These work because the “dream simulation” does not expect such intentional behaviours and therefore does not put energy in simulating them coherently.
Once you train your body to check automatically you may attempt them in a dream that won’t be able to respond coherently and wakes your conscious.
A fair warning though, i have heard that for experienced lucid dreamers the dreams can adapt to simulate a coherent response to these behaviours, at which point you lose your ability to tell you are in a dream. Combined with the movie trope phenomenon of dreaming that you wake up this can lead to you being unsure even when awake.
I’ve been able to lucid dream pretty much my whole life, although I’m not sure if you would call me experienced because I often don’t actually put the circumstances in place for me to lucid dream at 100%, if you could assign a level to the lucidity
anyways, with that context, I’ve never had the issue of being unsure if I was in a dream or not. but I’ve also never really needed a tell for it - I just know that I’m in a dream without needing to check.
tbh I don’t put much effort into controlling my dreams anymore, I generally just more guide them in a direction and then go with the flow. if I don’t like what’s happening, I kind of push that scene away and transition the scene into something else. It’s less about controlling exactly what I or the things around me are doing, and more about controlling the environment at a large scale rather than minute details. if that makes any sense. for example if I’m in some sort of adventurous dream where we’re exploring something and things are chasing us, and it gets too scary or something, I can just kind of make the decision to have whatever is chasing us back off and transition into the next scene. but it feels different than when I explicitly control what is happening
I pinch my nose and keep breathing. It’s weird, though. When I know I’m dreaming, I’m still not present. It’s more like watching me play with sv_cheats.
This is a common technique for lucid dreaming:
Others included:
Jumping: you may stay afloat
Checking the window: view/weather may change
Tapping, pushing the wall: you may fall trough.
These work because the “dream simulation” does not expect such intentional behaviours and therefore does not put energy in simulating them coherently.
Once you train your body to check automatically you may attempt them in a dream that won’t be able to respond coherently and wakes your conscious.
A fair warning though, i have heard that for experienced lucid dreamers the dreams can adapt to simulate a coherent response to these behaviours, at which point you lose your ability to tell you are in a dream. Combined with the movie trope phenomenon of dreaming that you wake up this can lead to you being unsure even when awake.
I’ve been able to lucid dream pretty much my whole life, although I’m not sure if you would call me experienced because I often don’t actually put the circumstances in place for me to lucid dream at 100%, if you could assign a level to the lucidity
anyways, with that context, I’ve never had the issue of being unsure if I was in a dream or not. but I’ve also never really needed a tell for it - I just know that I’m in a dream without needing to check.
tbh I don’t put much effort into controlling my dreams anymore, I generally just more guide them in a direction and then go with the flow. if I don’t like what’s happening, I kind of push that scene away and transition the scene into something else. It’s less about controlling exactly what I or the things around me are doing, and more about controlling the environment at a large scale rather than minute details. if that makes any sense. for example if I’m in some sort of adventurous dream where we’re exploring something and things are chasing us, and it gets too scary or something, I can just kind of make the decision to have whatever is chasing us back off and transition into the next scene. but it feels different than when I explicitly control what is happening
I can’t blink in dreams. Whenever I notice this, I can lucid dream. In fairly certain I can blink when I’m awake (except when I had Bell’s palcy lol).
I pinch my nose and keep breathing. It’s weird, though. When I know I’m dreaming, I’m still not present. It’s more like watching me play with sv_cheats.