Thread: You know you're a dreamer when...

...when closing your eyes for a couple of seconds right after stopping your alarm clock means being late for an hour.
...when you don't count your sleep time in hours of sleep but in sleep cycles.

You know you're a dreamer when

... You feel that you have all your desires waiting for you to make them real.

... You know that true happiness lies with you in bed.

... You soar through the deepest wonders of devine rush like an eagle above the dark night sky.

... You know you won 10 lotteries the day you decided to Google dreams.

You know you´re a dreamer...when the first question you ask when choosing your curtains is how much light they block out

Originally Posted by LouaiB

... You know you won 10 lotteries the day you decided to Google dreams.

Oh, hell yeah!

You know you are a dreamer when you say things like...

Originally Posted by Hukif

It's always fun to raid other worlds

You know you're a dreamer when...

...you have a bedtime routine as detailed as most folks' wake-up routine.

...you are willing to drive to multiple stores in order to find a tea with the right sleep/dream-inducing ingredients.

...you can sleep anywhere. Sitting, standing, hungry or otherwise uncomfortable, these things make little difference. If you have ever slept through a storm that put your area into a blackout for 4 days or more...try to be more careful of course, but you're mosdef a dreamer.

...those closest to you start saying their dream recall always increases everytime you speak with them. And even though you know it's because you probably mentioned dreams at some point, you're slightly tempted to instead think of it as a kind of dream magic.

Originally Posted by LouaiB

You know you're a dreamer when
... You know you won 10 lotteries the day you decided to Google dreams.

Definitely agree with this!

You know you are a dreamer when

... You look up at the moon as a place you vacation to.

... You ask people if they have had any good dreams lately hoping they will ask it back.

... You ask people if they have had any good dreams lately hoping that they remember one that you met them in.

... You start figuring out what you would do if you became lucid right now.

... You think of books, movies, TV shows, and music as just "dream inspiration"

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

You know you're a dreamer when your nightly meal is planned around the B6/tryptophan content of the food.

You are DEDICATED.

Originally Posted by Sensei

You know you are a dreamer when

... You look up at the moon as a place you vacation to.

... You start figuring out what you would do if you became lucid right now.

The first one in the quote above showed up in my profile view and is what brought me to this thread! The moon is so much more amazing now, looking up and just knowing that I could go there again this very night!

You know you are a dreamer when

...you see more beauty in waking life as you begin to see everything anew; the previously mundane becomes fascinating.

...you wake up with a huge smile on your face!!! <<(The wife really wonders about this one when she notices.)

You know you're a dreamer when you hesitate between going out with your friends at night or staying home and sleep

You know you are a dreamer when you can't wait to meet your favorite fiction character/live that new movie.

...when your first thought when seeing something cool in a movie or video game is "that would be so cool to do in a lucid dream!"

...when you see superman fly and you think "please, anyone can do that"

...when you start to use acronyms from dreamviews in casual conversation

You know you're a dreamer when ...

... your first thought upon waking is "don't move! There may be some more recall on the way..."

... your second thought is jumping on to DV to share the joy of the night's dreams

You know your a dreamer when you kick your brother out of the room you both stay in so you can WILD.

You know you´re a dreamer when you are more excited about getting empty notebooks for dream journaling than about getting actual books.

...when you see somebody talking in front of you and you don't get a word because you're trying to remember how did you became lucid last night.

...when you get interrupted mid-thought about something random, because the idea/topic bought back a glimpse of a dream you had that night

... when you wake up naked in front of a lake and your first thought is "I was trying to WILD, guess I'll try again!" and your second thought "This is a little unusual"

Well, I guess I truly am a dreamer because dear god do I relate to a lot of these

You know youre a dreamer when

.... you develop a waking-world affinity/love for your dream sign

.... you think of your favorite dream of the night throughout the day

I am reading part three of "The Maze Runner" - Trilogy right now.
The protagonist Thomas got his memory wiped out. While dreaming he is recovering some of it and even knows he's dreaming!

You know you're a dreamer, when you get mad at a book character for not making any good out of his natural lucids!

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

You know you're a dreamer when you spontaneously purchase something with an owl picture on it - not because you particularly like owls, but because it will remind you of dreaming whenever you see it. :jackowl: Reality check!

Interesting - how did you come to associate owls with dreaming - do you dream of owls?

Originally Posted by Dream_King

...when you start to use acronyms from dreamviews in casual conversation

Yeah - hehehee!


This is such a wonderful thread ~Dreamer~
It reminds me of one of the most hilarious ones ever on my darts-forum - "You know, you are a dartaholic when..".
Hm - so many things have been said already which I could totally subscribe to!
My take on it:

• You know you are a dreamer and a dartaholic, when you have high hopes concerning the effectiveness of training for it lucidly (only did it once - one of my main goals, though) and open a thread on LDing on a forum full of guys, who are usually rather interested in drinking and being rowdy, and manage to generate four pages!

• When you save down pictures of star-birthing nebulae like they would be a tourist attraction. And when you know, you can finally meat an alien, even if they won't show up in time for a real physical encounter! When you draw one from a book in order to meet it!

• When you go to a birthday party and it leads to you jumping to your feet and holding a sort of exuberant "lecture" to a rapt audience sitting around the camp-fire, just because two persons had shown an interest (last Saturday) - and yeah - catch yourself using acronyms in the process. And telling somebody with a glass-bong half a meter high, that he should give up on that, if he wanted an LD again - and he actually listens...

• The most significant thing for me is to question reality, to be seriously prepared to give up on the notion, that what you experience at the very moment is actually real. I view this not only as something technical, something to do in order to get lucid in the night - it is rather a philosophical outlook, something, which makes you aware, that even "real life" is not you being in some sort of direct experiential contact with physical reality, but that all that you'll ever have is this multidimensional map that your brain brings forth out of what your senses have on offer. To know, you can and you will be a bit deceived by yourself in that respect. We know that this map is malleable, not fully determined by the light that falls into your eyes, or the sound that reaches your ears - it is an interplay of "you" and these what comes out in terms of perception. And it might even only be you and a dream - this brings with it a sort of humbleness, a certain healthy doubt about "being sure".

• You know you are a dreamer, when you start to think this deep, maybe you didn't usually care about philosophy, neuroscience, meditation,
  (para-)psychology and all sorts of related things - I did since childhood, but as I feel it, dreamers come to these topics more or less automatically, if they don't have a hobby interest already. When you feel the need to sort out your beliefs about what reality is, what you yourself might be, if there is a god...
  I don't see many dreamers with superficial thinking and indifference to these affairs - even the youngsters.

Originally Posted by StephL

• The most significant thing for me is to question reality, to be seriously prepared to give up on the notion, that what you experience at the very moment is actually real.

Yes after 1.5K dreams or so recalled this year, I really arrived at this point. I honestly approach just about every waking moment now with the notion that I could in fact be dreaming.

One small point, is that I've stopped entirely using the word "reality" to refer to the waking state. It's all real, dreams and waking, 100%.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Yes after 1.5K dreams or so recalled this year

Hoooooly. That's 7-8 dreams a day, how do you pull that off?

Originally Posted by StephL

You know you are a dreamer, when you start to think this deep, maybe you didn't usually care about philosophy, neuroscience, meditation,
(para-)psychology and all sorts of related things - I did since childhood, but as I feel it, dreamers come to these topics more or less automatically, if they don't have a hobby interest already. When you feel the need to sort out your beliefs about what reality is, what you yourself might be, if there is a god...
I don't see many dreamers with superficial thinking and indifference to these affairs - even the youngsters.

I can relate to this a lot, actually. Before starting to get involved in lucid dreaming, I never really gave a damn about philosophy or meditation or binaural beats or anything like that. I think the only exception is psychology, because I was heavily interested in mental health related topics. Other than that, having anxiety issues I even completely brushed aside meditation when it was suggested to me both by my therapist and my mother. But it wasn't until when I heavily got into lucid dreaming I started caring a lot more about the rest you listed. I did research on binaural beats, I started getting interested by philosophy, I began getting really fascinated by how the brain works--and yes, I did start trying meditation as well (but I've been lazy with it lately, admittedly).

What's most interesting in my opinion is the fact that, even with how I've been taking a break from lucid dreaming for the past few months (due to IWL stress), these interests still stuck with me, and I've been learning all about philosophy and pondering on what it means to be in reality on my free time.

OT:
You know you're a dreamer when...

...you perk up when someone says "mild" or "wild" in casual conversation.

...you spend over half of your day doing something lucid dreaming related: watching videos, on DreamViews, on other lucid dreaming sites, researching something lucid dreaming-related, etc.

...you constantly dream about lucid dreaming, yet you don't go lucid.

...you've either attempted or succeeded in creating a completely new reality check.

...when falling asleep, you attempt to calculate in your head when you would most likely naturally wake up, presumably to WILD or DEILD.

...sleep time is the most exciting time of the day to you.

...people ask you why you're constantly holding your nose/checking your hands.

...even when taking a break from lucid dreaming, you continue to habitually perform reality checks.

...you spend the whole day in mental preparation to lucid dream that night.