I had a really frutrating 1last night i could kick myself. i was at my school drinkin a slushy and my friend asked me about my dreams that i always tell him about in RL. and he was lik “ok so how can i have cooler dreams lik u” and for sum weird reason i told him that if he drank the slushy i was drinkin he would have a “lucid dream”. So he chugged then he said “damn is sux we arent having lucid dreams right now” and im lik “yeah i know”. ??? damn u subconscience. if gives me this dream yet it denys me the ability to realize wut is goin on.
I had a dream a few nights ago where I was at a library and overheard some girls talking about checking out the lucid dreaming collection. I told them that in my experience libraries have poor resources for lucid dreaming. Doh!
I had a lucid dream last night. Low level… OF COURSE. I can’t seem to break out of that pattern. I became lucid and the dream was really weird. Im not sure how to describe most of it in my journal. Just after I became lucid though, I flew down to a shoreline… sort of. The water was like a wall in front of me. Fish swam out of it into the air and back again like there was no difference between water and air. Above them a large sperm whale, flat like a flounder, and partly transparent swam through the sky. I could see through its skin… to its bones and organs. Anyway, just thought I would mention it. 
In the period I had my first lucid dreams, I often asked myself, am I dreaming? this must be a dream, isn’t it? and very often these checks failed. 
try not to reason if it’s a dream, you will believe anything you think.
This one time, I was dreaming I was walking with a seat in my hands. I knew were I was comming from, and I knew I was walking home, it was a 20km (±14miles) track, I tought, this is insane, I cant be walking 15 miles with a heavy seat in my hands. This must be a dream! And I tryed to reason why it was a dream. I tought, last time I went to that place, I’m sure I came back by car, so I can’t be walking now from that place to my home. I reasoned a few other things like that, but none of them could convince me. I didn’t come lucid that night.
When I woke up, I thought, Oh my God, soo close! Why on earth didn’t I become lucid?
Damn Croy, that sucks 
You have a very stubborn subconcious 
It seems all of my Non-lds are teases. They always seem to slide the “lucidity theme” in and I usually don’t become fully aware.
Recently I had a dream I was riding in the car with some friends and the song “Catching the butterfly” by “The Verve” started to play. I told everyone to be quiet and listen to the lyrics.
“I’m gonna keep … catchin that butterfly … in that dream of mine. … In my lucid dreams”
For a short moment I questioned my surrounding, but then I thought “I can’t be dreaming, this song sounds too real.” 
I often dream of songs and I would never recommend them for reality checks. They always seem to be perfect replicas. Note for note and beat for beat.
Someone posted about this song in the lucidity centerstage forum and I’ve been listening to it ever since. It’s a cool lucid dream song. 
You can’t believe how glad I am to see that there are others ‘suffering’ from a “stubborn subconscious”. Funny though is that my subconscious tells me explicitly when it thinks that something bad for me is on the way (believe it or not but I found out my ex-girlfriend was cheating on me via a dream i.e. in the dream I saw with whom she was cheating on me. I checked in reality and she was quite surprised, to say the least, when I told her that I was sure she was having an affair with xyz - just thought I mention it). But lucid dreaming is nothing really dangerous for my health or well-being, is it? And since my subconscious knows that I will seek its advice, why doesn’t it want to cooperate?
But if I take a look at some of the incidents you all mentioned there are two reactions from my side:
a) I had a really good laugh when I read your posts (because of the REALLY obvious hints and the situations - absolutely hillarious! Thanks for your posts )
b) the hints I received (hands) where absolutely nothing in comparison to some of the hints you received (@ croy, Lostboy, Trigpoe - hang on in there 
)
Have nice dreams
Morpheus
I’ve been pretty ignorant in my dreams too. The other day I had one where I was walking down the hall to my room, and as I was walking I decided to do a reality check. So I looked at my hands and they looked normal so I checked around for something to read, but I forgot about that because when I got to my room everything was rearranged (and for some reason my bed was in the floor) So I tried to turn on the lights and to get a better look (hey the lightswitch didn’t work!) Then for somereason I crawled into this hole in my floor and woke up. How dumb was that… 
I’m thinking of changing my dream name to Oblivious. 
I’ve explained to DC’s all about lucid dreaming, in detail, and not caught on. The most bizarre things will happen and I won’t even question them. Even after someone says “this is just a dream!” I did have one very short LD but I have no idea how I became lucid…oh well, guess I’ll just keep trying. I’m consciously stubborn anyway so it figures my subconscious would be.
I don’t know that the subconscious is actively working against us… I think that it is merely a preoblme of misuse. All our lives we have been dreaming one way… we play the part of an actor with our subconscious in charge. Now we’re trying to train our minds to work a different way and its not always easy.
I have noticed that I become lucid more often. Each time I have an LD, the interval seems shorter. All we can do is just keep striving for it and laugh at ourselves when we fail in the face of the obvious.
Now with the holidays, the interval between my LDs also shrinks. Why can’t we have more vacation? 
It would certainly speed up the progress of lucid dreaming a bit.
A few nights ago I dreamt about a friend who has recently died in a car accident. I asked to myself “why is he here? he can’t be alive, because he was buried a month ago!” but I didn’t realize I was dreaming. So frustrating!!
I dreamt that I was being chased by some woman, and I figured I could lift off the ground and hover as I took bigger steps. Then I remembered that being in the air slows you down, so I went back down and continued to run. Then I leaped over this big depression in the ground and while spinning I realized I could keep myself airborne a little more. Well I did get away from the woman, but I never realized that human flight isn’t possible. I was too bussy thinking strategy for getting away. 
I hate it when I analyse something and come up with the wrong explination. Last night I was dreaming of doing this garbage clean up in this town near where I live. I saw a girl I kind of know, who is very pretty in real life, but in the dream, she has very very very very bad acne. I think, “Oh thats strange, she wasn’t like that last time. Must be someone else.”
At least if I was awake I would have done a reality check. But when I’m dreaming I never seem to consider that option.
Umm… well I think a bit of both. Sometimes subconscious is trying hard to make everything look so real so it can fool you into thinking that you’re awake. I have had several experiences where I believe that my subconscious is playing some tricks on me so I can’t become lucid or can’t change from a low-level LD to high-level LD. Who knows?
I have also missed obvious hints in my dreams. After doing many reality checks, some right before bed with hands, I had a very vivid dream of walking in the park holding hands with a girl I know. She even rubbed my hands and rather than knowing it was a dream, the sensation of the hands of emphasized throughout the entire dream. In one dream, I saw my car (red with tan leather interior) parked and when I got to it it was white. I knew my car should be red and wondered what was going on. But it was like the dream was in a rush and I was forced into the car and sort of “forgot about” the mistake. I have to say though, dreams where you become aware or lucid in a car are VERY fun
I think mine takes the cake. Maybe just because its my own experience but . . .
I was in a dream(obviously) and I was trying on a large brass chain. When I looked in the mirror I was totally covered in acne. I said “I must be dreaming.” So I was doing a reality check. I looked at my digital watch which turned out to be on my left hand(when I go to bed I switch the watch from my right wrist to my left, interestingly enough in my dreams its always on my left arm, its only on my left arm when I’m in bed but back to the main point) I couldn’t make out the numbers on it, it was blurry, nothing else in the dream was blurry but the stupid watch. I looked away then checked it again but I still couldn’t read the time. Stupid me 
This has happend a lot to me too, nowadays even more.
1 I was on the lawn of my grandmothers house and I was looking to a grassfield. Then I saw this gigantic military/spacestation type of thing. I was really wondering when that came there. Then I asked a whole bunch of people about it and everybody just laughed and asked that was I stupid or something. So I missed it
2 This happend two days back. I was dreaming that I was in my school. Then a girl asked me to get something for my friends bike (no logic at all…) I went to his bike and took some papers. Then when I got back she asked where in the devil did I go because my friends bike was inside the school Then we went to class. I read my paper once (bunch of all diagrams and somekind plans). Then I listend what the teacher was telling infront of the class. Then I thought that this was definately something different than what is in my paper. I looked the paper again. New diagrams and some text. Then I looked my friends papers and again my own. Then it looked like my friends paper.
I hate DC:s. The cheat me real well in almost every dream. 
I don’t think the subconscious is ever trying to ‘trick’ us in any way. That would just be silly. As LostBoy pointed out, we have been dreaming for as long as we have been viewing the world while awake. The subconscious is used to generating experiences that involve all of the senses, and the conscious mind is used to sitting there letting it do just that. Re-training your brain to function differently while sleeping is a long process, as we have all discovered. 
This topic makes entertaining reading. It seems to be something that plagues us all, including some of the more experienced lucid dreamers.
Anyhow, I thought I would share a similar experience from last night. I came soooo close to realising it was a dream.
I was in a lift in a shop and it went down. It then started moving along sideways. This is identical circumstances to when I had a lucid dream a while back. In that dream I realised that I was dreaming using the logic that lifts do not work like this.
In my dream last night I thought ‘Great, a lift. I’ve recognised a dreamsign’ but I totally failed to check whether or not I was dreaming. Doh doh doh
This was about 3 days after I read that a calculator can be used as a realitycheck
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this was a long dream, but at the end I do my stairhopping thing and halfaway the stair I stop. There is a doorway on my left and I see many breads. There is a counter on my right. I ask how much it is for a bread. I hear something different then I read, so me and shopkeeper decide to use a calculator. Again another number. Oh, I must accidently have pressed the “limit” button (on this ordinary calculator…), I recalculate the number another few times, but I keep pressing the wrong buttons and seeing the wrong numbers
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yesterday I read on the dutch forum about toilets
and at night I dreamed I needed to go urgent. I didn’t make it in time. oops dirty pants. When I sat down on the toilet, I let very noisy farts, my poo looked very weirded with strange colors, there was no toilet paper and people were running in the room, no privacy, … But I didn’t realise that this was a dream.
Soo that is twice I read about dreamsigns and I dream of them shortly afterwards. It almost like my sybconsciousness is trying to tell me I’m dreaming, but my consciousness doesn’t get the message.
- this last dream, also this morning, I dreamed I had a bowl with fishes. There was about 1,3m water in my whole house and the bowl was standing on the ground. So the fish could swim out of the bowl, in my house, like some people let there birds (eg. parakeets) fly in the house. I thought, my friend will never believe this, the water must be leaking under the doors, there can’t be that much water in my house. Soo I started thinking what reason I could give that friend for all that water in my house without leaking. I didn’t even come to my mind that this was a dream.
Last week I dreamt about a company that provided dreams, it was a large house and every room was a different dream.
A few days later I dreamt I was working in a dream shop, we sold books and tapes and even sweaters with slogans on the front like ‘Are you dreaming?’ but I still didn’t go lucid.
Then last night I dreamt I was talking to a friend on the phone and telling him about ‘Waking Life’ (I saw it for the first time a couple of days ago). I told him about the beautiful animation, I told him it was mostly dialogue, I even told him about one of the director’s earlier films, but I forgot to mention it was about lucid dreams