I notice dream signs but cant get lucid...Help?

I am seeing dream signs alot but cant get lucid...for example in a dream last night I was in my room and I used this cell phone I have to place a call, however the cell phone is busted so I knew it must have been a dream cause the phone turned on. Another one was text, I looked at the paper then back and it changed and letters were distorted....what can I do to actually get lucid?

Resolve, resolve, resolve and resolve a few more times to do a reality check when you see such a dreamsign. Look for dreamsigns in waking life. Do some more reality checks.

Once you get there, it'll be a lot easier ;)

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Originally Posted by Patrickstar12

I am seeing dream signs alot but cant get lucid...for example in a dream last night I was in my room and I used this cell phone I have to place a call, however the cell phone is busted so I knew it must have been a dream cause the phone turned on. Another one was text, I looked at the paper then back and it changed and letters were distorted....what can I do to actually get lucid?

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If you knew it was a dream... then why wern't you lucid?

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Originally Posted by spaceexplorer

If you knew it was a dream... then why wern't you lucid?

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Notice the tenses. He means he knew it was a dreamsign afterwards, not in the dream :P

I'm the exact same way. My dream sign is school and friends but there is nothing I can do if I don't go to school !

I don't think your dreamsigns are school and friends. It's too big. It's more probable that your dreamsigns are specific friends and specific school things :P

I like doing a spin-off of dream yoga.
All day I try to be aware of the things I am doing (even little things)
and ask if it is real sorta behind the scenes (in my mind).
That way many times I became Lucid because my day was made up of little tests and questions on what I am doing.

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Originally Posted by ThreeLetterSyndrom

Notice the tenses. He means he knew it was a dreamsign afterwards, not in the dream :P

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exactly, when I wake up it sure feels like while I was in the dream I knew they were dream signs obviously I didnt because I would of been lucid, it feels wierd ...

so just do more RCs throughout the day? I havent been very disciplined on the RCs I will be from now on.

Look for dreamsigns, then do RC's, not the other way around :P

so for example, I see some txt on a page or something while actually awake do a RC?

That depends if text on a page is a dreamsign. If it isn't, don't :P

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Originally Posted by Patrickstar12

I am seeing dream signs alot but cant get lucid...for example in a dream last night I was in my room and I used this cell phone I have to place a call, however the cell phone is busted so I knew it must have been a dream cause the phone turned on. Another one was text, I looked at the paper then back and it changed and letters were distorted....what can I do to actually get lucid?

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I don't know if my advice will apply to you, but I found this happened to me a lot. What helped me was that, when doing reality checks, I really thought about what it would be like if it was a dream, and really tried hard to imagine what my mindset would be like, what would be different, and thoroughly analyse the world around me.

Work on improving how you do a reality check. Quality over quantity.

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Originally Posted by Shift

Work on improving how you do a reality check. Quality over quantity.

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can you explain what you mean by quality a little bit?