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Lucid Dream


Reality testing
Reality testing is a common method that people use to determine whether or not they are dreaming. It involves performing an action with results that are difficult to re-create in a dream. By practicing these techniques during waking life, one may eventually dream of performing a reality check—which will usually fail—helping the dreamer realize that they are dreaming. Common reality tests include:
* Holding one’s nose, then breathing through it. Often, it is possible to breathe through the nose, even though it is pinched shut.[citation needed]
* Reading some text, looking away, and reading it again, or to look at one’s watch and remember the time, then look away and look back. Observers have found that, in a dream, the text or time will often have changed.[25]
* Flipping a light switch or looking into a mirror. Light switches rarely work properly in dreams, and reflections from a mirror often appear to be blurred, distorted or incorrect.[26]
* Pinching oneself or hitting an object hard. The acute pain usually cannot be felt in dreams.[citation needed]
* Counting one’s fingers. The number of fingers will often be higher or lower than 5, or not be easily counted, or even shift before the dreamer’s eyes.
Another form of reality testing involves identifying one’s dream signs, clues that one is dreaming. Dream signs are often categorized as follows:
* Action — The dreamer, another dream character, or a thing does something unusual or impossible in waking life, such as photos in a magazine or newspaper becoming 3-dimensional with full movement.
* Context — The place or situation in the dream is strange.
* Form — The dreamer, another character, or a thing changes shape, or is oddly formed or transforms; this may include the presence of unusual clothing or hair, or a third person view of the dreamer.
* Awareness — A peculiar thought, a strong emotion, an unusual sensation, or altered perceptions. In some cases when moving one’s head from side to side, one may notice a strange stuttering or ’strobing’ of the image.
* Cohesion — Sometimes the dreamer may seem to “teleport” to a completely different location in a dream, with no transition whatsoever.
Though occurrences like these may seem out of place in waking life, they may seem perfectly normal to a dreaming mind and learning to pick up on these dream signs will help in recognizing that one is dreaming.
Since a lucid dream starts in an instant and looks and feels like real world inside the person’s head, some people panic or are slightly frightened by it, and consciously pull out of it feeling that lingering might cause them to be trapped inside their own head. This cannot happen. You cannot be trapped inside your own head when fully conscious.

Quer duas dicas de filmes que trabalham com essa temática? Waking Life, de Richard Linklater (animação feita pelo diretor de Before Sunrise e Before Sunset - inclusive, o casal mais lindo do cinema, Celine e Jesse, aparecem nesta produção. Tão lindo!) e Abre Los Ojos (filme que inspirou Vanilla Sky; dirigido por Alejandro Amenábar, que também é responsável por Mar Adentro e Os Outros).

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