Thread: Possible to not have a dreamsign?

I'm not sure but I've been having similar troubles. The only thing common in my dreams are freinds of mine that I see alot in waking life too. I used to have dreamsigns too. But they were all negative things like my teeth falling out and stuff. Lately I have just been having too normal of dreams.

I don;t see why people assume that dreamsigns even occur as a rule. It makes sense that they occur for some (or rather most) people interested in dreaming, but there is really no reason for dreamsigns to occur in a consistent way. If a particular subject is preying on your mind, it may occur in most of your dreams, but I doubt that there is a preprogrammed category for "dreamsigns" in people's heads.

(that said, I have been unable to determine a dreamsign either, and I've had logged 30 or more dreams in my recent dream journal.)

Most people, I've noticed, aren't able to spot their own dreamsigns. I endured weeks of tedious writing before a random thought came to me when I was reading back the previous month's dreams and I discovered my sign, staring me in the face, from almost every entry I made. Sometimes, it's not necessarily an object, like a cat or a ball, but a concept, a feeling, or something else like that.

My sign is that I'm always a character in some sort of real-life game. It's hard to spot, and I haven't yet had a lucid dream in which I became lucid by realizing this dream sign. But it's evident in pretty much every dream I have.

Originally Posted by Sticktator

Most people, I've noticed, aren't able to spot their own dreamsigns. I endured weeks of tedious writing before a random thought came to me when I was reading back the previous month's dreams and I discovered my sign, staring me in the face, from almost every entry I made. Sometimes, it's not necessarily an object, like a cat or a ball, but a concept, a feeling, or something else like that.

My sign is that I'm always a character in some sort of real-life game. It's hard to spot, and I haven't yet had a lucid dream in which I became lucid by realizing this dream sign. But it's evident in pretty much every dream I have.

Holy crap.
I realized 3 days ago that my exact dreamsign is the same as yours, a character in a real-life gmae. Trippy.

Originally Posted by berryman13

Holy crap.
I realized 3 days ago that my exact dreamsign is the same as yours, a character in a real-life gmae. Trippy.

I think it's actually quite a common one.

I've read an article that says something along the lines of: dreams are an arena, a practice place, for instincts and primal needs, such as running away from something (that's why most people have dreams they're being chased) or fighting (ie, fight or flight).

So, because we live in an age we do now, with all these computer games, almost all of which include fighting and escaping, your brain makes the association between primal instincts and video games - meaning that your dreams make you a character in a video game.

That's my theory, anyhow. I'm hardly an expert though.

Ya this is a tough one when you find yourself having painfully mundane dreams. For me, I went through a period of having dreams about being late for a class in highschool (even though I graduated almost 10 years ago). To me, that would constitute as a dreamsign. I just can't seem to pick up on it in time in my dreams because I'm too caught up in remembering the combination for a locker I had a decade ago.

Frustrating to say the least...

The emotion fear is a really common DS, as is fursteration, and embarassment. Also nudity and violence are also really common.

I never really started identifying any recurring dream signs until after several years of recording dreams... This didn't stop me from having lucid dreams, though, since there are several different ways I tend to become lucid. Fairly recently, I started noticing that I had had numerous dreams in which I became lucid after noticing that not a single electric light would work (not even my flashlights and wristwatch display light, for that matter). This has happened so many times that I now become lucid virtually every time it happens.

Originally Posted by ttraverse

I just can't seem to pick up on it in time in my dreams because I'm too caught up in remembering the combination for a locker I had a decade ago.

How ironic! Trying to remember a combination is a classic dream sign!!

Berryman, do you have a journal online? I'd be happy to take a look at it and see what I can notice. I've been known to be pretty good at finding other people's signs.

Originally Posted by skysaw

How ironic! Trying to remember a combination is a classic dream sign!!

Really? That's happened to me, too! Actually, I just looked over my dream journal and was surprised that it happened so many times. I never noticed that this was a recurring theme for me.

Another related problem I frequently have is not being able to remember exactly where my locker is in the first place.

Originally Posted by Travis E.

Really? That's happened to me, too! Actually, I just looked over my dream journal and was surprised that it happened so many times. I never noticed that this was a recurring theme for me.

Another related problem I frequently have is not being able to remember exactly where my locker is in the first place.

Ugh! Yes, very frustrating indeed. Now that I'm rememebering this stuff I'm proabably going to have another one of these dreams soon. Or one of the ones where I have forgotten to do my reading homework.

Originally Posted by seeker28

The emotion fear is a really common DS, as is fursteration, and embarassment. Also nudity and violence are also really common.

violence is constant for me, there must be something really wrong with me, but even lucid and in control of my dreams it's always about bashing people to death, stabbing, strangling, killing and killing, and the most disturbing part is that it turns me on like hell, i've always been fighting my homicidal urges in order to stay away from jail eventhough i get those forced thoughts all the time when i just walk in the street, but i really knock myself out when being awake in morpheus' arms, and i'm not even talking about when i go astral.

Nothing wrong with violence, I constantly maime and kill things in my dreams. Though there usually werewolves, ninjas or something trying to kill me.
I remember this one time I was kicking the face of this werewolf when he was down....
And this other time I eviscerated this guy with a napkin....

Strong emotions don't really work as a DS for me simply because im just too busy too RC.
The only good DS i have are family and the failure to perform . . . superpowers.

Does it mean anything if I virtually never perform violent acts in dreams?

I never do, either.

Make love, not war, man...