Thread: What's the deal with your hands?

By looking at our hands we are seeing the current state of our Spiritual Astral Body. It also helps us focus our Lucidity.

Decades ago, when I would look at my Dream Hands, I would see distorted hands of odd coloration. But recently when I looked at my hands, suddenly just my hands were enveloped in the night like darkness. Instead of full size hands, I had smallish webbed crosses that glowed with a silverwhiteblue spiritual light.

Perhaps when we get older, our astral bodies leave off the pretense of anthropomorphism – the Astral Body does not feel it needs to stay in exactly the human form.

Originally Posted by tiddlywink101

Well this will obviously vary from person to person
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There are not different rules for different people.

Dreaming is a collective phenomena.

We all have the same naked dreams.

And every Lucid Dreamer has false awakenings.

Atheistic Nihilistic Solipsistic Materialism is a Great Philosophy, when taken in isolation of everything in life and nature.

So, no, you are not unique. Or yes, you are unique. Unique just like everybody else.

There are not different rules for different people. [/b]

Well somethings are the same, but we know for a fact that people have different dreamsigns and the dream environment may react differently depending on the person

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Your starting to sound like Carlos Castaneda

Your starting to sound like Carlos Castaneda[/b]

But Leo's not claiming to be an anthropologist rigorously documenting his fieldwork.

I've done the hand rc once in a dream, and sometimes in that dream I had funny hands and sometimes they looked perfectly normal. Has anyone used other DCs' hands as a reality check? We see a lot more DCs' hands than our own, so if we could start rc'ing on their hands maybe we'd become lucid more often. Anyone already doing this?

Last night, in a non-lucid about being a paramedic, I was handed a pair of latex gloves. The person told me they were small, but when he handed them to me they were funny because the fingers were ridiculously thin. It wasn't just a small glove, it was deformed, just like a hand might be.

Originally Posted by Follower;

What I noticed is when you look at your hands in a LD, you only see you hands! It's like a tunnel vision: no legs, no body, no arms, only the hands.
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Yeah, I get that too, sometimes with a weird psychedelic background that goes away when you quit looking at them.

Yeah the last reality check I did ( while dreaming) I used my hands, and they were definetly all messed up. Not as in amount of digits or anything, but the shape/size of my right hand was distorted and morphing/changing shape...

...needless to say, I was lucid the rest of my dream

Originally Posted by speedbasssux

My theory is this, the dream body is highly unstable. The same thing happens when you look into mirror and try to see your face. Because more energy is being used to fabricate the dreamworld than used to perceive the body, more errors are bound to occur. But, of course, I could be very wrong.
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that sounds like a really good explanation for it. i would have no way of telling because i have never had a lucid.

has anyone had their hands fused together in a dream? it sucks, in case you were wondering.

My hands look normal, but i perseive them at a greater depth. Whenever I am lucid i almost always look at my palms simply to keep me lucid longer and it always works.

Okay. . . I wonder. . . why do our own hands look funky but others hands look normal. I've never really focused on anyone else's hands in a lucid dream or anything but I've also never seen anyone with hands that were in any way abnormal. I've never looked at my hands in a lucid dream. I've never had time. . . but I've seen my legs and feet and they looked normal enough. . . granted . . . I was wearing clothes. . . could that have something to do with it? Maybe someone could try to put on a pair of gloves in an LD without looking at their hands while they do it and then look at the gloves to see if their hands still go all weird. I think it would be an interesting experiment. I would do it myself but who knows how long it'll be before I have another LD? I'm still new.

Originally Posted by Deus

has anyone had their hands fused together in a dream? it sucks, in case you were wondering.
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I've had some fused fingers, but not both my hands together. I concur, that would suck.

Originally Posted by Deus

Maybe someone could try to put on a pair of gloves in an LD without looking at their hands while they do it and then look at the gloves to see if their hands still go all weird. I think it would be an interesting experiment.
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That is a good idea; I will add it to my long list of things to do it I ever become lucid again. I wonder if there was ever a lucid task like that? If not, it might be a good one.

I tried looking at my hands yesterday in my LD and they weren't there. They were completely invisible. My arms were solid at the elbows then sort of kaleidascope blurry to the wrists and the hands were just missing completely. I could see flashes of skin if I really concentrated. I wish I'd remembered my glove idea. (funfact: in my dream my breasts were much larger. They seemed to obscure a much too large part of my vision when I looked down to see my hands. ) I also had another idea for a test. Look at your hands in a dream to see if they are odd then find a D.C. and convince them to let you look at their hands. Try comparing the clarity of their hand to your hand then try holding hands to see what that looks like.

Also, is it eaiser to see your hand if you ball up your fist? Does it matter if you're palm up or palm down?

Originally Posted by Jimmie

I also had another idea for a test. Look at your hands in a dream to see if they are odd then find a D.C. and convince them to let you look at their hands. Try comparing the clarity of their hand to your hand then try holding hands to see what that looks like.

Also, is it eaiser to see your hand if you ball up your fist? Does it matter if you're palm up or palm down?
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I'll try try that too if I remember. I only remember looking at my hands open, palms up, I think. I know what you mean about the kaleidoscope thing; I could see my hands once but they were all wavey, sort of like underwater, but much more so.

Yep that's how it was for me the first time I looked at my hands but then the next night I managed to LD again. This time when I looked at my hands. . . they were just my hands. There was nothing weird about them. The lack of consistency was a little frustrating. It's also odd that in the first LD where I looked at my hands the dream scene was very realistic but my hands were all blurry. In the LD where my hands were normal the dream scene was much more fuzzy and dream like.

I hope that some day the subconcious will be understood and the art of lucid dreaming will be more thoroughly researched and someone will publish a book with the answers to all of my questions. At this point everytime I wonder about the workings of my own mind I just come up with more questions and no answers. As frustrating as that can be at times, I'm definitely having alot of fun trying out my little experiments in my lucid dreams. I have to remember to try the glove one and the DC one the next time my hands dissappear. Let me know if you guys try either of these out cause I'm really interested to see the results.

I've never encountered any problems with misshapen hands or body parts... my hands are always totally normal and in a mirror I'm also totally normal. I've tried to mess up my hands before, but it didn't work.

My hands have always looked pretty close to normal in my dreams when I examined them.

I don't think I've ever had an extra finger or thumb, the only thing that varies from waking life is their size which varies from dream to dream.

My hands have yet to look different in a dream....interesting how for some people, they always look odd, and for others, they always look "normal".

But sometimes during the day, I notice my fingers look slightly fatter or skinnier. Fluctuating self-perception, maybe?

Ive not had that probblem,I used to look at my hands the moment I went lucid.I have been surronded by golden energy before

This has happened to me as well before, but only once, I looked at my hand and it had one extra finger(non lucid) and that was it, otherwise I have never had that problem

Originally Posted by tai

Aaah! Multiple fingers! And not on purpose!

Have also experienced the deformed hands thing before. The brain can render the most complicated objects and scenery perfectly realistically - why not something as simple as hands?
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Perhaps it has to do with familiarity or attachment? For example, if I tell you to think of a Pine tree, you probably have this image of what a Pine tree generally looks like. Yet, I find that when I try to think of ideal hands, it gets much harder. Could it be that because the hands are a vital body part, we view them differently from other objects separate from ourselves? I think the visual image of hands might be distorted in dreams by their more important attribute - that of feeling.

But don't take my word for it. This is purely speculative.

--Ariox

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Does anybody know why hands look so weird in dreams? Is it just because we expect them to? Or any other theories?
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In my first and only lucid dream so far, I looked at my hands because I remembered reading this topic and my right hand seemed fine, but my left ring finger and pinker were twice as small as the rest.

Originally Posted by mastergannel

In my first and only lucid dream so far, I looked at my hands because I remembered reading this topic and my right hand seemed fine, but my left ring finger and pinker were twice as small as the rest.
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Is that what made you lucid?

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Is that what made you lucid?
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No actually, what made me lucid was the location I was in, and the fact that I couldn't have been there at that time... looking at my hands came after when i was already lucid, but it's this post that made me look at them for any deformities.

The closer you examine something in your dreams, the more details your dreaming attention creates.

If you notice something odd about your hands and go in for a closer look, that oddness will be amplified.