It’s my first day at school, I am reading the planning of the week. The numbers of the classrooms are missing. Sometimes it’s names of classrooms and not numbers.
I stopped school since 2004 and I never become lucid when this scene is happening… 
Maybe now that I wrote it I will…
Well… I’m not exactly too attentive when it comes to details, but one thing that I noticed is that it is very rarely — hell, I could go ahead and say “never” — daytime in my dreams. It is most definetely always night time, or maybe evening. Actual daylight is an amazingly rare occurance for some for reason.
But other than that, there isn’t anything consistently odd… or so I think.
- Stairs
- Driving my car and not being able to bring it to a complete stop
- Realising I’m standing on top of a very tall building
- Looking at a clock twice in quick succession and noticing the time has completely changed
- Same as above, but with words
I have a lot of “losing control” dreams. In real life, I’m fairly independent in personality. Not really afraid of much, and confident in my abilities. My brain seems to like to swap that around on me. 
For instance, the brakes in the car will suddenly go out, and I’ll be going too fast to stop. Sometimes it’s dumb work stuff where I can’t seem to do anything right.
The worst are the nightmares where I’m being raped. They happen fairly often, and the rapists are always the kindest people I know IRL. The one guy was actually a friend who worked in the homeless ministry, and would give you the shirt off his back in a heartbeat. The dream turned him into an absolute monster. 
Other, lighter-hearted dream signs are usually old, abandoned houses. Plus going out with my old friends from high school that I haven’t seen in years.
Taking my dog on a walk is a common one; and I was able to use it to attain lucidity just yesterday. It could just be that I’m more likely to RC during that time, however.
Other families. Different spouses & children in different homes. Those always let me know I’m lucid. Then I can interact on a whole other emotional level. Is this common? But right now I’m blocked. Since I found out what I’ve been doing I’m blocked. I did have an emotional surgery. Hysterectomy. So it’s probably why. But until 2 monthes ago I didn’t understand what I was doing… It’s hard to build my dream house now, literally. It’s been something I started on my own just to fall asleep a few years ago & it eventually lead to sleep paralysis & terror. Like I said I didn’t know the significance of building a house. I was just trying to fall asleep. Just to sleep. I had never heard of any of this. Imagine my shock when I realized all of this. Any & all advice is welcome. Hence me joining this group.
For nearly all my life I’ve dreamt of malls, some of which I dream of again and again. Going through hallways. Not being able to get my car brakes to work. Searching for a toilet but every one is disgusting. Being on a road trip. Interesting how some of us have the same signs.
I used to have a traumatic sign where I needed to call 911 but the phone wouldn’t work. Once I realized what this personally signified in my life it stopped.
Welcome to LD4all, Malls and Halls! 
Did you get your username from your dream sign? 
I still have that dream. In my country it is 112, and I get this often. Either the phone doesn’t work, or the volume is too low so the operator and I can’t understand each other.
Thanks! Yes that’s right! What it meant for me personally was I had trouble asking for help from others or expressing how I was struggling. We can learn so much about ourselves from our dreams…
[center]Well, the most common for me are: [/center]
To be in my old house (or old study center/s) again.
Lots of stairs.
The sea.
Night time.
Meteorites falling.
Seeing old friends (or deceased family members) that aren’t in my daily life anymore.
Fictional characters from series/movies/etc.
To be looking for someone or something.
To be late for an important thing.
Thiefs or savage animals attacking me.
A special place in the center of the city who doesn’t exist in waking life; there are huge buildings & lots of palm trees!
A beautiful cemetery with cheerful people walking on it.
Strangers being nice & friendly with me.
The main street of my neighbourhood.
Climate changing in just a second.
To die!
[center]Its surprising to see that we all share some dreamsignals! He he 
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Oh, I don’t have that much dream signs, I think.
It took me eternities to figure out what my dream signs anyway 
Now there are only two what are for sure:
- When friends show up I should check if I’m dreaming
- Animals, every kind of animals, even fantasy creatures
But I suck at recognizing them. I’m way better at WILD 
Or I think so much about dreaming, that I think during I’m dreaming about dreaming and recognizse that I’m… yes, dreaming
My dreamsign is that I do ski racing for my national team But I am always very slow or do a crash 
Dont know why but im driving only 10% of my normal speed.
Terminator223, I have had that one too a few times. Usually it is ski jumping.
Another one for me is packing my fishing equipment and a lighter. It takes a very long time to pack, and I never get to actually leave. Many times, this is because I suddenly want to go camping for a while. I never get away from the noise and crowds.
A big one [probably for everyone] is strong negative emotions.
I’ve become good at recognizing it, which means that I rarely have nightmares.
Downside: If I’m actually upset irl, I will get my hopes up for a sec thinking it could be a dream and then it’s not! Boo!
Recent dream signs for me are being with celebrity type people. You think I would get lucid more often from these types of dreams but it always feels so natural to be hanging out with real and fictional famous people.
Walking alone in the dark is a new one that is happening more and more. I always look up at the stars and the moon if it is out and don’t even pay attention to what is happening on the ground.
My mind telling me to get my head out of the stars and back down to earth?
Those are good ones especially if they’re reoccurring celebrities or fictional characters, but sometimes it seems to lose its effect after a while unless that was the aftermath of burnout/fatigue or becoming too familiar with the frequent appearances.
In regard to your question, with the given information no, I wouldn’t think so.
Maybe if being distracted by the sky caused you to accidentally bump into someone/something or wander into an undesirable setting I’d be inclined to say yes. Just my opinion though…Wait was that rhetorical…?
As for a personal dream sign. Despite missing this dream sign a couple weeks back, I’d say the sky had been a favorable lucid trigger for a while now (offhand I’d say 60% success rate). Its vast, hard to miss, and usually induces a refreshing sense of freedom and endless possibilities by simply looking at it in both WL and in a dream.
I think you’re right, the celebrities have become too familiar. Maybe even so with the night sky. But I don’t mind the appearances of the night sky at all. They are almost always more magical and mysterious in dreams than in the wake world. But here’s to hoping the next night sky we encounter gets us lucid.
it’s so amazing to me
I just look for anything that’s out of the ordinary. I’ve never really thought of how I know that a dream is lucid, I’m more of a natural lucid dreamer after all.