Test Time!!

**Bam5559** · 12-07-2010 09:29 PM

Okay! So last night before I went to sleep, I was really thinking about LD but didn't know alot about it. I'd read a little on it and remember them talking a little about dream journals. So I got on of my notebooks and kept it near by for when I woke. I remember my dream but I don't think I relized I was dreaming. So I woke up and wrote it all down, then researched more on LD. I've been spending the last 3 hours checking out diffrent sites and I've come to this. SO! Tonight, I'm going to concentrate more and try to relize signs. I've created a symbol for me to reconize and HOPEFULLY, I'll relize I'm dreaming. Any tips? Good luck? Let me know!

**moongrass** · 12-07-2010 11:16 PM

yea, good luck! Just stick with it practice etc. Any specific help you need I am sure we will help

What do you mean about a symbol?

**Brunor2** · 12-08-2010 01:00 AM

Hello. Welcome.

've been spending the last 3 hours checking out diffrent sites and I've come to this.

No need to search more. DreamViews is the best site about lucid dreaming and general dreaming.

About dream signs, I don't find them useful for me. Why ? Because I think I don't have any, there is no things that repeat in my dreams. If you have repeating themes, objects, people, etc, in your dreams, then associating reality checks with dream signs is a good idea.

Check Puffin's DILD Guide on Attaining Lucidity Section, it's a good DILD guide. You need to work on general awareness and Reality checking, you'll be lucid soon if you have enough dedication.

**Bam5559** · 12-08-2010 03:24 AM

Originally Posted by moongrass

What do you mean about a symbol?

Well I've heard that if you have some kind of symbol on your hand that you can reconize if your dreaming by looking at it. And thanks!

**Bam5559** · 12-08-2010 03:25 AM

Thanks Brunor! I really appreciate the refrance.

**moongrass** · 12-08-2010 05:09 AM

oh ok I have never heard of a symbol on your hand, does it remind you to do a RC, or what?

**Brunor2** · 12-08-2010 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by moongrass

oh ok I have never heard of a symbol on your hand, does it remind you to do a RC, or what?

People usually write a letter, like A, D, etc, on his/her hands, so everytime the person look at it, he/she will remember to do a reality check. I find it kind of useless (again, it's my opnion), because you'll only remember to do a RC, the motion, but you will lack general awareness that is what makes you lucid.

**moongrass** · 12-09-2010 12:19 AM

oh, ok. I was kinda afraid of that. I do not do reality checks, I found them to not be that helpful, I just always try to stay aware.

**Brunor2** · 12-09-2010 01:49 AM

As you may have read, reality checks usually don't cause lucidity. I have done RCs in dreams and didn't became lucid. What makes you lucid is awareness, reality checks is used for the sole purpose of checking if one is dreaming. So, awareness and questioning are your best bets.

**Bam5559** · 12-09-2010 02:22 AM

Well for me I try not to do them just because my mother already believes that I'm insane, and I can't stand to explain myself again and be made fun of. *sigh* I don't know, I'm tired..