Thread: What's the deal with your hands?

I have only dreamt of strange-looking hands once, and they were not mine. Even at that there wasn't much wrong with them; they were just abnormally large.

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.

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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Maybe so. I haven't managed to remember to look in a mirror while lucid yet, but hopefully sometime I will. Maybe it is because when you focus on something too much your mind messes up the details. Maybe when things seem really detailed, it is really a repeating pattern (actually your avatar kind of made me think of that&#33 that is easy for the mind to create or give the illusion of, and when you look at an object like your hand, you have to make it exactly right. Maybe you have too many fingers because of the repeating pattern thing. I don't understand why specifically hands always seem to be messed up though.

That happens to me as well. I tried to make sense out of it but I realized that distorted information is just the process. It's just like two people trying to communicate with one another but unfortunately they speak two different languages. Of course it's more evident during lucid periods. But the struggle is usually highten as the Lucid level hightens That's why the more attentive you are the more obscured information within the dream world becomes. This is just my theory on it, Perhaps the experience is quite different for everyone else but the Method would generally be the same.

Yea when I became lucid in my dream I heard of a technique to look at your hands and focus on the details for a few seconds to increase clarity of your surroundings. However when I looked at them, they were disfigured and gross.

HIHIhi thats some x files stuff ^^ i was using hands as dream sign method i was looking on my hands many times during day and reapeat next time i look on my hands in dream i become lucid and it worked after 2or3 months later i get my first short ld maybe try this and your hands wil look fine

Nearly a year of lucid dreaming and I haven't event thought of looking in a mirror. An experiment for tonight then!

Originally Posted by tiddlywink101

Nearly a year of lucid dreaming and I haven't event thought of looking in a mirror. An experiment for tonight then!
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Tell us what you see. I haven't managed to do it yet.

Last night during a lucid I looked at my hands and I had five fingers on each, but a couple of them were too short and stubbby. Then they started waving and stayed all waved like they were under water or something. Very freaky.

Everytime I look into a mirror while lucid, I never get an accurate picture. I've gotten a fuzzy out-of-focus effect, and one time my head was huge, but my face was really tiny in the center.

My friend tried looking into a mirror and got a good reflection, then he started digging into the mirror. He said it behaved like goop.

This morning I had a lucid dream. Both times when I looked at my hands, they looked normal, but my vision switched to letterbox format.

Usually when I lucid and look at my hands, I see them as pure white as if I were looking at paper and also the arms are missing. My hands just float in fron of my eyes

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Maybe so. I haven't managed to remember to look in a mirror while lucid yet, but hopefully sometime I will. Maybe it is because when you focus on something too much your mind messes up the details. Maybe when things seem really detailed, it is really a repeating pattern (actually your avatar kind of made me think of that&#33 that is easy for the mind to create or give the illusion of, and when you look at an object like your hand, you have to make it exactly right. Maybe you have too many fingers because of the repeating pattern thing. I don't understand why specifically hands always seem to be messed up though.
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I've found my hands and they aren't mine. but lately they look like mine. i always see my dreaming double in a mirror. he looks exactly like me except his eyes. It's strange i haven't had many lucids but it seems i have perfected the look of my dreaming body (or double). only now i have to try and perfect his abilities.

Originally Posted by speedbasssux

My friend tried looking into a mirror and got a good reflection, then he started digging into the mirror. He said it behaved like goop.
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? What is this Goop Thing you speak of?

usually when I look into a mirror majority of the time my reflection stares back kinda normal then it walks away and the mirror reflections turns static you know like when a television looses it's reception and the picture is all snowy looking.

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?

Good question. Just about everyone Has weird hands in their dreams, but really why is that? I mean we do get the count of arms and legs right on people (most of the time). And their position on the torso (most of the time).

Maybe our subconcious can't count further then 2?

It seems like there should be a reason why hands are weird. I guess that is why they are a good reality check because they are so often messed up but I just wonder why.

I think it could partly be (for some people) the fact that people read/ hear that you're hands go weird in dreams, so when they go lucid, you expect their hands to be weird as you do the RC. As for everyone who discovered the hand thing before knowing about anyone else doing it, I reckon it may be that your mind doesn't pay much attention to bothering with the hands, because how much do you see your hand in dreams, whilst you're walking around? Maybe it's because hands don't really get used that much in dreams. Or maybe I'm just insane?

Originally Posted by badassbob

Or maybe I'm just insane?
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Maybe, but probably 99% of people in the world would read this conversation and think that we're all insane, so that's OK.

My hands always look normal.

I had a regular dream the other night where I saw my hands quite a bit (did not become lucid).

I saw them in a fair amount of detail, and they looked perfectly normal.

As soon as I become lucid, they go spaz, mutate, grow extra fingers, go out of focus or get a blue glow around them.

Does anyone have a plausible theory on this?!

I find it hard to focus my intentions when in a lucid dream so can someone else try the mirror experiment?

man if you have so many fingers in your dream. i'd hate to see what your dream penis looks like

I've had 1 lucid dream and it didnt last for long.... i became lucid but the dream faded so i had 2 spin... i had no body caz it faded too... so i pictured spinning... and i got a false awakaining... i looked at my hands but they were blerd... deff my hands a normal just everything was a blure as if it wasnt in focus

Last night I managed to look in the mirror using autosuggestion. The reflection was similar to real life but slightly warped please can everyone else post their results?