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      Reality Checks.

      Could you please list a few? I had a Lucid dream last night, and I wasn't sure if it was a dream or not (O_o). I remember reading somewhere a long time ago (I used to be very very very into Lucid Dreaming) that looking at your hand would help. I did that in the dream, and it looked normal. What was I supposed to do during that time?

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      well, there's a whole list of reality checks in this forum. I found a site in here which may help you:

      http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4935

      Bye!

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      holding your nose and trying to breathe through it is a popular one i hear

      Curiosity killed the cat but at least it didnt die an ignorant bastard

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      I tried the stereotypical pinching yourself method once. It was in a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream, etc. I kept having an incredibly realistic dream that I had waken up and was getting ready for school. At random points, I'd wake up again. After several times, I decided to try the pincjing thing. It hurt, so I continued getting ready for school, and 'woke up' again a minute later. It continued till it had gotten me rather nervous. It would've been really useful to have known some good tests. I'll have to remember some from that list.

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      Hm....yah...whole list of it.... I like the one with poking my left hand with my right index finger, and if it goes through, then...LD time! . I count my fingers on both hands too.

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      Originally posted by
      Hm....yah...whole list of it.... I like the one with poking my left hand with my right index finger, and if it goes through, then...LD time! . I count my fingers on both hands too.
      that can back fire to though. I remember opheliablue saying she did that in her dream and she felt it going through and she actually hit/cracked her knuckle bones and it feeling not to good....

      meh....enjoy

      Curiosity killed the cat but at least it didnt die an ignorant bastard

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      Originally posted by nightowl
      holding your nose and trying to breathe through it is a popular one i hear
      Thats been the most effective for me, because each time I do it im instantly lucid.

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      personaly doing things that if your not dreaming people may think your crazy if you just start holding your breath i try to do stuff just mentally like ask my self questions about the world and stuff

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      Last night I checked at least 3 different clocks several times in my dream before I noticed anything weird and I became lucid. I then tried the finger through the palm thing and it didn't work! I need a new method...

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      Spin, spin, spin.

      I think spinning around works really good since it activates some part of your eardrum which is somehow related to your REM period and makes the dream more dreamy (at least for me).

      I did that once and everything around me started to smear wherever I looked, like my gaze was a wet paint brush. And everything became so vivid it was obviously a dream.

      (Then I got mesmerized by the colors and surreality and went into deep sleep.)

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      About the lightswitch thing, the most commonly talked about dream sign. I have dreams in which light switches DO work. Sometimes they work properly, while other times the results are rather odd.
      "A scary dream makes your heart beat faster. Why doesn't the part of your brain that controls your heartbeat realize that another part of your brain is making the whole thing up? Don't they communicate?"
      -George Carlin

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