Dream sign
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A dream sign is a commonly occurring theme found within a person's dreams. Dream signs will vary between individuals. Some common ones are difficulty reading words, inability to run or use mechanical objects, the ability to breathe underwater and the appearance of dead people. Often dreams appear as if they are "on the rails" and you cannot divert the course of what is to occur.
There are many various kinds of dream signs, and they usually reflect the waking life of the person who has the dream. For example, someone who is interested in cars will probably have dreams with many car-related themes. Doctors will probably dream about performing whatever their field of specialization requires them to do. Video game players report playing games in their dreams. The common, most telling dreaming sign is that something illogical occurs in a completely natural and self-accepted manner.
Dream signs can also reflect wants, fears, things the subject hates, and even embarrassing moments. They can manifest themselves in many different ways, depending on the dreamer.
Recognizing one's dream signs is a technique for achieving lucid dreaming, to become consciously aware of dreaming. After that is achieved it may be possible to steer the dream and mold the dream world.
[edit] Some common dream signs[citation needed]
Although everyone's dreams and dream signs are different, some common dream signs are:
- Falling.
- Arms and legs, when trying to run, kick or punch anything, move extremely slowly as if underwater, or not at all.
- Having loose teeth, missing teeth or no teeth at all.
- Turning into an animal.
- Being sucked into a movie, book or video game.
- Clocks are broken, have missing hands, too many or too few numbers or have unintelligible symbols in place of numbers.
- Electric appliances, such as light switches, don't work properly or at all. For example, a dream lamp could shoot sparks, glow bright blue, or have a very dim/burnt out bulb.
- Finding large amounts of money.
- Eating something that isn't food that still tastes like food (such as dreaming of eating part of an end table that tastes like cheese and crackers).
- Being attacked/chased by a monster.
- Being in a crowded area, such as a city or amusement park.
- Being in a familiar area that doesn't have the same layout as it does in the real world. For example, being in Grand Central Station, except it has the interior layout of the Gare du Nord.
- Having sex (see wet dream).
- When underwater, water feels 'dry' like styrofoam or cloth (possibly caused by the feeling from being wrapped in bedsheets when sleeping).
- Being lost in a building.
- Looking at people or photographs and seeing that they're nothing like they are in real life- their faces are blurred or misshapen, their heads are on a different body, or they're see-through.
- Seeming to "drift away" as if in zero gravity, though when with others, no one else seems to be floating as well.
- Seeing friends, relatives or family pets that are deceased in reality.
