming lucid, but, bad recall, means no clue if I did

One of my annoying friends was bugging me and kept on telling me i was dreaming.
I told him to shut up and walked away

i was reading a newspaper in dream, and the entire front page was covered with WILD information. the headline was seriously "W.I.L.D", and i remember looking and reading the information that was there on ld-ing. i woke up and slapped myself.

I've had my fair share of those. Once I was in the armor of the gears from gears of war and it looked like carmines, but you think that I think I would relize that the only place I could be shooting an m16 (didn't know where my lancer went ) at the locust while they were in a part of a destroied building on the side of a road leading to a tunnel while im in a Krispy Kream dougnut shop with two russian people and a friend was in a dream, I did kick myself when I woke up. It was fun though, *sigh* doughnuts and guns

I was reading a book about lucid dreaming and about dream signs. In one line, it was written "Are you dreaming?", but I ignored. Few seconds later I awoke...

i saw myself in the mirror and i had no eyebrows and it shocked me awake