the "turning on and off a light" dream sign

[Dareloth]

if you don't know: this is where you try to turn on or off a light, if nothing happens when you hit the switch or turn the knob or whatever, you're dreaming because in dreams you can't adjust light levels. for me personally i have adjusted light in many dreams and so this makes no sense at all to me. am i alone?

[gab]

if you don't know: this is where you try to turn on or off a light, if nothing happens when you hit the switch or turn the knob or whatever, you're dreaming because in dreams you can't adjust light levels. for me personally i have adjusted light in many dreams and so this makes no sense at all to me. am i alone? It's not a dream sign, it's a reality check. And not very reliable one, since it sometimes works, sometimes it may not.

[Dareloth]

good point. it's an RC, it was late when i wrote that.

[angie746]

Hi dare, I have a lot of the annoying light dreams, it has in a few sparked me to realise its a dream as its a very common thing that happens for me when dreaming. I have in a dream once thought ill check if the light comes on and if it doesn't I'm dreaming and the bloody thing turned on didn't it lol, ths confused me because I was pretty sure I was dreaming and knew lights shouldn't work in my dreams and never had but just this once it worked, I decided to do a nose plug check then to clarify that I was indeed dreaming, and I was, but I did keep turning the light on with facination and scratching my head at how it could possibly work lol

[CharlesD]

Many times I'll be in a dim room and when I turn on the light, the bulb just glows a little but doesn't really improve things. That and the inability to type anything or dial the proper numbers on a phone have to be some of the most frustrating things in dreams.