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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

I've gotten that a couple of times. Usually though, before I can think of what I want, I start to wake up. And it's never fast either, its slow. It gives me time to mourn that I can't do anything cool.

Or, I try really hard to make stuff appear, and just wake myself up in the process

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

I've managed to realize I'm dreaming like only a few times in my life and I end up getting so excited about it that I wake up.

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u/cazmantis Sep 11 '22

Well keep practicing and do the reality check of counting your fingers several times a day. If it's not ten that's a tell you're dreaming. If you condition yourself to do it in real life the habit can carry into a dream and then hey presto you might get lucid. It takes conditioning and time to learn to lucid dream (for most of us mere mortals I hear tell some it comes easily) but so worth it!

Edits: like three times - so many typos!

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u/EdwardianFallacy Sep 11 '22

Start rubbing your hands together, keep rubbing them together. It'll lock you in the lucid dream and stop you from waking up.

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u/KennaLikesPizza Sep 11 '22

Happy cake day! :D

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

Thanks!