15 + 5 points
What Is Real? by The C
April 28th, 2007 10:51 PM
I'm not exactly sure what to use for proof besides my word.
Over the past two days and about 11 hours, as often as I remembered I attempted to preform one of the ways of "Checking reality" listed on the wikipedia article.
The easiest one to do (and the one I did most often) was holding my nose and trying to breathe. I also counted my fingers and did the time thing on a few occasions. Although it was the most stereotypical, I only did the pain one once.
Most of these times I already thought I was awake, so it didn't do much, and it seemed that the very few times that it probably would have been worth it to do (waking up in the middle of the night and doing stuff that I later thought was a dream,) I didn't remember. Although occasionally there were strange, strong emotions, and I tested it then, but I was always awake.
I've found that my own personal dream sign is that I'll see everything in the third person. I never dream through my own eyes, but rather though the eyes of someone watching. So it was pretty easy to know that I was awake.
I'm going to attempt Lucid Dreaming as soon as possible.
Over the past two days and about 11 hours, as often as I remembered I attempted to preform one of the ways of "Checking reality" listed on the wikipedia article.
The easiest one to do (and the one I did most often) was holding my nose and trying to breathe. I also counted my fingers and did the time thing on a few occasions. Although it was the most stereotypical, I only did the pain one once.
Most of these times I already thought I was awake, so it didn't do much, and it seemed that the very few times that it probably would have been worth it to do (waking up in the middle of the night and doing stuff that I later thought was a dream,) I didn't remember. Although occasionally there were strange, strong emotions, and I tested it then, but I was always awake.
I've found that my own personal dream sign is that I'll see everything in the third person. I never dream through my own eyes, but rather though the eyes of someone watching. So it was pretty easy to know that I was awake.
I'm going to attempt Lucid Dreaming as soon as possible.
Good thing on not trying the pain one. It doesn't actually work. Not entirely sure why Wikipedia has it, but you *can* vividly feel pain in a dream. The finger-counting and breathing-through-nose work though, I can attest to that.