Hands work too. Count your fingers.
Oh no 😟
I appear to be an AI Gen image.
I always wake up when I do this because of the shock when I see how they look - sometimes like claws, or the bones are visible. Tried this as reality check to train lucid dreaming, because it’s not really noticeable to others during the day - in contrast to the casual jump to check for flying skills
Yeah the hands wake me up sometimes too. The jump is a good idea!
My hands look normal in my dreams this trick does not work for me
Then you need to wake up
I wish I could
i’m always confused when it looks the same
You want to look for clocks or light switches if you want to stay in dream.
Mirrors are often unsettling to the point they’ll wake you up.
A trick that has worked for me: pull on a finger. In a dream (probably because I’ve conditioned myself) it will stretch like taffy which was enough to indicate that I’m dreaming.
Interestingly, after a while seeing my finger stretch wasn’t enough to convince me that I was dreaming: I would question whether it was stretching enough. Like “oh, it’s only double it’s normal length, so this is probably reality.” This has also happened with other tricks I’ve tried, like try to fly (“I’m only hovering; probably not a dream”). It’s almost like you build a tolerance for particular abnormalities.
Sorry, that was longer than I meant for it to be
How are y’all controlling your dreams?
Usually it’s recognition of the dream that let’s me manipulate the dream more actively.
Keep a dream journal, do reality checks often in waking life and you can maybe start realizing mid dream that you’re dreaming. Usually it’s at that point I’m able to take more control of the dream.
I say more because it’s rare that I have full control of a dream. Like I might make myself fly in a dream, but might lose grasp of the setting that I’m actually flying in.
Mirrors don’t exist in my dreams, I don’t think… I’ve never seen one that I’m aware of, anyway… and I have a quite extensive lucid dreamscape… interesting.
I find the easiest thing to do is check my pulse. I don’t replicate that in dreams, so I don’t feel anything where my heartbeat should be.
Only downside is I’ll never realize when I’m actually dead.
Nah, everything’s fine, face is melting like always.
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