This has never happened to me before until this morning, and I’m pretty damn frustrated so I had to jump on here and vent! In a nutshell, I was tricked! I mean, I know that the majority of dreams trick us into thinking it’s reality, but not after I realize it’s a dream!!!
I went outside this morning around 6:30 to dig my car out of the wretched 16 inches of snow we got, only to get a call on my cell phone to learn that my job was closed! So, a half an hour of fruitless digging later, I went back inside to go back to sleep! And whaddya know, I fall right into a dream (so much for my WILD attempt!) of me going outside to dig my car out! Only, there’s only small traces of snow on the ground, and it’s very warm. You think I’d put two and two together at this point, right? No such luck for me, the current moron of the hour. Then I go to open my car door, and it opens so awkwardly, like a drawer or something, straight out instead of swinging on a hinge…so that’s when I said to myself, “What the? Wait a minute, this is a dream! finally after like 2 months I’m having an LD!”
So, I proceed to do a RC just to make sure -- I jumped up and tried to fly....no dice...fooled by fake gravity!! I say to myself, "WTF?!?" :bored: So I shout out, "Lucidity times 1,000!!!" I had about 100/0 vision for like one second, and then back to normal .. unbelievably, that wasn't enough for me (no clue why)! I then went back to my car, and despite the entire MPH/TACH gauge assembly looking completely different, I still went on like it was RL. :grrr:
Needless to say, when I woke up, I wanted to KICK MYSELF VERY HARD! It's been like 2 months, and I was cheated out of an LD. My main goal has really been to have LDs to see how long I can make them last. My longest LD was only around 20 minutes -- I'm hoping I can make one last for much longer...but damn, not when my own mind tricks me out of an LD! I now realize I should have done more RCs, like find a clock to look at, and away, then back again.. because that one ALWAYS works..the numbers [b]always[/b] change! But jeeez, USUALLY when I ask for higher lucidity, I get it, especially when screaming Lucidity X1000! And every single time I've tried to fly in a dream as a RC, it's worked! :sad: Oh well, if not anything else, it was a valuable lesson NOT to trust just one RC. From now on I do at least 3!
Well, I'd love to hear your comments, and thanks for reading my frustrating little story.. Ciao for now.