Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

In the toilet.I peeing but my pee went upward and still i felt that pee is "normal".

I said "This is too realistic to be a dream." ...

A few times I've talked about LDing with dream characters...

Missed dreamsigns.

I just remembered all those dreams where I needed to pee and then crazy things happened. An asian guy was attacking me with a squirt gun while at a urinal, filthy pipes were too close to urinals, a gang entered the bathroom, strangely designed toilets, etc.

(middle of the night waking, dozing off while doing recall before voice recording), I dream hitting the button on my voice recorder app to record my recall, I realize this is not reality and wake myself up to record....doh!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

(middle of the night waking, dozing off while doing recall before voice recording), I dream hitting the button on my voice recorder app to record my recall, I realize this is not reality and wake myself up to record....doh!

*Face Palm* That is really unfortunate.

This is before I knew about lucid dreaming, but I crashed my car into a fence completely destroying the front end. I told myself not to panic because I was dreaming and just mindlessly walked away.

I was in my garage, levitating glass bottles when I thought, "Maybe I'm dreaming" but them my mom opened the door and told me to be careful not to break any of the bottles. I concluded I must be awake....

One of those multiple facepalm dreams:

+ staring up at a 30-foot tall wooden wardrobe. "Man that's big". D'oh!

+ riding in an open-topped car and noticing the swirling mist of a ghost following and thinking "oh crap a ghost". D'oh!

+ banishing said ghost when it materializes on the seat of the car next to me as a middle aged woman by making the sign of the cross on it and putting a cross on its forehead and saying "get out of here!" D'oh!

+ walking around in the ghost's son's house who bought it with the $40,000 he got from selling the dead mother's Olympic bronze medal in swimming (from 1976 or 1934). D'oh!

+ looking in to the cavernous "living room" which is a swimming pool (the mother after all was an Olympic swimmer!) and seeing a cat in a cat swimming suit doing the backstroke. All I can think to do is look at the cat suit. D'oh!

+ walking to the end of the room and watching 3 men doing office work in an alcove (one is Will Ferrell) where all the office equipment is under the level of the water, and thinking "it must be hard to do office work with paper under water". A voice answers "it takes a hard man to do a hard job." D'oh!

I had a dream recently where I was losing the dream, I suppose about to wake up.. mind you I am totally just normal dreaming, but for some reason my dream self knew I was about to wake up so I rubbed my hand together to make the dream more vivid. Which worked!! and it prolonged the dream. It was awesome to get a clearer vision of the dream after doing this totally in dream mode! After I woke up I was kicking myself for not becoming lucid and recognizing I was dreaming

Recently I was dreaming that some people where chasing me because they wanted to interrogate and torture me. I was hiding and trying to call a friend, but I couldn't dial the numbers correctly (which is one of my dream signs) ... so by the 3rd or 4th attempt I recognized the oddity and thought "this must be a dream!! (looking at my trembling image in a mirror*) yeahh it's a dream, but the fear it's so f#$%&* real!!" and instead of flying away or something like that I lost lucidity because of the fear and fell into the dream again

The other night I had a dream where I was in another person's dream, chasing them around and trying to convince them that they were dreaming. I didn't realize that I was the one dreaming until I woke up. Then I /facepalm'd

Yes it is. I've nearly had two lucid dreams this past January. I had a lot of free time because of an Injury, so I decided why not practice Lucid Dreaming? I realized that I was dreaming, but once I became too excited and then the other time it was the alarm clock. One of the times I realized that I should be sleeping of all things! Everything got so vivid but then I woke up each time. My sister can do it on average twice a months and she always remembers her dreams. I'm still trying to figure out what I am doing wrong.

I've had this happen to me twice in the past couple months or so.

First: I have an app that beeps randomly, making me do a reality check. I showed it to my cousin. In my dream, he had gotten the app and it was beeping. I got mad at him and told him to turn it off. He told me I shouldn't be mad at him since I was the one who had told him about it, and then he proceeded to count his fingers. I looked at my hands for a second, then was like "duh, this is not a dream, now turn it off!"

Second: in my dream, I was checking Dream Views. And the forum was a Word document.

I did every reality check their was, did not work.

So I summoned my subconscious, worked...

but still did not become lucid. .-.

It happened again.
Sunbathing with my mother on the balcony of the house, she sold and which is ripped down.
I turn to her and said - you know - for a while I have only dreamt of this house a whole lot. But since we are really here, and all the time (I dream of it a lot) - how can that be?

She said - yeah - she sold the ground, and didn't tell me, that it would still stand - behind the two big apartment houses, I had seen, when I had been coming here to look.
Somehow I was sceptic, because we didn't own that much ground and there was a hill in it - but I thought - ah - that's the earth from where they built the new ones.
And then of course I got into a tirade how maximally unfair this would have been of my mother, to for years have this secret, and I can only dream of it.
While she sunbaths etc.

But it was muuch closer than just dreaming of it! Mantraing on it starts to work maybe?

My dream last night where I turned into a stick man made of bronze...YEP SEEMS NORMAL!

Some of my experiences:

I once dreamt I would sit on a couch and slowly nap away. Soon after I found myself at a different place and my dreamself noticed it. My dreamself then wants to do RCs but since other people were in the same room he didn't do it because he didn't want to seem weird to them...


Another time I dreamt I would lie on my bed. Again I was tired and about to nap away. Suddenly my friends dog came walking in, jumped on my bed and laid down. I thought it was weird since my friend doesn't live near me and his dog never was at my home before. I thought about doing an RC but decided to not do it...
A month later I had another dream that started with me waking up early in the morning. Again I see that same dog entering my room and jumping on my bed. I actually asked myself if I'm dreaming since this whole situation seemed very familiar but I never did an RC or became lucid in this dream.


Another one that still baffles me was a dream in which I was married and me and my wife were going to bed, chatting with each other. Among other things we actually talked about the fact that this is a dream we are in and that we will probably never wake up from it. The whole dream actually had a very melancholic and sad feel to it. But why the hell didn't I do an RC?


Another dream which has the title "The lucid dreaming stranger" in my DreamJournal was about some guy invading a lunch I had with someone and starting to talk about lucid dreaming and that he had problems becoming lucid recently.

^^ This is why I do RCs whether there are people around or not! Just scratching my nose, nothing to see here (do nosepinch). You can also do glottal-stop (no hands) RCs, same thing, close off your throat with the muscles in your neck and you can't breathe.

And I think this one from last night for me is close to winning for this thread:

I'm flying/floating down a street, and I'm warping a spot of the ground/pavement with my mind into the shape of a perfect hemisphere about a meter in diameter which is floating along with me a few meters to my left and a bit ahead.

And I'm thinking: "It's too bad this isn't enough to get me lucid"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAUUUGHGH!!

Last night i had two amazingly beautiful girlfriends who followed me around and i was complimenting them collectively by saying "Ya'll are the girls of my dreams!"... But that wasnt enough for me to go Lucid i guess

Last night I teleported between locations while non-lucid and then went to a bathroom to go pee. The pee came out like I had a fire hose down there and the force of it shot me up against a wall. I was dancing around trying to get it under control but the force was too much and it just went everywhere. I still didn't realize it was a dream, so I started to clean it up....with kitty litter.

Last night... oh, last night, where do I even begin?

First, people were trying to break into my house (which was not my house), so I fake shot them... which means that I raised my hand, shouted "BANG BANG" and expected them to die. They just kept walking towards me and I thought "I hate it when I can't shoot people in my dreams!"

Second, I was looking through the window and there was a huge storm outside. I said to whoever was next to me: "my dreams have the best storms, don't you think?"

Third, I was pissed off about something and I was outside at this big field. I decided that the only way to solve my problem would be to create a tornado. The tornado appeared a bit far from me, but then it came towards my direction. I thought "crap, it's going to get me!" followed by "oh, never mind, tornadoes never hurt me in dreams, this might be fun!"

Finally, I sat down, grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and told myself: "time to make a list of things I want to do next time I'm lucid!"

...so close.

Well maybe it's not the stupidest way, but last night I had a really, really long dream. I usually have very unrealistic/stupid dreams, but usually I don't realise ( So I am doing reality check technique)or I don't even have an idea that I'm dreaming. However, yesterday's dream was more realistic. in dream I got a thought in my mind for a second, "Oh it would be funny if I am dreaming". As you see I was sure I wasn't dreaming. I don't know what happened then, dream continued but I didn't reality check unfortunately

i remember feeling and looking at my hands to make sure i wasnt dreaming, but i was the whole time!

I've yet to have a lucid dream. Or if I have I don't remember. It's so frustrating!

Anyway I was having a completely normal dream. I was in the parking lot at the high school I went to and saw a lady walking two white dogs. For some reason I was like "hey I must be dreaming!" but I didn't become aware at all.

A year ago, I had a dream in which I wondered how it was possible for me to keep popping in and out of different scenes without any recollection of how I got there. Finally I told another person, "Maybe someone is actually dreaming all of this and we don't really exist."

A while ago I had a dream that I was discussing lucid dreaming with my friends at my school... And they didn't even go to my school! So close...