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677 sats \ 17 comments \ @ek 14 Feb spirituality

There are probably many methods to achieve lucid dreaming, but I am only aware of keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks:

A Reality Check is a method of deducing whether one is in a dream or in real life. It usually involves an observation of some sort of sensory observation, usually visual. Most induced lucid dreams involve a reality check of some sort. A dream sign is a form of reality check that is more or less unique to the specific dreamer.

In the movie Inception, they use a spinner as an example. If it doesn't stop spinning, you're in a dream.

My reality check is trying to breath through my nose while holding it shut. I like this check because all I need for it is my body.

What's yours?

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209 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 14 Feb

Mine is whistling! Since my dreams have no sound, if I don't hear my whistle it's because I'm dreaming.

68 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 14 Feb

Ohhh, interesting! I'm not sure if my dreams have sound either. 👀

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 14 Feb

alarm clock, wake up

121 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 14 Feb

Trying to read. In dreams, you cannot read texts properly or the text changes every time. I've only experienced a few dreams where I was confused about whether I was dreaming or in reality.

64 sats \ 0 replies \ @LibertasBR 14 Feb

I've heard that if you ask someone the time in a dream, the dream goes wrong. So that will be my reality check. One thing I do is try to run, always in my dreams I can never run naturally, it seems like the dream doesn't process correctly.

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 14 Feb

I don't actually have one. I don't know I'm dreaming until I wake up.

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 14 Feb

Before I finished reading this I thought of inception

109 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 14 Feb

Man of culture

9 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 14 Feb

It’s beeen a long time since I’ve watched it. I should watch it again!

45 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 14 Feb

It's not consciously intentional but suffering. It feels real.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek OP 14 Feb

Do you not suffer in dreams? Or do you mean stabbing yourself and not feeling pain would be your reality check? lol

55 sats \ 3 replies \ @NovaRift 14 Feb

stabbing yourself and not feeling pain would be your reality check? lol

You guys won't believe it, but I can experience pain in my dreams and smell things too

15 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek OP 14 Feb

I definitely feel emotional pain but I am not sure about physical pain

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @NovaRift 14 Feb

I've experienced it a lot of times. It's not like real life pain, but you do feel something similar. Once, someone kicked me on the downside (in my dream), and I literally jumped up from my bed and screamed at midnight it was painful. Another time, I dreamed I accidentally stabbed my own left eye (dreams are weird), and I felt a very sharp pain. Once, I broke my toe in my dream, and it was painful. I thought it was normal and everyone felt it until my frns told me it's not.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 14 Feb

Oh, now that you mention it, I definitely remember waking up once and making sure I still had all my limbs. There was also some memory of pain.

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9 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 14 Feb

Oh I don't remember my dreams. I don't lucid dream. I mostly meant that suffering is my reality check ... in reality.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 14 Feb

Do you not remember any dream in which you suffered? 🧐

I mostly meant that suffering is my reality check ... in reality.

this makes sense