Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

a dream that my uncle and aunt(who live in Canada) were telling me they could dream share, and they would teach me how to do it. They also said they would help me get in contact with a DC-spirit-person-thing that comes into my dreams every so often. And after that still no lucidity

Did 2 reality checks and both FAIL.
PS: 3rd time this happens

lol one time i was in a room and thought I was dreaming, this was before i stumbled upon this sight and knew about reality checks...I tried to fly and hit my head on the roof...I thought since I cant fly I must not be dreaming lol

Deliberately smashed my face (while wearing my glasses!) with a sort of griddle/skillet, leaving a detailed impression in the metal. I used that as a cast, and filled it with snow to make a bust of my face. I have no idea why I did that, or how I missed it being a dream.

Last night, I had something close to a nightmare. I was running down an outdoor hallway of my church from some kind of monster (for some reason, I recalled it as a demonic teddy bear...that's dreams for ya). I ran up to my father (after praying that I would wake up) and asked him how to get out of the dream. After he told me to run into a wooden wall, but before I did it, I thought, "I can worry about lucidity later. Right now I have to wake up!" I then charged into the wooden wall...and ended up in a false awakening. In which I didn't go lucid.

I have a suspicion that I may have been at least semi-lucid there for a moment, but I can't imagine myself skipping a lucid dream for anything, especially since I only have 2-3 per month. How saddening. I always envision myself standing up to any dangers that face me in dreams because they aren't real, but as soon as they do, I run like a coward!

Last night in my dream I was trying to put on deodorant. When I took off the lid I found it was covered in dirt, for some reason I thought it fell in the vacuum bag. In the same dream I was also in the mob, enough said lol.

I ended up redeeming myself though. After waking up from this dream, I fell back asleep & actually had a LD. I will post all of my nonsense in my DJ tonight.

Last night I was in a cave with a person I've never met before and thought for one second it might be a dream, so I RC'd by nose pinching and when it worked I thought, "Yup, this is real!"

I sat in a discussion group and the other girls said they slept with a pin on their nose and when I asked if that really was normal they was like "WHAT!? You don't do that!?". I pinched my nose to check how it felt. Since I could breath through it I thought I was doing it wrong

tried texting a girl about 10 times the other night only for the text to constantly morph. some days it just seems like it is your fate to not get lucid at all. unfortunately last night was one of those and i had a long struggle with a mate who was jabbing me with a knife!! wtf is that all about? must make this into a dreamsign because its not the first time its happened. hopefully its just a slight back spasm that translates as a stabbing in the dream

I bought a book "How To Be A Lucid Dreamer" full of lucidity secrets. As I read it, I just thought "wow I can't wait to go to bed and try these out!"

I was chugging a bottled drink labeled: ESCAPE - The Ultimate Lucid Induction Drink. I remember thinking that it was a strange name for a drink, but I didn't become lucid.
Here's a link to my DJ Entry.

Last night I was in Poundland and everything is a pound. I saw a tv for £67. I stood there thinking "Everything is a pound in Poundland. A tv for £67? That is so wierd!"

WTF I'm so annoyed I missed that. REALITY CHECK WOMAN!!!

When I got interested in lucid dreaming I wrote A to my left hand palm, and everytime I looked at it when I was awake, I tried to question the reality and did a reality check. I then had a dream where I was washing my hands I saw the A in my palm but I didnt do anything....

I looked at my hands and asked myself "Am I dreaming?", Anwsered "No" and then I had normal dream. xD

As I have recently started to try becoming lucid, I had this dream where I was in the tour bus of my favourite band who were travelling to a gig.

(I was with another guy) We saw this person squeeze through a small gap in the door.

I said "That's pretty weird.."

To which he replies "Yeah, almost like you're dreaming.."

When I woke up, I swear I could have kicked myself in the head for not catching onto it -.-

I was searching through a new category on eBay called Dreams. When I woke up, I was not happy that I missed it.

Lol. yesterday I dreamed about how hard it is to Lucid Dream. xD I even talked with my friends about Techniques and about reality checks. One of them asked, what if we are dreaming now... We all just laughed. xD

i kept doing nose plug rc which made people think i was wiping my nose all the time. i even explained that it was an rc and i wasnt just being disgusting, but i was so out of it, and into the normal dream that i had no chance/desire of catching on

i also did indirect techs in the morning, and found myself getting into a dream, yet carrying on with the techniques after i was in it.... very odd

I'm still pissed of at myself from 3 nights ago
I woke up in the middle of the night got out of my bed walked around inside my bed room then lied back in bed
stayed still 2 minutes later I enter SP
10 minutes later (felt like forever) I went to sleep
assoon as I went to to sleep I entered a dream then straight away I became lucid
then instead of me saying the command I'am lucid the world is vivid (it helps to stabalize the dream & make it more memarble)
I shouted out stupidly IAM LUCID THE WORLD IS AWESOME WOOOOOOOOOOH . two seconds later I wake up then said FAAAAAAARRRRK

Saw a clock changing time twice and didn't realise it was a dream.

I dreamed of bombs being dropped on my town. Then I woke up still in a dream under a machine labled dreamviews model 3 and it was a machine hooked up to a projector that would show what the subject was dreaming. Then I stood up and started talking to a class about dreams.

During a WILD I was so close but I flipped out when I felt a presence so I fell out of bed and prevented the whole process.

During a dream yesterday I noticed my friend fly at LEAST 3 meters in the air and didn't even think to reality check.

I was walking down a large strip mall with store names like: Lucid Books; Kitchen Dreams; Lucid Cigars; Lucid Beer, Wine, and Dreams; $1 Dream Store. I woke up angry that I missed that one...

From one of my dreams from last night:

I was at a hotel, and there was a long, pretty, tan, tile staircase leading down to the hotel's street-level doors. I hopped down the stairs, one step at a time. I felt gravity pulling me down each time, and I thought to myself, With all the practicing I've been doing in dreams, I'm getting pretty good at this jumping stuff here in reality! The presence of gravity made me conclude that I was in reality, but of course, in retrospect, I realize that the gravity was weaker than it is in reality.

Last night, I dreamed that I was going to go skiing. I had my skis and gave them to some lady to take up to the top of a hill for me, then rode on a ski lift. If I'd just realized I was dreaming, I might have been able to accomplish one of my major lucid goals, but I didn't even recognize skiing as a dream sign. :/