Hello!♥ Fake dream sign..?

[GenesisWriter]

I'm new here~ I'm excited and trying to be on my way to lucid dreams! I just had to ask about something that keeps happening. I'm familiar with dream signs and reality checks, but it's happened twice already where I had a FAKE dream sign: For example, last night. I dreamed of an endless shallow pool filled with endless water. Aside from the fact I know this is impossible, I stopped, and remembered a dream I had had before with this same exact setting. In the dream, I said: "Aha! This must be a dream sign!" I didn't succeed in actually becoming lucid, but I figured out I was dreaming. This has happened before, with a very similar situation to the one described above, only with a certain friend of mine holding a toy train. Only, here's the catch: Those things aren't actually dream signs, because I don't recall ever dreaming about them before. I always acknowledge the fact I'm dreaming but can't get higher? Is it because the dream signs are fake..?

[pepsibluefan]

I don't think its not so much as the dream signs are fake, as it is just not "clicking' with you that you're in a dream and lucid. Has this been happening a lot frequently? Keep doing what the site suggests and try out techniques to see if you get better results. I can see you are getting very, very close. Keep a dream journal and try to write in it as much as you can after every dream. I had a few dreams like that where I said "Oh, this is a dream." But it never clicked with me per say that I was dreaming. Have you ever been lucid before? Also don't let this discourage you. ^_^

[Arch]

Nice stuff, you did have a lucid if you realised you were dreaming, well done! Also I wouldn't say it is a fake dream sign anything in a dream which pops up now and again is considered a dream sign!

[Darkmatters]

It's very common for people to have dreams about becoming lucid just before the real thing starts to happen. The dream signs may have been fake, but it's definitely a good thing that you're dreaming about dream signs. It's hard to tell from what you wrote, but you may have actually been lucid. Lucidity just means that you're aware it's a dream while you're in it. But you sound convinced it wasn't real lucidity - so it may have been like the fake dream signs - just dreaming that you knew you were dreaming. If it wasn't accompanied by a burst of excitement and the knowledge that you can now to some extent control your own actions then it wasn't really lucidity.

[GenesisWriter]

Yeah, I usually just get to the "Wait...Oh snap! That's a dream sign! Okay, I'm dreaming." Which is something I never say in real life. But I don't fully believe it, so it's just like, I acknowledge I'm dreaming and then... forget. The reason I said the dream signs were fake is because I have never seen or thought of, let alone dreamed about those things before. In the dream, I'm essentially having fake memories. The one dream in particular, about the endless pool: I really was almost there. At 2 points in the dream, I said "I'm dreaming". I had forgotten that until today! And the first time I actually had changed something, I think. I was in the back of a car, it was going along some wicked bumps, and I made the outside of the car get all scary. Ooooh. I am very excited