As I’m dreaming lately, and trying to keep better track of what happens in them so I can pick out dreamsigns, I’m finding out that my dreams are too realistic. That is, there are no dreamsigns. No weird objects, no odd behavior from myself or the people in my dreams. In my dream last night, I met up with some old friends I hadn’t seen in a long time. Nothing unusual there… they’re not dead IRL, nothing out of the ordinary. No unusual conversation, no unusual actions, behaviors, scenarios, ZILCH. It’s as if it could’ve happened in real life.
I had a second dream last night, the only part I remember is some bug crawling on my arm and me flicking it off. Nothing unusual there either, about the context, the bug, my actions, nothing.
Any advice for someone like me whose dreams pretty closely mimic reality?
As for me, I think that good dreamsigns don’t have to be unusual. I used to dream that I drove my car, what is very common. Moreover, this is interesting cause you can perform RC’s on your dreamsigns IRL… whereas it’s impossible if you frequently dream about, say, dinosaurs!
Dreamsigns don’t have to be odd or unusual they’re just things that happen a lot in your dreams. Even if it’s something totally normal you can still use it to trigger an RC.
For example if you eat in many of your dreams do an RC everytime you eat something, what makes you lucid is not that you’re eating (because that’s totally normal and happens every day in rl) it’s the RC that you do because you’re eating.
I used to think my dreams were too “normal”, too, till the day I dreamt about a giant praying mantis (but it unfortunately didn’t trigger lucidity), so have faith, if you really want to have weird dreams, you will, we all do sooner or later. The one LD I’ve had so far was triggered by a nightmare I was having because something just clicked in my brain and I said, hey, there’s no way that evil creature is real, I must be dreaming!
Like nightshade said, they don’t have to be anything out of the ordinary at all. It’s not that you have no dream signs, it’s that the dream signs are normal stuff! If you dream of the computer a lot, RC every few minutes when you’re on.
If you dream of the computer a lot, RC every few minutes when you’re on.