Thread: Ways to spot another LDer

Originally Posted by ojdp

I once had the idea to get a small tattoo on my hand that said RC. I than realized that it would quickly become second nature, and really do me no good. lol.

I think that's a great idea! After all, isn't LD and all aspects of it, what you want it to become, 2nd nature, firmly embedded in your psyche/subconscious?!

We could have shirts! Just today I saw a guy at school with a shirt that said, "Reality Check." It was crazy. Especially if you consider the kinda place I live in.

I like the bracelet idea that someone mentioned. They should be blue.... just blue. Because that is the color of dreaming. I also like the watch idea with the vibrate function! Great ideas, Shift.

Originally Posted by lostinmydreams

I like the bracelet idea that someone mentioned. They should be blue.... just blue. Because that is the color of dreaming. I also like the watch idea with the vibrate function! Great ideas, Shift.

Thanks Haha I was actually thinking of blue when I suggested them, blue is my absolute favorite color Although if they were ever made they could come in a range of colors. They could say reality check and/or lucid dreaming. Maybe even both, and the bracelet could be flipped inside-out, so you could choose which was on the outside. Then if you just wanted people to ask you, you could have 'lucid dreaming' on the outside, or you could flip it and use them for RCs, and the fact that they change would make it a better RC anyway.

I would still totally buy one of those watches. Recession and all

Originally Posted by Shift

Thanks Haha I was actually thinking of blue when I suggested them, blue is my absolute favorite color Although if they were ever made they could come in a range of colors. They could say reality check and/or lucid dreaming. Maybe even both, and the bracelet could be flipped inside-out, so you could choose which was on the outside. Then if you just wanted people to ask you, you could have 'lucid dreaming' on the outside, or you could flip it and use them for RCs, and the fact that they change would make it a better RC anyway.

Awesome, awesome idea. You could make quite a bit of cash!

Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick

Awesome, awesome idea. You could make quite a bit of cash!

Hmmmmm.... *puffs cigar, twirls mustache...* lmao

Originally Posted by Shift

Thanks Haha I was actually thinking of blue when I suggested them, blue is my absolute favorite color Although if they were ever made they could come in a range of colors. They could say reality check and/or lucid dreaming. Maybe even both, and the bracelet could be flipped inside-out, so you could choose which was on the outside. Then if you just wanted people to ask you, you could have 'lucid dreaming' on the outside, or you could flip it and use them for RCs, and the fact that they change would make it a better RC anyway.

I would still totally buy one of those watches. Recession and all

Wow, that sounds like a great idea. It's not like anyone would really question you for wearing one either.

If you ever market either of those things, pm me. And blue is my favorite color too.

I would buy ten of those watches. =D

I would love for someone to walk up to me and say "Are you dreaming?" or something like that. I feel so disconnected from the LD community during day to day life. One day someone will notice that I check my watch like four times before I'm satisfied with the time.

Originally Posted by Quiver

I would buy ten of those watches. =D

I would love for someone to walk up to me and say "Are you dreaming?" or something like that. I feel so disconnected from the LD community during day to day life. One day someone will notice that I check my watch like four times before I'm satisfied with the time.

I know, the more I think about it the more I wish they existed!!
Aww.... teach someone how to?

That's a cool idea.

Now who will make them?!

Erm. Isn't there a facebook group and numerous other threads concerning this? Like, the people in another thread had decided on a salute type-thing where you just attempted to push your index finger through your palm, being kind of obvious, so any other LDer can immediately realize that you are reality checking. But if you guys want to go with bracelets, be my guest.

Why not carry something that represents a personal dream symbol or reality-checker? These could be in the form of a tattoo, jewelry, charm, etc....

It may be more subtle (perhaps less effective), but I don't know...just throwing the idea out there.

Originally Posted by Móði

Erm. Isn't there a facebook group and numerous other threads concerning this? Like, the people in another thread had decided on a salute type-thing where you just attempted to push your index finger through your palm, being kind of obvious, so any other LDer can immediately realize that you are reality checking. But if you guys want to go with bracelets, be my guest.

There are, I posted a bunch of them earlier.

Well the problem with that is that you have to do a behavior as their attention is fixated on you. Chances of that happening are relatively slim. I am not really interested in advertising to everyone, like through a shirt or something, but if I am wearing something that members of DV will recognize on sight, and mostly it also serves as purpose (helps with RCs), then I think I'd wear one, especially if it was something small and functional. It would be more for me, but with the benefit of having other LDers recognize it without me having to be doing a specific behavior are a very specific moment in time.

I'd be leaning more toward the watch than the bracelet, simply because of the increased functionality.

I don't know that a personal dream symbol or reality checker would make any sense at all because that's the opposite side of the fence... it's functional, but no one is even going to notice, and the whole point of this thread is Ways to get Another LDer to Recognize that you are an Oneironaut. Then if you say "oh jewelry, or a charm, or a tattoo" well there's no way in hell I'd get a tattoo, and then for jewelry and charms, that was the purpose of my bracelet idea.