I Google stuff in my dreams all the time and it legible. But then when I submit the query it wakes me up because my brain is all like “dude you are the computer simulating this entire dream world you ain’t connected to the internet. Googling is just asking yourself the same question again”. That kind of breaks the immersion
But how do I learn to start checking if I'm dreaming while I'm dreaming? I have an embarrasing and frustrating reoccurring theme in my dreams and I'd love to know how to stop it when it happens
By doing the above actually. Frequently. The idea is you do that kind of thing (a “reality check”) so often in your waking life that the checks begin to transfer over to your dreams
I did this but with the number of fingers on my hand. I counted 12 fingers and just said oh that’s nice. Never realized it was a dream until long after I had woken up.
The problem is mirrors don’t have a certain appearance, they change texture based on what’s in front of them and because of that the brain doesn’t have a static model of it so the brain just mixes everything you’ve ever seen in a mirror together while trying to render it
Some people see just normal things some people see nothing and some see real fucked up shit like their face getting torn apart or something. If you panic while looking at a mirror in a dream, your brain knows what you fear way more than you
Another thing to consider is the human brain being also able to render really high quality images and animations.
Please wake up! We don’t know what to do anymore. If you receive this message, please wake up! Also, whatever you are dreaming right now, look behind you NOW!
Ah, this reminded me of the old Linklater film Waking Life. Haven’t thought about it for a long time. I used to be really into lucid dreaming when I was young and loved that movie.
But if you’re in control enough to pinch and inhale, are you asleep enough to be really dreaming? Or is your mind just wandering half-awake?
Personally, if I can get to “I think/hope this is a dream” I’m already starting to wake up.
And it’s usually because I suddenly recognize a familiar dream-trope, like “the reason I’m wandering this disgusting public bathroom looking for a toilet that’s not overflowing with X-crements is because I need to wake up and go pee.”
Or the one where I know I’m drowning and I can only hope it’s a dream because I’m trapped and the only way out is to die and wake up gasping.
But I can’t change my actions in the dream itself unless I’m already coming to the end of the natural sleep cycle, and then it’s basically do I wrap this up or extend it a little?
Or sometimes I haven’t fully fallen asleep and maybe I realize this scenario is at a beach or on a cruise ship or in a dock house or a half-lit indoor pool and I’m like, NOPE!
But pinch my nose, check my watch, look in a mirror? I might as well try to run.
You pinch your nose while awake as well, let’s say whenever I stop at a red light, I pinch my nose, can’t breathe, if I dream and see a red light, I’ll remember to pinch my nose based off the prior habit. The marker you leave to remind you while asleep is a habit built while awake.
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