Letters and Numbers in LD
Can anyone clearly discern letters and numbers while LD'ing, and succesfully recall them while awake?
I know that especially clock numbers are a classic reality check to discern lucidity (to see if they change), but are other text and numbers clear enough to be recalled? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Legend
Re: Letters and Numbers in LD
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Originally posted by Legend
Can anyone clearly discern letters and numbers while LD'ing, and succesfully recall them while awake?
I know that especially clock numbers are a classic reality check to discern lucidity (to see if they change), but are other text and numbers clear enough to be recalled? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Legend
Dear Legend,
First, I love your Avatar... I've recently began learning Mandarin and Chinese Script and so I surprised myself by actually being able to read your Avatar -- Dou, the Way.
Anyway, yes, dreamers have a horrible time keeping letters together. Writing and dreams is simply conflicting symbol paradigms -- or perhaps from different levels. To give you some insight into this idea of different levels, years ago in a Lucid Dream I was fighting the sensation of waking up and tried to stay in the dream, and so I was able to stall and drag out the phenomena of waking up. What happened was that the Dream Scenary slowly broke down from Visual Images to Written Narrative -- the Dream when from 'Movie' to just being the basic 'Script'.
So it may be that our Dreams are based on conceptual ideas that source out of our verbal inventories -- the seeds of our Dreams may be in the words we know and how we picture them. In this case, words would be riding under out dreams. They would simply be out of their element if they were to rise to the surface -- they would be struggling to wiggle themselves into visual images, or morph into other words before they could have the time to solidfy into solid images.
Just several months ago, an important Dream of mine was able to show a Book, but was able to get around the problem of unstable writing. The Book did not have writing. The Cover of the Book had a space embossed for the Title, but instead of having a title in words, there was a kind of Window. In this Dream I had been saying The Lord's Prayer, or what we Catholics call the "Our Father". Everytime I mention "Father" or "Heaven" or any of the specifically Holy Words, the window on the cover of this Book lit up in White Light.