Thread: LIGHT SWITCHES!!!!!

I had two back to back lucid dreams for the first time, and in both, the first thing i did was run to the wall and play with the light switches. When nothing happened, I knew I was lucid. It was so easy, and happened at the very beginning of the dream, within seconds.

A friend told me to use this technique, and I just had my first 2 LDs because of it.

He also said he tries to scream in his dreams, and when he cant scream or it comes out as regular volume speech, he knows hes lucid.

Cheers.

I don't understand. How can you make yourself do something in a dream? I can't do anything. My dreams happen like movies, where I just watch them go by.

I think that when you wake up even if you don't think it's lucid, go to the light switch and check if it works. Though I've never had a lucid dream, I think that practice is the key to doing it.

Originally posted by Daviid
I don't understand. How can you make yourself do something in a dream? I can't do anything. My dreams happen like movies, where I just watch them go by.

yes, when you are not lucid and dont take part then your dreams go by like movies. The thing is you have made your first step and at least can remember the dreams. it takes practice and patience. Every nite think about lucidy and becoming lucid, eventually you make your break-through. Dont stress is the big thing. Itll come.

I think that when you wake up even if you don't think it's lucid, go to the light switch and check if it works. Though I've never had a lucid dream, I think that practice is the key to doing it.[/b]

Exactly. I've been at this for about a year and I've never had a lucid dream. But I still try every night.

Originally posted by The_Director2004

I think that when you wake up even if you don't think it's lucid, go to the light switch and check if it works. Though I've never had a lucid dream, I think that practice is the key to doing it.

Exactly. I've been at this for about a year and I've never had a lucid dream. But I still try every night.[/b]

That's a while.. although, you should probably take a week break or so.. (don't think of lucid dreaming during that time), some people have had a lucid dream during breaks like that
'accidently' .

what i dont get is that you cant change the light. i mean, you can do like everything else, why cant you just control a freakin light??

FluBB

I think it has to do with the light level in your dream being relatively dictated by the light level in the real world. Since you're not changing the amount of light comming through your eyelids, your brain isn't convinced that the light level actually changes.

Originally posted by FluBB
what i dont get is that you cant change the light. i mean, you can do like everything else, why cant you just control a freakin light??

FluBB

A lot of technology doesn't work in Dreams. It could be due to the complexity of the devices. Try not to think of the light as a light bulb and wires and electricty, but think of it as something simple, nothing more than an extension of you body, and it could work easier.

How about this, I had a dream where I was staying in this strange shack on top of a mountain. I decided to go to bed, and I lay down on this little wooden bed, with built in wooden bedside tables, and a large bed head. All over the bed head and bedside tables a bunch of light switches were installed. There was about 12 light switches surrounding me, so of course, wanting to know what they were for, I flicked them all...and not a single one worked. AND of course, that didn't register as unusual at all. I just assumed the switches operated lights in other rooms, and outside.

Soon after I woke up, and after recapping on my dream as I wrote it down, I considered the many malfunctioning light switches. "YOU IDIOT!!!" I cried. "SO MANY LIGHT SWITCHES!!" I have never encountered such a glaringly obvious sign that I am dreaming before in all of my lucid attaining endeavors.

A rather amusing little tale I think.

ahahah Mattfuzzy, I totally had the same experience! Sucks doesnt it?

Originally posted by dudesuperior
A lot of technology doesn't work in Dreams. It could be due to the complexity of the devices. Try not to think of the light as a light bulb and wires and electricty, but think of it as something simple, nothing more than an extension of you body, and it could work easier.

It may vary from person to person, too. Electronic devices (including computerized ones) usually operate fairly normally in my dreams (non-lucid ones, at least--I need to spend some time playing with them in lucid dreams to see if they act differently), but then again, they play a big role in my waking life. Light switches, on the other hand, are kind of iffy--they often work for me in dreams, but not always.

In a past lucid dream, I actually spent a little while playing with light switches throughout my house just to see if they would work. At first none of them did anything, but after a few moments, I started noticing what seemed like very subtle changes in the light level out of the corners of my eyes when I flipped them. Finally, I discovered a switch that seemed to control whether or not light came through what looked like a skylight over our sink (which doesn't actually exist). Meanwhile, it was initially very dark outside (and in the house) at the beginning of the dream, but while I was playing with the switches, it had become bright daylight outside. I never noticed that that transition had taken place during the dream, which isn't unusual for me (I usually don't even notice when the entire layout of the house spontaneously changes, even when lucid ).

Interesting experience Travis, I had something like that a few nights ago now. I was in my old primary school with all of my relatives on the school oval, for some kind of family gathering. When all of a sudden, all the "lights" went out. I might add, we were all there in the middle of the day, and the sun was shinning brightly...then all of a sudden, *BAM* it is night-time. We all panicked and turned to eachother, and my uncle got really scared thinking it was the end of the world. "What the hell? Did the power go out?" I asked, and my uncle replied with "It isn't just the power, the sun has gone out...theres still a few street lights on though."

Pretty freaky stuff, especially considering light conditions aren't really supposed to change in dreams.

But this is where is gets scary, early in the morning while I was still asleep some guy came over to fix our airconditioner, and my dad had to turn all the power off. So I wake up from my dream, needing to go to the toilet, and it was still a bit dark, so I hit the switch and it didn't work. So I thought, "what the hell? Is this still a dream?" and I did the pinch your nose trick and I could breathe fine, then I checked the bedside clock, but the power was off and there was no numbers at all. So I kind of lost the plot at this stage, and after I hit about five malfunctioning light switches I finally worked out it wasn't a dream thanks to other reality checks.

It was like I predicted the power being out in my dream. Yes, something like that.

Bloody hell, I go on a bit dont I?

i saw that in waking life and i tired to use that to help me become lucid. i managed to change the light, does that make me weird or somethng, lol.

Mattfuzzy, you said you COULD breath fine with your nose pinched while you were awake?
Aren't you supposed to try to breath through your nose, while you are pinching it? If yes, then how could you breath?

Yes...I found that statement to be quite curious myself...

Originally posted by mattfuzzy
But this is where is gets scary, early in the morning while I was still asleep some guy came over to fix our airconditioner, and my dad had to turn all the power off. So I wake up from my dream, needing to go to the toilet, and it was still a bit dark, so I hit the switch and it didn't work. So I thought, "what the hell? Is this still a dream?" and I did the pinch your nose trick and I could breathe fine, then I checked the bedside clock, but the power was off and there was no numbers at all. So I kind of lost the plot at this stage, and after I hit about five malfunctioning light switches I finally worked out it wasn't a dream thanks to other reality checks.
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It was like I predicted the power being out in my dream. Yes, something like that.

Bloody hell, I go on a bit dont I?

Maybe you heard what was happening while you were asleep, and it somehow leaked into your dream a bit. It seems to happen sometimes. One morning last year I had a dream that had something to do with some guy in the army greeting someone in charge of him with "Yes, sir!", and they were discussing whether they should call each other "sir." When I woke up, my mom's computer was on, and they use Incredimail for email which has a butler that appears when new mail appears. It had been saying "You have mail, sir" every few minutes, and I'm sure it had been doing that during the dream as well.

I get instantly lucid IF I question it... and that's the problem: I don't.

Originally posted by qzole
Mattfuzzy, you said you COULD breath fine with your nose pinched while you were awake? * *
Aren't you supposed to try to breath through your nose, while you are pinching it? If yes, then how could you breath?

Thanks for picking up on that one...quite a typo right there. I was meant to say I could not breathe after pinching my nose. Imagine the sheer stupidity if I was able to breathe through my pinched nose and said "Well, seems I'm not dreaming."