While I have successfully experienced a good amount of lucid dreams the past few months, I have had even more "near misses" or close calls, or blown opportunities. Some of them kind of amusing to me actually.
Thought it would be both fun and constructive to share our lucids that were juuust out of reach, both to make light of them and laugh, and to provide advice to to others.
For example, I have recently developed a common dream sign or scene where I am back at my old job that I recently left a few months ago, and there is always one specific co-worker there. I have had this happen 3 to 4 times, and each time after the first time, I actually thought "hey, this is weird. I should reality check." BUT DIDN'T lol. Mainly because this setting was in a healthcare facility and I did not want to touch my face to perform the nose pinch test due to the current world circumstances. Funny enough, the most recent time this happened to me, I REMEMBERED my previous dreams in which I did not reality check due to the dreams sign I was currently experiencing whilst in the dream. "Ah ha, won't forget this time..." *raises hand to do nose pinch, a dream character engages me in conversation so I don't want to look weird pinching my nose.
While these can be annoying, they are also kind of comical and if viewed the right way, can show that you are on the correct track, and on the verge of some consistent lucid dreams with the right tweaks. Please share your experiences!
I once saw the silhouette of some big planet rotating really close to eartch and thought to myself: "Wow, I hope this appears in my dreams tonight!"
Had the feeling I did a Dream Test but I don't know how the dream went afterwards.
Some other time I looked at my shirt and it said 'Lazyboy' instead of 'Lazy' (I unfortunately lost this shirt) and I thought "Damn, the other one was cooler, I don't like the text on this one."
I also explained the concepts of Lucid Dreaming and Reality Checks multiple times to family and friends in dreams...
I'm still quite unexperienced, only had a few 1-second-lucids with Nose-pinching, all of them like 6 months ago.
I hope to read other funny stories :)
Kind of crazy how similar our experiences are. One of my most comon dream signs is planets and moons orbiting super close to earth and often really fast. It's got me lucid a number of times.
I also always tell my family about lucid dreaming and reality checks. Just the other night I dreamt that I was lucid dreaming with my family like it was multiplayer. Obviously I wasn't actually lucid but very close.
It's astonding how the mind can create an excuse for almost everything we see in out dreams. When I first started seeing the planets in my dreams I always thought that it was some kind of rare allusion lol. Or things will change right in front of me and I'll think that I just wasnt paying attention.
Yes, it is amazing. And hey, we seem to have some pretty cool and surreal dream imagery, which I'm happy about, even non-lucid dreams can be interesting! But, thankfully we have the ability to explore these cool situations during that moment via lucidity on occasion.