Thread: What do you mean if it seems strange?!

I know one of the things you're supposed to do is if something seems strange or you're with people you're not usually with or doing something you don't usually do, you're supposed to question whether or not you're in a dream. But I mean, my dreams are way beyond strange. I'm talking about like, adventures; the book/movie kind. I had one where I was a noble in charge of setting up the defense of the castle for the soon to be coming attack from strange intelligent bear-like creatures with long ears. Or I'm a child genius who is studying to be a wizard and accidentally discovered the base of the evil wizards and am now trying to infiltrate the place to rescue my family and master wizard who were captured. Or climbing a mountain in my favorite MMO to find the hidden oracle bird-lady who gives me candy with special powers.

And questioning where I am and what I am doing is just NOT something that happens! I don't go "Huh, I'm not normally doing stuff like fighting against dark powers with necromantic magic and a skeleton army after a dig in Egypt, this must be a dream." It's just simply does not happens! So... needless to say I'm not quite sure how to go about trying.

Try to find a dreamsign! There got to be something in your dreams that appear in your real life.
Perhaps you read a book about them or see a movie and when you do, do a reality check =)
Or you can decide a specific time to reality check, like every time you go through a door or something like that.

It means you have to question your reality and do RC every time you see something strange in waking life, because that then may carry over to the dream. Of course there are no things THAT strange in reality, but if it's trigger you to check whether you're dreaming or not, it's already way to go. Also, don't expect that to happen instantly, this "habit" needs some time to settle in your dreaming mind.

Your question does not make any sense.

Meaning is what one intends a certain action to entail.

Highly structured and coherent dreams are, after all, a sign of advanced intelligence. I will grant that it is strange, only because it is rare.

Originally Posted by Philosopher8659

Your question does not make any sense.

Meaning is what one intends a certain action to entail.

Highly structured and coherent dreams are, after all, a sign of advanced intelligence. I will grant that it is strange, only because it is rare.

What I'm asking is if you're supposed to question if something seems strange in your dream, but I have dreams that are really out there and have never thought anything was odd about them when I was in them, how am I to go about starting to question when asleep if something seems weird?

I guess I'll just have to take the suggestions here and make it a habit in my waking life and wait for it to transfer to my dreams.

Originally Posted by Haerodiel

What I'm asking is if you're supposed to question if something seems strange in your dream, but I have dreams that are really out there and have never thought anything was odd about them when I was in them, how am I to go about starting to question when asleep if something seems weird?

I guess I'll just have to take the suggestions here and make it a habit in my waking life and wait for it to transfer to my dreams.

I don't think there has ever been a dream that one could not question because dreams do not correspond with reality.

I remember when I was exploring the Lucid Dreamstate and I actually had a full blown fit in the dream because of certain lack of reality correspondence. One fails to realize that the aim is to modify behavior, not to be realistic. Behavior is reinforced or it is diminished by the content. However, as I said, as your dreams are highly structured, it is because of your depth of intelligence.

There are great battles to fight in life, with strange creatures--the strangeness is not in how they appear but how their mind works. And there really are wizards, not in the sense of magic, but in the magic of their mind.

Originally Posted by Philosopher8659

I don't think there has ever been a dream that one could not question because dreams do not correspond with reality.

I remember when I was exploring the Lucid Dreamstate and I actually had a full blown fit in the dream because of certain lack of reality correspondence. One fails to realize that the aim is to modify behavior, not to be realistic. Behavior is reinforced or it is diminished by the content. However, as I said, as your dreams are highly structured, it is because of your depth of intelligence.

There are great battles to fight in life, with strange creatures--the strangeness is not in how they appear but how their mind works. And there really are wizards, not in the sense of magic, but in the magic of their mind.

I've just read so many places to question reality when something seems out of the ordinary, and read stories on here where people did just that. I was just asking how to make it occur to myself to question what is happening. Force of habit seems to be the general answer.

Where did you learn, by the way, that complex and structured dreams correspond to intelligence? I'm interested. Google is no help. (No matter how many time I get told I'm smart, I never feel like I am. )

Aha! Now I understand your question.
Well when we dream our whole brain is active, except one part of the brain, the logic center it actually shuts off and that is why we usually not realise that we are dreaming because we think that the purple elefant in the blue tree is perfectly normal xD But if you start to become more aware of the "real" world, you will start to become more aware of the dream and that is the reality checks purpose.
So all you have to do is to decide when to reality check during thy day. As I said you can either pick a dreamsign or just decide a specific time to reality check.
And when this have become a habit you will start to become more aware and more think more logical in your dreams.
Hope this helped you somehow

I cannot remember where, I did not pay much attention to it. I do have a very high IQ and my dreams are not only well structured, but I have had several episodic ones--where a storyline would go on all night through several dreams--as you said, like a movie. My general theme has been me looking for something I cannot find. That something has been the source of human will, I found the answer to that, now I need to learn how to train it.

Questioning the dream is not only force of habit, but one has to be driven to examine things towards a particular end. If you don't have project going, then one is not motivated to ask questions. My projects started when I was in diapers, and have continued all my life.