Surreal Memes

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.

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

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.

Who tf is dreaming about being in Sheffield?

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

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. 👍

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.

I'd spin a totem and see if it stops.

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.

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

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

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

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.

It's also a technique to learn lucid dreaming

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

Computer end program.

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!

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.