+SF2-KaNaPiNiS no, sleep paralysis is only for the WILD method and other more advanced ones. You can have lucid dreams without going into sleep paralysis at all :)
@@ContourWolf a better method is a affirmative/negative check instead of a quantitative one. Try putting black x's on your hands, and get used to checking for them, eventually you'll noticetheyr gone, and Boom. You're lucid
Omg so relatable. Last night I had one and my hand was literally rainbow and I had 7 fingers on my right hand and the pi symbol on my hand for some reason and I said: That's normal if I've ever seen it
Bruh sometimes when i dream literally the most random or non-existential things or creatures seem normal to me and im like "nah bitch i dont see a problem here". There could even be unicorns flying around and it would seem normal to me like once when i was flying in my dreams.
I have awful eyesight, so when I lucid dream, I can look around with no glasses and see with 20/20 eyesight. It's pretty cool and I can realize that I am lucid dreaming almost instantly.
Once, in a lucid dream, i found my mom hanging up white shirts with text on them. I look at them, looked away, and noticed how the text changed. I kept doing it and my mom was like "WHOS CHANGING THE TEXT ON THE SHIRTS???"
Me: is in dream Doesn’t have watch “I wonder what time it is” Watch materializes “Oh now I can see if I am Dre- oh” Damn I didn’t really expect nearly 2 thousand likes, the joke wasn’t even that funny. Ok it was kinda funny. Well bye for another year
It’s so weird. In a dream, it’s like you’re playing a character that’s had a whole life. Like you know where you want to go, what you want to be... it’s so weird. I was dating someone in a dream, and it seemed normal. Really weird. Can anyone relate?
Yea It's like when I look at my name *the name reality check* my name written there was 'Thanos' and I was like "yeah I'm thanos, it's normal" it's rly hard to realize you're in a dream-
When I dream I'm playing as myself. Ii had a dream onetime where I had a bag of chocolate sweets and I thought to myself, "I should pick my favorite out of these" picked the chocolate pretzels that I had tried very recently. I know that's really random but I said it anyway. Also dream about people kissing you or dating you and stuff are apparently signs that you want more romance in your life but I don't know that was the first result on Google.
yeah! i once had this dream where i walked into my house and this guy was sitting at my table. some part of me knew his name was dylan and that he was my boyfriend.
1:10 - counting fingers 1:45 - push your finger through your hand 2:25 - read something twice 3:20 - pinch nose and try to breath 4:10 - write a mark on your hand and look twice at it
One time I watched this a while ago and have been doing the finger to palm thing every day just to make sure and last night I did it in a dream and I realised I was dreaming and flew into the air and created fire in my hands. It was amazing thanks for making this vid
Rip - Tide If you get good at lucid dreams enough you can do anything. I had a dream where pennywise tried to get me and I beat the sh*t out of him, another time I was looking at a demon thing at the edge of my bed when I was paralyzed and I jumped out of my body and did a thanos snap and it disappeared, just takes practice
This really happened: (sorry for grammar I'm italian) -Oh boi, what time is it? *looks at the watch* -Alright *looks again but the watch disappear* -Oh no, now I can't tell if I'm in a dream or not
i had a dream once that the time kept changing but SOMEHOW i never became lucid. i literally looked at the clock and saw 71:36 and i was like “yep! thats normal”
Me: reads a funny comment Brain: do it again Me: looks at comment and realizes its different Brain: EVERYTHING IS A LIE AND I FORGOT THE COMMENT Me who can't read: yep
Me: count my finger and it was... My brain when it's 3: ur an alien. When it's 6: you're Stanford ok? When it's 4: you had a surgery to remove ur finger and you have to accept that. When it's 5 but wacky: *sigh*, ok, you have a rare disease that the GOV hide from citizen.
@@ashjay5245 Thank you! I had my first lucid dream this morning and i got excited and I woke up and didn't know how to stabilize it. I'm going to have to try again.
Saphira Sparkle I had my first lucid dream today but I didn’t wake up somehow lmao, I did the one hand trough the other check and then the first thing I did was that I took my phone from the chair and threw it on the ground LMAO
I don’t lucid dream, but sometimes when a deceased family member visits me I think in my dream, “wait, have they passed?” And then I think “no, they haven’t, they are still here, I’m not dreaming” 😏
You can only unlock multiplayer if both people are sleep walking then when one person is visualizing that person and touches it the other person will feel it and in their dream they will think they touched him. But it only works if both people are dreaming about each other
Another effective reality check is plugging your ears with your fingers, and testing if you can still hear the outside world through them. I’ve become lucid through this, plugging my nose and breathing through it, putting my finger through the palm of my hand, and then reading text.
I am just curious if you can feel pain in your dreams because one time a razor fell on my toe and chopped it and it was hella painfull even i felt like my toe was chopped when i woke up so i checked it and it was fine. After a couple of seconds the feeling was gone but it wasn't a fun experience.
Yeah same but instead my best friends pinned me down and stabbed me in the eye yeah woke up and I still felt the pain and couldn’t see for a bit but it went away thank god I didn’t experience it again
I honestly didn't know reality checks were a thing and I'm so glad I found your channel. My dreams often follow the same routine as my everyday life so I tend to get my memories confused a lot. I hope this will help me know the difference, so my friends don't have to point out my dream memories anymore. Thank you.
I was so excited when I was able to breathe through my nose when it was covered, but when I looked at my hands, my pointer finger was a stub, and my nail was lodged into it.
I have been sober for a really long time and there has been a few times were I was under the influence or thinking about using. Sometimes I would be thinking about when I used or my sober time. A long time ago I heard about the hand reality techniques. Multiple times I did the combination of these and realized I was dreaming. I kept trying to control my dream but wasn't able to. This is what got me to want to lucid dream again.
More people need to know about lucid dreaming. The majority of people I talk to have never heard of lucid dreaming and they don’t believe me when I say I can do it
I’m a beginner and I have been watching your videos all day because I wanna lucid dream. I have heard of it before but I never really got to learn much about it. It sounds really cool and I’m so excited to test it out!
Thanks to your videos, I managed to lucid dream on my first night trying. It was amazing, even though I wasn’t completely paying attention the entire time. I kept going in and out of focus, but I was in control. I managed to teleport, and I tried but failed to fly. I did however jump really high. Thank you so much
Explore Lucid Dreaming I am having the same dream multiple times in different months and years, what is this, and why did I experience finger to hole with a girl with one of my first ones, I just wanted to fly...
Once I was trying to show a friend a drawing in a dream and realized I was dreaming when the drawing kept changing. This was after flying to school while it was raining dead butterflies and my *friend* was the one that pointed out the drawing was changing.
Exactly my struggle. When I'm in a dream I usually can't even remember to do reality checks because I think it's real life. Is there something I can practice to not be a robot in my dreams? lol
Reiin_ Sgab u gotta train urself to do reality checks throughout the day so that its normal for you to do them. Then u will eventually remember to perform then in the dream cus thats wat u normally do
I feel like sometimes you can tell that you're dreaming without doing a reality check. Everything feels hazy, you can't talk or you talk REALLY slowly, and you're either stumbling or moving very slowly. One thing that i noticed for me is that in my dreams, my sense of balance is always messed up and there's no railings.
Man, i know you aren´t gonna respond to this but I actually had a lucid dream, just thanks to you (and my cousin who told me about lucid dreaming...) and I´m so happy. After trying for literally more than 4 months I did it!!! Thank you so much for the wonderful experience ahead of me! And also, you should continue, don´t think that we don´t like you anymore because of the face reveal or something...you should continue, everyone loves your vids!
Thank you for still doing this channel after your other channel got big, back in the old days at mincraft survival I really wanted to Learn how to lucid dream and I don't still have it down but I respect you for still doing this.
My one and only Lucid Dream happened accidentally. Almost 70% of the things are out of the ordinary but somehow I would always make up an excuse to tell myself that this is normal and always has been, ranging from a fancy European-styled School, people that I’ve never met, to even having lessons in last year’s classroom. I only became aware that I was dreaming when I took out the exact homework I had irl, about to submit it, to see the questions being entirely different from the real world. Even though I tried controlling, it simply didn’t work. But I don’t mind. I want to keep the role-play going, see what my subconscious has to offer in this improvisation. For those who are curious, I somehow created a band and the people ended up fighting for no reason. 😐
In my first (and currently only) lucid dream, I didn't change anything and played along with the story. But it was fun because everything was vivid and I could drive because I wasn't scared of crashing even though I can't drive. It was cool I had to like chase someone in the car.
I had one kinda lucid dream i was in some town Square of some Salem looking ghost town, and there was sitting small child. I was in gothic Lolita like clothing. I come closer to the scared child, sitting next to him. And i remember that i told him " you don't have to be scared its just a dream" then we walked away somewhere. I couldn't change anything but i was kinda aware that it's a dream xd that was very interesting experience
FBI * hey, glad you’re interested! I recommend starting with the MILD technique if you’re a beginner, and writing down your dreams when you wake up every morning. Let me know how that goes :)
FBI * my plan is to write down my dreams and tell myself “I will remember my dreams tonight” for a month and then after that tell myself “I will be lucid tonight” for a month and if that doesn’t work I will try a specific technique.
6:10 "In your dreams the reality is so similar to real life, that you can hardly tell the difference" Me : *Sees* *Aliens* *in* *every* *dream* Edit : Today I had a LD because I said : "Wait aliens aren't real. I'm dreaming." Edit : THX for the likes boys!
i remember my special way to get lucid, i was using it all the time but for a wrong thing. i somehow managed to train to feel my real eyes when i see nightmares, and make my eyes open slowly, and that was how i escaped my nightmares. my mistake was that i already entered a lucid dream while i got an idea to wake up, and i could just start lucid dreaming, but i didn't want to lucid dreaming when i had nightmares, i was too frightened, and just wanted to wake up. now i will use this way to start lucid dreaming. thank you man, you accidentally reminded me of this thing. and i only realised how stupid i was. thank you man.
Wow this was amazingly helpful. I've been a Lucid Dreamer for around 7 years now but the only reality check I had was reading. If I opened, say a book, the pages would be blank (this was helpful for me because I have a huge bookshelf filled with books that I check everyday) and that's pretty much all I had. So distinguishing dreams and reality was hard sometimes. I can't wait to incorporate these new tactics into my dreams and life💖 and I liked when you said "Reality checks are to check if you're awake, not if you're asleep"
I just imagine me being able to lucid dream and having my eyes open (because that’s how it usually works) and someone sees that and calls my name and I say “y u wake me up I was summoning a cat”
Many characters from shows or books that I like appear in my dreams, a lot of times they appear to me in the way that I would draw them, once I realize that they’re all cartoons I instantly wake up
One time I was dreaming and I criticaly thought. I looked around and noticed I was dreaming. It was so cool, I was looking around in my head. I looked at my hand and it was sort of fuzzy. I walked around and it was so cool. Then I flew up in the sky and felt the wind rushing through me... And I tried to fly to my crushes house and it was a ginormous door that was locked and I wasn’t lucid anymore.
I remember one lucid dream i tried to count my fingers and i got carried away and i needed to get to 50 to realise i shouldnt have this many fingers in my left hand
My dreams are more like tv shows. I'm never in control of what's happening, and can't think like I'm in a dream. I'm just hoping that a gain a habit of doing these so that I can trick my brain into doing it in a dream. Hopefully this will awaken my consciousness and I can do some fun stuff.
It's like my brain is dumb when im asleep and believes everything that happenes and i dont thinj much of it.. Its weird, lets say a space ship crashes into the nearest store, i would look at it and still not know im dreaming.
I once dreamed watching a "how to lucid dream" vid on yt Then some monster tried to hit me and stuff then I teleported and stuff still didn't realize I was dreaming during the whole thing.
Re: Bonus Check: What if your dreams come with their own memories? I have literally had dreams that, while they only cover a short period of time, I can remember things that happened "off screen" (for lack of a better term) for a significant amount of time before the dream began.
The first time I suspected I might be dreaming and remembered to count my fingers and found it impossible to do, they were changing before my eyes, I had to say woah buddy, calm down, we just got here. I stayed calm and had an amazing experience
@@0kamar189 K isn t really near the N on the key so it may be a language mistake and he s not native english speaker, but yeah, of course, i need to edit my comment all the times just because some kids who can t get a life, tell me to edit my comment, fuck my life...At every video
I used you technique one night and I dreamt and In my dream I said "you know what this is a dream" and I woke up so.... I'm gonna keep working and doing it.
bro I've been doing these methods and yesterday was the first lucid dream I've had in a while. It was very brief cuz I got super excited and I woke up but I'm on the right path
Just want to share one thing: 6 years ago I got for one or two months into this lucid dreaming stuff... After being very successful in a small amount of time, I completely stopped (and will probably never do again) exactly because of............. my hands..... I find funny it is one of your reality check... It looked always so fucking weird that it scares me too much... another thing that I did that I regret was looking to myself in a mirror.. and to bring it to another level, looking to my tooth in a mirror.... That's was really a "nope, never again"...
I wasn't in a lucid dream, but I have looked in a mirror twice in my dreams. The first time my face was starting to shape like the head of an alien and it was scary as shit because I was 10 The second time, about 4 months ago, when I looked into the mirror I was turning into a werewolf. If you can avoid looking in a mirror just do it lol.
What usually happens to me is I always check time with my phone to reality check. If the phone magically appears in my back pocket or my hand, I'm dreaming. (I don't carry my phone in my pockets.) Same goes with checking time with a watch. I don't usually wear a watch and if I see one on my wrist then I must be dreaming.
For me, My dream sign is pretty cool Happened a lot of times with me in my dream Whenever I raise my legs, it remains at the same place, as If I am using stairs 😁
Dream: *Starts in the middle of nowhere* Me: yo where tf am I- oooh shit it’s a dream. Lucid me: *goes to sleep in dream instead of doing something cool* Me: *wakes up* hoool’ up??
For me sometimes when i'm dreaming, as soon as I did a reality check, the thing I checked just became very normal. Also sometimes I had a dream that is completely absurd when I recall it afterward, but it feels like it had its own logic when I was having it. That's why I haven't been able to successfully do a single reality check for now.
I did all of these, got into a lucid dream, and did the checks as normal without knowing that I was lucid. I just woke up in my bed like I always did. So I put my finger through my hand, and it went right through. It scared the living shit out of me because when I checked I was never actually dreaming, and I woke up.
I remember reality checking twice in a normal dream and not becoming lucid even though I was aware I was dreaming. I also thought about lucid dreams in the dream
I mentioned that I was dreaming... in a dream... and somehow thought nothing of it... It's my own fake mouth saying the words, my own brain processing it. How did it go "yeah this is normal"?
@@Epic24123 Maybe because you're just practicing reality checks. When doing reality checks, seriously ask yourself if you are dreaming. No matter how you are sure that you are in reality, because maybe you are in a dream
Last night I started out in a non lucid dream. I randomly looked at my hand, then saw six fingers, one of them looking like a skin colored carot. I then realized it was a dream, and became lucid. I got excited and everything became blury. I thought back to a video I watched that said not to get too excited. I calmed down, and things became clearer. I started to fly, looking around for people to talk to. I found deserted, messy places with no people. I was sad, because I wanted to talk to people, because I remembered a video saying that said people in dreams our actually your conscience. I then "woke up". I was still in a dream, but not lucid anymore. My cousins were there and I told them about how I had just had my first lucid dream. I then woke up for real.
You probably should’ve just expected people to be there. Although i have no experience because i dont know how hard it is. I’ve only ever became lucid once for like 2 seconds
Just a moment ago, I was almost certain that I was dreaming because of how things were going around, and the fact that I knew the last thing I remembered was falling asleep and feeling sick. I tried the finger through the palm one, but it failed, and eventually I held my breath. This lead to me holding my real breath and the dream fell apart around me. Unfortunately I lost my first lucid dream because I did the check wrong.
My dumb ass was lucid dreaming but I didn't realize it so in my dream I was just watching these Vids again till he said count your fingers,, yea I low key got a panic attack and woke up
I was continuously doing reality checks during the day and yesterday night I had a dream where I was counting my fingers and then I also tried to push my finger through my hand. Even though I was inside a dream doing the reality checks, my hand had 5 fingers and I wasn't able to push my finger through my hand. Then I woke up later just to find out it was a dream.
(5:16 in video) or you can take a band-aid and write on it, that way you are not doing it on your skin (BTW ink on skin can have certain effects on you)
They are legaly required to be non toxic now in most places, but I supose that's fine if it makes you feel beter. You can also take it off if you don't want to look stupid. Actualy I will do this.
I watched this video and tried some if the methods but fail, i can read, see the time, watch the sky, cound my fingers and many more. The method I use for me to understand if I'm lucid dreaming or not it that it's more difficult to focus on things, I feel the things around me are not solid, eventhough it looks the same as real life.
I remember I was dreaming and my hands were weirdly stubby and they looked like the frame during a fade transition in between like 4 and 6 fingers and I tried to figure out what was wrong for like a minute before deciding it was normal.
What I do is I don’t actually look at my hands but I put them behind my back and then feel my hand with my other hand. Remember to do both hands, once I checked my right hand 6 times and I kept having 5 fingers so I was pretty confused because I was pretty sure that I was dreaming, so I checked my other hand and I had nine fingers
What is your favourite reality check?
Explore Lucid Dreaming Nose plug of course.
If im correct, do you need to get to sleep paralysis while being contiuos to able to be lucid dreaming?
+SF2-KaNaPiNiS no, sleep paralysis is only for the WILD method and other more advanced ones. You can have lucid dreams without going into sleep paralysis at all :)
The nose pinch
Nose plug + clock check + hand poke
My watch: 1:44:58
Me: looks away for 5 seconds and looks at watch again
My watch: 1:45:03
Me: Hmm
That was creative af
Same
Hahhahaha one of the rarest comment that made me lauph
**Visible Confusion**
Wait, the video isnt that longer wtf wait-
Me: *Lucid Dreams*
Also me: Counts 6 fingers in the right hand and 21 in the left one.
Me again: Yeah, that seems normal to me.
Same. And my stupid ass can't make the difference. i'm literally having the most retarded dreams and yet I can't become lucid
@@ContourWolf a better method is a affirmative/negative check instead of a quantitative one. Try putting black x's on your hands, and get used to checking for them, eventually you'll noticetheyr gone, and Boom. You're lucid
That was a dream.
Omg so relatable. Last night I had one and my hand was literally rainbow and I had 7 fingers on my right hand and the pi symbol on my hand for some reason and I said: That's normal if I've ever seen it
Bruh sometimes when i dream literally the most random or non-existential things or creatures seem normal to me and im like "nah bitch i dont see a problem here". There could even be unicorns flying around and it would seem normal to me like once when i was flying in my dreams.
I have awful eyesight, so when I lucid dream, I can look around with no glasses and see with 20/20 eyesight. It's pretty cool and I can realize that I am lucid dreaming almost instantly.
lucky
@@gcat360 and unlucky
Thats very nice :0
Tis rad
Ikr
Once, in a lucid dream, i found my mom hanging up white shirts with text on them. I look at them, looked away, and noticed how the text changed. I kept doing it and my mom was like "WHOS CHANGING THE TEXT ON THE SHIRTS???"
I CANT STOP LAUGHING XD
“GOD DAMMIT JIMMY STOP IT”
BAHAHAH
lmfao
Omg that's hilarious!
Me: is in dream
Doesn’t have watch
“I wonder what time it is”
Watch materializes
“Oh now I can see if I am Dre- oh”
Damn I didn’t really expect nearly 2 thousand likes, the joke wasn’t even that funny. Ok it was kinda funny.
Well bye for another year
DFC/ Double fudge cookiees i found this way more funny than I should have lmao
That's amazing
Dude, this just made my day.
Omg that made me laugh so hardddd
This is beautiful.
It’s so weird. In a dream, it’s like you’re playing a character that’s had a whole life. Like you know where you want to go, what you want to be... it’s so weird. I was dating someone in a dream, and it seemed normal. Really weird. Can anyone relate?
Yea It's like when I look at my name *the name reality check* my name written there was 'Thanos' and I was like "yeah I'm thanos, it's normal" it's rly hard to realize you're in a dream-
Dreams are just what are alternate universe selves are experiencing
When I dream I'm playing as myself. Ii had a dream onetime where I had a bag of chocolate sweets and I thought to myself,
"I should pick my favorite out of these" picked the chocolate pretzels that I had tried very recently. I know that's really random but I said it anyway. Also dream about people kissing you or dating you and stuff are apparently signs that you want more romance in your life but I don't know that was the first result on Google.
yeah! i once had this dream where i walked into my house and this guy was sitting at my table. some part of me knew his name was dylan and that he was my boyfriend.
Seriously. It's like in-dream me has a total different life story.
Me: looks at watch
Watch: 1:48
Me: looks away
Watch: 1:49
Me: I’m in a dream!
Now fly!
I Just did that
Tries to jump of a building
Bruh
I feel that bro
1:10 - counting fingers
1:45 - push your finger through your hand
2:25 - read something twice
3:20 - pinch nose and try to breath
4:10 - write a mark on your hand and look twice at it
This should have been the pinned comment
Thank you
Thanks man this guy wont stop talking nonsense, get to the fucking point oml
@@BonitoFlakeThief ereh yeager❤️
Another really easy one is biting your tongue
One time I watched this a while ago and have been doing the finger to palm thing every day just to make sure and last night I did it in a dream and I realised I was dreaming and flew into the air and created fire in my hands. It was amazing thanks for making this vid
Me: writes my name on hand
Does reality check:name is completely different
Me: yeah I’m pretty sure my name is thanos.
GabeShmabe legit me
I AM DEATH
Me: yeah I'm pretty sure my name is 尼古拉斯
This made me laugh harder than I should've.
My brain be like: Oh, my name is догуке? Or is it Alex, like it was my entire life? Guess we'll never know.
If you are jealous of someone being successful, use lucid dreaming to achieve success....
But I’m jealous of you being able to lucid dream
True story
Same I wanna lucid dream so bad
I’m so scared to lucid dream because I’m scared of sleep paralysis and having nightmares
@@sekitsui2739 you're not gonna see s**t unless you think about it
Rip - Tide If you get good at lucid dreams enough you can do anything. I had a dream where pennywise tried to get me and I beat the sh*t out of him, another time I was looking at a demon thing at the edge of my bed when I was paralyzed and I jumped out of my body and did a thanos snap and it disappeared, just takes practice
The cool part is that he is not doing that for like "I WANT MONEY AND BE RICH WITH UA-cam" no he actually wanna help us be lucid on dreams
Yeah
He uses women for more views.
Not anymore.
gimme your money
i read this incorrectly and read "I WANT TO BE MONEY"
@@IX_4 gib money
In my dream I die a lot, so whenever I die in the real world I should do a reality check?
Same I die a lot in a dream
Hahaha
*respawn*
XD
FireWolfYT yes
This really happened: (sorry for grammar I'm italian)
-Oh boi, what time is it?
*looks at the watch*
-Alright
*looks again but the watch disappear*
-Oh no, now I can't tell if I'm in a dream or not
Pizza Pasta Mafia Mandolino if your watch suddenly vanished, either you’re dreaming or you’ve just been robbed
Lmao
Mama mia my watch disappeared
Facciamo un sogno lucido multiplayer?
@@NotKilo va bene, facciamo 1v1 only sniper
Me: Looking at the clock
The clock: 26:71
Me: Hmmm. That seems real to me
i had a dream once that the time kept changing but SOMEHOW i never became lucid. i literally looked at the clock and saw 71:36 and i was like “yep! thats normal”
im lretty sure once it said like 43:76 and i just ignored it
Hmm yeah seems legit... 69:20
Military time
@@-_Anonymous_-608 What about the 71??
*driving*... *looks at sign* ... *looks away* “CRASH!!!”
Hahaha so funny
Lol
XD
me: Pushes my finger through my palm in my dream
My brain: Cool a dream about virtual reality no lucid for u >:)
Me: reads a funny comment
Brain: do it again
Me: looks at comment and realizes its different
Brain: EVERYTHING IS A LIE AND I FORGOT THE COMMENT
Me who can't read: yep
@@londonsbrokamacho1002 😂😂😂
Me: count my finger and it was...
My brain when it's 3: ur an alien.
When it's 6: you're Stanford ok?
When it's 4: you had a surgery to remove ur finger and you have to accept that.
When it's 5 but wacky: *sigh*, ok, you have a rare disease that the GOV hide from citizen.
I looked at the clock at 8:10 and then I looked away and looked back and it said 8:11 *I went instantly lucid IRL*
Love your profile pic
🔝
*A S C E N D E D*
same
Whats it like
I misplaced my finger count... I've gone exited cus i thought i was in a drem
IsJake don't get exited if it actually happens as it'll wake you up, rub your hands together once you are lucid
@@ashjay5245 Thank you! I had my first lucid dream this morning and i got excited and I woke up and didn't know how to stabilize it. I'm going to have to try again.
Saphira Sparkle I had my first lucid dream today but I didn’t wake up somehow lmao, I did the one hand trough the other check and then the first thing I did was that I took my phone from the chair and threw it on the ground LMAO
Exited? You exited whaT? It’s Excited,People
Edit:I am hungry
Your picture is perfect for this comment!😆
I don’t lucid dream, but sometimes when a deceased family member visits me I think in my dream, “wait, have they passed?” And then I think “no, they haven’t, they are still here, I’m not dreaming” 😏
.......rip
Dude you deserve way more subscribers ;-;
I was going to like this but the like counter said 69
I always see this and ik he does but it depends on the people that likes this.. I kind of find these comments annoying. Sorry
He does but not many people care about lucid dreaming and will not watch his videos.
He has 106k subscribers right now
true
5:32
“This requires nothing except your brain”
Me: darn, guess a can’t do it.
Lmao lol
Underrated
F
@@Exatl yes it is
😂😂
Sometimes when I'm under water in a dream I realize that I can breath and then I know that I am dreaming.
I got lucid when I realised I'm flying
I had a dream underwater and I really couldn’t breathe
Long story short... if you don't drown your dreaming
I had a couple dreams of me brathing underwater and I still didn't realize it was a dream...
@@heywhatsup6797 was it really a dream?
If two people lucid dream at the same time, could they like multiplayer lucid dream?
If you're connected to WiFi, yes. Sadly, you need to summon a demon so whenever the connection is lost it can alert you. Goodluck
Only if they are connected to the same WiFi
I tried but my latency was to high...what to do...?
You can only unlock multiplayer if both people are sleep walking then when one person is visualizing that person and touches it the other person will feel it and in their dream they will think they touched him. But it only works if both people are dreaming about each other
Thats a question in what you believe, science says no
Me: *counting my fingers in dream*
Me: 38 fingers... Ok... I'm not dreaming!
at the time of awakening: I need drugs now
Pizza
@@unluckypanda5448 drugs
@@ATealPenguin i saw a thing a while ago where someone swapped words around and this came out: "say pizza to drugs, say no to yes"
@@unluckypanda5448 hey you want some drugs kid?
@@blendyboi5023 nah i grew up
Another effective reality check is plugging your ears with your fingers, and testing if you can still hear the outside world through them. I’ve become lucid through this, plugging my nose and breathing through it, putting my finger through the palm of my hand, and then reading text.
My friends asked me why I always look on to my hands whenever we use escalators
Escalators are extremely horrifying in dreams
I agree
Why?
@@lillyflowersss You don’t want to know....
@@CubixtheCube1 I'm pretty sure he does
@@qpllpq876 I know and he shouldn’t lol.
I am just curious if you can feel pain in your dreams because one time a razor fell on my toe and chopped it and it was hella painfull even i felt like my toe was chopped when i woke up so i checked it and it was fine. After a couple of seconds the feeling was gone but it wasn't a fun experience.
Yes but if your lucid just go super sayian on the very off chance that something bad will happen in a lucid dream
Pain is the brain telling you that something isn't functioning, when you get hurt in lucid dreams your brain actually thinks you're hurt
When i was lucid dreaming i was flying then i went straight down and hit the ground and waked up but didnt feel any pain so idk
Yes you can,your brain still tells you that something isnt functioning
Yeah same but instead my best friends pinned me down and stabbed me in the eye yeah woke up and I still felt the pain and couldn’t see for a bit but it went away thank god I didn’t experience it again
9:16 that aged well...
Im actually glad that you are this popular, because of you more and more people lucid dream. Thank you!
I honestly didn't know reality checks were a thing and I'm so glad I found your channel. My dreams often follow the same routine as my everyday life so I tend to get my memories confused a lot. I hope this will help me know the difference, so my friends don't have to point out my dream memories anymore. Thank you.
I was so excited when I was able to breathe through my nose when it was covered, but when I looked at my hands, my pointer finger was a stub, and my nail was lodged into it.
Its a sign so you know which technique you should use lol
God 😂
I have been sober for a really long time and there has been a few times were I was under the influence or thinking about using. Sometimes I would be thinking about when I used or my sober time. A long time ago I heard about the hand reality techniques. Multiple times I did the combination of these and realized I was dreaming. I kept trying to control my dream but wasn't able to. This is what got me to want to lucid dream again.
More people need to know about lucid dreaming. The majority of people I talk to have never heard of lucid dreaming and they don’t believe me when I say I can do it
Me Lucid Dreaming: _stay calm, stay calm_
My brain: Lol you have 69 fingers haha
Lol!
my dream: haha fortnite just updated their entire sytle of textures plz believe me
me: ok
nice
Haha funny number
Haha funny number
I’m a beginner and I have been watching your videos all day because I wanna lucid dream. I have heard of it before but I never really got to learn much about it. It sounds really cool and I’m so excited to test it out!
been using this channel for two years and I can confidently say you can trust it!
Thanks to your videos, I managed to lucid dream on my first night trying. It was amazing, even though I wasn’t completely paying attention the entire time. I kept going in and out of focus, but I was in control. I managed to teleport, and I tried but failed to fly. I did however jump really high. Thank you so much
When you discover GTA 5 cheats:
When you start lucid dreaming where do you start? In your house? Middle of nowhere?
Probably in a city or a weird ass world
I Always Start from the place that i want to
I start in the bathroom... and I get tempted to pee... trust me it's not a good idea
D0G3_-Tron random
PASI how do you lucid dream
Me: Has a dream.
Also me: Like that's ever gonna happpen.
The most annoying thing is mixing conversations from IRL and dreams
Rice Juice that’s why you gotta keep a dream journal
I ONLY have conversations in dreams whith myself if I can. Much easier☺
@@jacquesmacinnis1199 don't have the attention span or willingness to do that
So thats why my friend always talking about the intergalactic war we have been through together
But what if you run into yourself on the street??? BAD IDEA
Lol
I just tried to count how many times you said dreaming but failed can I still get a shoutout?
+Hardcore Samurai sure xD
@@ExploreLucidDreaming1 Good guy
Explore Lucid Dreaming I am having the same dream multiple times in different months and years, what is this, and why did I experience finger to hole with a girl with one of my first ones, I just wanted to fly...
Once I was trying to show a friend a drawing in a dream and realized I was dreaming when the drawing kept changing.
This was after flying to school while it was raining dead butterflies and my *friend* was the one that pointed out the drawing was changing.
I need help making my mind stronger because whatever happens in my dream my mind will believe and that makes it harder to lucid dream
Exactly my struggle. When I'm in a dream I usually can't even remember to do reality checks because I think it's real life. Is there something I can practice to not be a robot in my dreams? lol
Reiin_ Sgab u gotta train urself to do reality checks throughout the day so that its normal for you to do them. Then u will eventually remember to perform then in the dream cus thats wat u normally do
I feel like sometimes you can tell that you're dreaming without doing a reality check. Everything feels hazy, you can't talk or you talk REALLY slowly, and you're either stumbling or moving very slowly. One thing that i noticed for me is that in my dreams, my sense of balance is always messed up and there's no railings.
@AXTAH lord
So I've heard some people saying they can't talk when they dream but I can. Is that abnormal?
i just walk around and sometimes i suddenly 'wait this is a dream' without doing anything
Man, i know you aren´t gonna respond to this but I actually had a lucid dream, just thanks to you (and my cousin who told me about lucid dreaming...) and I´m so happy. After trying for literally more than 4 months I did it!!! Thank you so much for the wonderful experience ahead of me! And also, you should continue, don´t think that we don´t like you anymore because of the face reveal or something...you should continue, everyone loves your vids!
My finger went through my hand...
*but I wasn’t in a dream*
👌🏼👈🏼
I think you are "Danny Phantom"
*oh SHI*
Pink_Thunder OKAAAAAAY BUDDY
Is dat yo god?
Jesus: puts finger through hand
Jesus: wakes up
Jesus: puts finger through hand
Jesus: wait a second
Cube Fish lol so funny
lol
this is genius
Wait, is this because nails were driven through his hand, and that's why he can put his finger through it?
@@brandonchan5387 Yeah
Thank you for still doing this channel after your other channel got big, back in the old days at mincraft survival I really wanted to Learn how to lucid dream and I don't still have it down but I respect you for still doing this.
I usually bite my tongue and pinch my hand. If I don't feel anything, I do it harder. If I can feel it, I am in real life. If I don't, I am dreaming.
@Stonisons Your welcome!
Lucy Wolf I’m going to try that tonight thanks!
@@mateoon2k182 Your welcome!
I used to bite my tongue and I did it in my dream but I couldn’t become lucid :(
@@9lolapopp Awwwe! Don't give up! It may not happen the first few nights, but if you keep trying, you'll eventually do it!
I subbed! Your channel is awesome and has helped me a lot I hope this channel blows up like a bomb
+MinecraftMiner CrafterCoder thanks dude!
It will. garanteed.
I hope it blows up like syria- i mean a bomb ye definitely
My one and only Lucid Dream happened accidentally.
Almost 70% of the things are out of the ordinary but somehow I would always make up an excuse to tell myself that this is normal and always has been, ranging from a fancy European-styled School, people that I’ve never met, to even having lessons in last year’s classroom.
I only became aware that I was dreaming when I took out the exact homework I had irl, about to submit it, to see the questions being entirely different from the real world. Even though I tried controlling, it simply didn’t work. But I don’t mind. I want to keep the role-play going, see what my subconscious has to offer in this improvisation.
For those who are curious, I somehow created a band and the people ended up fighting for no reason. 😐
In my first (and currently only) lucid dream, I didn't change anything and played along with the story. But it was fun because everything was vivid and I could drive because I wasn't scared of crashing even though I can't drive. It was cool I had to like chase someone in the car.
I had one kinda lucid dream i was in some town Square of some Salem looking ghost town, and there was sitting small child. I was in gothic Lolita like clothing. I come closer to the scared child, sitting next to him. And i remember that i told him " you don't have to be scared its just a dream" then we walked away somewhere. I couldn't change anything but i was kinda aware that it's a dream xd that was very interesting experience
@@CoolCatWizar In mine i just fly around
I remember that I realized that, I am in a dream and quickly blinked to exit it. I wish, I could do that now.
Yea I also like to see how everything ends up in dreams, I feel like if I lucid dream I’m going to accidentally think of a monster and get eaten by it
I haven’t been into lucid dreaming lately but yesterday I created a plan to become lucid. And you are helping me a lot with it!
+February Sixteen I’m glad that I can help! :D
Whats the plan Ive been wanting to lucid dream and looking for anything to try maybe you're plan can help me thank you
FBI * hey, glad you’re interested! I recommend starting with the MILD technique if you’re a beginner, and writing down your dreams when you wake up every morning. Let me know how that goes :)
FBI * my plan is to write down my dreams and tell myself “I will remember my dreams tonight” for a month and then after that tell myself “I will be lucid tonight” for a month and if that doesn’t work I will try a specific technique.
@@feathersoul2117 I'll try that thanks for telling me
6:10
"In your dreams the reality is so similar to real life, that you can hardly tell the difference"
Me : *Sees* *Aliens* *in* *every* *dream*
Edit :
Today I had a LD because I said : "Wait aliens aren't real. I'm dreaming."
Edit : THX for the likes boys!
ZitronenAroma bro maybe the aliens make you think you have a lucid dream but they be abducting you every night 🤔
HB 076 hmm 🤔
What do the aliens look like? 😂 You've got me intrigued.
Halo's Glow all are different
Something like this happened to me in my first lucid dream, but instead of aliens there were flying knives out to kill me and my family
i remember my special way to get lucid, i was using it all the time but for a wrong thing. i somehow managed to train to feel my real eyes when i see nightmares, and make my eyes open slowly, and that was how i escaped my nightmares. my mistake was that i already entered a lucid dream while i got an idea to wake up, and i could just start lucid dreaming, but i didn't want to lucid dreaming when i had nightmares, i was too frightened, and just wanted to wake up. now i will use this way to start lucid dreaming. thank you man, you accidentally reminded me of this thing. and i only realised how stupid i was. thank you man.
So I was counting my fingers as a reality check, and I had 8 fingers. I was sure I wasn't dreaming so I freaked my self out so much I woke up.
Wow this was amazingly helpful. I've been a Lucid Dreamer for around 7 years now but the only reality check I had was reading. If I opened, say a book, the pages would be blank (this was helpful for me because I have a huge bookshelf filled with books that I check everyday) and that's pretty much all I had. So distinguishing dreams and reality was hard sometimes. I can't wait to incorporate these new tactics into my dreams and life💖 and I liked when you said "Reality checks are to check if you're awake, not if you're asleep"
3:53 "And, people might think that you are weird" had me dying laughing lol
me when i lucid dream
*reality can be whatever i want*
Time travel! Goes back in time to shoot the god damn person who put lettters in math. Wakes up. Totally worth it.
I wanna lucid dream because this reality is often disappointing
I just imagine me being able to lucid dream and having my eyes open (because that’s how it usually works) and someone sees that and calls my name and I say “y u wake me up I was summoning a cat”
dreaming while awake is sleep paralysis
@@constell8006 no
that sentens
@@IX_4 yes
@@constell8006 some people sleep w their eyes open tho
wow! I can not wait to get a lucid dream using the methods that I am learning by watching these vids! thanks!
Every time I tried to talk knowing Im talking, WINK or read In a dream I end up waking up 😭
IKR SOMETIMES WHEN I DREAM I TALK AND THEN REALISED IM ACTUALLY TALKING 😭😭😭
Them try to stabelize your dream, you can do that if you spin 3 times or more
Many characters from shows or books that I like appear in my dreams, a lot of times they appear to me in the way that I would draw them, once I realize that they’re all cartoons I instantly wake up
Just believe that you wont wake up by doing those
true and sometimes i have to CLOSE my eyes to look in the dream and i if i open them im awake. so sometimes its the opposite for me.
One time I was dreaming and I criticaly thought. I looked around and noticed I was dreaming. It was so cool, I was looking around in my head. I looked at my hand and it was sort of fuzzy. I walked around and it was so cool. Then I flew up in the sky and felt the wind rushing through me...
And I tried to fly to my crushes house and it was a ginormous door that was locked and I wasn’t lucid anymore.
I remember one lucid dream i tried to count my fingers and i got carried away and i needed to get to 50 to realise i shouldnt have this many fingers in my left hand
😂😂😂
My dreams are more like tv shows. I'm never in control of what's happening, and can't think like I'm in a dream. I'm just hoping that a gain a habit of doing these so that I can trick my brain into doing it in a dream. Hopefully this will awaken my consciousness and I can do some fun stuff.
Same but i have it alot worse
It's like my brain is dumb when im asleep and believes everything that happenes and i dont thinj much of it.. Its weird, lets say a space ship crashes into the nearest store, i would look at it and still not know im dreaming.
In my dream I can’t hear sh*t
@@blueleegin9298 I once had a dream where someone suggested I should fold my car, then I did fold my car all the while thinking it was normal.
@@geraltofrivia160 umm folded ur car..? Ok.ue that's what I'm talking about
I’ve never lucide dreamt, I just watched two beginner tutorials and the reality check video, Amy more tips?
Jacques MacInnis u can have a heart attack
@@TWKillaBeast true. It's gonna be the best experience ever
maybe watch a finger/counting induced lucid dreaming video
Jacques MacInnis watch a lot more videos and don't give up
probably his vids on what not to do.
Imagine if people watch this in a lucid dream
.
If I were as good as him, I would probably waste a dream on that.
@@LucidMlem what if you forget you are lucid dreaming and spend hours on something only to wake up in real life
I once dreamed watching a "how to lucid dream" vid on yt
Then some monster tried to hit me and stuff then I teleported and stuff still didn't realize I was dreaming during the whole thing.
That's what I'm trying tonight
Re: Bonus Check: What if your dreams come with their own memories? I have literally had dreams that, while they only cover a short period of time, I can remember things that happened "off screen" (for lack of a better term) for a significant amount of time before the dream began.
those are called 'false memories'. they are created so your brain can verify to you that youre irl
true in my dreams i always have fake memories and it's hard to tell if its real or a dream
Dude, I love these tips, thank you so much, they haven’t worked but I wanna lucid dream SO bad. Good Luck On 100k Subs
The first time I suspected I might be dreaming and remembered to count my fingers and found it impossible to do, they were changing before my eyes, I had to say woah buddy, calm down, we just got here. I stayed calm and had an amazing experience
When I lucid dream, it usually goes like this:
Me *Counts fingers* :
Hmm. I have 19 fingers..
Also me: welp.. i guess i have 19 fingers know :(
XD
Now*
@@IX_4 there’s always that one person that corrects the commenter.
@@0kamar189 K isn t really near the N on the key so it may be a language mistake and he s not native english speaker, but yeah, of course, i need to edit my comment all the times just because some kids who can t get a life, tell me to edit my comment, fuck my life...At every video
Me: counts 30 fingers
Also me: Huh that's weird, anyway
You should reality check right now, never know if you’re lucid dreaming at this very moment 👀
Daniel Ramirez lool yea yea OH SHIT IM LUCID DREAMING RN
Oh thanks mind
:0 I CAN FLYYYYYY
Well you have to know that you are dreaming to lucid dream
@@Sway_Jacob wait, if you're lucid Dreaming, we're all lucid Dreaming!!
I used you technique one night and I dreamt and In my dream I said "you know what this is a dream" and I woke up so.... I'm gonna keep working and doing it.
What's the difference between knowing you're in a dream and lucid dreaming?
nerdus it’s the same thing my man
@@connorferguson5952 Well, alot of the time I know I'm in a dream but I can't control it
@@succa2614 me2
@@user-vq5qq7yy4x It's kind of annoying when you're in a dream but you're not lucid isn't it?
@@succa2614 i think so. its fucked up cause i was having a nightmare while i knew IT was a dream
I count my fingers it's 5 but then I realized that I'm dreaming...
What to do then?
Eat a spoonful of mayonnaise and wait 20 minutes that should help
@@arrezz2078 Thanks
@@arrezz2078 I'll try it this night
Sometimes you have the real number of fingers. Watch out for weird skin and always close and open random fingers, some more might pop up then.
You can try to talk with the persons you see.
Ask them if they need help.
bro I've been doing these methods and yesterday was the first lucid dream I've had in a while. It was very brief cuz I got super excited and I woke up but I'm on the right path
Just want to share one thing: 6 years ago I got for one or two months into this lucid dreaming stuff... After being very successful in a small amount of time, I completely stopped (and will probably never do again) exactly because of............. my hands..... I find funny it is one of your reality check... It looked always so fucking weird that it scares me too much... another thing that I did that I regret was looking to myself in a mirror.. and to bring it to another level, looking to my tooth in a mirror.... That's was really a "nope, never again"...
What did you see in the mirror
Gregory Cadle seriously, you don't want to know, stay the fuck away from this topic bro, don't try to find out, trust me on that.
@@ashjay5245 tell me what happen when you look at a mirror in a dream ?
Do you look different ?
@@abdouaboud7490 I assume that if you look in a mirror you see a distorted version of yourself (sorry for being late and for grammar)
I wasn't in a lucid dream, but I have looked in a mirror twice in my dreams.
The first time my face was starting to shape like the head of an alien and it was scary as shit because I was 10
The second time, about 4 months ago, when I looked into the mirror I was turning into a werewolf.
If you can avoid looking in a mirror just do it lol.
Me in my dream: shot dead and now I’m a ghost wondering around my school. My subconscious: “it’s okay, your not dreaming, you’re just going crazy.
That almost sounds like an astral projection instead of a dream
What usually happens to me is I always check time with my phone to reality check.
If the phone magically appears in my back pocket or my hand, I'm dreaming.
(I don't carry my phone in my pockets.)
Same goes with checking time with a watch.
I don't usually wear a watch and if I see one on my wrist then I must be dreaming.
For me, My dream sign is pretty cool
Happened a lot of times with me in my dream
Whenever I raise my legs, it remains at the same place, as If I am using stairs 😁
Dream: *Starts in the middle of nowhere*
Me: yo where tf am I- oooh shit it’s a dream.
Lucid me: *goes to sleep in dream instead of doing something cool*
Me: *wakes up* hoool’ up??
Dude that’s so scary one time I was like 4 dreams deep into a nightmare and every time I woke up I just woke up into another nightmare
@@ATealPenguin some movie scene shit aint it?
Thanks brotha for the past 3-4 months my reality check has been my finger through my plam it works
For me sometimes when i'm dreaming, as soon as I did a reality check, the thing I checked just became very normal. Also sometimes I had a dream that is completely absurd when I recall it afterward, but it feels like it had its own logic when I was having it. That's why I haven't been able to successfully do a single reality check for now.
Yea that happens to me too
@@imahumanbeing8570 my dad being a monkey when he call the cops and and with me it's normal
Maybe you can try with dream recall or other things.
me: starts playing Half Life 3
also me: HOLD UP
While you do that ima play Minecraft boat update
And portal 3
I'll go play ROBLOX 2
@@GTU-Archive Ima play roblox single player mode
BRB I’m playing geometry dash 2.2
I did all of these, got into a lucid dream, and did the checks as normal without knowing that I was lucid. I just woke up in my bed like I always did. So I put my finger through my hand, and it went right through. It scared the living shit out of me because when I checked I was never actually dreaming, and I woke up.
I remember reality checking twice in a normal dream and not becoming lucid even though I was aware I was dreaming. I also thought about lucid dreams in the dream
I mentioned that I was dreaming... in a dream... and somehow thought nothing of it...
It's my own fake mouth saying the words, my own brain processing it. How did it go "yeah this is normal"?
@@Epic24123 Maybe because you're just practicing reality checks. When doing reality checks, seriously ask yourself if you are dreaming. No matter how you are sure that you are in reality, because maybe you are in a dream
I do dat
Yes
I do and am proud
Going to my 3rd lucid ever
Congratulations!!
god gob
Last night I was watching this video in my dream and did one of the reality checks and it worked and I realised I was dreaming. My Mind was blown 🤯
that feel when you do a reality check in a dream, find out that you are dreaming, but you don't become lucid
I never actually thought I would learn so much about lucid dreaming and a whole channel :/
Last night I started out in a non lucid dream. I randomly looked at my hand, then saw six fingers, one of them looking like a skin colored carot. I then realized it was a dream, and became lucid. I got excited and everything became blury. I thought back to a video I watched that said not to get too excited. I calmed down, and things became clearer. I started to fly, looking around for people to talk to. I found deserted, messy places with no people. I was sad, because I wanted to talk to people, because I remembered a video saying that said people in dreams our actually your conscience. I then "woke up". I was still in a dream, but not lucid anymore. My cousins were there and I told them about how I had just had my first lucid dream. I then woke up for real.
You probably should’ve just expected people to be there. Although i have no experience because i dont know how hard it is. I’ve only ever became lucid once for like 2 seconds
@@igzld8486 oh, ok 👍 😀
These videos have helped me so much, I love how muc time and effort you put
Into these videos they’re amazing!
Nathan Kado its summer and I got nothing better to do haha
Cant wait to lucid dream every single night it seems like heaven to me!
Let me guess, you gave up on lucid dreaming?
Just a moment ago, I was almost certain that I was dreaming because of how things were going around, and the fact that I knew the last thing I remembered was falling asleep and feeling sick. I tried the finger through the palm one, but it failed, and eventually I held my breath. This lead to me holding my real breath and the dream fell apart around me. Unfortunately I lost my first lucid dream because I did the check wrong.
*tries to poke palm with finger*
*goes through palm*
Me: whee hee I'm in a lucid dream
Me again: oh I'm imagining it
My dumb ass was lucid dreaming but I didn't realize it so in my dream I was just watching these Vids again till he said count your fingers,, yea I low key got a panic attack and woke up
I was continuously doing reality checks during the day and yesterday night I had a dream where I was counting my fingers and then I also tried to push my finger through my hand. Even though I was inside a dream doing the reality checks, my hand had 5 fingers and I wasn't able to push my finger through my hand. Then I woke up later just to find out it was a dream.
(5:16 in video) or you can take a band-aid and write on it, that way you are not doing it on your skin (BTW ink on skin can have certain effects on you)
Yes, it will probably have the same effect.
They are legaly required to be non toxic now in most places, but I supose that's fine if it makes you feel beter. You can also take it off if you don't want to look stupid. Actualy I will do this.
I watched this video and tried some if the methods but fail, i can read, see the time, watch the sky, cound my fingers and many more.
The method I use for me to understand if I'm lucid dreaming or not it that it's more difficult to focus on things, I feel the things around me are not solid, eventhough it looks the same as real life.
I remember I was dreaming and my hands were weirdly stubby and they looked like the frame during a fade transition in between like 4 and 6 fingers and I tried to figure out what was wrong for like a minute before deciding it was normal.
About the hands. Sometimes they look absolutely normal, so remember to close random fingers just to be sure.
What I do is I don’t actually look at my hands but I put them behind my back and then feel my hand with my other hand. Remember to do both hands, once I checked my right hand 6 times and I kept having 5 fingers so I was pretty confused because I was pretty sure that I was dreaming, so I checked my other hand and I had nine fingers