Lucid Dreams The reality test

[brettdale]

I did the reality test in real life, by throwing something in the air and catching it, (Chapstick of all things) and sure enough I tried it a dream (too see if I was dreaming), but nothing unusal happened, but after I did it in the dream I thought thought, "This sucks Im dreaming, but the test ain't working, because its still coming down as normal.

I couldn't control the dream.

Would this still be considered a lucid dream?, and how can I improve my reality test?

[liberalmuse]

1. I thought the reality test was looking at your hand.

But you have to look at your hand during the day and say, 'I am awake and conscious' before that can work. If you do it enough times, you'll start doing it in your dreams, which will lead to a lucid dream experience. It takes a lot of practice, because, ironically, it is very common for lucid dreams to lose control once you realize you're in control.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. According to the movie 'Waking Life' the test is to try turning off the lights.

[ret5hd]

3. and/or reading

[BabbaTam]

4. dreaming

When I was a kid (5), I woke up in a dream and knew I was dreaming. I don't know how I did it, but I did and then went about doing things that were taboo just because I knew I could. As an adult, I read and read and read and read about lucid dreaming and worked and worked and worked at control. I've had lots of different experiences. The variety of them seem infinite. Once after reading "Oversoul 7" I awoke in a dream the night I finished the book. I knew I was dreaming, I turned up the light, I pushed back the fog and then promptly lost control and went off into an uncontrolled dreaming that I remembered when I woke up. The next day events that I dreamed happened in 'real' life. Go figure. Never happened again. Once in a dream I was installing electronics in a closet in the local university student union. When I checked the system in the hall and returned to the closet where I had been working there was no equipment, just a stairway to the basement. I looked around for another closet figuring that I had just gone into the wrong closet. No luck. Then it occurred to me that I might be dreaming. I tried to figure out a test in the dream. I thought maybe if I went into the library I could check out the book titles to see if they were all different. They were. No luck there. Then I thought I'd look at everyone in the hall as they walked past to see if everyone looked different. They did. There was tons of detail. No clues to where I was. I couldn't get out of this one. Last night I had two nightmares, very scary, woke myself up crying out. All in all, it's very fascinating stuff. What does it all mean Mr. Natural? You know what he would say. Ha!

[sakabatou]

5. I don't dream

Or if I do, I don't remember them.

[brettdale]

6. incontrol lucid dream

Thank you Inception, for getting me into Lucid dreams,
in the past two weeks I have been trying to have a Lucid
dream, and succeeded twice but I wasn't in control, until
the other night, and what a mind blowing experience.

I have been doing my RC during the day and then came the dream,
now in the dream I didn't perform a RC check, but this is what
happened.

I was walking through a concert hall and these men were after me
because I helped out Jack Bauer, all of a sudden, I thought hey
'Im dreaming, so I took a deep breath and said to myself, "I want
to go to a theme park"

And there I was... so I started walking and thought I want to go
on a water slide, and there I was at the top of this huge
water slide, (all the time I knew I was dreaming) I went
down the slide and thought, perhaps I can dream about having
a steak sandwich, and there I was sitting at a table.

Though everytime I went to order, I would be interrupted, I
was trying to think what can I do to stop being interrupted, does
my subconscious want to stop me from eating a steak sandwich?

I woke up, to my dog barking. I thought the dream was pretty cool
myself!

Hope I have some more.