Becoming lucid with no dream signs?

[DreamCircle]

I have been expeiriancing this more and more, i will just instinctivly know im dreaming without having anything out of the ordanairy happen. As soon as i think im dreaming i will look around and nothing will be out of place, my hand still has 5 fingers, things seem normal around me but i will just have an instinctive knowlage that i am in a dream. This hasnt botherd me at all but last night this happend to me, i was sure i was dreaming but nothing was differnt, i couldnt fly ( i can always fly easily), and i could not alter my surroundings. so i went on acting as tho i was NOT dreaming even tho my conciouse keept telling me i was. About 5 min. latter i noticed i could not move as fast going forward anymore, i did some more RC and found out i could fly and it was just as any normaly lucid dream from there. Does this happen to anybody else? Do i need more dream signs? I would like to find out how to keep this from happen because i fear that if i get used to it i might convince myself im dreaming when im not ( say when i am intoxicated) Is this a real possiblity or am i just worrying myself?

[Robot_Butler]

This has been happening with me a lot lately, too. I just instinctively know it is a dream, even though there is nothing to really tip me off. Listening to some natural LDers, like Luminous and Naiya talk about it, it sounds like this is what they do all the time. They recognize the feeling of being in a dream. Everything just feels a little different. I keep trying to focus on the dreamy feeling I get from lucid dreams, but it is so hard to hold onto that memory after waking.

[onyxdreamer]

Whenever, I'm lucid, I just instinctively know. I don't know what it is that makes me aware. It's not the landscape or something weird. It's like a part of me awakens.

[drewmandan]

The vast majority of my DILDs don't involve a dream sign or any reality check. Like others have said, there's a certain 'feeling'. To me it feels very similar to being drunk, although there is also an 'uncannyness' to it.

[slayer]

This is how I mainly become lucid. I mean I'll try the techniques and stuff, but sometimes when I just go to bed normally, I'll just randomly know I'm dreaming.

[Hukif]

Well if that happens to much... just check gravity to make sure, thats what I do since my dreams are always logical (excepting for the magick but that happens after I know I'm dreaming) Nothign to worry about tough.

[Lëzen]

Dream signs don't work for me - I'm a WILDer, anyway. And a reality check has only worked once...many times when I look at my hands in a dream they are entirely normal, thereby preventing me from becoming lucid.

[LobbyDonut]

There is definitely a feeling I get when I'm in a dream. Most of the time it doesn't cause me to become lucid, but these days when I'm having a dream that would become a nightmare, something in me knows that it's a dream and there's really nothing scary going on. I haven't had a terrifying nightmare for at least 5 years, maybe even 10.

[Luminous]

As Robot_Butler mentioned, I get that all the time. I don't drink alcohol, but at those times when I have been influenced by something (Valium), I will not think that I'm dreaming even though I'm not "all there". During strong anxiety attacks/panic attacks, I have had a feeling of surrealness, and even though this feeling can be quite strong, it doesn't feel like a dream, and I know it's my mind trying to distance itself from the panic. With that said, once you have been experiencing more of these lucid dreams, I wouldn't worry about thinking that you are dreaming when you're not, if I were you. At least not with alcohol. Enjoy your lucid dreams!

[LobbyDonut]

During strong anxiety attacks/panic attacks, I have had a feeling of surrealness, and even though this feeling can be quite strong, it doesn't feel like a dream, and I know it's my mind trying to distance itself from the panic. You get that too? I agree totally. Each different experience has its own feel to it; very hard to explain.

[Luminous]

You get that too? Yes, it's quite common for people to feel that during panic attacks, especially severe ones. Even people who don't suffer from anxiety or panic attack can feel it when they get into a scary situation or experience, like an accident for example.