I’d spin a totem and see if it stops.
Someone’s going to see this while tripping and lose their mind
First step towards lucid dreaming, finding a trigger into it. Second step, much more challenging, finding a way to remember you know you’re dreaming, because your brain is trying to snow you. Third step is all those sex dreams you came here for, and then flying, and then possibly some mild psychosis.
some mild psychosis
The album “Pain Remains” by Lorna Shore is pretty much about that. Except it’s not mild. The narrator “wakes up”, takes control of his nightmare, ascending to godhood inside the dream, finding love he can’t ever quite grasp, eventually realises how hollow and vain it is and that it’ll disappear when he wakes up – so he proceeds to burn it all down himself.
Do people know anything when they’re dreaming? When I’m asleep and dreaming about something I’m not thinking stuff is just happening.
Very occasionally I’ll get a vague sense that this isn’t actually happening and I can make it stop. But all that results in is me changing the dream and having all of the current dream go away. I don’t get control over anything.
To train for lucid dreaming, you basically do two things:
First always write down what you were dreaming right after you wake up. You will start to see patterns and then be more aware when those happen again (I often dream that I can’t break in time for a red light. That never happens in real life).
Second is to make it a habit to check whether you’re dreaming. Look at your fingers, look at your watch, etc. Something will be off when you’re dreaming. Just like in Inception.
I used to train like this and after a few weeks I could actually control my dreams sometimes.
I have always found that text doesn’t work in my dreams. Another dream check is trying to read a sentence twice to see if it changes
Mine was pushing my finger into my palm. In a dream, it would go right through my hand with no resistance.
ngl, if I could controll my flying sex dreams I would be in for some psychosis.
no-one should have that kind of power.so when you cum in the lucid dream do you cum in real life?
Generally speaking yes. I’ve had more wet dreams as an adult than I ever did as a teenager.
I do this every night. I didn’t think I was sleeping, but then I looked at the clock and it was 11 pm. Looked at my phone for 10 min. Then looked back at the clock and it was 2am. WTF.
Happens to me too, looked at my watch last night: 10pm, looked at a dream and them looked at the watch: 9am.
Wtf, you’re sleeping 3 hours more than allowed
Where you high? It would be understandable.
I’m my experience when I’m high on cannabis I don’t have any dreams at all while I’m sleeping
Imagine trying to fall asleep and realizing it’s a dream all along
or waking up and realizing it wasn’t a dream
You can’t wake up if you aren’t asleep ☝️🤓
You can get up and realize you didn’t sleep all night
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Who tf is dreaming about being in Sheffield?
That’s not a dream … it’s a waking nightmare
Dude, check your watch.
There’s a dream sign right there
I’ve long suspected I’m trapped in a dream tbh and this confirms it: every single time I look at my watch - or ANY clock or time keeping device, the time is different. It’s constantly changing. I’d ask for help but you’re all just figments of my imagination
Quite frankly we’ve all decided you’ve got a crap imagination.
Correct this is a dream
now wake up you need to make money!
you’re all just figments of my imagination
You have a warped and twisted imagination…
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.
In my dreams, I see color, can read and even sometimes do math. But even given my username and interest in timekeeping, I’ve never thought to look at my watch or a clock in a dream before…
I’m definitely gonna keep this in mind in the future. 👍
I’ve been lucid dreaming a lot lately and I’m going to try this as well
I was also told that holding your nose and trying to breathe still is a good way to tell. I’ve never managed to lucid dream myself, but if you’re in a dream, and still trying to breathe, obviously holding your nose isn’t going to do anything. So you’ll breathe normally despite it which will tip you off that it’s a dream.
I can’t do that, I’ll actually pinch my nose…
Yes I’m a borderline sleepwalker…
If it’s always ten to ten, you live in a simulated reality
Or you never set and started it.
Oh wait, that’s 10:10 because it makes the watch look smiley.
Nvm.
Yes, I meant to say 10:10 and realized my error too late and now I let people interprete it #deathoftheauthor
4:20 moment 😂
You don’t even need to look at a clock or numbers.
Just try looking at your fingers.
Something something cortical maps of the hands being absolutely gigantic in comparison to other parts of our body. Like so:
And to put it understandable terms for all, our internal GPU can’t render our fingers/hands properly in a dream because of idk, not enough processing power due to how much data they’d have to load to render them properly and without glitches.
So to speak.
Which is a similar thing the clock is doing, it’s just that I think this is much more effective. I practices for like a few weeks occasionally looking at the palm of my hand for no reason. Just to make it an instinct. Bring your hand up and look at your palm, like you’re high on LSD and seeing it for the first time. Keep that a couples of sec. This is to prime it semilongterm memory over a couple of weeks so you’ll have access to it once asleep.
Then you dream and occasionally look at your hand, because it’s a habit. I had them a few times. The downside to this is that I usually woke up due to the excitement of being in a lucid dream.
his hands aren’t the only thing off in that picture. if I saw me like that I for sure know I’d be dreaming.
Oh I forgot to explain, that’s just a model showing how much of our brain capacity is dedicated to each bit of our bodies in terms of neural activity, in relation.
Or maybe you understand it despite the joke but still.
I’ve also heard that if you can remember to look in like a book or something written, and then look away, when you look back the words will likely be different if you’re in a dream
The second hand moved so it’s a completely different time than when i first looked. I think I’m dreaming right now
Jump off a building to fly around!
I tried it. I’m now in the hospital and on so many drugs that I don’t even know if this is real now either.
man I fucking hate how sometimes in my dreams I can just start flying, but other times I gotta like work up to it
it’s like, c’mon, I already know I’m dreaming, I am in control of like everything else that’s happening, why won’t you just let me fucking fly, stupid brain
Computer end program.
Daring assumption that you’re not part of the program yourself.
The safer approach is “Computer, arch!”
I did that but now my computer runs Linux.
whoami
me in a dream: heurh. what the fuck does that watch say
It’s also a technique to learn lucid dreaming
