Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

This is from last night

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.... I did a reality check, asking if I was in a dream. Since it was night, I couldn't see my hand very well. I grabbed my phone and shine my light on my hand but it only lit up a little bit of it. Everything started feeling so real. I came to the conclusion that I wasn't in a dream and said "Nah, this can't be a dream" I was obviously wrong, and the feeling of realism went away. ...

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stupid, stupid, stupid. Now instead of just looking at my hands and counting fingers, I move my fingers and make a fist

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Originally Posted by Phantox

This is from last night

stupid, stupid, stupid. Now instead of just looking at my hands and counting fingers, I move my fingers and make a fist

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Nose plug! Quick, clear, works in total darkness.

I once talked with someone and then he suddenly told me ''being here helps you learning to lucid dream'', and I was like ''what are you talking about?'', and the dream ended a minute later lol

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Originally Posted by FryingMan

Nose plug! Quick, clear, works in total darkness.

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That doesnt work for me, apparently. Heres from a lucid a whie ago

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I pinch my nose but am unable to breathe. I notice my ears haven't popped and when I notice it, they do, like in the waking world. Everything feels so real. I look at my left hand and count fingers. 5 fingers and a thumb. I tell myself "That's all the proof I need"

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Idk why

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Originally Posted by Phantox

That doesnt work for me, apparently. Heres from a lucid a whie ago
Idk why

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Hmm maybe you need to practice it more in waking life, expecting it to work. Not every RC works for everybody, though, so yes you need to adjust to what works for you.

Soo - I was dreaming, that I had to do a sort of course in my old school-house - and suddenly I thought - hey - now that is weird!!
I've been dreaming of having to come back to school for something like this! There were more aspects, I had dreamt before.

Conclusion: that must have been a precognitive dream!! :bluesmile:

And for a moment I considered jumping in the air and try hovering - but I didn't, not to disrupt the conversation, if I would indeed hover - I could make people nervous.. Attachment 6829

I see my clean-shaved, shining, 25-years-old face (and that's over 20 years ago!) head-on as if looking closely in a mirror, but there's no mirror involved that I sense. I tell my wife I must have shaved without realizing it! :bang:

My teeth were falling! I realized I must be dreaming but I decided to put that mess in order before any other thing, then lost the dream staring at my toothless mouth in front of a mirror.

By far my stupidest one to date:

I was trying to WILD that night after a few unsuccessful attempts, so I got up and looked at my clock. My eyes were VERY heavy, and vision was blurry, and I was in my room so I couldn't tell whether I was dreaming or not. So I think to myself "if I'm this tired, I can't be dreaming... let me just lay here on the floor for a minute" then I closed my eyes.

All the standard WILD transition hallucinations happened... and then I woke up in bed. Fully awake. I had somehow hallucinated myself from the dream into the waking state...

one time in my dream I was in our school sports centre in the locker room. I tried to open my locker but I kept putting the code in wrong. I felt really drowsy and slow so I thought 'hmmm, maybe I'm dreaming' so I did an RC. I counted my fingers and there were 6 on one hand. For some reason I then decided that I wasn't dreaming, but that my brain was missing, so I called a doctor to check if my brain was still there. WHY?!

This one time I jumped into a pool and began swimming around until I reached the bottom. I kept walking around the deceivingly deep pool for a minute or two until I thought "how am I breathing underwater?"
I began doing an RC starting with my fingers, counting them, trying to see if they were backwards...
Everything seemed normal, until I started checking my breathing. I don't recall exactly what I said, but when I did a breathing check (which should've been an obvious sign since I was underwater) I automatically assumed I had gills. Gills. I felt like such an idiot when I woke up.

I really love these stories!! And sort of not, of course..

Last night I dreamt of a supposedly natural mountainous assortment of more or less big rocks. Rather a solid tower it was.
And some of the stones were standing up, instead of lying flat.
Now I remembered correctly, that I dreamt about such a stone configuration before - that was me filling in a window like that.
I even went on to think, well yes - that was me in that dream - I arranged the stones such - how could plain geology have lead to that?
Could this be a dream?
Well - I decided to have something better to do than musing about dreams and probabilities and I went on with a fruitless and nervy search for something or other ..Attachment 7009


I wish I came across more oddness irl to foster a habit of RCing on them - and I will try to RC, once I think about dreaming spontaneously or at least unsought for ..

Last dream I came across some object of a small plastic paper bin or something. Which had thick blackened pieces of dust all over it which I wanted to wipe off with water. They kept stuck on the lid though so i figured i will take some toilet paper and fill them with water from the floor (wtf). Which didn't work either but little pieces came off anyway and started running around the floor and I got so scared that I woke up. :O :(

I remember my dad was there and I asked him. WTf these things are walking. Apparently I was lucid enough to think that but since I asked a question my dad answered; yes, they do that.. As if that is explainign anything. And i just
believed it. I think if i didn't ask something I would be this close to fending off the buggers nd gaining lucidity.

It is nice to unravel each other's dreams in this way lalal. I think I will frequent this thread some more!

Driving in a car, I'm planning what I'll do the next time I'm lucid in a car: summon and operate a star-wars hyperdrive mechanism and fly off into random places in the universe and see where I end up.

I should name my DJ "Stupid ways to miss becoming lucid."

LAST NIGHT i was making out with a girl and when we stopped for a sec i thought "i should do a reality check" but i didnt have time cuz we started doin it again! oh well lol dream was good anyway lel

I'd take that non-lucid any day. As :sageous: says, some dreams are fine just the way they are, without lucidity.

Funny thing I remember one night I was repeating my mantra and I was wondering when I would fall asleep and I eventually fell asleep and I was in this dream where I am sitting on a table and there are about 20 people sitting near me outside a shopping centre I remember as I was in this dream I was thinking "when am I going to fall asleep and start dreaming?" not knowing I was already in a dream. Then my mum dc popped out of no where and told me my toe nails are super long and I looked down and I just happen to be barefoot with freakishly long toe nails and I remember thinking how odd, but I was still waiting on falling asleep lol

I was in a dream where I was trying to jumping down from a big rock, that wasn't especially high, but since I wanted my dog to be able to make it down too, I decided to stay there with him (he's to big to just pick up by the way). Well, since my dog couldn't make the jump. We where just stuck at the little rock and my dog started to say something and we was just standing there and holding each other just like Shaggy and Scooby doo usually do when they are scared of some monster. So my conclusion was: "Aha of course, this is just Scooby doo!" :doh:

One time I was lying on an chair on the roof of a skyscraper, then I saw superman playing table tennis by him self, the first thought that came to my mind was "oh Yh superman lives in New york"... Then an anime character appeared from warped space and started perform serves that not even superman could return, he just stood there and said "ha" in surprise. :facepalm:

Another time it took 3 oblivious signs before I became lucid... I was walking to school and realized I forgotten my keys, got a little concerned but kept on going, then I realized I forgot to do my hair, still not lucid, but finally I realized that I wasn't even in my uniform and that's when the lightbulb came on! But I soon lost lucidity when a wild barbarian started chasing me in school.

I have several but I will start with last night...

I was in the kitchen preparing to fry chicken...I started by putting the chicken in a paper bag to coat it with flour (I fry chicken the old fashioned way), but every time I would take the chicken out of the bag of flour to drop it in the hot cooking oil, the flour would mysteriously disappear. I would then proceed to drop more chicken in the bag of flour, but the chicken would continue to come out of the bag clean. For some reason I thought this was perfectly normal and I continued this process until I woke up...:sad2:

Excerpts from recent non-LDs:

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I was teaching a DC how to look for dream signs. Didn't pick up on any myself. :P

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I was trying to help Rai become lucid.

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Last night I drempt that I was in school taking a test on sleep cycles and the last page was on lucid dreaming. My mind did not catch this.

Last week in my sobriety and a single night of a mild supplement, I had recall like nothing I've had in a long time. And with this opportunity I dreamt of, among other things:

1). Being magically inviscerated by a woman floating three feet above me in the backyard of my old house.

2) A dangerous relay around a fancy hotel pool with a jungle gym in the middle that happened to press souvenir pennies as well. I said to the girl ahead of me in regard to one particularly tricky obstacle in the relay, "Hah! Yeah, and I'll marry the pope!"

3) A zero-sixty gun/knife fight centered on my refusal to give rides home from the cinema to strangers...I went from "im sorry" to 20 or moreweapons pointed at me at once. featuring a guy I haven't seen in 10 years or more carrying an automatic weapon comically too large for him...REALLY?

Two of my three most frequent dream signs are physical and chronological impossibilities...Factor in the whole lotta nonsense that tends to plague my dreams, and KABLAM!

...still I was fooled! My sense of reality is just not...in check!

>_<

I've had heaps of dreams about virtual worlds lately, either being in a game or an unexplained virtual reality. I keep missing them!