Last night… I did the worst thing I ever did in my Quest for Lucidity:
I had a very vivid dream… I have a lot of those lately, that’s not the problem. I’m not going to explain what happened in the dream for that may take a while but what happened in the dream made me very happy, and it is something that could happen in real life and would make me very happy if it did.
So I was standing there being happy and I half-jokingly said to myself: “haha this is so awesome, maybe I should do a reality check…” And then the stupid, evil sponge that is my brain said to me; “Naah, this is real alright…”
When I woke quite some time later my first thought of the day was… “Oh you’ve got to be kiddin’ me!”
And I mean the dream wasn’t real-looking at all: wrong house, wrong people, wrong objects, wrong clothes, wrong language (!), I looked in the mirror and conciously saw I looked different then normal and I wondered why, I was carrying a couple of bags I could hardly life but when I jumped I stayed in the air higher, like they made me lighter or there was less gravity… And the conclusion that the organ in my head, that is supposed to guide my in this life and keep me safe, drew was; “Naah, this is real alright…”
I got worst, I’m on a FBI operation on a space ship ,in a volcano planet orbit , and the air dispenser is an aquarium with 2 cactus, and the evil guy is ronon from stargate atlantis.
I look throught the window ,seeing the surface of the volcanic planet, i say:
“I think i should look at my hands, …err ,nevermind.”
MAN!! that would drive me soo crazy! Especially me, who does 50+ RC’s every day, with no results whatsoever. I never have vivid dreams though, and I NEVER remember them. I consider the fact that you could remember what you thought as a basic triumph, cuz that’s farther than I’ve ever gotten XP
Trust me, I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve done that… or worse. Even if you do everything right, there is still random distraction to get in the way. I bet part of you wanted it to be real so you feard you woudl RC and get lucid, realizing it was only a dream =/
lol, I once DID a RC in such a situation (it was so real!) with the thought “I should do a RC here for training” and was so shocked that I was dreaming that I woke up.
I’ve been lucid before and decided to “put off” lucidity… which of course once I lose lucidity I didn’t get it back. Yeah, that was a dumb idea. And I’ve done it two or three times, but not recently.
… Realizing you are dreaming but keeping on dreaming is what you are trying to do… you did it you got lucid…
I guess you mean you went back to a normal dream again, but that means you were very, very close.
I guess that also answers your next question, RC’s can defenitely work, as they did for you. But it is better to use it as a tool, to support you and help you when doing another technique I think.
I had a dream last night that made me think “how the heck didn’t i notice it was a dream?” i mean at one point some guy was wraping his face around a pole and i just just thought “oh thats pretty cool”, not “whoa what the heck!? i must be dreaming”.
I hate days like that.
I consider the fact that you could remember what you thought as a basic triumph, cuz that’s farther than I’ve ever gotten XP