First lucid haha

[oathbreaker]

So I don't know if I would consider this lucid but I dreamed I was just sitting down, and then I though wow this could never be a dream but I decide to reality check anyway. I look down at my hand for a second and at first glance something seems off. Then I look down again and I notice my hand is half covereed in pen like someone scribbled all over it. Then I think "huh thats odd... UNLESS THIS IS A DREAM" It felt as though somebody took a record player and screeched it to a stop. I woke up immediately after this. Would this be considered a dream sign? And does anybody else have similar effects with the hand reality check where theres an odd design or scribble on the hand as opposed to an irregular number of fingers.

[Reality_is_a_Dream]

It is only a dream sign if it is reoccuring, but it was a lucid dream. It is common to wake up from the excitement your first lucid dream; you eventally build up an immunity. I have never had that happen to me, but I know that other people have had reality checks that worked, but worked differently than they expected to. Congrats on the lucid, and good luck with the next ones!

[oathbreaker]

Hey thanks man I didn't feel excited though, more over shocked, I suppose shock can wake you up as well.

[JShaffer]

I had a similar thing happen to me once, my hand was colored green. But instead of me logically being like "Hey, wtf? why is my hand green" It was more like "oh yeah! its st. pattys day."

[oathbreaker]

Lol yup that was my first reaction in a way, oh okay I was scribbling on my hand but I rationalized and realized I never did that

[Reality_is_a_Dream]

It is only a dream sign if it is reoccuring, but it was a lucid dream. It is common to wake up from the excitement your first lucid dream; you eventally build up an immunity. I have never had that happen to me, but I know that other people have had reality checks that worked, but worked differently than they expected to. Congrats on the lucid, and good luck with the next ones! Haha, yea. Excitement, shock, fear, overjoy, it can all wake you up. The point being it happens to most of us our first times, and you need to do it alot to get into the swing of it and be able to stay lucid. I was also reminded of a reality checking method by JShaffer's post: Someone would write 'Dream' or 'Reality Check' on their hand in waking life and would check if it was there as a RC. If it changes or isn't there, you are dreaing. So, it is not rare for that to come up instead of a 7th finger in your dreams.

[oathbreaker]

Haha, yea. Excitement, shock, fear, overjoy, it can all wake you up. The point being it happens to most of us our first times, and you need to do it alot to get into the swing of it and be able to stay lucid. I was also reminded of a reality checking method by JShaffer's post: Someone would write 'Dream' or 'Reality Check' on their hand in waking life and would check if it was there as a RC. If it changes or isn't there, you are dreaing. So, it is not rare for that to come up instead of a 7th finger in your dreams. Thats odd mainly bc I've used that method before and I think when I first looked at my hand I was thinking along those lines that I wrote on my hand