Thread: What is YOUR dream sign?

a dreamsign of mine, now that i think of it, is wanting a change of clothes of some sort, and then instantly having it.

like i think: damn i wish i had my swim suit... then bam, i have it on.
or: where are my pants? then i instantly have pants on...

My dreamsign is a er..waterpark. I love waterparks but they are always so evil in my dreams for some reason. Someone always ends up hitting their head on a diving board then dying or going to the local waterpark courthouse...... My old dream sign was tarantula but that stopped when I was about 8.

Extremely hugely big gigantic bounds... Usually only one or two...

I can't think of anything specific that I see often that tells me that I'm dreaming. I haven't become lucid without losing the dream and everything else but I'll let you know when I find out what it is.

I'm a n00b but figured I'd throw in my dream signs, or dream "cues" as I call them:

1. Seeing people from schools that I used to go to, or being at the actual schools
2. Seeing a particular friend of mine - annoying because I actually see him fairly regularly anyway, so that makes it difficult
***3. My favourite - having super powers! I'll be flying around firing energy bolts/balls and dodging in impossible ways. Nice. Also just having heightened abilities in general - like being able to run faster than usual, jump higher and further than usual, that type of thing.
4. [Running] Water e.g. from a tap/faucet, river, waterfall...doesn't come up often though, and I have to actually touch it to gain lucidity.
5. Seeing a specific event within the dream in Slow Motion. This is a new one thats happened a couple times in the past week or so.

And finally...

Any other discrepensy that may present itself. My mind seems to enjoy changing the rules in the middle of the game, so it's hard to keep up a lot of the time.

My recurring dream signs are:

1) My family (mom, dad or baby sister). They often appear in my dreams but it's hard to do reality checks when they live in another state. I guess I could look at their pictures occasionally and do an RC.

2) My dogs.

there is no consistent dreamsign which triggers lucidity for me. When I become lucid, I don't always know how I got there. Sometimes it'll be a strange place or people, other times a reality check. But, sometimes I just know. One thing which often happens in dreams is that I'm in a large and very weird supermarket/department store, but this has never triggered an LD. Perhaps it will tonight!

So far clocks that are not normal. Digital clocks get blurry and an analog clock has had the numbers in the wrong position. I find myself at work a lot and this should trigger a LD because I am not working.

a dream sign of mine was the falling out of my teeth. it feels so real. however, once i started to notice this and was able to use it to induce a lucid dreams it has stopped happening. weird.

A couple of mine i think:

Somebody else or me dying

Cars, usually in a crash

Some elements from video games

w00t I finally found mine!!! My dreamsign is my old school.

In dreams I am sometimes nude in public. Sometimes just from the waist down or I might just be wearing underwear.

Another recurring dream is that I'm back in school and I'm worried because I've been completely neglecting a math class.

A newly developed dreamsign for me...

False awakening after (lucid) sex, or, sometimes the false awakening comes before I do, which is unfortunate. But now that I know this, I can just re-enter the "love room" when I have a FA (Note: the "love room" is my white room that I enter through any doorway after I become lucid. It has a big bed with white sheets, on which the lucky lady of my choice (usually a supressed crush) is poised au natural). Oh, wait. I've been wanting to further my spiritual developement in dreams. Why can I only think of sex when I become lucid?! No sex, only meditate. Om ma ni pad me hum. Well, at least I wake up happy. Who needs spiritual clairity anyway? But really, someone spur me on. Leo?? gimme a kick here m8.

My dream sign is something or someone involved with my high school. Either my dreams take place in my school, near it, or someone I know from school is in my dream.

I used to have one that whenever I tried to run in a dream I wouldn't be able to move faster then walking speed I would just lean forward really far and my legs would move like they were in a really thick substance. But I haven't had any like that for about a year now. Nowadays my dreamsign is cute girls I've never met paying attention to me and getting close to me even though I'm not doing anything interesting. Especially when I'm laying down they dangle their hair over my face while staring into my eyes. In real life girls I don't know glance at me then move on lol.

I have the lack of realistic speed too. I cant remeber having expeirenced any LD's but upon reflection of dreams I have noticed that I have a dream that reoccures once every few months that when I punch it goes really slow and my fist just kinda pats whatever I try to hit. Or I disegrate whatever I touch.

previous homes
weed, being high
old friends

Usually I'm haunted by reoccurring settings of grocery stores. Most commonly Safeway, but I've also been plagued by Trader Joe's, Bell Market and a few other independently owned stores. They're so depressing, yet I would say 50 percent of my dreams occur in them.

All the more reason to become lucid and walk straight out the front door.

Originally posted by thecodexter
Usually I'm haunted by reoccurring settings of grocery stores. *Most commonly Safeway, but I've also been plagued by Trader Joe's, Bell Market and a few other independently owned stores. *They're so depressing, yet I would say 50 percent of my dreams occur in them. *

All the more reason to become lucid and walk straight out the front door.

ROLF! i have had this reoccuring grocery store theme in the past aswell. thats hilarious!
plagued by trader joes hahahaha amazing. did u get robbed at the store or something

Most frequent dream signs: the color light blue, things that are grouped in three. I have not LD'd lately because it's tough to identify these two things (since it is not specific, and takes many forms). The police, school campuses, people and places from the past are the best things I should look for. Also too much family in my dreams should be an indication.

There are two dream signs that almost always make me lucid.
1. Having a bunch of males, packed way too close together.
2. Having a lot of females, clustered together, usually topless.

Recurring themes: Running away out of fear/panic, violence, especially doing something violent then running from it. Also making other people happy in my dreams. When I LD, I need to overcome these.

Theres is one thing that always seems consistent in all my dream, places are never the same. for example i walked out of maths once an instead of the usual outside pathways of the shool there was a large valley, mountains an a red sky. Or up by a church near me instead of the regular streen next to it theres a small cliff an lots of steep, low hills an plants.
The changes usually carry over to when i dream abou that place again. strange.. then agen it is a dream i spose

mine are people of the OC showing up as DC's and drugs

If I can turn back time, then I know I'm dreaming. I just figured this out last night too! The pattern I noticed when I look back on my dream journal is that most of the time when I'm turning back the clock in my dreams it leads to me becoming lucid. I'm so happy because I never really had a dream sign before!

I don't have any recent clear recalls of dreams, so I've just started to use a journal and am going to try out some techniques suggested by people here. However I do have some signs that seem to occur often.
- I want to run, because I'm afraid, but it seems like I'm moving through water, really thick water making it nearly impossible.
- I lose the abiliy to speak. Also happens mostly in distress situations.
- It seems like I'm in some sort of game, where I have to walk through places. Also this is feeling rather negative than positive.

I just had the last one this night just before I got out of bed. I didn't have a pen and paper at hand so I only remembered some weird stuff.

from the journal:
"game with my life on stake
barriers
pointing mouse on screen to move around"

the last one might be a sign too, because I might have felt similar experiences before.
I think a better description would be to say that I move(actually I can only remember actively turning in this way, not moving) myself in third person. But I'm sure it wasn't a lucid dream.

Can't think of anything else.