Has this ever happened to anyone? I wasn’t sure where to post it, but I saw it said “Stories” in the description of the forum, so I went here.
I was having the GREATEST DREAM EVER. It was so good, I couldn’t believe it. I was just loving it. But then all of a sudden, I caught sight of my grey watch- It had a reading. I didn’t even have to look at it twice, becuase that watch is out of batteries. I knew I was dreaming, and I confirmed it several times looking at my watch. But the thing was, this pissed me off. I didn’t want to go lucid! I was all “NOOOOOOOO! This can’t be a dream! I don’t want it to be a dream! I want it to be real! -.-”
Did this ever happen to anyone? Being angry when going lucid? I suppose it was better than waking up and realizing it was a dream.
I haven’t been lucid in months, not have I tried, and I hardly remember more than 10 seconds of a dream these days. Which is why this morning was strange, because I remembered that dream to be at least 45 minutes, and another (if not the same one) to be several days (although I’m pretty sure it was that several days in movies sense). Not to mention I went spontaneously lucid and remembered it. Nothing strange happened causing me to rc. WTF? I wonder why…
Now that I think of it, this is probably in the wrong forum huH?
This has definitely happened to me. I’ve never had any intention of getting a lucid dream, but last month I had three for the first time in my life completely spontaneously. It had to be this site working its way into my brain; there’s no other explanation. The chances of me doing RCs are nil - I can already tell the difference between reality and dreams! (Yes, even in dreams - it’s just something I subconsciously ‘know’.) Not to mention it would be awfully embarrassing.
The first time it happened I was too surprised to be annoyed, but after that it just irritated me. I really hate the feeling of knowing I’m control of everything. It takes all the fun and surprise out of dreaming. I like being in control of myself and my own actions, of course, but if you’re aware everything other than yourself is also just a product of your imagination and you can do anything with it, it really spoils it for me. It’s just… boring.
So I do agree with you. One thing I found from being lucid is that it totally spoils your connection with the dream. It doesn’t feel right anymore - you no longer feel as if you’re a part of it. The people don’t seem like real people, even though they may look and sound genuine - it’s the knowledge they’re fake that ruins it.
Well, I’m not hating on being lucid. I’m surprised you go here without the desire to become lucid. Lucky ^,^
But I do sympathize with you. It killed it to know it was not real. More over, I was just crushed that it wasn’t real -.- I wanted it to be. Its happened to me twice before, including this time.
Why arent’ you at the RPG anymore? We waited for you.
I told you I had resigned indefinitely. I just don’t have the time to think of good posts to make for that anymore, I’m afraid. I never said I was going to come back…
I’ve never had that before, but I can tell how horrible that would be. There you are, making out with a hottie, then all of a sudden you catch a glipse of your watch.
This is a major problem for me. I’m a natural LDer and ever since I experimented with LDing three years ago they just don’t stop. I have them every night!
I’ve done everything I could want to do in a lucid dream, and now it’s quite aggravating to find myself in one. It’s like a normal dream is being a part of a story that’s set out for me to enjoy, and a lucid dream is like being thrown into an empty room and being told to find my own amusement. I’d rather relax and enjoy the story!
I agree with you who started this topic. I get a similiar experience I am living a story in a non-ld and suddenly I catch something that makes me lucid. I always know that my dreams are fake and they never feel real ever. I might do something in the dream and ir might feel real but at the back of my mind I am always so this isn’t real. Then when I do become lucid the dream has no direction and seems to loose any connection with a story. I do however meet dream guides and they tell me stuff and that is interesting but I never feel like there is anything good to do, as I have done it already.
Also sometimes when I am lucid I feel I can’t just in an instant making up a world to explore I normally end up been in a room or a large landscape with just fields. They is never anything to do just walk, though sometimes I have had chance to mediate in a dream that is pretty amazing.
Yes, exactly…it’s the same way for me. I just woke up from this type of lucid dream, in fact. I always find myself flying over the same types of featureless landscapes. And if I’m inside, I’m usually caught in a certain type of room: dark, featureless, boring, with drab yellow or brown walls. If there are doors then they only lead to more rooms of the same type. I’m forced to just wander around.
How can you have done everything already? Surely you are bored with real life then, too. Do the same things again, differently!
That’s like saying after going snowboarding that you won’t do it again because you already did it.
Just about everything I do in a LD i’ve already done tons of times, I do it again because it’s still fun. Sit down in your boring room and play the guitar or something.
Or, you could use your reliable lucidity to help people with their dream experiments - that will give you something to do… your featureless landscapes sound absolutely perfect to help me out with my experiment (not running yet but should be approved soon) in the Lucid Lab… and would probably be a great jumping-off point for tons of other experiments.
i discovered some super power that i had which was the ability to glide in the air a few inches above the ground… but then i realized i was in fact dreaming that was a bummer.
I maybe over-exaggerated that I had done everything already but you see I have had intended dream theme’s for like 11yrs so to actually to decided a new exciting dream theme is difficult. Often I don’t usually make the choice in the dream I make before I go to bed and it just ponders around in my head til once I am dreaming that I choose to use it. I have never really used any RC but I have always had the ability to know the distinction between RL and dreams.
I have had it happening more than once…
I had for example a dream about having a sweet girlfriend, friends and so on, but then i turned lucid and discovered that it all was fake and that my real body lay in bed as depressed and lonely as ever…
Yeah, I find it better to be able to continue and have fun and remember it all in a LD, than to wake up in the morning clutching something or someone that doesn’t exist, with a fading memory of who/what it was. That is pretty lame.
I once searched about my bed and floor for quite awhile looking for something that was in my hand as the dream ended (can’t remember what it was, but it was awesome enough to frantically look for until I realised what had happened)
Yeah, just because you become lucid doesn’t mean you can’t continue doing what you’ve been doing. You could then find things and make what would have been in the ND even better.
That is not the point… The depressing part is that you realize that everything was fake, when you thought you had it all during the dream.
Example: You realize you are dreaming, and thus also realize that the woman of your dream is nothing but a part of your imagination. You also realize that you are actually sleeping alone in your bed and dont have a girlfriend, job and are infact a loser that lives his days on the internet. Well, that is how it is for me.
The chances of me doing RCs are nil - I can already tell the difference between reality and dreams! (Yes, even in dreams - it’s just something I subconsciously ‘know’.) Not to mention it would be awfully embarrassing.
I just don’t have the time to think of good posts to make for that anymore, I’m afraid. I never said I was going to come back…
that was a bummer.