Thread: Dream abnormalities keep explaining themselves away

To Lang

Yes I have felt a lot more like myself particularly the more lucid I am.

Originally Posted by DrTechnical

Reality checks have never worked

Everyone is different. For me dream signs work best. In fact I've gotten very good at inducing certain scenarios that help me realize I am dreaming.

Then of course you have WILDs. I suppose those are the 3 most popular in my experience.

Dr technical could unpack what you mean when you say reality checks never worked but dream signs work best?

May be, just explain your approach to LDing too?
Thanks

I have found myself a few times in waking life just making assumptions now:
• eg saw a bloke walk past my van a little while later saw him again in the same street walking the other way, he was sweating instantly I thought “ oh he’s exercising then thought how do I know? Just because he’s sweating? He could have forgotten something an is now heading home or any other reason to head home, may be he’s retracing his steps and looking for something he’s lost, may be he is lost.
Was quite interesting to play around with possibilities and to see why what schemas I instantly went towards

in fact I tend to do it quite a lot and to be honest it’s surprising just how much we rely on certain assumptions too. The mind would have som much more work to do.

Unfortunately one of my dream signs is seeing my dogs, who died eight years ago. This isn't upsetting or anything, but more than once I've panicked in the dream and thought oh my god, when was the last time I FED you -- oh wait you're dead, you don't need feeding. Still didn't become lucid.

Ah man! How annoying uknownkadath.

Sometimes I think patience is also required we don’t know how long it will be until these habits are picked up by the dreaming mind.
When I initially started out back in 2020 I was doing everything I could burnt myself out more than a few times but after I relaxed a little and after 7months my LDS started coming in thick fast for a while. Then I got a new job which demanded more attention and I dropped LD practice for a while.

Two other things I noticed during the whole of covid I only ever had two dreams about wearing masks - none about vaccinations or contagions.

It was only 10months after my son was born did he appear in a dream - or at least the ones I could recall any way.

I like to view what we do as cultivating skills, we hone our skills and practices and then When all the conditions fall into place( including the bio chemical ones) we get to surf that big wave back to the shore.

I'm a bit late to this thread, but as missing obvious signs, accepting BS excuses from DC's, explaining LD-ing to DC's and not realizing you are asleep, etc is all par for the course. One way is to question abrupt unusual stuff in real life and do reality checks, but an even deeper and natural way you'll learn later is to be able to recognize the "feel" of dreams, their "texture", so to speak. Whenever you read your dream journal, focus on the subtle way those memories feel different from reality - to me it has this almost "nostalgic" feel to it, such as remembering a memory from when I was 5 - with this, one can become lucid in dreams without any indicators whatsoever, just that "something feels off"

That sounds both incredibly effective and difficult to learn. Well, not difficult but that it would take time. Dreams really do have a different feel, I agree. I've felt before like the 'me' in a dream was almost not me but a version of me that 'lived' in the dream as if it were a parallel world. And then on the other hand I was playing a video game and then dreamed that an enemy from the game was attacking me. In the dream I thought, dammit, let me load my previous save.