did i find my sign or do i still gota look :(

[Greschner]

so in the past like 2 days, i noticed that in about 3 dreams there were these martial art type mats on the floor, you know the blue and rad foam ones that kinda snap together? i didnt get a LD from looking at them but after thinking about it i noticed that i saw them in more then half my dreams in the past little while. is this my sign or does it have to trigger LD to be concidered a sign?. and could someone explain SP to me? im not sure what it is or feels like. is it after the dream or during or befor? Thanks!

[Higurashi]

To be considered a dreamsign, something should appear very frequently in your dreams. It would also help if you saw these mats alot in real life, though I'd say you found your sign. Sleep Paralysis is pretty self explanatory, it's just a state of paralyzation your body goes into while it is transferring from wakefulness to sleep. Good luck with lucidity, ^.^

[chase]

remember, you can have more than one dream sign and it doesn't have to make you lucid to be a dream sign but you hope that it does.

[Greschner]

ok thanks ! ya well i take martial arts so i see them every wed, so it makes sence. tonight the second i see them mats ima scream FAKE FAKE FAKE! lol and hope i listen to myself XD

[Shift]

This sounds like a very good dreamsign. A Dream Sign is ANYTHING that is a sign that you might be dreaming. It can show up once (like, a dead relative or something) or many times (feeling agitated, mats, inability to read). Just keep doing reality checks whenever you think of these Keep a look out for anything else that shows up in your dreams a lot to find out what it is that signifies to you that you might be dreaming. Regarding SP: Every night when you fall asleep, you go through a series of sleep cycles. These are divided into the N-REM (non-REM) and REM (rapid eye movement) stages. Though it is possible to dream in both NREM and in REM sleep, during REM sleep your body makes intense efforts to keep you from acting out your dreams and hurting yourself. It does this by completely paralyzing your body, except for your eyes and diaphragm, so that your muscles cannot move and you are completely relaxed. This is called REM atonia (atonia = lack of tone, your muscles are not tensed, but relaxed). Sometimes, you can have a problem with REM atonia. This can happen when it fails to kick in and you act out your dreams (REM Behavioral Disorder), or when it happens when it is not supposed to- when you are awake. This paralysis of your body, abnormally and outside of REM sleep, is called Sleep Paralysis. Sleep paralysis can happen randomly, and it often does a few times over a person's life. They may be laying in bed, either having woken up from sleep or just about to fall asleep, and find themselves completely paralyzed. In some people, it happens MUCH more frequently, and this is called Isolated Sleep Paralysis (ISP). In those who suffer from disorders such as narcolepsy it can also occur very frequently, but since it is related to other disorders it is not called Isolated Sleep Paralysis, just Sleep Paralysis. The only thing that has to occur for you to be in SP is that you are physically paralyzed and cannot move. Sometimes SP will be accompanied by various hallucinations. Visuals, sounds, sensed presences, the feeling of your body floating, falling, or shrinking, or 'difficulty breathing' (just a hallucination). Any of these can happen, or none. Sleep Paralysis can happen as you are falling asleep, or right when you wake up. It happens most often right after you've woken up. More on SP: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=67910

[Greschner]

thanks shift!