Thread: turning lights off in dreams

yeah ive had lucid dreams induced just because i couldnt turn a light on or off. im not sure what it happens but for some reason it always kind of has this weird feeling to it...like in my dream i feel helpless and scared

I have had trouble turning on lights in dreams, I think that it's because turning on lights is like changing the environment, and it's much easier to change the environment if you are not looking at it.

I managed to turn on a light bulb in a dream by forced control, but it made me have a false awakening.

Lights...switches, usually befuddle me in dreams, once upon a time I was cut down by a sith lord (star wars) because my lightsaber wouldn't turn on...admittedly i got a FA out it which went Lucid. Not sure why switches tend never to work in dreams...ask your Physics professor about Ohm's law in a Lucid Dream, theres a thought haha...Perhaps we need to "free our minds"

Feet resting on a cardboard box ~ Smee

have done. switches didn't work, just had to will the light into being, basically a "let there be light" approach.

I've always thought it was because much of dream light isn't actually coming from a dream lamp / lightbulb. It's just there, for the sake of illuminating.
If you looked for the bulb, looked at it, and then hit the switch, that could work maybe. Just a guess - I haven't tried this at all.

I was lucid last night and i kept having false awkening after (after about 6 attempts to wake up) I was trying to wake up because i kept waking up in my dream in complete darkness (night) so i tryed to put the light on lots of times but it just would not come on! I got really annoyed, i was saying to myself it's my f**king dream now come on but nothing. In the end one of my fa's produced day time so i decided to continue with the lucid but the light situation really got to me.

Why won't they work!?

When I turn on a switch, for some reason once there was a glow that was enough to see by, and now that's what I expect to happen and what usually does.

Try shoulding, "MORE LIGHT!" as loud as you can. That usually works, if you can remember to do it.

The other night i was dreaming and i was in a dark basement with the TV as an only light source. It created a very shaded gray light in the room and when i went to turn on the light, the light itself didnt turn on but the room got more gray instead of dark. But that didn't make me lucid :/

EDIT:
Also, as an RC, I use the lgiht switch method but I also do it multiple times. Maybe it makes it more full proof :/.