i’ve touched on this in another topic but its come up again and again in my dreams and i think its the only thing keeping me from really becoming lucid. ive been trying for like a month to get a lucid dream. i started out really excited about it, doing like 15 watch checks a day, but now i’m doing around 5 slow, involved rc’s a day in which i trace back to where i was each hour ago. i dont keep a journal, but i have raised my dream recall to at least 1 dream per night and i think about the dream throughout the day.
i think i have been pretty close. what happens is, i realize that i am in a dream, but it just doesn’t seem real at all. the feeling is that i’m just imagining something to pass the time until i wake up. ===================the latest example of this, is that i noticed i was in a dream, and then imagined i was flying a sports car and doing insane stunts like barrel rolls but i was totally not interested. then, somehow the lucid dream turned into a normal dream, that was a simpsons episode in which bart has lucid dreams and does all sorts of crazy mischief.
if i figure out that i’m actually in a dream, everything just seems to be not real and i stop caring. any ideas?