Dream Signs

[chance7hope]

Heyy all ^_^ I really want to know more about dream signs. What they are, how can you find them or spot them, how can they benefit my lucid dreaming or my life ect? When I started to write my dreams down one phrase poped upp in almost every dream it was "They are coming". I don't know why it was just there. Either I was saying it or someone else like the DCs. I would really appticiate the help! ^_^

[ThreeCat]

A dream sign is any recurring theme, object, person, or occurrence in your dream. If you often find yourself waiting in lines in dreams, then waiting in line is a dream sign for you. You can definitely use them to lucid dream. Anytime you experience your dream sign, do a reality check to see if you are dreaming. If you are, awesome! They can also improve your waking life, depending on what you do after you RC. If you use the RC to bring greater awareness to the waking state, and then continue in that awareness, it can help you relate to waking life phenomena in a more relaxed way. If you return to that state of awareness throughout the day, the benefits are truly incalculable.

[Sivason]

A dream sign does not have to be something that ever occurs in real life, as long as it occurs often in your dreams. To use a dream sign that does not show up in life simply repeat in your mind that if it ever happens you are most likely dreaming. Sa youoften dream of being on a play grund in grade school, then you repeat over and over in your mind, that the next time you are on a play ground you will do a reality check.

[FOATL]

aHHHH......DREAM SIGNS.....my favorite...... dream signs can be very tricky......takes some analyzing sometimes....then other times, they are obvious........ A dream sign can literally BE ANYTHNG.......something in your real life, or something that isn't in your real life, like sivason said.....a DS can even be an action, or a color, or a single word, it can be a place, it can be vegetables, or suits, or even EMOTIONAL states.... My dream signs have changed, over time, of course, like many other changes we experience in our existence.... My dream signs have been animals, action-verbs, anD the mental state of FRUSTRATION.... I was for a period of time having non-lucids which were characterized by me being frustrated.......then after that my dream sign was "scooping"...... give you an example.... I had a series of dreams where in one dream, i had a car that had a plow on the front, and my dad was bull-dozing piles of dirt out of the front yard then i had a dream where i was making coffee, and i kept scooping coffee beans to fill in this machine, but the machine would never have enough....so i kept scooping... then i had another dream where i worked at some fast food joint and i was scooping french fries out of a tub... and lastly....i dreamt i got stuck in the snow and didnt have a shovel, so i "scooped" the snow from under my truck with my bare hands..... Those of course, are just parts of the dreams that i had, just to give you an example.....anytime im around some "scooping or digging" of some sort, i REALITY CHECK. STUDY YOUR DREAM JOURNAL, and read thru it on a WBTB session..... Heres a list of various dream signs which have sparked lucidity for me... Emotions or mental states: Frustration Feelings of being overwhelmed Confusion Fear Overly-Confident Extreme Anger If one of your dream signs happens to be an emotion or mental state, every time you experience that emotion or state of mind in real life, verbally call it, "I'm frustrated!" Make it part of your awareness, or be mindful of it to acknowledge it, and reality check. And if you never experience that emotion in real life, rehearse feeling it, and reality-checking for it. A dream sign can be you always explaining something, or it can be a bathrobe, or a scenario where you are always hesitating or procrastinating, it could literally be anything. Studying your dream signs can prepare you for readiness when you experience them in a dream. You wont always catch them, sometimes they slip by, and you wont realize this until you wake up...... One should have a certain amount of practicing cognition...the ability to be cognizant, at least the ability to reflect.....awareness of the dream sign by itself isnt enough....you already have a certain level of awareness in your dreams otherwise you wouldnt be able to recall them. There needs to be a certain ability to process with cognition what you are actually aware of whence encountering dream signs......

[chance7hope]

Heyy ^_^ Thanks a lot guys! I will really look in my dream journal to see if I can find anything.