Thread: You know you're a dreamer when...

You know you're a dreamer when you wake up relieved, sad, or otherwise emotional about the fact that you just woke up.

(does that make sense? lol)

Totally makes sense!

You know you're a dreamer when your first reaction to computer errors is a reality check.

You know you're a dreamer when...

... you're running around telling everybody it's bedtime already and it's just 10pm (that's early for us)

... you get upset when someone asks you to do something time-consuming close to bed-time

... you refuse to get out of bed until you recall at least one dream ("just one more sleep cycle!")

... you're happy that you wake up in the middle of the night ("awesome! time for a proper WBTB!")

... you tell everyone "shush I'm meditating" as you're getting ready for bed

... in the middle of a heated argument you pinch your nose and check your hands a bunch of times

... you're checking out cuties in order to remember them "later"

... when you wake up making out with your pillow

... when you wake up, pump your first in the air and shout, "WINGS!"

You know you're a dreamer when you build your day's schedule around your afternoon nap.

All of these are so relevent.

-When you decline a sleepover at your friends house because you would rather lucid dream.

You know you're a dreamer when you talk about it to different people ten times a day and eyes start to roll and you forever feel like they are missing their whole life just because you can't get people to acknowledge lucid dreaming.

You know you're an LDer when people think you make shit up.

You know you are a dreamer when you no longer look at bedtime as the end of the day, but the start...

...when you are truly disappointed the RC shows you are awake...

...when you feel you lead a double life and know you are secretly a wizard...

...when you want to swap the amount of time you spend Lucid with the amount of time you spend awake, or at least have some parity.

You know you are a dreamer when you look back at memories and they are all of past dreams

...when you plan what you are going to do at night during the day

...when you start seeing waking life as if it's a dream

...when you look at people you know differently after encountering them in one of your dreams

Expanding on Rodrodrod...when you look back at your FAVORITE memories and they are all of past dreams!

You know you're a dreamer when all of your friends ask why you plug your nose and look at the clock 642 times a day.

...your sense of curiosity and wonder is a major part of your personality.

...naps are a semiregular-fulltime occupation for you. You may have even considered moving to Spain, where society respects the siesta the way every culture should.

...you rarely forget to journal your dream details, but may forget other simpler things like what day of the week it is, or what you had for dinner the night before.

....you see photos of places you've never seen and for a second you feel it is vaguely familiar, was it from a dream you once had?

...people hear you talk about it enough, they assume you can accurately interpret their dreams for them without asking a bunch of (usually quite personal) questions. This can get really awkward if you don't know the person at all.

... when you think your five fingers aren't enough.

You know you're a dreamer when your first investment in the new house is warm-coloured light bulbs to minimise melatonin suppression during WBTBs.

To get even more specific...

You know you're a dreamer when you spontaneously purchase something with an owl picture on it - not because you particularly like owls, but because it will remind you of dreaming whenever you see it. :jackowl: Reality check!

...when you start falling asleep in the bus back home and you feel so badly bad for not being in your bed right now!!

...when you're right on your bed and remember you forgot to do something before going to sleep and say "I'll do it tomorrow early in the morning ok?".

...when you wake up in the middle of the night and feel so happy to realize that you still have a couple of hours before the alarm clock goes off.

...when the last thing you ever want to do is have "fun"(party, video games, etc.) all night. Instead, you want as much sleep as possible, as lucid dreaming is way better.

...when you try to WILD right when you go to bed initially(even though you already know it's really hard) because you forgot how to sleep normally.

...when you're facepalming because it's 12am and you're not in bed.

You know you're a dreamer when your nightly meal is planned around the B6/tryptophan content of the food.

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

You know you're a dreamer when your nightly meal is planned around the B6/tryptophan content of the food.

Turkey avocado almond banana lecithin cheese cherry mussel smoothies, anyone!?

You know you're a dreamer when the day doesn't feel complete until you've updated your DV Dream Journal.


EDIT:
You know you're a dreamer when you repeatedly jump throughout the day to check that Gravity still applies.

You know you're a dreamer when you see someone flying in a superhero movie and think, "that takes so much effort", before realizing that you can't actually fly.

Very specific, but this has happened to me, heheh.

You know you're a dreamer when you actually read the nutritional facts of drinks to see if they have vitamin b6/b12 in it, and if they do, you chug the whole thing down immediately.

You know you're a dreamer when you ask your parents to get you cough drops at the grocery even though you aren't sick so you can try out the effects of Menthol as a dream enhancer.

...or maybe this is just me..

You know you're a dreamer when you spend significant amounts of time during the day contemplating about what happened while you were dreaming, and about being excited to go back sleep to encounter more of it lol.

... when you look at your imagination as a second reality.

... when you wake up from a dream it feels like hours even days have passed when it's only been minutes.