Thread: What is YOUR dream sign?

Originally Posted by jarrhead

Do reality checks every time you see these people. Doesn't matter if anything is strange.

Hey, you try reality checking everytime you see your best friend or parents.

I also don't have any solid dreamsigns. I have experienced some times the inability to run, dreams trying to get to school and anything involving games recently played, but never on a constant enough basis to be surefire dream-inducers.

My brother is also in almost all of my dreams, but I also see him 75% of my waking life.

I think you may be confusing dream signs with recurring elements. Recurring elements can be dream signs, but dream signs do not have to be recurring elements. Technically, everything out of the ordinary that happens in your dreams is a dream sign. If you are able to identify the things askew in your dreams and search for a common thread between them (for example, devices may fail, you may find yourself in strange places or times, characters act oddly, etc.), then you can identify a dream sign.

My dreamsign right now isn't a specific thing but some little thing that I notice and think "Ok thats weird".

I have a recurring dream sign and it happens to be guns. No guns in my household either sooo it's a pretty definite thing that I'm dreaming when I'm holding one and shooting people. Ha ha but I still can't manage to turn it into a LD. =(

My dad (wish it wasn't lol, but hes in like 30 of my 45 recorded dreams)

Tornadoes
Being in school
Friends with altered appearance
Swarms of bees
Unusual body sensation or being disembodied

This is an interesting question. I'm new to the forums, and reading up on dream signs I recognized some common ones I have worked with over the years, but I never considered that there might be 'personal' dream signs until it was pointed out to me here. So I was wondering, "what are some of my dream signs?? Dang"
Reading through these posts actually is helping me pick out some of mine. I have a lot of recurring themes in my dreams/nightmares.

1) driving/biking and hitting a bump and going way way up in the air (ack!)
2) high school setting
3) running, escaping some terrible beast or person for a long time, always scraping away just barely
4) fighting ridiculous amounts of monsters, people, zombies (serious 1st person shooter status, but not in a good way - like, I'm gonna die omg)
5) Trying to run, but moving very very slowly, like huge weights are on my feet
6) a few places recur often, aforementioned middle or high school, and this weird house... Nowhere I've ever lived, but - actually now that I think about it, two houses - they usually have floors that cave in, dropping me somewhere undesirable (hell/catacombs/etc), or passageways, or dumbwaiters or one time it was going down the toilet... weird. Makes my hair stand on end to think of it

Originally Posted by fly by night

a dream sign that I had for years but just recently triggered lucidity is the crumbling,dissolving or falling out of my teeth..this used to aggrivate me before I Joined this site.

I've heard that this can be a sign that you grind your teeth at night. It's a pretty common thing that people do, actually, sometimes stress related, sometimes just a habit from childhood years (carryover from teething?) that doesn't go away. Next dentist checkup you should ask if your teeth show signs of grinding - a friend of mine has to wear a mouthguard at night because he grinds his teeth so badly - they are like FLAT. He's 24. It's so crazy it looks like he has herbivore teeth!

My dream sign is that the season is reversed in dreams at least 90% of the time.

My hands are my dream sign. Also a close friend as well.

Everything happening in slow motion. Either that, or a blank void either to the left, to the right, or behind me. I don't always get either of them, though.

i create my own dreamsigns. i get myself borderline addicted to cigarettes and then stop smoking for a while. After about 2 days of painstaking cravings, the cigarettes start to show up in my dreams ALOT. Once or twice a night. Very effective.

Zombies, School, Zombies at school

Call of Duty call of duty call of duty!!!

I found another one of my dreamsigns: persons named Lucas :lol

Mine is usually the 3rd person view thingy :]

Chicks who wanna bone. Anybody intentionally arousing me.

I often dream about upcoming events; I went to meet my favourite author last year and I dreamt about it twice before the real event!

I also spend ages getting ready for things in dreams, like I'll be in the changing room at the swimming pool, taking ages to get ready, and then I'll wake up just when I'm about to get in the pool. It's really frustrating! I always reality check when I go swimming now, lol!

Oh and another dream sign for me is morphing people. I'll be talking to someone, look away, then look back, and they've turned into someone else.

Originally Posted by bridgerhall

My hands are my dream sign. Also a close friend as well.

You're friends with your hands!? Just joking, I know what you mean!

By dream signs, I'm guessing you mean signs to trigger lucidity?

I call them lucid triggers, in my dream journal. When I write in my journal and I feel that situation should have triggered the thought "Am I dreaming" I put a note that says (lucid trigger) The most common thing that happens in my dreams to trigger lucidity is clearity, especially since taking Galantamine and choline. One such trigger happened when I was looking at a book in someone else's hand and I started to zoom into the lettering, which was extremly tiny, yet I could see it crystal clear. As as I tried to tell the person how clear I could see the letters, lucidity kicked in. At this point I created a very high cliff, knowing I was dreaming and that I was going to jump off it.
I jumed off the cliff and started to free fall and about mid way swooped up and began flying. The most common test of my lucidity is to jump in the air.
If I float or fly, I'm lucid.

So school is my dream sign, does it mean that I have to do a RC every time i go there ??

Originally Posted by I_C_U

So school is my dream sign, does it mean that I have to do a RC every time i go there ??

Very reccomended, but just do mental reality checks.

One of my dream signs is smoking cigarettes, now that I think about it. I've never smoked or wanted to smoke a cigarette in my life, but whenever I do it in a dream it instantly relaxes me. (I blame my mother. )

These are the two for me. If I'm flying, I'm dreaming. If I'm nude in a public place, I'm dreaming. I guess if I were flying nude in a public place, I'd really know for sure, but so far that hasn't happened.

Hi, I'm new. I've read here a few times, but just now joined. I hope to have more interesting things to say in the future.

Anywho, I've had enough flying dreams over the years (I'm in my forties) that when it happens, I know I'm dreaming. I've had enough Nude in Public (NiP) dreams that when it happens, I know I'm dreaming. I wish I had known that back in high school days; it would have saved me a lot of embarrassment.

My Iphone, food, and DreamViews of course