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

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

You know you're a dreamer when you wake up relieved, sad, or otherwise emotional about the fact that you just woke up.

(does that make sense? lol)

I can heavily relate to this. Whenever I wake up and know that I didn't LD, I feel like I wasted a whole night.

You know you're a dreamer when all of the sudden the amazing epic orchestrated song you're hearing becomes in the tick tock sound of the clock in the kitchen once you realized it's the first time you've heard such piece of music.

You know you're a hardcore dreamer when you do a reality check and not even know it. You take a moment to realize, "oh, I just did a reality check!"

You know you're a dreamer when you find a transparent-walled elevator and you keep riding up and down to "practice your takeoffs and landings."

When you ask your date if you are dreaming, and she helps you perform reality checks. Sigh...

...the last time you were this excited about going to sleep was Christmas Eve when you were five.

You know you're a dreamer when...
...you constantly start laughing randomly at silly stuff from your dreams
...you begin to look forward to go to sleep at night
...you walk past a great-looking person so much your type that the instant you've passed them, you do a reality-check (somehow I feel there's a good pickupline there)
...you develop recipes based on food you've seen/had in dreams (and make coffee with sugar and a piece of chocolate, even though you prefer to drink it black, just to try something you got by mistake in a dream)
...you start using words, phrases and expressions from dreams in real life
...you try to recreate poems, stories etc. you've read in dreams, and overall use dreams for inspiration

You know you're a dreamer when things such as these grab your attention…

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Originally Posted by lunagoddess

You know you're a dreamer when the motivation behind taking daily vitamins is dream effects, not health effects
....when you buy an ill fitting crop top just because it says "dreamer"
....when you join an online forum about lucid dreaming because nobody else in your life understands

this....

you know you're a dreamer when....
u calculate the night before, whose gonna be the one to wake you up in the morning first; the wife, or the kids, then you calculate what time it will happen so you can use it as a WBTB...so u get all your non-rem sleep outta the way first, so all your REM comes for the WBTB after the kids go to school or the wife goes to work.......

You know you're a dreamer whe-AH! MY HANDS ARE ON FIRE!

You know you're a dreamer when...

...no one understands why you have so many alarms set for the night on your cellphone
...someone asks you why you're looking at your hand
...you start doing everything quickly so you can get to bed on a square hour

You know you're a dreamer when the view from an aeroplane brings back memories from lucid flying dreams.
You know you're a dreamer when you take mental notes of what it looks like from the air for your future LDs.

Originally Posted by StephL

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

I'm revisiting this thread for the first time in ages, so here's my very late response:
I think I have a childlike view of owls being the wise creatures of the night, remaining alert while the other animals sleep.
I also have DV associations with owls because of various members' usernames and profile pictures. (I also think of DV/dreams every time I see my dolphin bathmat for the same reason.)

Awesome replies to this thread, I'm glad it's still going!

You know you're a dreamer when the main reason you know the current date is because you remember the date you signed yesterday’s dream journal entry with.

You know you're a dreamer when you look out at a beautiful vista and are smiling ear to ear thinking of all the fun you could have flying through it in a dream.

Originally Posted by ~Dreamer~

You know you're a dreamer when the view from an aeroplane brings back memories from lucid flying dreams.

I was thinking the same thing Dreamer just recently when I was on a plane on a clear night with city lights below!

My example at the top of this post was also inspired, on multiple occasions, by beautiful scenery during my recent trip. It is truly amazing how much more joy I got looking at amazing natural scenery than I would have before I really got going in lucid dreaming. I felt like a kid again enjoying things so much more than most everyone around me. Lucid dreaming really can open up your eyes!!!