My present theory is that dreaming is an active, tho unconscious, deed. So step 1 is to make the unconscious, conscious. And then step 2 is to stop dreaming.
More mundane examples : Turn off the movie. Quit the game. Close the book. Alarm clock goes off.
But that’s just me. I want to hear your opinions on this subject.
:wq
:q!
My dreams are weird, that shit can stay there
ZZEdit: this is assuming you want to save changes made in the dream
I remember a dream as a kid, I was trying to read a poster on the wall, but the letters were blurry and/or gibberish. I kept trying to get closer to the poster and focus so I could read it, and in all my struggling to see, I opened my eyes for real. Im still pissed I never found out what the poster said.
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
It didn’t say anything because your brain didn’t know what to put in that text, it just knew there should be text there.
Was likely a lucid dream, can’t you not read in those
It wasn’t lucid, I didn’t know it was a dream until I woke up. I have had lucid dreams before though. They are a blast.
I make the hand gesture to bring up the status interface and the logout option is there on the right. I know there’s faster ways but i just can’t get the hang of speaking clearly in my dreams 🤷
When mine are nightmarish I walk backwards and slip through the barrier/wall of the dream back into my body. Not sure how I figured that out but it works for me.
When I realise that “this is just a dream”, I tell myself to open my eyes. Most of the time it works.
If you are waking up as soon as you realize it’s a dream, you are missing out! Some of my best dreams are the ones where I realized it was a dream, the story takes a wild turn once I realize I’m a God!
The couple times I’ve had lucid dreams, all the “NPCs,” if you will, became violently aggressive towards me once I realized it was a dream.
That’s fascinating and terrifying. There’s a creepypasta in there for sure.
That’s terrifying
Once, I was dreaming that someone was violently chasing me, but right before he reached me, I realized I was dreaming (and therefore in control of what happened here), he spontaneously caught fire and started screaming. I woke up right after. Fun times.
Falling backwards in a chair always works
Really? I always just kill myself.
One technique to become lucid in dreams is to look at your hands. Hands usually look a bit off - think AI hands. Then you can do whatever you want. In theory if you make it a habit to look at your hands during the day, you’ll do it while dreaming too.
Depends on if it’s lucid or not. When lucid, I just decide to wake up. It’s kind of like forcing myself to open my eyes. It’s hard to explain.
I don’t have any matrix-esque answer the phone type of process.
I mean dream in the most general sense. Be it a “dream at night” type dream or a fiction-induced dream (movie, book, videogame).
Any time you are entering a body of assumptions about reality, I guess. Or an “artificial way of seeing”. How do you exit that?
The meditation answer (that I alluded to there in the text) is to carefully watch your world and yourself and catch yourself “choosing to dream”, then stop doing that. (which is easy enough with movies, more difficult in other cases, etc)
I’m never aware I’m dreaming. Heightened emotions or excitement snaps me out of it.
How do you know you’re not dreaming right now? WAKE UP
How? That’s what I’m asking.
If you’re reading this, we want you to know that you are stuck in a dream. We’ve been trying to wake you. Please wake up. We miss you.
Depressing option: try suicide. Works every time for me. The main idea is to put yourself in a scary unusual situation enough to raise your heart rate. Like usually at the end of nightmares there is a ‘boo’ moment that elevates your heart rate enough for you to wake up.
If I become aware I’m in a dream and want it to end, I usually try to focus on the feeling of my body in bed. Once I become conscious of my physical body it’s basically impossible to stay in the dream.
I did something similar once.
I was into “concentration meditation” at the time. Using “the feeling of breath in the tip of my nose” as my object of concentration.
So I was in a dream (I was in a windowless, slightly cluttered basement, talking to some people, thinking about going upstairs) when it occurred to me to concentrate on my (real physical) nose.
The light started strobing. A slow strobe. Like 0.7 hz. The whole light of the dream. Like somebody was flicking the basement light on and off
Look at a clock,
Look elsewhere
Look back at the clock. If the time has changed significantly, you are dreaming.
Try removing your tongue to wake up.
Found the lucid dreamer.
Sometimes a dream takes a dark turn and that’s usually when I realise that it is in fact a dream. I start to look for an exit and awareness shifts to my physical body eyelids opening as the way out.
If I’m dreaming, there’s always a rope hanging by my right shoulder. Just reach up and pull it to wake up.
Prime gaslighting opportunity right there
