Thread: How do you wake up?

I am just interested, for those who have a high degree of control over your dreams are you able to actually remove yourself from the dream. If so what do you do to do it? I usually think about paradoxes, I think they are confusing to my brain and it sort of ends the dream. To wake up I usually say "It's raining but I don't believe it is." What do you do?

If I want to wake up, I just close my eyes and focus on my bode, then once I open them agian, I'm awake.


If you're thinking WBTB and all, I use an alarm.

You may not feel it and it may not seem like you can control your real body, but you can, it's like you have two set of eyes, just open your real eyes. Although sometimes you may wake up in sleep paralysis, specially now that you've read about it.

I just concentrate on waking up. If that doesn't work, I try to reestablish the connection between my brain and my body; I concentrate on sensations that my body is actually experiencing. Then I try to move.

I just close my eyes.

Sex also will wake you up

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Sex also will wake you up

I'll have to disagree with that statement. x)

Originally Posted by AlexLou

I just concentrate on waking up.

Me too.

I dunno how i wake up. it just happens sometimes when i have a nightmare. i can only describe it as closing my eyes and concentrating on waking up. this takes about one dream second. after that you can "feel" that your out of the dream and then you simply open your eyes.

If I want to wake up I try and open up my physical eyes and it usually works!!
Cool question!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If i am ever in a real problem-one time i accidently got in life-threatining(in the dream) trouble- i know i'm dreaming for a split second but i wake up. i usually find out my eyes are actually closed, and open them. BIG problem when your head is smashed up against the bed.

Closing my eyes ends a dream but doesn't wake me up. I just keep sleeping until another dream or something else wakes me up. It's actually the main thing I used to combat insomnia. I'd fall asleep or go unconscious in my dream so I'd stay asleep longer and have another dream otherwise I'd wake up constantly and never get enough sleep. Instead I think it's time to wake up and sometimes about something I have to do the next day to give it some urgency. Occasionally leads to lots of false awakenings though where I dream myself doing that task instead of waking up to actually do it.

ive never tried to wake up from and LD truthfully. when im done i just stop thinking about it and it slips into a normal dream and i wake up in the morning

If I ever want to wake up all I do is shake my head really fast.

Open my eyes. If that doesnt work. Try harder.
If your truely LDing then its pretty easy to realise you could open your eyes if you tried hard enough, so you do.