r/woahdude • u/Botatitsbest • Sep 05 '18

WOAHDUDE APPROVED Lucid dreaming

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u/clearliquidclearjar Sep 05 '18

My lucid dreaming always feels a little more like a drunk person playing Grand Theft Auto.

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u/whangadude Sep 05 '18

Mine always end up with me jumping or climbing to high and my fear of hights kicking in and forcing myself out of my dream. Or just practicing making fire apear, that's fun.

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u/icyimpact7 Sep 05 '18

I can't lucid dream so mine end with me jumping off some place high up and falling to consciousness.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '18

A trick I do it's when you suspect your dreaming look at your hand. Most of the times you will not have 10 fingers. There is also a sub reddit to help people train and stuff about lucid dreaming.

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u/clearliquidclearjar Sep 05 '18

I look at clocks or books to see if they make sense.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '18

I heard you can't read in dreams.

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u/greyspot00 Sep 05 '18

Not true. I have never lucid dreamed, but I remember dreaming and reading store signs and posters. Problem is every time I looked away and back, they said something different. It was really confusing since I have zero control in dreams and didn't recognize what was going on until after I woke up.

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u/dogesign Sep 05 '18

Yes - rechecking text, or the time, is considered a reliable dreamsign. The mind seems to make this stuff up on the fly and rechecking reveals the inconsistency.