Thread: Stupidest Ways You've Missed Becoming Lucid

During my RCs I usually check the time and compare different watches (wall clock, laptop, mobile phone,...). Last night I had the following dream:

I was at a party and everyone was asleep. I was still awake and found a girl lying on the floor who was pretty drunk. I checked my wrist watch (I normally never wear one) and saw that it was around 3am. It was also dark outside. Just moments after that incident a friend of mine arrived. I asked him why he arrived that late and he said that it's already morning. I checked a clock on the wall which showed about 5:45 am. Instead of realizing that I'm dreaming, I just concluded that my wrist watch must be wrong

When I first started doing RC's I used taking off my glasses as my go to. The dream I had literally that same night, I never even started with my glasses on, which in itself should have been a big tell. Just a big "nah fuck you" from the dream world.

i had a false awaking after trying WILD and then i pintch my nose to check if i can breath and i was able to. and stil i didin't knew that im dreaming and was unaware.

I have missed more ridiculously obvious dreams signs that I couldn't even count them all. But, the worst is the few occasions where I actually did a reality check, the check showed that I was dreaming, and yet I still didn't believe it.

The other night I dreamed that I had a lucid dream: I am sitting in a waiting room waiting to be called in for an interview. I suspect that I've dozed off and look at the wall clock. None of the numbers are in the right place, so I determine that I really have fallen asleep. I will myself to wake up and rush off to my interview. Then, I wake up for real.

Was having fun with Telekinesis in the dream and didn't even bother doing a Reality Check

In last night's dream, I was running around with Booth and Dr. Saroyan from the show Bones. We found a card that said "LUCID DREAMING" and Booth asked what that was all about. But I was having too much fun to think about it or explain. -_-

Originally Posted by Wasatch

We found a card that said "LUCID DREAMING"

I don't think I've ever seen or heard any reference to lucid dreaming or dreams in any dreams i can remember.

after thinking about what I will do in my next lucid, it took me ten minutes to actually start having one

The same way that we sometimes look at the time, look away, look at the time again, and still not know what time it is...I often have reality checked several times in a row without becoming lucid, lol

Originally Posted by AirRick101

The same way that we sometimes look at the time, look away, look at the time again, and still not know what time it is...I often have reality checked several times in a row without becoming lucid, lol

Wow, hey AirRick! Long time man

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Wow, hey AirRick! Long time man

Yeah, long time! I've just started putting some time back into lucid dreaming, and thought I'd start posting again. You're the first familiar face to welcome me back How've you been, Ophelia?

I had a dream about a month ago where I looked down to find myself looking at a hand with 5 fingers and a hand with 6.

I panicked and decided that the only rational thing to do was to chop it off.

Derp.

3 nights ago, got lucid due to shock of invaders in home (it took dreamsign piled on top of dreamsign to finally get lucid there, and it was close).

2 nights go, surprised by a strange woman in my "apartment," sleeping brain rationalized it as "she's the building maintenance woman." She has restored the phone service and fixed some pipes.

More in that dream (some real hum-dingers):

+ the kitchen electric stove burners burn pure white color, I say "I prefer the kind that burn red." The stove has huge control dials that don't work.

+ Apparently some more people lived in this apartment! There's a guy in a back room playing chromatic scales in an electronic keyboard and I have a chat with him about the fingering patterns for chromatic scales.

+ Hey there's yet another family who lives in yet another back room of this apartment! Nice Hispanic family, their rooms it turns out are really large and quite elegant. They have a view of a large "Cutty Shark[sic]" model ship floating in an amber pond (which must be whiskey I think IWL), and oh hey they have a view of the bay also out that window. But they have to use external doors to make their way through to other parts of the apartment.

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+ The Hispanic man is then practicing with his home grappling hook kit! He throws the hook through a whole in the base, the hook expands, then he tries to pull the base over. But he doesn't get the hook set high enough. I think it's pretty hard to get it in the right place.

Some time ago i had dream in which i tried to get into lucid dream so i've been trying to get WILD to work

LD ended by my "alarm" going off and me "waking up." But it wasn't my ringtone. And my wife and I were captives. And there was an Orc guard in the room with a sword.

Yesterday night I woke up and began trying to perform WILD. But I couldn't fall asleep for really long. In the morning I realised that I was already in a dream when I wasn't falling asleep. (Waking up wasn't a dream though)

I couldn't hear what the clerk at the counter was saying because I realized there was a city street running through the store with cars zipping by in between me and the counter.

I can't believe I didn't become lucid! I performed a reality check and I had 6 fingers on one hand (5 on the other). And I thought "Oh I am dreaming", but then my mind changed. "Oh, I must be hallutinating or can't see very well?" and I continued staring and counting them, but I still had 6 fingers. And while nose punching I couldn't breath. But one reality check was enough and can't still believe I missed it

I walked into my school, and first thing met several people who have moved away. This didn't phase me, and I continued on into the school. Every single locker was a different shape and color, and in different locations. When I opened my locker, I put in the wrong combination (I even told the person next to me!) and it still opened.

nap dream: I'm flying down from outside my childhood home (#1 dreamsign) to the city below
later nap dream, talking to a DC: "I had a flying dream! It was awesome, I was outside my old home, I saw that some buildings in the distance were all dark, I missed the dream sign, etc..."

I tried to WILD and when I was about to enter a dream scene I hear a demonic voice in my head Laughing in an evil way and I get scared and I jump up from my bed. After that I relaxed a bit and went back to sleep in hopes of getting lucid in a dream and I do that was like 6 months back when I first started lucid dreaming.

yesterday i had a dream where i tried to convince a girl something and i did so by telling her it's only a dream and even changed the quality of the dream to a brighter and clearer one and i will never forgive myself

There's so many that I could go on indefinitely; almost every time I dream I miss a chance at becoming lucid. Some of the most absurd things imaginable can be taking place in a dream and I'll find a way to explain it away. The only exception is when I'll spontaneously question and become lucid. This is why I hate DILD, I'm not good at it and RC's are almost useless for me.