Blinking

**Suck4Luck** · 11-16-2012 03:14 AM

Idk if this is the right section...

Anyways in almost all of my recent "lucid" dreams, when i try to blink sometimes my real eyes blink. I get close to waking up i try and hold my eyes open but it usually doesnt work.

What would you all say about this, and does this happen to anyone else?

**Indeed** · 11-16-2012 03:37 AM

Why exactly do you blink in the firdt place? If you can find out what causes it, you might be able to stop it altogether.

**Suck4Luck** · 11-16-2012 03:48 AM

Its just a natural thing to blink im pretty sure.

**Sivason** · 11-16-2012 04:42 AM

It is usually bad to think about your eyes. For instance, I would NEVER intentionally close my eyes in a dream. That is because when you reopen them there is a high chance of opening your real eyes. I suppose I do not know why that is, but try to avoid being aware of your eyes if you can.

**Suck4Luck** · 11-17-2012 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by sivason

It is usually bad to think about your eyes. For instance, I would NEVER intentionally close my eyes in a dream. That is because when you reopen them there is a high chance of opening your real eyes. I suppose I do not know why that is, but try to avoid being aware of your eyes if you can.

Thanks, it's always been tough

**TehDalek** · 11-17-2012 09:41 PM

This is a sad thing I learned through my first two LDs, which happened to be WILDS. I closed my eyes in the first one, ending the dream. The second one I walked through walls, but kept closing my eyes as I went through, waking myself up momentarily.
I do not "blink" in dreams, but I learned my lesson not to close my eyes for anything!

**meistersomnius** · 11-18-2012 07:02 AM

This means that you have a disorder, which disbales you to be in a sleep paralysis (SP) during your sleep.

**dms111** · 11-18-2012 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by meistersomnius

This means that you have a disorder, which disbales you to be in a sleep paralysis (SP) during your sleep.

Whoa now. It doesn't mean anything like that. Nothing he said points to a possible disorder.

**Pickle** · 11-25-2012 01:06 AM

That must be a common disorder then, because people here and I all suffer from this. It's always been my way of backing out of nightmares, closing my eyes and opening them to be awake in my bed.

**Sivason** · 11-25-2012 05:28 AM

I'll vote for never closing your eyes in an LD. Never a good eye-dea.

**Sensei** · 11-25-2012 05:53 AM

You have no eyes, why blink? Everything started getting blurry in my last LD and I reached my hands up to rub my eyes and close them. I stopped myself in time and stabilized to fix it. Everything became clear again.

My eyes moving seem to be a reminder for me to stabilize.

I also used to either blink very fast or imagine opening my eyes IRL to wake myself up from nightmares.

**LolaTheLoner** · 11-25-2012 05:18 PM

Telling yourself not to think about your eyes will likely make you think about them even more, the same way saying "Don't think about a purple elephant" will make you picture a purple elephant. Instead of worrying about it too much, shift your attention to something else before the dream deteriorates. Like BrandonBoss said, it would be a good idea to stabilize the dream whenever something like that happens. Just rub your hands together or whatever method works best for you.