I pinch my nose and attempt to inhale through it, if successful, I’m dreaming.
Shoutout to my piece of shit brain that figured out that trick and decided to simulate accurate nose pinching physics.
But if you’re in control enough to pinch and inhale, are you asleep enough to be really dreaming? Or is your mind just wandering half-awake?
Personally, if I can get to “I think/hope this is a dream” I’m already starting to wake up.
And it’s usually because I suddenly recognize a familiar dream-trope, like “the reason I’m wandering this disgusting public bathroom looking for a toilet that’s not overflowing with X-crements is because I need to wake up and go pee.”
Or the one where I know I’m drowning and I can only hope it’s a dream because I’m trapped and the only way out is to die and wake up gasping.
But I can’t change my actions in the dream itself unless I’m already coming to the end of the natural sleep cycle, and then it’s basically do I wrap this up or extend it a little?
Or sometimes I haven’t fully fallen asleep and maybe I realize this scenario is at a beach or on a cruise ship or in a dock house or a half-lit indoor pool and I’m like, NOPE!
But pinch my nose, check my watch, look in a mirror? I might as well try to run.
You pinch your nose while awake as well, let’s say whenever I stop at a red light, I pinch my nose, can’t breathe, if I dream and see a red light, I’ll remember to pinch my nose based off the prior habit. The marker you leave to remind you while asleep is a habit built while awake.
My dreams barely have visuals so I’m definitely not.
I had my fair share of fun with dreaming and lucid dreaming too and never understood this concept of watches or time not working properly in dreams…
From my experiences it can definitely work pretty well.
I know I’m not dreaming simply from the fact I can even ask if I am dreaming. When I’m actually dreaming the most random stuff can happen and I don’t even question the fact that it must be real
I think the idea is to form a habit or a tick that is so strong it carries over to your dream. So like, if you commit to wearing a watch everyday, and check it every 5 minutes, eventually you’ll do it in your dreams too. Then, you don’t have to intentionally check whether you’re in a dream, hoprfully you’ll just catch the time being wildly different and be like “holy crap this was a dream??”
Yes, that is correct. It’s one of the strategies you learn when you start diving in to lucid dreaming. Another is to look at some writing (maybe even this sign) and look away and look back, it will say something else if it’s a dream.
I got really into lucid dreaming when I was younger, but I couldn’t fly because I guess I just have no imagination, so I gave up.
I can get that “wait, this makes no sense, I must be dreaming!” vibe a fair few times a week, but I never know what to do once I reach that state, because then it just feels like…thinking, lol. And I prefer the random bullshit my brain comes up with by itself.
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Whenever dreams take a turn for the fucky, I just close my eyes in the dream and just…imagine going back in time for a “redo”. Often, the same thing will happen, so if it’s more stubborn, I’ll close my eyes and imagine something else happening. I don’t know how else to describe it, but…I mean, it’s really just that simple. And it’s not like I’m always lucid dreaming when I do it, either.
I remember one time, I actually experienced sleep paralysis. My eyes were cracked open, I could see the chair I was sleeping in, and the person at the receptionist’s desk (was waiting for some appointment), but I couldn’t move. I didn’t see any freaky demon shit or panic, I just went “Oh, shit, this is sleep paralysis, huh?”
I tried moving my limbs, but the best I could do was a weak finger twitch…until I “imagined” myself lifting my arm. I just thought of the action, the motion of my hand moving from it’s resting place on my leg to a spot in the air, and it worked. But I was still asleep. Wack.
I can lucid dream. Not always. And to varying degrees of success. The dream still has some control over me sometimes I and I can only do some things, like fly from danger, or decide to erase something that went wrong and do it again. Or just choose to wake up, that’s quite odd.
But there are times where I have full control and it’s god damn amazing. The ability to control space, time and narrative to my will and know there are no consequences, yet still feel like it’s real, emotions, senses.
Though often the more I have control, the closer I get to waking up, so it can be short lived, plus it has led to sleep paralysis, so tread carefully. However a weird thing that sometimes happens is I know I’m about to wake up, so decide not to and just continue dream, it’s very hard to achieve, but it’s possible.
Strangely I don’t have any techniques to lucid dream though, it’s just an innate sense I developed as a child to combat frequent bad dreams.
I will often turn to another character in my dream and go “this is a dream” often times they’ll agree.
Plus i can’t punch or harm anyone even when i desperately want to
Exactly why I supported your stance on kumquats, Mr President. Now hurry, the pterodactyls need you for this year’s cotton ball festival. I’ll pack the dental floss, you get on the Komodo dragon and let’s show them how a couple of old school icecreams party.
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Batman can’t read in a dream but maybe you can.
Everytime I see something like this I think back to that episode.
The devs patched that by making clocks not render at all for me.
i’m hungry, everything is awful and i wish i was asleep again… yeah, definitely awake.
This looks like something @[email protected] would print.
Every sign has a story and I’d love to hear that one.
The guy who hung it printed it out and taped it up just before snapping the photo. Really cool story honestly.
Story: prop for internet memes
Nobody dreams of being in Sheffield.
I do!
Hey! it’s lovely and green, right next to the Peak District
It’s two hours from London by train and you can take a bus up to the Peak District from the city centre. There’s tons of artists and makers communities. It’s a very cool city.
I’m kinda curious to know why the heck would a city council print this sign
Honestly kind of seems like It’s something that was printed during the whole Inception craze and some city council probably did it as part of an event or something.
…it doesn’t, there are some fine pranksters in Sheffield.
yeah, just read the article someone else published (should’ve just looked it up myself honestly), and it’s a pretty funny prank.
I personally like counting my fingers. It’s quick, somewhat discrete and kinda trippy if it works. For me in a dream I can see I have five fingers, but when I actually count then I can count up to five but then just… keep counting
But I don’t have a wrist watch D:
I presume you could check any timepiece including your phone but idk.
How can you be so sure the time will be different? As far as I know we haven’t discovered the laws of the dream world.
Funnily enough I had a dream last night about missing a scheduled flight after trying to help someone set up a Linux computer.
Looked at my watch a minute ago and it was 2:12. Just looked again and it’s a completely different time, 2:13
Welp this day is a stupid dream I guess
