I found a dream sign!

Yay I finaly found a dream sign. I always get lucid from just realising it feels like a dream. But last night I had another dream where I get bitten on the hand by a dog. Its realy wierd, iv never been bitten by a dog before in my life and im not at all scared by dogs, I love them! But I must have had over 5 dreams now where I have been bitten by a dog or some type of animal. It never hurts and I never realise im dreaming from it. But now I know it as a dreamsign I need to try to remember if I even get bitten im probably dreaming!

Do most of you guys know your dreamsigns? This is the first one iv found since I started LDing about 6 months ago.

Great job!
My main dreamsign is just white walls. Every building I'm in seems to have white walls. Also 90% of them have shiny wooden floorboards.

MY dreamsign is fear, which is hard to RC to :P

My dream signs are cars and gray walls. Remembering to RC at those moments are tough, because I see gray walls and cars all the time.

My main Dream Sign is twice

I usually dream and something is twice, such as two copters. two cops, two girls, two boats, two stores... etc.

However, we have plenty of them. I have been adding them in my journal, after every single dream.

My dream sign is when people talk to me as if they are high :panic: A random DC will just say "Dude!" no matter what I respond with :undecided:

I don't know what a dream sign is, however I have found signs in dreams. I asked a specific question once, and got an answer.

Question: Does lucid dreaming have any practical value?

Answer: I found myself in front of the White house, just beyond the perimeter fence, and there was a sign. "Express C. M."

Notice that C. M. is actually repeated twice. Common Multiple: which is exactly what initials are.

Another way of saying it, the similie in multis, or definition, the foundation of truth. The White House, the seat of authority. Perimeter fence, a barrier.

Fairly obvious answer.

At first I had no idea what it meant, as I took C. M. to mean, Common Market, of which I do not have the slightest knowledge of, but upon reflection actually has a similar meaning. So, I was tending to blow it off, until it became clear.

This was one of several dream over the years of using the state to learn in that has puzzling implications. The message itself is clear

Lucid dreaming can be used to learn how to cross the barrier to truth in the mind.

Maybe it can, but I have never found anyone who has taken the lessons near to what I did. One anomaly does not prove a thing. I cannot count the fact that I learned some years later that the same claim is made in the Judeo-Christian Scripture. I could claim uncertainly of my comprehension of the written word, or I could cite my limited ability at metaphor. Real proof is in the pudding--and so far I have seen none.

I hope it does not upset anyone that lucid dreaming can be used to talk quietly in their sleep.

One uses very specific questions because that is how we learn. It is how plain perception is turned into science. Not asking questions presents us with an unanchored data flow.

Nice one, ferret.

After moving my dream Journal posts to the new DJs and using the tagging thing, I found that my Dream Sign is the computer. Usually either on DV or games. I kinda realised that a while ago, but it only really hit me how much it really is once I did this.


Philosopher: -_-

I think I just found my dream sign last night!! My dreams have been pretty boring lately but I've noticed that a lot of the time, there is water where it shouldn't be (in the roads, in fields, etc...) so I think water is my dream sign. Now I have to figure out if I should reality check when I turn on the tap/use the washroom (lol!)? Or only if I see LOTS of water like the ocean (I live by it). Hmmm..

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Originally Posted by travelgirl

I think I just found my dream sign last night!! My dreams have been pretty boring lately but I've noticed that a lot of the time, there is water where it shouldn't be (in the roads, in fields, etc...) so I think water is my dream sign. Now I have to figure out if I should reality check when I turn on the tap/use the washroom (lol!)? Or only if I see LOTS of water like the ocean (I live by it). Hmmm..

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Awsome stuff! Yea its hard to know when to do the RC a! Im pretty sure if I get bitten by a dog or animal in my dream i'll forget to RC cos i'll be like ahhhh wtf this thing just bit me!!

I have had many vivid dreams, very few lucid dreams, and even fewer dreams in which i had lucid control, however i have identified some dream signs. I tend to have lots of mundane dreams that are commonplace and quite boring, so usually, the more vivid my dreams, the more likely i am to become lucid. By far the most powerful dream sign for me is fire. Fire always looks much different in a dream. It flickers too much or too little or abnormally, is more unpredictable and just looks surreal to me. Often times i see a lot of other colors in the fire, such as green, or purple, and blue, but the most emotionally dramatic color i see in the fire is always white. Sometimes the white from the fire flashes or shoots up in the sky and explodes like some kind of bottle rocket. THe fire is not the same in every dream and is not always this vivid, however when i see fire in my dreams it usually alarms me and arouses questions about reality:
How did this fire get started. Why does the fire look so strange? Am i drugs and or hallucinating? How did i get here?
After realizing i have no answers to these questions, because i usually can't remember how i got there or have no logical answers that make sense, and i realize that i haven't taken psychedelic drugs, then i realize i must be dreaming. HOwever I can recall fiery nightmares that involve some kind of dire emergency and even situations involving the apocalyptic holocaust of entire cities and people trying to escape the spreading destruction and fireballs raining from the sky. Frankly, i was too panicked during these kind of nightmares to become lucid. I have not yet cultivated that kind of skill. I'm definitely at the beginner/novice stage.
Another Dream sign is water. Being in water, swimming, or seeing large bodies of water, rain, etc. It always feels wierd and i usually do not experience any of the downsides of being in water. For example i'll be almost immediately dry after getting out of water. Or In one instance i wrecked a car into water after a massive police chase, and the car filled up with water as i was locked in it and then i realized i could breathe - then i realized i was dreaming and broke out of the car and spent the rest of the magnificent dream swimming around really fast, chasing fishes and looking at coral reefs, searching for mermaids, which i never found ):
However, there was another dream which was extremely vivid and was one of those kinds of nightmares that are so vivid and bizarre, you don't mind having them because you're so entertained and tripped out the next morning. Most of the nightmare i was hiding on a ship during a storm at night. The waves kept splashing up onto the boat. There was a battle between mideval crusaders and villagers fighting on the boat, and another smaller boat, and people treading water screaming for their life in the water. For most of the dream i was just a passive observer, and there was little emotional connection to the dream, except for brief moments of terror and shock. Throughout the dream, the battle weened and waned in intensity. At one particularly intense part, there was a larger man in a large old looking mideval suit of armor with a long white cloth over his chest and backside, bearing a red cross in the center of his chest. He swam around the many of the screaming villagers and fellow crusaders and pushed their heads under water as they screamed, drowning them slowly, with much struggle. I also recall lots of blood in the water which made intricate patterns and spread rapidly and then dispersed pretty quickly, the way cream mixes into black coffee when it is poured in and then stirred. The contrast between blood and water was hypnotic. Not at all realistic. There were also horses swimming in the water that were scratching the side of the boats with their hoofs as if they were cats scratching on doors. I remember being found and was terrified but they did not kill me because they were looking for me and wanted me alive. And the next and last thing i remember is I'm in a dark castle lit by massive candles and MY DOG, a small golden retriever, is in royal robes wearing a crown sitting on some decadent throne. He is massive with a deep voice and he is commanding me to do things, none of which i can remember. This entire dream was extremely bizarre and i remember being confused throughout because i consciously understood the dream was bizarre and did not understand what was happening but could not become lucid.
So in my experience, having an exceptionally vivid dream and seeing a dream does not guarantee lucidity unless you RECOGNIZE and identify it as a dream sign. What's important is to remember that dream and the signs, and then in the future you'll have better awareness while you're dreaming.