Ever wondered if you were dreaming? I can't take credit for the following, I read it on a dreaming website, perhaps, Dreammoods.com or The Lucidity Institute.
Means of knowing whether or not you are dreaming need to be safe, discrete and 100% accurate. Pinching, doing something dangerous or illegal don't fit these criteria. If more people knew this simple technique, there would be more lucid dreamers.
The dreaming consciousness and the physical body are inexorably connected in one fashion alone: The respiratory system. No matter what is going on in your dream, if your sleeping physical body can breathe, your dreaming body can breathe. If you fall in water and 'drown' you will find you can somehow still breathe.
This fact coupled with one other, makes a safe, discrete and 100% accurate dream check. The other fact is that your physical body is paralysed to prevent acting out your dreams.
The dream check is to simply pinch your nose like you're about to dive into water and close your mouth. Now try to breathe through your nose. Try it right now. You can't because it is impossibe.
If you can, you may procede with absolute certainty that you are dreaming. Have fun.
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