The Key To Attaining Lucidity...

KNOW YOUR DREAMSIGNS! simple, huh?

My biggest dreamsign is when I look in the sky I can see very strange things (star nebulas, comets, ufos, ect). Because of this dreamsign I incorporate it into a RC mechanism. When I look at the sky in the waking world (a habit of mine) I note whether or not I see anything odd or unusual. In my experience this has realy increased the frequency of lucid dreams. Maybe I am lucky because this is a dreamsign that I can convert into an RC reminder but I would imagine that anyone could incorporate this same technique with thier own personal dreamsign.

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Originally Posted by Xanous

KNOW YOUR DREAMSIGNS! simple, huh?

My biggest dreamsign is when I look in the sky I can see very strange things (star nebulas, comets, ufos, ect). Because of this dreamsign I incorporate it into a RC mechanism. When I look at the sky in the waking world (a habit of mine) I note whether or not I see anything odd or unusual. In my experience this has realy increased the frequency of lucid dreams. Maybe I am lucky because this is a dreamsign that I can convert into an RC reminder but I would imagine that anyone could incorporate this same technique with thier own personal dreamsign.
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Wow, that's cool! How long did it take U to 'link' the dreamsign to doing RC? I can induce my dreamsign at will everynight but I can't seem to link it to doing RCs because I dream it and that's it :blue: . I think U are in a way lucky to have that dreamsign because the sky gives U a tipoff to do RC. My dreamsign is lightbulbs cause it's also my hobby but lightbulbs are difficult to link to dreaming :blue: .

IMJ

My best dream sign is when I'm falling, it forces me to realize that I'm dreaming because I can't hit the ground because then I'm dead and that only happen in dreams. Every time I have fallen I have become lucid.

Last night was pretty annoying though..:P I was falling and I became lucid and started to fly instead. I did kind of a loop lik airplanes do in movies when they are about to crash, but when I looked up I bounced into a concrete house wall and woke up. 2 sec lucid because of that damn house :P

Good advice, Xanous :) I use the same dreamsign technique as you do - I've got my dreamsigns down to a science.

Every time you see a light bulb, think of lightbulbs, or hear lightbulbs mentioned in a conversation, ask yourself if you are dreaming. Do an RC. It's hard to get in the habit, but once you do, you'll see an increase in lucids.

For me, a big dreamsign is school buses. So every morning and afternoon when I get on the bus I do an RC.

PS: Did you just do an RC? I mentioned light bulbs at least five times!

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Originally Posted by QwinsepiaSquared

Every time you see a light bulb, think of lightbulbs, or hear lightbulbs mentioned in a conversation, ask yourself if you are dreaming. Do an RC. It's hard to get in the habit, but once you do, you'll see an increase in lucids.

For me, a big dreamsign is school buses. So every morning and afternoon when I get on the bus I do an RC.

PS: Did you just do an RC? I mentioned light bulbs at least five times!
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Thanks. :)

IMJ

I know my dreamsigns well, yet still fail to realize i'm dreaming when they occur.

It's ironic that I won't realize I'm dreaming from the bizzare occurences, but yet many of the daily-objects I come in contact with have lead me to realize I'm dreaming.

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Originally Posted by HockeyIsLife

I know my dreamsigns well, yet still fail to realize i'm dreaming when they occur.

It's ironic that I won't realize I'm dreaming from the bizzare occurences, but yet many of the daily-objects I come in contact with have lead me to realize I'm dreaming.
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Hi, what's Ur dreamsign? I think it could be that U are so used to the daily objects that work well in reality so when they appear funny U will ask if Ur dreaming. Unfortunately for me the lightbulbs I see in dreams are rarely lighted :blue: .

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Originally Posted by imj

Hi, what's Ur dreamsign? I think it could be that U are so used to the daily objects that work well in reality so when they appear funny U will ask if Ur dreaming. Unfortunately for me the lightbulbs I see in dreams are rarely lighted :blue: .
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Exactly.

A couple of my dreamsigns:

(Frequent) I&#39;m playing hockey (suprise) and realize that I am missing something, somehting important. My stick, for example. Now in real life I would be like, there is < 1% chance I would forget my stick, but even if i did, it would take 10 seconds to go and get it. That, or maybe a skate, which once again would only be a very minor problem, but yet I completely freak out.

Another one (less frequent) is that I&#39;m driving, and the brakes or whatever won&#39;t work, and I always seem to just miss hitting a vehicle. But yet, a cop always manages to see me :eek:

The one that I used to have as a kid (for good reasons too) was that I was always scared a comet would hit the earth and wipe us all out. Whenever I was dreaming I would look up in the sky and see this huge rock coming at me. That put the fear in me like no other. But as I grew up and held a better grasp on reality (Weekly World News is not a source&#33;), I didn&#39;t let it bother me as much and as a result I don&#39;t have those nightmares anymore.

So yeah, those are my main categories in dreams currently, but I&#39;m starting to use reality checks everytime I play hockey now, so hopefully those bad dreams keep coming - so I can make them good.

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Exactly.

A couple of my dreamsigns:

(Frequent) I&#39;m playing hockey (suprise) and realize that I am missing something, somehting important. My stick, for example. Now in real life I would be like, there is < 1% chance I would forget my stick, but even if i did, it would take 10 seconds to go and get it. That, or maybe a skate, which once again would only be a very minor problem, but yet I completely freak out.

Another one (less frequent) is that I&#39;m driving, and the brakes or whatever won&#39;t work, and I always seem to just miss hitting a vehicle. But yet, a cop always manages to see me :eek:

The one that I used to have as a kid (for good reasons too) was that I was always scared a comet would hit the earth and wipe us all out. Whenever I was dreaming I would look up in the sky and see this huge rock coming at me. That put the fear in me like no other. But as I grew up and held a better grasp on reality (Weekly World News is not a source&#33;), I didn&#39;t let it bother me as much and as a result I don&#39;t have those nightmares anymore.

So yeah, those are my main categories in dreams currently, but I&#39;m starting to use reality checks everytime I play hockey now, so hopefully those bad dreams keep coming - so I can make them good.
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Nice&#33; I tend to get emotional too over small things in the dream and when I do become lucid I always run off to nowhere because of the excitement. Doing all the RCs U know of only during WBTB for half an hour(shortcut..lol) is very good chance to become lucid also :wink:

IMJ

I have to tell you this to be fair. Last night I dreamt that I was sitting outside with my wife and some friends. I saw a bright blue, fast moving light in the sky. I did ask myself if I was dreaming but I did not think that it was anything that strange so I said I was not. Then it turned into a jet and did some impossible arial stunts above us and shot some strange projectiles that opened a wormhole to another galaxy. I tried to jump into but it closed. I guess I need to do better RCs when I look up. Especially if I see anything of interest. At least I thought of it though. :wink: Sometimes I do fool myself when RCing in a dream.

Four days ago, I started to really try to be more aware during the day and do RCs whenever I see anything that is even the least abnormal. I seems to have been working because last night in one of my dreams, I saw my school bus. It was coming really fast at me down my road. It slid right past me and I was like wtf. I did a nose RC. That was the first time in a dream that I have ever automatically done a RC because something was odd.

By the way, the RC didn&#39;t work. ( I couldn&#39;t breath through my nose.) Today I made sure that whenever I did a RC that I would actually look around and do multiple RCs to see if anything is dreamlike. I do a RC like every five minutes.

I don&#39;t have dream signs - In all the dreams that I&#39;ve had, the only things that have come up more than a couple of times are gardens (5 times), football (3 times) and fighting armies of strange beings (but that doesnt happen in real life anyway :blue: )

#1 exactly how does the nose RC work?

#2 i have a problem of rationalizing away my dreamsigns. for ex. if i&#39;m having a hard time walking or moving is suppose to be a dream sign but i find myself explaning that something earlier in the dream caused it or i was working out that morning and i&#39;m just sore. does anyone know how to stop this

1) Basically, you plug up your nose with your fingers and try to breathe. (No, you don&#39;t stick your fingers up your nose, you just pinch your nose shut&#33; XD) If you&#39;re awake, you can&#39;t breathe. If you&#39;re dreaming, you can breathe. Very handy RC, as it works for everyone.

2)Whenever that happens again, stop. Do an RC. Don&#39;t base whether you&#39;re dreaming or not on something that happened awhile ago. Base it on something you do at the moment. Take just 5 seconds to do that RC, study your surroundings, and think, "Does this really make sense? Could I really be dreaming?"

Good luck, and happy dreaming&#33;

Hey baby... what&#39;s your dreamsign?

Sorry, i couldn&#39;t help it. i&#39;m going to go dream now.