Lucid Dreaming

[MrRubix]

I made this thread to discuss interesting-yet-legitimate concepts such as lucid dreaming (as opposed to crap like astral projection).

Anyone here a lucid dreamer?

I've been practicing it for about 8 years now or so. I was absolutely stoked when Inception came out because it actually referred to a lot of lucid dream terminology and concepts: A "spinning" totem likely being a throwback to the well-established heuristic of "spinning" in a dream to prolong it, the concept of reality-testing, etc (unfortunately, the notion of time-dilation doesn't really occur in a lucid dream).

Normally I subscribe to the "lightswitch" approach of reality testing, and the DILD method of entering lucid dreams (I've never been able to get WILDs to work). I know what lights do when I turn them on and off in real life. But in my dreams, lightswitches typically do weird things. This signal has been so well-ingrained in me by now that it automatically lets me know I'm dreaming (as a rather funny aside somewhat related to Inception's "Limbo," the other night I was lightswitch-testing my dream and the lights actually worked correctly. I mistakenly thought I was in reality -- and the unfortunate part was that I was also in a nightmare involving a murderous rollercoaster).

But yeah anyone else into this sort of thing?