"Dream signs are quite simply cues that you are dreaming. Dream signs often take the form of things or events that would be considered impossible or highly improbable in the waking world. Some examples of dream signs are breathing under water or flying among the clouds. For those of us who generally have "more realistic" dreams, the cues may take the form of something much more simpler, such as a light switch not working (device failure), suddenly returning to work at an old job, being late (very common), losing the ability to scream, showing up at school naked, etc. Another common dream sign (and one I personally have) is the inability to run--you find your legs won't move easily and you can only lurch forward quite awkwardly.


Strangely enough, if we are not intently looking for dream signs during sleep, we will accept everything--no matter how strange--as we would during the waking hours. If you suddenly found yourself in amazingly strange surroundings like in the above image, it may not occur to you to wonder how this is possible. Or, if you wake up one morning and find your gold fish has taken your car out for a joy ride around town, you probably won't at all find that strange. Rather, you may call the cellular phone in the car and ask your gold fish to bring the car back. Quite obviously, if you were allowed to think analytically in your dreams, the absurdness of this situation would be quite apparent to you; situations like this are dream signs. Quite to the contrary though, we tend to go with the flow in our dreams. Whatever happens, happens; we usually just go along for the ride.

Personal dream signs are dream signs that frequent your own dreams. You may find you often "wake up" without any hair, when the day before it was down to your shoulders; or, you often run out of gas on your way to write a final exam. To determine some of your personal dream signs, you need to actively keep a dream journal. After a number of entries have been entered, you should go through and make a list of the reoccurring dream signs. Your personal dream signs, as well as your ability to spot new dream signs, will aid you in inducing lucid dreams."