What is YOUR dream sign?

I often read weird text on computer screens or cell-phones, like words that are slightly different for no good reason.

One great example of this is actually on of the fake Game Over screens in "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty".
The whole Metal Gear series has always messed around with the player and broken the fourth wall in various original ways, and every time I see this part I almost feel like I should do a reality check or something, because it feels exactly like when I see strange text in a dream:

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My dream sign is and always has been houses. Mostly one childhood home but 99% of my dreams are centered in and around a housing structure.

For a long time I thought my dreams are "too normal", but by writing them down I found out that I almost never dream real places! It sounds crazy, but indeed I am always in another worlds, building I have never seen, people I have never met, streets I have never walked on and so on. So it's definitely the category of Place in LaBerge's categorization.

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Originally Posted by xdr3amer

For a long time I thought my dreams are "too normal", but by writing them down I found out that I almost never dream real places! It sounds crazy, but indeed I am always in another worlds, building I have never seen, people I have never met, streets I have never walked on and so on. So it's definitely the category of Place in LaBerge's categorization.

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Me, too, with a few key exceptions (childhood home and neighborhood). I started paying a lot of attention to location and used it for frequent reflection/intention moments (also ala LaBerge), and got lucid fairly frequently as a result.

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Originally Posted by FryingMan

Me, too, with a few key exceptions (childhood home and neighborhood). I started paying a lot of attention to location and used it for frequent reflection/intention moments (also ala LaBerge), and got lucid fairly frequently as a result.

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Thanks guys for posting. FryingMan, i already road a stuff from you in another topic, witch you talk about location recall, and attention. Can you developp a bit more please? I know you already did it, but that was in PM with someone else =)

PS: I know my actual dreamsigns:
-eat
-rumble
-my old child mountain town
-mixs between different towns
And..
-be sit on the toilets ^^'

Either I'm in school for some reason (I'm 27 and never went to college, I'm referring to high school here most specifically, with junior high or elementary appearing occasionally), in a gymnasium or auditorium of some kind, or I'm in some kind of massive hotel that always reminds me of being like the one from The Shining. That or somehow I've wound up rejoining the Army or something similar.

My dream signs are:

my phone not working properly
earthquakes
trains (maybe not so much anymore but used to be my main one)
planes or helicopters crashing :disconcerted:
having clothes that aren't really mine

I don't remember if I've posted in this thread before or not. But as anyone who has ever followed my journals knows, my most reliable dreamsign has always been getting airborne somehow. Once high enough in the air I nearly always recognize the feeling of flying in dreams and become instantly lucid.


When I'm focused on inducing lucid dreams my mind has a tendency to create a situation in my dreams that will cause me to get ridiculous air, so that I can recognize I'm dreaming. It's an interesting phenomenon since this kind of dream never happens unless I'm focused on inducing lucidity. It's like my unconscious mind saying. You wanted to get lucid? here you go... And just finds a way to fling me into the sky lol. It still happens.

And of course there has always been the animal attacks, though I've only occasionally been able to recognize them and get lucid from them.


Last night I recognized an annoying bathroom situation. Something that happens a lot but still have not learned to recognize often enough.

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Originally Posted by xdr3amer

For a long time I thought my dreams are "too normal", but by writing them down I found out that I almost never dream real places! It sounds crazy, but indeed I am always in another worlds, building I have never seen, people I have never met, streets I have never walked on and so on. So it's definitely the category of Place in LaBerge's categorization.

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Yeah, same about being in abnormal places. And often doing something you would not likely be doing in waking life. It's why I'm always paying attention to both where I'm at, and what I'm doing. I have plenty of work dreams but lots of things in those that can potentially and occasionally does tip me off that I'm dreaming. Getting lucid during work dreams is the best. Because lets face it, we have to spend enough time at work the way it is. Sucks even more to be there while asleep and not even knowing you don't have to be working because you are sleeping and not even getting paid for the crap. So if you can realize you are dreaming during a work dream you can stop wasting time working for free when you don't have to, and start having some fun instead.

I think maybe bugs are starting to become a dreamsign for me as well. A lot of bugs always showing up in my home, and I'm always trying to kill them to cut back on them. Now they are showing up in my dreams a lot too. Most frequently during HI or just falling back to sleep after waking, like a reentry.


This morning I was lucid for a little bit during a false awakening. Just laying there in my blankets and saw this ugly bug crawling around. Didn't do anything about it or freak out and try to kill it. Just watched it crawling around and knowing it wasn't real this time that I was just dreaming it. Have to remember to make a habit of doing an RC when I see bugs in the house.

After looking through this thread, I have found a few of my dream signs! It was so hard to figure out dream signs by myself :D
-Electronics/mechanics not working properly
-Things related to school(I just stopped going to school after being in school for most of my life so this one should be very effective. I dont come across much school stuff in my daily life)
-Having difficulties reading texts
-Being chased or chasing something
-Seeing a very attractive woman
-being late for something
-blurred vision
I'm going to read these every night before bed until I memorize them

Currently my dream signs are:
- cars
- playing card games
- country house

Currently, my dream signs are:
Macropsia (things in a dream that looks bigger or smaller than they actually are)
People that I know from school.
Arthropod
Tesseract/ parallel universes.
Unusual noises.
Strange places.

My old house in the country
Funeral Homes
Russia

Currently, my only 2 consistent dream signs are:
- Severe thunderstorms
- Parts of the house I live in, usually modified in slightly trippy ways

I don't have a lot of entries in my DJ, so I will probably wait a bit until I try to utilize these, since my last two dreams after my pause didn't follow that pattern, so I can't be sure if they will still consistently appear.

Adding clones to my Dream Sign.;)

- Animals. I love animals. A particular ferret shows up sometimes to give me advice.
- Celebrities. One acts as my bff, and another acts as antagonist. And there’s this one band that is notorious for flooding places (literally, with water).
- Malls. Absolute chaos. I hate mall dreams.
- Old people. They’re mean and try to “conquer” places.
- Family/friends. They act true to their nature, but they’re usually doing something weird...
- Forests. Idk why.
- Epic battles. I never win or lose. I usually wake up in the middle of them. One time I accidentally killed an ally...whoops.
- Foreign countries/cultures, especially Asia. I’m a traveler and I major in linguistics. But in travel dreams, I’m usually lost.
- Overall darkness. Not necessarily a bad thing, I’m just often inside dark buildings, or it’s nighttime outside. My dreams often have a Tim Burton atmosphere.

To add: The feeling that I forgot my mask and gloves or being in places that are very crowded, like the streets of NY. Or even LIFE before Covid19. Prompts, an RC.

Anything involved with #3 !
I would really like to use it to acquire lucidity ...Not yet.

Let's see... Lately it's:

-Cokes (the soda! former addiction)
-People speaking Spanish
-Mangoes

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Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

Let's see... Lately it's:

-Cokes (the soda! former addiction)
-People speaking Spanish
-Mangoes

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Si, que rico mangos por montón! :rolllaugh:

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Originally Posted by monsa199a

Si, que rico mangos por montón! :rolllaugh:

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Okay. So doing an RC now. :D

Jaja, sabes que amo esos sueños en los que puedes aprender cualquier idioma, así como así. Una vez tuve el sueño de que mis jóvenes años de universidad me hablaban en idioma escandinavo. Otras veces necesitaba hablar ruso porque era un espía de la rama de Inteligencia Secreta.

Once had a dream that my room was fulled to the point of I couldn't open my door, with so soda cans. The sea of red.

..... Yeah, don't mine me. :P

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Originally Posted by Lang

Jaja, sabes que amo esos sueños en los que puedes aprender cualquier idioma, así como así. Una vez tuve el sueño de que mis jóvenes años de universidad me hablaban en idioma escandinavo. Otras veces necesitaba hablar ruso porque era un espía de la rama de Inteligencia Secreta.

Once had a dream that my room was fulled to the point of I couldn't open my door, with so soda cans. The sea of red.

..... Yeah, don't mine me. :P

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Los dos están locos. Y ahora tengo que hacer otra prueba de realidad ...

I just realized anything related with school, teachers, students from the past... these dreamsigns keep showing in some of my dreams, but I haven't used them to attain lucidity, until now!:D