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[–] cRazi_man 90 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I do this every night. I didn't think I was sleeping, but then I looked at the clock and it was 11 pm. Looked at my phone for 10 min. Then looked back at the clock and it was 2am. WTF.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Happens to me too, looked at my watch last night: 10pm, looked at a dream and them looked at the watch: 9am.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wtf, you're sleeping 3 hours more than allowed

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Where you high? It would be understandable.

[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm my experience when I'm high on cannabis I don't have any dreams at all while I'm sleeping

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[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Who tf is dreaming about being in Sheffield?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago

That's not a dream ... it's a waking nightmare

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

Dude, check your watch.

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[–] bottleofchips@piefed.blahaj.zone 35 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I’ve long suspected I’m trapped in a dream tbh and this confirms it: every single time I look at my watch - or ANY clock or time keeping device, the time is different. It’s constantly changing. I’d ask for help but you’re all just figments of my imagination

[–] notabot@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

you’re all just figments of my imagination

You have a warped and twisted imagination...

[–] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Correct this is a dream

now wake up you need to make money!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago

Quite frankly we've all decided you've got a crap imagination.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

First step towards lucid dreaming, finding a trigger into it. Second step, much more challenging, finding a way to remember you know you're dreaming, because your brain is trying to snow you. Third step is all those sex dreams you came here for, and then flying, and then possibly some mild psychosis.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Do people know anything when they're dreaming? When I'm asleep and dreaming about something I'm not thinking stuff is just happening.

Very occasionally I'll get a vague sense that this isn't actually happening and I can make it stop. But all that results in is me changing the dream and having all of the current dream go away. I don't get control over anything.

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[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

some mild psychosis

The album "Pain Remains" by Lorna Shore is pretty much about that. Except it's not mild. The narrator "wakes up", takes control of his nightmare, ascending to godhood inside the dream, finding love he can't ever quite grasp, eventually realises how hollow and vain it is and that it'll disappear when he wakes up – so he proceeds to burn it all down himself.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago

ngl, if I could controll my flying sex dreams I would be in for some psychosis.
no-one should have that kind of power.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

so when you cum in the lucid dream do you cum in real life?

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In my dreams, I see color, can read and even sometimes do math. But even given my username and interest in timekeeping, I've never thought to look at my watch or a clock in a dream before...

I'm definitely gonna keep this in mind in the future. 👍

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I’ve been lucid dreaming a lot lately and I’m going to try this as well

[–] Denvil@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was also told that holding your nose and trying to breathe still is a good way to tell. I've never managed to lucid dream myself, but if you're in a dream, and still trying to breathe, obviously holding your nose isn't going to do anything. So you'll breathe normally despite it which will tip you off that it's a dream.

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

This is a common technique for lucid dreaming:

Others included:

Jumping: you may stay afloat

Checking the window: view/weather may change

Tapping, pushing the wall: you may fall trough.

These work because the “dream simulation” does not expect such intentional behaviours and therefore does not put energy in simulating them coherently.

Once you train your body to check automatically you may attempt them in a dream that won’t be able to respond coherently and wakes your conscious.

A fair warning though, i have heard that for experienced lucid dreamers the dreams can adapt to simulate a coherent response to these behaviours, at which point you lose your ability to tell you are in a dream. Combined with the movie trope phenomenon of dreaming that you wake up this can lead to you being unsure even when awake.

[–] uberfreeza@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I pinch my nose and keep breathing. It's weird, though. When I know I'm dreaming, I'm still not present. It's more like watching me play with sv_cheats.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I can't blink in dreams. Whenever I notice this, I can lucid dream. In fairly certain I can blink when I'm awake (except when I had Bell's palcy lol).

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've been able to lucid dream pretty much my whole life, although I'm not sure if you would call me experienced because I often don't actually put the circumstances in place for me to lucid dream at 100%, if you could assign a level to the lucidity

anyways, with that context, I've never had the issue of being unsure if I was in a dream or not. but I've also never really needed a tell for it - I just know that I'm in a dream without needing to check.

tbh I don't put much effort into controlling my dreams anymore, I generally just more guide them in a direction and then go with the flow. if I don't like what's happening, I kind of push that scene away and transition the scene into something else. It's less about controlling exactly what I or the things around me are doing, and more about controlling the environment at a large scale rather than minute details. if that makes any sense. for example if I'm in some sort of adventurous dream where we're exploring something and things are chasing us, and it gets too scary or something, I can just kind of make the decision to have whatever is chasing us back off and transition into the next scene. but it feels different than when I explicitly control what is happening

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it's always ten to ten, you live in a simulated reality

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Or you never set and started it.

Oh wait, that's 10:10 because it makes the watch look smiley.

Nvm.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, I meant to say 10:10 and realized my error too late and now I let people interprete it #deathoftheauthor

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

4:20 moment 😂

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago

Someone's going to see this while tripping and lose their mind

[–] marius@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's also a technique to learn lucid dreaming

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't even need to look at a clock or numbers.

Just try looking at your fingers.

Something something cortical maps of the hands being absolutely gigantic in comparison to other parts of our body. Like so:

And to put it understandable terms for all, our internal GPU can't render our fingers/hands properly in a dream because of idk, not enough processing power due to how much data they'd have to load to render them properly and without glitches.

So to speak.

Which is a similar thing the clock is doing, it's just that I think this is much more effective. I practices for like a few weeks occasionally looking at the palm of my hand for no reason. Just to make it an instinct. Bring your hand up and look at your palm, like you're high on LSD and seeing it for the first time. Keep that a couples of sec. This is to prime it semilongterm memory over a couple of weeks so you'll have access to it once asleep.

Then you dream and occasionally look at your hand, because it's a habit. I had them a few times. The downside to this is that I usually woke up due to the excitement of being in a lucid dream.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

his hands aren't the only thing off in that picture. if I saw me like that I for sure know I'd be dreaming.

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Daring assumption that you're not part of the program yourself.

The safer approach is "Computer, arch!"

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago
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[–] tlmcleod@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The second hand moved so it's a completely different time than when i first looked. I think I'm dreaming right now

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[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hands.

Check your hands. Check your hands several times a day. Look at your hands now. Are they blobs? Are they fleshmittens?

Yes?

Then this is all a terrible, terrible dream! You'll wake up in 20 years and be rich and healthy again!

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I find it very interesting that our dreaming brain makes similar mistakes to image diffusion models.

[–] JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

You might be on to something there. 🤔

[–] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess I don't have very vivid dreams because I can usually tell I'm dreaming due to the "haze" feeling all of my dreams have. Real life is noticably more vivid and there are many more things going on.

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[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

me in a dream: heurh. what the fuck does that watch say

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Say I look at my watch, in my dream. Then I look at something else in my dream.

I look back at my watch, and my dream forces my perception to expect to see whatever time I see next.

Confirmed, not dreaming. 🙃 Bulletproof.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

I've also heard that if you can remember to look in like a book or something written, and then look away, when you look back the words will likely be different if you're in a dream

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thought this was going to be Scarfolk

[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not working when stoned

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

The question is ... are we in the dream and does reality exist when we wake from this 'dream'?

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