Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

I have birds and so don't have cats. At night a cat comes near my room and meows. I think it penetrates my dreams and causes cats as a dream sign.

So in the first part of a dream, I dreamed that some relatives were guests in the house. Then there was an unrelated scene. Next was a slightly disturbing scene so without realizing I was dreaming I thought I should wake up.

I had a false awakening, I was in a bedroom with a cage of birds with the door open. I closed the door and lay on the bed thinking I was tired and should go to sleep. Then a cat jumped up on the bed, remembering the earlier segment I thought a relative must have brought the cat. As I petted the dream cat and it rubbed against me I told myself that If I should awaken and find a cat in the room,
it would be this real cat that was with me now and not a false awakening with a cat!
(Like the false awakening with a cat I was actually in)

I had just come home in a dream doing some tasks, when I got there My mother was trying to tell me something important,
but a relative on a couch behind me (one who is dead in real life) kept talking at the same time. I turned and thought of the relative your not even real, turned back to my mother and asked her what, as she began retelling me the important thing the relative also began to talk over her again. This time I turned and thought not only that they weren't real but that they weren't even alive either, I thought just Ignore them. I turned to my mother again and said begin again, and tried to ignore as the relative once again talked over her, but this time while trying to listen and ignore at the same time I woke up.

So while I knew they weren't alive and weren't real, I didn't realize my mother wasn't real, the house wasn't real and most importantly (and thus failing to become lucid) that I therefore wasn't real either.

Ok, that was funny.

Another nightmare last night... this time I kept thinking "I'm sure there's something I'm supposed to do if this happens".

... yeah, it's called a reality check.

Just woke from a dream that ended this way:

I was on a field with a building in need of repairs tho I had been their looking over (apparently because of BrExit) some EU official salary descriptions which were written with text lines at about a 30 degree angle relative to the bottom of the page. Suddenly a tall African-american man, a contractor, comes up and a coach begins asking him about whether the needed building renovations would interfere with playing (american) football on the field (the contractor then begins asking him about who / how many play on the team). It is then that I sort of notice the contractor looks to be about 8 feet tall, but also I notice his eyes they are a very bright blue (then again he is very light skinned). I stare a bit and no doubt look quite a bit amazed. I almost immediately look away hoping to see a DC that I know is aware of LD culture. When I see him and several others walking towards me, I hold up my hand with all five fingers out. Mind you I'm not really reality checking, I'm trying to indicate to this person that something is wrong and I am indicating with head jerks where he should be looking. He seems to be looking at the 8 foot black guy but seems to be shaking his head ever so slightly as if he isn't sure what is supposed to be wrong, this goes on a few times me moving my head to indicate precisely where he should be looking. Suddenly I see a donning look of surprise on his face as he has clearly noticed the eyes. :alien: all THREE of them. Then I woke

Read a sign over a stairway that had my full name printed on it. Looked at it a second time and it had only my first name and the first name of one of my co-workers. DUH!

I was going for a hot-air balloon ride of somesort and as I went to the cashier to buy a ticket, I said : " One lucidity please. :) "

I hope I won't become a frequent visitor to this thread :hrm: I can see a "reflection" of the sun on the sky and I think about JadeGreen's double sun - dream sign. I can clearly see two suns now. "Wow that's kinda crazy!" :imslow: And of course they begin expanding into super novas or something and I'm going all Oh my god! and still not realizing it's a dream.

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Originally Posted by Saizaphod

I hope I won't become a frequent visitor to this thread :hrm:

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I could post here every morning but it would be too depressing :)

Some good ones recently:

I met my cousin and his right arm and right leg were swollen to 10x their normal size and wrapped in heaps of gauze bandages. "I got posion ivy" he said.

I realized I was dreaming and I couldn't wait to get fully lucid but the "transition failed" (because of lack of energy?) and I went on dreaming, thinking how said it was that I missed the chance for a LD because of the failed transition.

If I was lucid this was really low level....I was on top of a sky scraper that had a slide that went down about 10 feet and then out off the building. I was scared to leave the building that way becaause I have a fear of heights. But then the slide was going into water instead of out into air. I was still scared since I was up so high, but in my last lucid dream I had actually gone swimming in water, so I thought I might try the slide anyway to overcome my fear. But while thinking that I woke up. So I must have at some level known this was a dream, but never really became fully lucid.

I set something on fire with my mind, even using a very similar method to what I did in a lucid dream. In the lucid dream I stretched my hand out and said "inflammore!" (it sounded Harry Potter-ish). In the non-lucid dream I stretched my hand out and concentrated, felt energy build up in my hand, literally thought back to the lucid dream's control word, thought it would be a stupid thing to say 'in real life' with a person (DC) standing beside me, then said "inflame!"

How in the actual hell...

I noticed something was strange in my last dream when I was at the gym together with my brother(I never go to the gym with my brother in WL) so I decided to do a reality check(pinch my nose and try to breathe) and I noticed that I could breathe even though I pinched my nose! So did I become lucid when I realized that?! Nope... Instead I thought that my sweaty fingers and face must have caused my fingers to slip and therefor I was able to breathe through my nose :doh:

Had a non-lucid dream I was flying. 99% of the time I immediately go lucid when floating or flying. Not last night! Never had THAT happen before. :doh:

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Originally Posted by DoubleHelix

Had a non-lucid dream I was flying. 99% of the time I immediately go lucid when floating or flying. Not last night! Never had THAT happen before. :doh:

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Freaky spider, trying to blow it away from me, total dream sign, not a clue :(

Taking a bubble bath, sitting in the tub, with some beings' faces strapped to my wrists, I could see the eyes blinking on the faces from all the bubbles. My thoughts? "What a great idea this all was!"

Sitting in a car or possibly pickup truck with my father (dead more than a decade) who was complaining of symptoms of a heart attack. Got out of car and crossed street to Firehouse/Ambulance Corp and "nurse" took away what looked like a metal incentive spirometer and gave him a plastic one instead saying the symptoms were due to lead poisoning from the metal mouthpiece. How I missed that one (dead father) is beyond me since his appearance in my dreams is a well-known dream sign. Arrrrgh! :doh:

My brother sits next to my bed where I'm laying dead tired trying to get some sleep. He chuckles a little and asks me : " Hey, what is a dream sign?"

I will my self to point at him.

My brother lives 200 miles away. He is my single biggest dream sign.

:fame:

I had a surprise near-WILD at about 3hrs this morning. I found myself suddenly in a cloud of "Sageous noise" with a very loud rushing sound in my ears and a weight pressing down on my chest. I rode it out calmly, thinking I should probably just try to get up, I might already be in a dream. Then I realized an ex-gf was lying in the twin bed next to mine and I wanted to tell her about my near-WILD, and things continued non-lucidly for a few minutes. Very vivid.

Counted my fingers, came up with seven, went 'seems legit' and went about my dream business.

Sigh.

I look at my fingers as RC, my right hand fingers were f**ked up! I mean dude, every single finger of them was so broken and smashed that they pointed at different directions. and I was like omg not again .. they may disgust some viewers. I need to fix them.
and with my healthy left hand I proceeded to fix my broken fingers to point them at their normal direction. (I could feel my bones frictions)

I'm not the smartest kid :) :)

Well, I did become lucid, but I got so excited about it being my first lucid since my three year hiatus that I front-flipped through a closed door, landed on my back, and woke up.

From the night before last:

Met a friend who I haven't seen for six years, and told her I would meet her later on in the evening, hopefully when I was having a lucid dream. I warned her to keep an eye out, as I could look completely different when I was dreaming. I may even show up as a woman!

Like... What? For clarification I'm a guy. And that didn't even make any sense!

Last night I dreamed I was floating above the lawn of a neighbor's house in the town of my ancestral home where I have not lived in >40 years. The "cause" of my floating was a partially filled (almost flat!) mylar balloon. Despite having almost no helium, I kept ascending, which I found frightening, so I let out the last of the gas and gently returned to earth. How the HELL this didn't trigger lucidity is beyond me! :boggle:

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Originally Posted by DoubleHelix

Last night I dreamed I was floating above...

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I recognize this, actually! Happens to me a lot: Physics are the same principles (helium balloons lift me up) but the variables are all exaggerated (barely any in the balloon, gravity being a fraction of its normal strength).
So, you are not alone! ^__^

This happened not too long ago for a second time. Looked at my hand, had way too many fingers, and ended up showing my mom the shocking discovery. She tells me that it's a sign I am lucid dreaming, but I am, for some reason, freaking out and telling her we need to go to the hospital. We end up getting in the car with me staring at my hand with amazement when I suddenly wake up -_-