Dream signs in real life.

[Bu5hman404]

An odd experience I had once with dream signs. I know that one of the signs is a form of device failure, where I hit a lightswitch but it only dimly illuminates the room, and actually scares me more because now i can see a shadowy form there. (An obvious combination of a device failure sign and my old, now conquered, fear of the dark.) This has been my nightmare warning for as long as I remember, and was the cause of my first lucid dream (what would have been pretty frightening was just mildly amusing thanks to that).

Anyway, onto real life. One morning I walked downstairs having got up earlier than my parents, which doesn't happen much :P I turned on the lights in out front room and to my horror they only cast a dim illumination over a darkened room. Worst of all, I could see a shady moving form crouched low to the ground. I was pretty damn shocked by this, as I was sure it was real life, but in my mind i was thinking "I wish this was a dream". I stepped forwards into the darkness dreading the worst, and flung open the curtains in the room.
All was revealed, the lights were simply those energy saving bulbs which take time to warm up, and the shady form the result of an overactive imagination and my cat :P

A very odd experience, but now I know, I find that that the old lights sign has lost it's effectiveness because my mind has a real cause for it.

[Burns]

I'm just the opposite. I take those common dreamsigns that could happen in real life and make myself do RCs every time it happens (whether awake or asleep).

I just posted this in another thread, so those of you that have heard this before, just skip the next part. :wink:

For example, one of my common dreamsigns is not being able to dial a phone properly. So anytime I fumble the numbers during the day, I automatically do a reality check. My RCs are usually comparing the wall clock to my wristwatch - in my dreams they never match. Anyway, you can do this with any common dreamsign that could happen in real life. Obviously with something like flying it wouldn't work (since you can't fly in real life), but I'm sure you have some dreamsigns you could apply this concept to.

Does that make any sense? So anything you dream about that could potentially happen in real life, makes an excellent dreamsign because you can utilize RCs on a more regular basis.

[Rainbow Werewolf]

Exactly,

I dreamed I went swimming and then found I had left my cellphone ($300 Treo 650) in my shorts and ruined it. While it probably wouldn't happen, it is believable.

[adamL28]

Wow, come to think of it (without having recorded it in my DJ so far) that happens a lot to me in dreams, I always get something valuble wet, and start to panic it wont work :shock:

Looks like you've found my first dreamsign! :lol:

[Umbrella]

Originally posted by Burns+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Burns)</div>I'm just the opposite. I take those common dreamsigns that could happen in real life and make myself do RCs every time it happens (whether awake or asleep).

I just posted this in another thread, so those of you that have heard this before, just skip the next part. :wink:

For example, one of my common dreamsigns is not being able to dial a phone properly. So anytime I fumble the numbers during the day, I automatically do a reality check. My RCs are usually comparing the wall clock to my wristwatch - in my dreams they never match. Anyway, you can do this with any common dreamsign that could happen in real life. Obviously with something like flying it wouldn't work (since you can't fly in real life), but I'm sure you have some dreamsigns you could apply this concept to.

Does that make any sense? So anything you dream about that could potentially happen in real life, makes an excellent dreamsign because you can utilize RCs on a more regular basis.[/b]

Indeed, the same goes for me. Actually, all of my dreamsigns are people. The people I see most during dreams are the ones that remind me (or should remind me) to do a RC. This mostly goes for the ones that I relatively see much more often in dreams than I do in real life.
Also, whenever I turn lucid it's because of something that could've happened in waking life, theoretically. not because of something impossible, which I will always just accept.

<!--QuoteBegin-Rainbow Werewolf
I dreamed I went swimming and then found I had left my cellphone ($300 Treo 650) in my shorts and ruined it. While it probably wouldn't happen, it is believable.

I have that cellphone too! :D
Very handy thing it is.

[juroara]

Originally posted by Bu5hman404
An odd experience I had once with dream signs. I know that one of the signs is a form of device failure, where I hit a lightswitch but it only dimly illuminates the room, and actually scares me more because now i can see a shadowy form there. (An obvious combination of a device failure sign and my old, now conquered, fear of the dark.) This has been my nightmare warning for as long as I remember, and was the cause of my first lucid dream (what would have been pretty frightening was just mildly amusing thanks to that).

Anyway, onto real life. One morning I walked downstairs having got up earlier than my parents, which doesn't happen much :P I turned on the lights in out front room and to my horror they only cast a dim illumination over a darkened room. Worst of all, I could see a shady moving form crouched low to the ground. I was pretty damn shocked by this, as I was sure it was real life, but in my mind i was thinking "I wish this was a dream". I stepped forwards into the darkness dreading the worst, and flung open the curtains in the room.
All was revealed, the lights were simply those energy saving bulbs which take time to warm up, and the shady form the result of an overactive imagination and my cat :P

A very odd experience, but now I know, I find that that the old lights sign has lost it's effectiveness because my mind has a real cause for it.

teeheeeee..your cat :D I used to be REAL afraid of the dark, but oddly my cat neer never never scares me. during the night she has a habit of jumping on my bed or jumping on my head. my eyes are closed when she does this, and im used to it. so ive gotten used to my cats 'prescence' even when its very dark

I only get scared on those rare occassions when I realize..its NOT my cat! :eek: but I have a bad vision. Without my contacts, a plastic bag on the floor can become a lot of things

Ive never heard of a dream sign before until I came to this forum, a couple of days ago. But I think my first and most prominant dream sign is a window. In a dream I feel very differently towards a window than I do in real life. I see a window in my dream and I want to open it. And when I open it, I want to jump out and FLLLYYYY :mrgreen:

in some of these dreams it was very real - and I AM afraid of heights. Id nervously look down at the ground from the window, or sometimes feel the wind - the kind that is chilly and makes you close your window. but the window is my dream sign after all! if I hesitate, its only for a second.

sometimes when I know its a dream, but my lucidity isnt enough to start a wild adventure, I start running around until I find a window. Even if im OUTSIDE, I will climb into the window and invade someones home - and thats always a wild trip in itself >=D

second to a window is a balcony or porch, it serves a similiar function to the window. its not as powerful as the window, I see the window - I jump. while standing in the balcony, I can stand there for a while before making up my mind. Do I go back inside? Or take a dive?

becuase the window always offers me a freedom regardless - a good nightmare presents NO WINDOWS.

all of my dreams signs are very concrete and exist in the real world - and the window and balcony? I see them daily. I don't do reality checks, if I needed to I need to be locked up for my own safety :D