When Reality Checks...GO BAD!

I was pretty sure I made this topic ages ago..but I couldnt find it:shock:...maybe I was dreaming...but if it is a repeat let me know!

HAVE YOU had those experiences where every possible sign tells you that you are dreaming...but you weren't? Try anything stupid? :D

My Experience from a few months ago....

I awake randomly in the night (this rarely happens). I go to check the time on my digital clock. Blank Screen.

I sit up...and reach to turn my lamp on. Fails.

I get up and out of bed and find my way to my lightswitch. Flick it. Darkness still.

All the signs said I was dreaming...but I didn't have that dream feeling. LUCKILY my mobile fone still worked....so I sussed out we'd had a power failure lol.

Luckily I didnt try to dive through glass like usual!


SHARE! if you have anything similar!

yeah, I could imagene like the site getting sued or somethin. cause somebody just has a broken lightbulb, and they flick it and then jump out the window.Or rapes somebody or something.


LOLZ IM DREAMING!!!! *dies*

I had the opposite problem once. I checked to see if I was lucid by holding my nose and not breathing and felt as tho i was not getting oxygen to my lungs and decided I was awake for real. Decided to turn my air conditioner on and take my shirt off and went to bed. I woke with the AC off! and my shirt on.

I've thought I was dreaming, but was awake. Generally I just do something imbarassing like shout, "I'm dreaming! None of this is real! Woo hoo!!" And run around like a fool. Or a couple of times I've tried to jump off the sidewalk and fly. Reality always comes crashing in when I land and feel the pain. :oops:

I have had similair situations. Sometimes, when I am extremely sleepdeprived and wake up still half dreaming, or when I'm experiencing VERY intense feelings( usually negative) I can feel VERY dissociated from reality. Up to the point it comes close to a psychedelic mindtrip. I thought about how easily this state of "shifted" awareness can be mistaken for a Dream. There have been serveral occasions where I was REALLY surprised to find out I WASN'T dreaming.
I actually had a NEAR-Lucid dream pretty much the way you THOUGHT you were lucid(Clock was out, lights wouldn't go on), but at the time I "reasoned it away" by concluding: There must be a power out. So the opposite of what you experienced :P

I've always kept in the back of my Mind: "what if RC's somehow fail?" and as a safety rule I have decided that, might I go lucid in a dream(or think I do) then I will never fly jumping straight out of the window, but always vertically levitate off of the ground before taking off like superman: Problem solved ;)

When I pinch my nose to RC, it fails most of the times, I've had two dreams which I thought that were real because the RCs failed, and even though they fail, I sometimes realize that I'm dreaming because of the stupid/strange events that happen in my dreams, or because feelings such as nostalgia, fear, weakness or sadness are very common in my dreams.

Oh man...

There is this clock in a classroom at my school that is completely screwed up. It's an analog clock. It stops for about a minute exactly at each hour, then suddenly the hands move incredibely fast an an hour passes by in a minute.

I was sitting in class and I looked at the clock and decided to do a reality check. I looked away and looked back, and the clock was spinning forwards.

So I jumped up, spun around to stabilize myself, and announced, "Yeah, I'm dreaming! I'm lucid! Alright!" Everyone was staring me, but I said, "You all aren't real! You are a a manifestation of my subconscious."

Then I looked at my hand, and I had five fingers. I did an nose RC and I could breathe. Then I asked if the clock was broken, and found it was.

Damn, that was embarrassing.

You guys are hilarious :D I love it!

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Originally Posted by Jamoca

Oh man...

There is this clock in a classroom at my school that is completely screwed up. It's an analog clock. It stops for about a minute exactly at each hour, then suddenly the hands move incredibely fast an an hour passes by in a minute.

I was sitting in class and I looked at the clock and decided to do a reality check. I looked away and looked back, and the clock was spinning forwards.

So I jumped up, spun around to stabilize myself, and announced, "Yeah, I'm dreaming! I'm lucid! Alright!" Everyone was staring me, but I said, "You all aren't real! You are a a manifestation of my subconscious."

Then I looked at my hand, and I had five fingers. I did an nose RC and I could breathe. Then I asked if the clock was broken, and found it was.

Damn, that was embarrassing.

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rofl, i bet they thought you where insane
im surprised they didn't send you to the nurse's office to get checked out

the RC i usually use first is counting fingers or clocks, trying to push my finger through my hand, then lights and nose and jumping.

I've always been afraid that I'd think its a dream and then do somethign crazy, like try fly, or even start a fight with a mate lol.

Woke up one morning. Not enough light came through my window, so I decided to turn the light on. It didn't. I looked at the light switch and it was on, so I thought the light should have came on. Immediately, I came to the conclusion that I was dreaming. I then told myself, "I can walk through this wall." I was trying to go outdoors. The problem was that I just ran into it, and I didn't go through it. I had trouble like this in my dreams before, so I thought I was still dreaming, but having trouble. I should've never done this next thing; I acted like I was the hulk, and tried to knock down my wall in one punch. Failed, and ended up with one of my knuckles split open. Kinda realized by then that I wasn't dreaming. :P

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Originally Posted by Pride

rofl, i bet they thought you where insane
im surprised they didn't send you to the nurse's office to get checked out

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It was definitely one of the most embarrassing moments ever.

haha these are great guys! im just bumping the thread back up to attract anyone who hasnt seen this thread yet. there has to be some more stories...

My funniest experience to share is that, after having lucid dreams for a while, I started feeling faint vibrations. Sooo.. after reading that vibrations can be happening even though they're not strong (or seem to have stopped), that you should merely *roll over* and you'll find yourself out and lucid. Well that sounded pretty nifty! ;)

So the next time I was in bed and felt the vibrations, I rolled to my right.. and ran smack into the wall! :P

To my utter embarrassment, I hear my husband say, "uuuuuh... are you alright?" :roll:

I can still see my husband shaking his head as he looked at the wall imprint on my forehead the next morning. :D