Distraction and Diversions

Hello everyone,

I have had a lot of dreams where say right when i become lucid there is a distraction that comes shortly after. for example one time when i became lucid i was very happy but then all of the sudden in my dream my brother said: “wow!.. you really think you’re dreaming!?” and i lost lucidity. It can be very frustrating another time is i had realized i was dreaming and i was just about to start flying when my dad started showing me these new video games and i lost focus and lost lucidty again… :meh: And then i have noticed another sort of thing. I have realized that say right before a dream ends or like a minute before in a NLD the dream will suddenly change subjects and be completely random and then usually when i wake up i only rememebr the extremely random part at the end and not the main dream. I have noticed this several times… has anyone else experienced any of these distactions?

Yeah, I have it happen sometimes. I remember once recently I was trying to summon a friend, and another DC came up and started chattering on, distracting me so I couldn’t focus on feeling whether my friend’s hand would slip into mine. Eventually I had to give up, and went exploring, and quickly lost lucidity. Other times, I’ve become lucid with distractions already there, and then lost it rather quickly.

Not sure how to fix it… I guess you just have to remember to focus more when you become lucid.

Do you keep a DJ? That should help you excersise your recall and help you remember more of your dream.

yeah i keep one. i usually do remember the main part of the dream (sometimes not) but it just takes a little more focusing becasuse of the sudden subject change

Yeah it sometimes seems as if the mind doesn’t want us to become lucid, seeing as everything in a dream comes from the mind. In my ND’s I find my mind trying to think of anything else but the strangeness of the dream; it selectively ignores that.