I’ve been lazy with my dream journaling lately, but I’m trying to get back into the habit to build my recall back up. In one dream last night, I thought, “I need to write this down later so my dream recall improves.”
I wasn’t lucid. Journaling daily activities to improve dream recall seemed perfectly rational to my dreaming brain, so I didn’t question it.
I had a (non-lucid) dream a couple months ago where I was playing a video game, but the game suddenly got weird. I didn’t want to play it anymore, so I decided to wake up. No realization I was dreaming, just “I’m going to wake up now” (followed by a false awakening I didn’t catch).
Anyone else have stories to share of dreams where they kind of unconsciously knew they were dreaming yet it didn’t click?
I had that happen just a few days ago actually! Straight quote from the DJ:
I’m watching an animation of a roller coaster. It’s going uphill, hits a peak, but when it should start moving downhill it suddenly looks as if the coaster is instead moving uphill again, but backwards. Is it some kind of optical illusion?
I look again more closely, and now I’m in the roller coaster as it’s going up the hill and approaching a U-shaped dip. It goes downhill and we barely collide with a small mine cart in front of us. The collision is very gentle since we’re hardly moving. We get stuck at the bottom of the dip. I’m a little worried, but we’re at ground level and the seats open, and I see an emergency exit opening. Everyone gets out.
The dream is obviously over and I want to wake up, so I close my eyes, let myself fall, and do it.
It was not a lucid dream at all, but the “withdraw participation to wake up” technique is straight from a book on lucid dreaming. No false awakening though, it just worked.
(this is before i knew what lucid dreaming was) I once had a regular dream that i was just in a classroom, then suddenly i felt all… weird as if somethin was off, so i asked my friend if it was a dream and he said yes, but he was chill, then i walked into the next room with him. I was aware. Then i teleported to some random place and i was like: wait wut? but then i realised this place looked pretty cool actualy cuz it was a cliff, but then i slipped off the cliff and i flew but then it glitched and broke a bit and this continied like a LOT of times and i was aware, and i was getting more and more anxious. Then i woke up.
Gee i heard about inception the day before and i thought it was about a guy trapped in a dream in dream but it wasent.
