Not picking up on dream signs

I have been really trying to do it, but the more I try the more new dream signs my mind seems to come up with, I am just to dam inventive (or something), so I can’t become lucid as I don’t pick up on the new “your dreaming darakat” message my mind is giving me. Are there any techniques people know of how to remember dream signs, or create them easily?

That’s how we are in dreams. There are a million things that should tell you that it’s a dream but you don’t notice anything weird about it. :grin:

I don’t remember ever succeeding to become lucid by a DS. It seems to me that every time that I have become lucid, the notion of the environment being the creation of my mind has just popped into my mind, mostly as a result of MILD. However, I’m very bad at remembering what has happened in my dreams just before I’ve become lucid, so I can’t be sure - the attainment of lucidity seems to switch the dream scene often.

It may be that you’re not a kind of person that can induce LD’s through noticing DS’s (like me), so you might want to try other induction techniques. In any case, it’s a good sign that you can notice a lot of DS’s as it’s an implication that you remember your dreams well and are becoming familiar with them, which is always a good thing when trying to have LD’s.

Good luck!

Take RC’s whenever you see those DS (even if you’re 100% sure you’re awake… because you may not be).

Write down all your DS on a piece of paper. Before going to bed, read through the list a couple of times (you could also do this during WBTB).

Patience is key here, remember it can take a while for you to make a habit of recognizing your dreamsigns, whether you’re dreaming or awake, so keep at it and eventually you’ll have no problem with this :ok:

How wide is a DS?
Like "friends "
Or “sex” or more specific ?

No need to be more specific. “Friends” or “sex” can be a good dreamsign.

i’m not RECOGNISING dream signs, like
a huge red crystal in a lake
changing gravity
no doors
a castle on a hill in the middle of an open plane
a frie vending machine
a classmate lonely on a hill i’ve never been
etc etc

Sex aint a good one to me. Cant actually practise that onein RL … :cry: :cry: :wallhit: :angry: :cry: :cry:

maybe that’s why it’s a good DS?

Yeah , but i can`t do it when i "come over " sex in RL …
Wish i could … :ohno:

Sirius)(Black, do you mean that “a huge red crystal in a lake”
, “a castle on a hill in the middle of an open plane”, “a frie vending machine” are dreamsings which come over and over in your dreams? :eek:

My DS are usualy dissasters like plane crashes, tornados, and atom bombs, but a few weeks ago I had a dream, where I saw Planes crashing left, and right. I remmber one of the plane crashes coming so close that I even felt the wind, but I never realized I was dreaming.

No, he did have a frie vending machine dream once though after I told him how to hack coca-cola vending machine’s :razz:

Hey just a note, those things you mentioned aren’t dreamsigns. They are just odd things that occur in your dreams. Dream signs are regular themes, objects, people, events e.t.c. that occur often in your dreams that you can use to clue in that you may be dreaming.

It’s pretty normal to dream of completely bizzare things and then take them as ‘normal’ in your dreams - heck that’s what dreams are known for, but you have to notice things that are in a lot of your dreams and then use them as a dream sign.

I completely agree with bzteam. Dreamsigns are reoccuring themes. They are better if they make you prelucid, for instance when they generate questioning or problems in a dream. For instance, when I flew I often had problems with power lines. Noticing this reoccuring sign made me able twice to transform it into a clue which made me lucid.

I take anything that could be a sign that I’m dreaming as a dreamsign, because they all have the potential to make me lucid :tongue:
I’ve only seen an ocean sized swimming pool once, but it would be a good clue to let me know I’m dreaming, even if I only saw it once.

See for me if I saw an ocean-sized pool, I would find some way of justifying its existence.

Lightswitches that don’t work are a good dreamsign for me. It’s actually funny now, I never seem lately to have dreams where there is an opportunity to operate a lightswitch.

I’ve never dreamed of a light switch. Lights were either always on or off. As far back as I have been keeping DJ (about a year now :content: ) I have yet to find anything that’s reoccurring often enough to use as a dream sign. :smile:
So far all my LD’s have been spontanious.

That’s one of my dream problems.I usually see odd things that i think are odd in my dream,but when i wake up i :wallhit: hit my head to the wall and ask myself how could this be ordinary???Like a dream i had the week before last week,where i got off a train while it was moving fast by walking away of it.It looked pretty ordinary whaen i was sleeping but when i woke up :angry: :wallhit: :ohno: :ack: got what i mean

lol, yea me too, like, stepping into a pool of water and being able to breathe underwater(wait, isn’t this the same as the plug your nose RC?)