Thread: One questions. I never use dreamsigns. But i get lucid. Why's that?

Originally Posted by adraw

Dream signs. Tools of inducing lucidity. Described as a way to aid us into lucid dream state.

But arent they only the tools to move our focus from reality into dream state? Lets assume we dont use reality checks during the day. What if we just thought about dream state during the day. What is more effective in your opinion? {reality checks or thinking about dream reality}

I think you're right.
I think that the reason so many people have trouble achieving lucid dreams is because of the "hype" around it. There are so many misconceptions about lucid dreaming - why should we need to use dream signs anyway? The only reason we need to use a tool is because we don't know what the real problem is.
If we want to achieve the same state of mind during our dreams as during the day, perhaps we should try to change the state of mind during the day to something more compatable.

Usually I get into lucid dreams by the sudden realization that I'm dreaming, too. It's less of a "I'm dreaming" than the way I see and feel my environment changes.

Lately, I have been less consumed with lucid dreaming and more concerned with my awareness. I am really starting to see the live world more like a dream world. Everything seems more beautiful and even more real, more spacious, deeper.

Awareness is sort of one of those fragile things - you really don't know how to describe it until you get it, and you think you have it, even when you don't.

This morning, I had two lucid dreams. (A new record for me.) Both were achieved in this same way. I think it's no coincidence.

Maybe soon I will write some essay about the correspondence of dream and awake states.. I've been meaning to think more about that.

back when i was younger and i used to do lucid dreams, i would just sudden know i was dreaming. It was weird, somehow i just kinda noticed.

I don't use dream signs either, and only sometimes I actually do RC's to make sure I am lucid. Yeah though, I found myself in my last lucid not even bothering with an RC, hard to tell if I was even lucid in the first place... But I did what I wanted. xD

well dreamsigns must be important otherwise people wouldnt metion them in the first place but my excuse for not using dreamsigns is my journal isnt big enough yet but hey i've had 5 LD since i started and that was a little more than 2 months ago for me anyway thats pretty decent.