How do you wake up?

[andrew17]

I am just interested, for those who have a high degree of control over your dreams are you able to actually remove yourself from the dream. If so what do you do to do it? I usually think about paradoxes, I think they are confusing to my brain and it sort of ends the dream. To wake up I usually say "It's raining but I don't believe it is." What do you do?

[Marvo]

If I want to wake up, I just close my eyes and focus on my bode, then once I open them agian, I'm awake. If you're thinking WBTB and all, I use an alarm.

[Scatterbrain]

You may not feel it and it may not seem like you can control your real body, but you can, it's like you have two set of eyes, just open your real eyes. Although sometimes you may wake up in sleep paralysis, specially now that you've read about it.

[AlexLou]

I just concentrate on waking up. If that doesn't work, I try to reestablish the connection between my brain and my body; I concentrate on sensations that my body is actually experiencing. Then I try to move.

[ninja9578]

I just close my eyes. Sex also will wake you up

[Scatterbrain]

Sex also will wake you up I'll have to disagree with that statement. x)

[Neville J]

I'll have to disagree with that statement. x) lol. Long before I got into LDing, I could always wake myself up (in case of a nightmare). A towel over my head would work or closing my eyes and laying down in fetus position.

[Scatterbrain]

Uh? I was talking about sex, it's possible to have sex in a dream and not wake up.

[The White Rabbit]

I just concentrate on waking up. Me too.

[no_limits]

I dunno how i wake up. it just happens sometimes when i have a nightmare. i can only describe it as closing my eyes and concentrating on waking up. this takes about one dream second. after that you can "feel" that your out of the dream and then you simply open your eyes.

[Neville J]

Uh? I was talking about sex, it's possible to have sex in a dream and not wake up. I know you did.

[Scatterbrain]

Ah. I thought your reply was aimed at the quote, didn't make much sense.

[Abra]

Dreams are made of self-generated input. If you shut your eyes (as visual input is more than 80% of our experiences as humans), you will either be ejected from the dream, or put into a new scene (in which case you can repeat the exercise until out of the dream).

[rockinred]

If I want to wake up I try and open up my physical eyes and it usually works!! Cool question!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WILDinitall]

If i am ever in a real problem-one time i accidently got in life-threatining(in the dream) trouble- i know i'm dreaming for a split second but i wake up. i usually find out my eyes are actually closed, and open them. BIG problem when your head is smashed up against the bed.

[Akane]

Closing my eyes ends a dream but doesn't wake me up. I just keep sleeping until another dream or something else wakes me up. It's actually the main thing I used to combat insomnia. I'd fall asleep or go unconscious in my dream so I'd stay asleep longer and have another dream otherwise I'd wake up constantly and never get enough sleep. Instead I think it's time to wake up and sometimes about something I have to do the next day to give it some urgency. Occasionally leads to lots of false awakenings though where I dream myself doing that task instead of waking up to actually do it.

[Trapped]

ive never tried to wake up from and LD truthfully. when im done i just stop thinking about it and it slips into a normal dream and i wake up in the morning

[violetcandy]

If I ever want to wake up all I do is shake my head really fast.

[Roald]

Open my eyes. If that doesnt work. Try harder. If your truely LDing then its pretty easy to realise you could open your eyes if you tried hard enough, so you do.

[Iamerik]

Have sex with anything that moves?

[Tara]

If I blink, I usually wake up. Once I close my eyes, it feels like I'm slowing falling back into my real body. I end up in sleep paralysis for a few seconds and then I'm up.

[Spades]

I close my eyes and try to roll them upwards. Its only failed to wake me up once.

[Snowy Egypt]

When I tried to wake up from a dream one time, I stood where I was and kinda fell over onto the ground. Actually, I've notice that when I fall in dreams, lucid or not, I fall back into my real body in slow-motion. It's a cool experience.

[The Cusp]

I just do. Although once I wasn't able to no matter what I tried. I was trapped in the dream with a female who was hellbent on touching me. I didn't mind too much.