Failing to notice Dream Signs

**Shadow27** · 01-14-2011 04:57 PM

So I had a really long dream last night ( not lucid ). And this morning when I went back
to sleep I had a fragment of a dream. When I wrote my dream journal today, I noticed
a huge amount of dream signs that I completely missed during both dreams.
You can check my dream journal entries:
2011-01-13 | nonlucid
2011-01-13.2f | nonlucid

I seem to be failing to notice these dream signs, realizing that its weird but thinking
nothing more of it. Is there anything I can do to notice this more readily and be able
to recognize it as a dream? Also, I do RCs all the time in real life but never in a dream...

Thanks for your input,
~Wes

**Puffin** · 01-14-2011 09:11 PM

You're probably just not aware enough - you may be doing RCs and training yourself to do one when you see an dream sign, but you're not conscious enough in the dream to actually realize something's off.

Really question if you're dreaming or not. Reality feels extremely real, but so do dreams, because we don't question anything while we're in them! There's no difference until you really check and see if you're dreaming or awake.

You don't even really NEED reality checks to attain lucidity (because they're often used after one becomes lucid, just to confirm the dream state). But, they're important in the sense that you need something to help you confirm that you're dreaming. My personal technique involves awareness and doing a few RCs a day, just so I don't forget what they are and how to do them.

Good luck.