Being told I wasn't dreaming

**Zack** · 07-13-2011 07:21 PM

Last night I had an odd dream where I was at work, and an order total was about seven hundred dollars, but it was written as "~7.67.9M", so I thought to myself "this is rather odd, I wonder if this is a dream?" But a stranger came up to my terminal and pressed a few buttons, and turned it into Arabic ($767.90) so I figured I wasn't dreaming.

How can I keep people in my dreams from... well... wrecking my DILD?

**Marquis2988** · 07-13-2011 07:29 PM

Its Your Mind So its your dream try thinking them away or something i'd usually just kill them but thats me.

**Puffin** · 07-13-2011 07:32 PM

You're almost there!

I wouldn't say the DCs are wrecking your chance at lucidity. The fact that you chose to ignore the possible dream sign meant that you weren't quite aware enough to realize that the situation before didn't make sense. Just work a bit more on noticing what's around you and be aware of your actions. If you were more aware, you'd probably say, "pfft, what a silly attempt at trying to make me lose my lucidity!"

Try paying special attention to text and try reasoning to yourself why (or why not) the text you're looking at doesn't make sense, then do a reality check. Keep going!

**Zack** · 07-13-2011 07:37 PM

Silly--and potentially newbish--question, but what's a DC? Dream Character?

As for text in general, often I notice it's completely standard. I had a dream with my contacts falling out a while ago, and besides the clock being blurry, I could still read 12:58 on it. Is this "normal", too?

**Puffin** · 07-13-2011 07:41 PM

Yep, DC stands for Dream Character!

In DILDs, more often than not you'll end up becoming lucid without a real "trigger". I've lost count of the times where I've just been walking through my kitchen or in the mall, and just spontaneously became lucid right then and there. Nothing funky happened to suggest that I was dreaming, but my awareness that I'd practiced in waking life just happened to get through into the dream at that time. When you become conscious, you'll then want to look for dream signs and do an RC, but usually you don't see dream signs and then become lucid. They're more of a way to confirm whether you're asleep or not.

**Erii** · 07-13-2011 07:43 PM

sniped by Puffin XD

~~A DC is a dream character~~

This is normal, especially at first, it will seem your mind hinders your own attempts at becoming lucid, like Puffin said, just try to be a little more aware and questioning.
Do RCs in real life when some odd event like that happens, and really think

keep it up!

and also, regarding your clock question, that is normal, but if you would have look back at it 2 times it probably would have been a different time, it doesn't have to be letters to be a weird clock dream sign, it can just be a simple changing from 12, to 1.

**Puffin** · 07-13-2011 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by erible

and also, regarding your clock question, that is normal, but if you would have look back at it 2 times it probably would have been a different time, it doesn't have to be letters to be a weird clock dream sign, it can just be a simple changing from 12, to 1.

If you look at the clock, look away, and then look back again, that also makes it the "digital clock RC", too. It's when the time changes when you take a second glance at it.

**Zack** · 07-13-2011 07:49 PM

Thanks for the tips and information, everyone! I've been using KingYoshi's All-Day-Awareness DILD tutorial (sorry, can't link to it, still too new) to try to improve my awareness, and I guess it's working a bit. Are there any other good DILD/awareness tutorials I may have overlooked?