Thread: Using glasses as reality check?

Despite very popular opinion, dream signs should not be picked based on how frequently you're aware of them during your dreams. Rather, they should be picked on how often you explicitly think about them during your dreams.

You associate the dream sign with dreaming, so that when you think about explicitly about the dream sign itself, you think about dreaming. Because of this, it's the thought of the awareness, rather than the awareness itself that makes you lucid. This is because in order for the association with the dream sign to come across you mind, the dream sign itself has to come across your mind first!

So, in order for the dream sign of talking to somebody to work, you have to think "I am talking to somebody" while conversing with them. Thinking about other things during the conversation like what you're saying, what you're going to say, what they're saying, who you're talking to, what they look like, ect. won't work unless the thought leads you to the thought that you're talking to somebody.

The same idea applies to the lack of glasses and every other dream sign. How often are you thinking "I don't have glasses" during your dreams?

Pick you're dream signs based on how often you explicitly think about them rather than how often they occur during your dreams, because you don't think about everything that happens during your dreams, and in order for the dream sign to work, it has to come across your mind in the first place.

Think about what you're thinking about during your dreams.