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I'm having trouble realizing I'm asleep when the most ridiculous things happen. 2 nights ago I was dreaming that I was in a grocery store when a giant monster crashed through the ceiling, and I took it to be unusual and frightening, but I also took it to be reality. What can I do to notice that things like this aren't real and that I should preform a RC?
Unfortunately, your logic center is more or less shut off during dreams, so you tend to rarely catch random dream signs like that. Looking to specifically notice dreams signs is most effective when you notice a recurring dream sign and reality check every time you see it.
I haven't recorded enough to do that so far. lol I want to have a library of signs but I see no patterns in any of my dreams.
Well, there's plenty of different ways to acheive a DILD. If you can't find any common dreamsigns (I never could), try a different technique, such as LaBerge's MILD.
I'm the same way, I still don't have a lot of signs to look around for. At this point it's still pretty tough for me to get lucid but it's getting better the more I practice. Look for things in your daily life that seem out of the ordinary, like say objects that are out of place or maybe events that don't necessarily make sense at the time. The key is not just to ask yourself if you're dreaming but to really consider/wonder if you might be, and then to do an RC. Eventually that mind set of wondering if you're dreaming in waking life will carry over more readily to your dreaming consciousness. In waking life I tend to notice a lot of how color and light affect their respective environments, especially if it seems out of the ordinary or particularly vivid; now I always try to RC after I notice such things. This is what got me lucid when I first started trying to do it. I started to take note of how vivid and colorful everything seemed in the dream and then BAM, lucidity, with a look at my hands to confirm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alvas
Are you dreaming?
my dreams aren't that detailed, I don't recognize intensity in color, just the color itself almost like I see in black and white and my brain tells me that certain objects have a certain color associated with it, its quite peculiar. But it's not something noticeable until I wake.