Thread: Do you remember the reason for becoming aware?

This has happend to me also. Reality checks do happen by themselves alot now in my dreams.

Originally posted by S
Well, I don't. I've been reading a lot about dream signs and reality checks, but in all three my LDs so far (including the one I had as a child), when I realize I'm dreaming, it doesn't seem like there's a concrete reason, like a failed reality check. I seem to \"just know\" (sometimes in a dream I know something about the environment that nobody told me, I think it's rather common). Then I (automatically) exclaim \"This is just a dream\" or \"This is my world\" or something like that.
I wonder whether most people remember the reason for becoming lucid or not...

Most of the time, when I realise I'm in a dream, it's because I would be humiliated to do said action in real life.

Once, I've had a dream involving a sexy woman... and I was sleeping at my mate's house that night. So I went "God, it better not be..." then I awoken somewhere else in my dream, and was releived.... then I went back to dreaming normally, not realising that I had awoken in my dream and not in real life....

I haven't had an LD yet where it was triggered by a RC. They've been through WBTB techniques where I just immediately know it's a dream or sometimes I just realize it's a dream for no reason.

It's like this to me too, unless there's something weird going on with my eyes. It's just something odd. For example once, I was picking mushrooms, there was this one tiny mushroom, apart from the other and looking at it, I realised I was dreaming...

the 3 times i have become lucid i have woken up as soon as i said, "im dreaming"

The past couple Ld's iv had have been caused by seeing the same person in two different locations at once, and knowing it's not twins. I wonder if anyone else has had this...

It has only happened to me once... It didn't feel like there was a concrete reason at the time, but looking back I realise it was the presence of fictional characters that must have tipped me off. In the dream it felt like I was aware from when I appared in the room, but that's just because I remember it really well.

In my two LDs (only...) I became aware with no RCs, nor clues.

In the first one, an old lady was approaching me with a menacing posture. The sense of immobilization that I felt was probably related to sleep paralysis and maybe that triggered lucidity.

In my second LD I saw an unknown girl in the hotel room where iI was and I just became lucid, without reasoning about the strange circumstances.

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well, both times I've became lucid is because of a hot girl and I wanted to do stuff to her. one went like this. I got naughty and said "wait, theres so many people around. oh its just a movie. will she feel this on the set? Directors gunna be pist. oh wait, movies made, dumbass. hmmm this isnt right. Im dreaming" then i did a reality check and she dissapeard so the first thing i did was try to grow my own boobs to fondel
Im young. dont judge me,

I would say that the majority of my LDs have happened because I've just suddenly recognized the "feeling" of being in a dream -- then I'll usually do a RC to confirm it, but by that time I already know that I'm dreaming. Isn't this basically DILD? Or am I misunderstanding the term?

My experience has been similiar to TygrHawk's.

Whenever I become lucid in my dreams, it's not because I recognize anything in particular, I simply feel more consciously aware and suddenly realize that I'm dreaming.

I have never even needed to use an RC, since my dreams are usually so surreal that if I'm conscious enough to even suspect that I'm dreaming, my actions and surroundings will immediately tip me off to the fact.

After all, if you suddnely noticed you were walking in a jungle and you knew you lived in New Jersey, would you stop to do an RC to make sure you were dreaming?

Originally posted by Pandragon
After all, if you suddnely noticed you were walking in a jungle and you knew you lived in New Jersey, would you stop to do an RC to make sure you were dreaming?

Frankly, yes. It doesn't hurt to double-check, and it's a good habit to get into before doing anything that might cause trouble in real life.

LOL!

Well personally, I have yet to think I'm dreaming and later discover that I'm actually awake.

I also have yet to find any jungles in New Jersey.

So I feel pretty safe skipping on the RC's.

That's just how I roll...

it's funny i woke up from a LD like this this morning and wanted to start a thread about it. looks like you beat me to it. i get these a lot. i just somehow know that i'm dreaming, even though nothing out of the ordinary has really happened. then i do a reality check to further prove it. it's weird, when looking back on the dream i try to think of what made me lucid and can't think of anything. it makes me wonder sometimes whether i'm lucid dreaming, or just dreaming that i'm lucid dreaming.

Twice in my dreams today I said to myself "I'm dreaming", the first time the dream faded to black and went into another scenario, the second time I said it again and it started fading to black, I closed myself and thought "I must calm down", but woke up.

Originally posted by S
Well, I don't. I've been reading a lot about dream signs and reality checks, but in all three my LDs so far (including the one I had as a child), when I realize I'm dreaming, it doesn't seem like there's a concrete reason, like a failed reality check. I seem to \"just know\" (sometimes in a dream I know something about the environment that nobody told me, I think it's rather common). Then I (automatically) exclaim \"This is just a dream\" or \"This is my world\" or something like that.
I wonder whether most people remember the reason for becoming lucid or not...

Yes, most commonaly people become Lucid because their Consciousness Energy has broken through the Lucidity Threshold. Lucidity is simply a factor of being more Aware or having more Intensity of Awareness. Dream Signs and Reality Checks, being useful as forms of Prayer to the Higher Self for this increased Consciousness Energy, or what the psychologists would term 'suggestion' in order to remain correctly secular, these Dream Signs and Reality Checks have their origin as slick techniques foisted on the public by profiteering New Age Guru Types who simply had to come up with Ideas to fill up their Books and give them content for their Weekend Seminars and Lake Tahoo Retreats. All alot of Silly Crap and it is a shame people don't have the discernment to know they are being screwed with.

it's true that they may have been created to "fill books", but you cannot deny that reality checks are useful to those looking for lucidity. i wouldn't necessarily say that people are being screwed with. though it is pretty interesting how most lucid dreams come from simply knowing that you're dreaming. this really shows that reality checks may not be a necessary method. it seems that reality checks are mostly used to simply confirm the idea that you're in a dream.

i really dont know, its been strange for me

basically i have normal dreams, then they just become more and more vivid until all the sudden i realize that im dreaming (only happened once) i think its also the process of my dreamspace slowing down makes me realize its a dream.

also, the few days leading up to my first ld, i distinctly remember a few things about the dreams i awoke from, one in particuilar i remember actually thinking (in my dream) 'its like im sending a message through myself for myself to myself'

i think that had much to do with the hypnosis cd's which i had been using (which i am no longer doing and probably should try again)