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Originally Posted by C-Life
Crazy! You're the first person I've seen that has basically the same type of lucid dreams as me.
For me it started with terrifying re-occuring nightmares when I was a kid. They started happening so often that in my dreams I realized that I was dreaming and could wake myself up. To wake myself up I would close my eyes for a few seconds and then open them. Sometimes I would still be in the dream, so I would just try it again. It now works like a charm.
So now if I'm in a weird world it will just "click." And I'll be like "yup this a dream." And I will try to change things or do whatever but they NEVER last long enough! Which is frustrating. But sometimes I'll be dreaming and suddenly I can tell that something scary is going to happen (kind of like in the movie The Cell) and I will wake myself up before anything happens. I usually laugh to myself at that point like "haha nice try." Ya it's weird.
I've always thought it was a special to be a lucid dreamer cause your mind and sub-conscience are now connected somehow, and I feel like it gives you an edge in every day life. Like you can tap into your sub-conscience to help you if necessary. I don't know how exactly but I like to think it does. 
I'm going to have to try that spinning around thing tho. |
I literally just found out about the turning around and looking at your hand thing. I also really didn't know how common/uncommon lucid dreaming was until more recently. I've always thought I've been able to tap the subconscious more and I often wonder if you can apply the same thing to your conscious self making things happen(obviously within reason).