i'm sure all of you know what a dream sign is and have possibly identified some of your own. i've been doing something based on this idea to become lucid - for me it's been much more reliable than RCs. nothing really new.. or original.. but take a look...

there is a location we can associate with many of our dreams, which is a recurring theme - something that our dreaming attention periodically returns to, like a home base.

i'm calling this a dream habitat


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let me give you my example - here's some background...

in my first LD i was stuck in a jacuzzi with the top closed shut and i discovered that i could breathe underwater. i then moved into an ocean full of living things and swam through it while breathing regularly.

i grew up very close to the pacific ocean and went to the beach a lot. in one of my most vivid LDs i suddenly found myself floating off the shore of one of my favorite beaches. i was very aware right from the beginning and it gave me a great feeling to be mentally back at that location.

many of my dreams involve a body of water - sometimes a lake or a pool, and sometimes even a room filled with water.

several times during the day, and most importantly before bed, i look at an image of a body of water or visualize such a place (the background on my laptop is a picture i took of a beach in oahu, so this is the last thing i see before sleep). i repeat to myself "in my dreams i will go to a place next to the water. i will realize i'm dreaming and i will look at my hands to stabilize." i resolve to do this and i see myself becoming lucid.

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your dream habitat should be a place you actually would want to go to. so in this sense it isn't necessarily a dream sign because you choose to go there, but in either case your mind is drawn to it. over time the location should become increasingly associated with lucidity. wooohoo!