Thread: I can't do it. I need help.

Originally Posted by cruccius

Now, question to you puffin, when you mean confirm, do you mean confirm what is reality and what is a dream? Like using a "Totem" like Inception? I know that is a movie, but it's intrigued me enough to research LD's.

It means you need to make absolute sure that what is going on is indeed reality. For example at this very moment who's to say you're not dreaming? Odviously I'm going to say you aren't since I'm sitting up in Canada typing this post but I could also be your mind tricking you into believing it's reality. You need to confirm reality using what's known as a 'reality check'. My personal favourite is closing your nostrils with your fingers and trying to breathe through it. In a dream you will be able to breathe no matter what (yes, even under water) so if you find you can breathe then you know it's a dream! We do these tests routinely in the hopes that it will creep into our dreams and we will begin to question if they are in fact dreams. In regards to the movie it is alot like those. However those were objects and the method I described uses your own body. I find that my way is more reliable because if we take the spinny thing he used in the movie, our subconscious mind could always make it do what we expect it to do.

I hope that answered your question?

Originally Posted by rockinred

It means you need to make absolute sure that what is going on is indeed reality. For example at this very moment who's to say you're not dreaming? Odviously I'm going to say you aren't since I'm sitting up in Canada typing this post but I could also be your mind tricking you into believing it's reality. You need to confirm reality using what's known as a 'reality check'. My personal favourite is closing your nostrils with your fingers and trying to breathe through it. In a dream you will be able to breathe no matter what (yes, even under water) so if you find you can breathe then you know it's a dream! We do these tests routinely in the hopes that it will creep into our dreams and we will begin to question if they are in fact dreams. In regards to the movie it is alot like those. However those were objects and the method I described uses your own body. I find that my way is more reliable because if we take the spinny thing he used in the movie, our subconscious mind could always make it do what we expect it to do.

I hope that answered your question?

Yep. ^

"The spinny thing he used in the movie" is the same idea as lights fail in dreams. You are using a factual check that what he used in the movie works. The light check also works in my dreams in the same way concept by fact because it's been mentioned many times in the forum that it WILL fail if it's a dream and it does in the dream. Autosuggestion....but based on fact or rather backed by alot of support that it is a fact..

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