Originally posted by Awhislyle
Ive been able to wake my self up from a dream by blinking my eyes as hard as i could, and one time when i opened then I saw my ceiling(I used to do this alot, pretty much anytime i realized i was dreaming, when i was a kid that is)
I used to do that too, expect I'd open my eyes as wide as I could (is this what you meant?). I assume I opened my 'dream' eyes enough that my 'real' eyes opened a little - enough to awaken me.

Now, it doesn't work. Instead, for some reason, I do the sign of teh cross to wake up (strange) when in a disturbing dream. I gotta learn to control those situations and have myself a lucid experience instead of wussying out every time.

It seems to only time I know I'm in a lucid dream (for the past year or two) is when something scary happens (zombies, falling form a building and not wanting to hit the ground, etc).