My present theory is that dreaming is an active, tho unconscious, deed. So step 1 is to make the unconscious, conscious. And then step 2 is to stop dreaming.

More mundane examples : Turn off the movie. Quit the game. Close the book. Alarm clock goes off.

But that’s just me. I want to hear your opinions on this subject.

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    I remember a dream as a kid, I was trying to read a poster on the wall, but the letters were blurry and/or gibberish. I kept trying to get closer to the poster and focus so I could read it, and in all my struggling to see, I opened my eyes for real. Im still pissed I never found out what the poster said.

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    I make the hand gesture to bring up the status interface and the logout option is there on the right. I know there’s faster ways but i just can’t get the hang of speaking clearly in my dreams 🤷

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    When mine are nightmarish I walk backwards and slip through the barrier/wall of the dream back into my body. Not sure how I figured that out but it works for me.

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      If you are waking up as soon as you realize it’s a dream, you are missing out! Some of my best dreams are the ones where I realized it was a dream, the story takes a wild turn once I realize I’m a God!

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        The couple times I’ve had lucid dreams, all the “NPCs,” if you will, became violently aggressive towards me once I realized it was a dream.

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          That’s fascinating and terrifying. There’s a creepypasta in there for sure.

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          Once, I was dreaming that someone was violently chasing me, but right before he reached me, I realized I was dreaming (and therefore in control of what happened here), he spontaneously caught fire and started screaming. I woke up right after. Fun times.

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    One technique to become lucid in dreams is to look at your hands. Hands usually look a bit off - think AI hands. Then you can do whatever you want. In theory if you make it a habit to look at your hands during the day, you’ll do it while dreaming too.

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    Depends on if it’s lucid or not. When lucid, I just decide to wake up. It’s kind of like forcing myself to open my eyes. It’s hard to explain.

    I don’t have any matrix-esque answer the phone type of process.

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      I mean dream in the most general sense. Be it a “dream at night” type dream or a fiction-induced dream (movie, book, videogame).

      Any time you are entering a body of assumptions about reality, I guess. Or an “artificial way of seeing”. How do you exit that?

      The meditation answer (that I alluded to there in the text) is to carefully watch your world and yourself and catch yourself “choosing to dream”, then stop doing that. (which is easy enough with movies, more difficult in other cases, etc)

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        If you’re reading this, we want you to know that you are stuck in a dream. We’ve been trying to wake you. Please wake up. We miss you.

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    Look at a clock,

    Look elsewhere

    Look back at the clock. If the time has changed significantly, you are dreaming.

    Try removing your tongue to wake up.

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    If I’m dreaming, there’s always a rope hanging by my right shoulder. Just reach up and pull it to wake up.

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    Depressing option: try suicide. Works every time for me. The main idea is to put yourself in a scary unusual situation enough to raise your heart rate. Like usually at the end of nightmares there is a ‘boo’ moment that elevates your heart rate enough for you to wake up.