STOP! Pause, and ask yourself "am I dreaming?"

Are you?

How can you tell?

The wonderful thing about dreaming is that you use the same mental-world-modeling machinery in your brain that you use in waking life.  So the experience in a dream is indistinguishable - it's made of the exactly the same stuff as your waking experience.  This is why dreams seem so utterly vivid and real.

So are you dreaming?

Well there is a way to tell.  A curious characteristic of dream awareness is that you can't hold it together when looking at symbols...not for long.  If you look at a clock, or pick up a book, if you try to concentrate on the symbols your find they start to morph and melt and ooze around.  And if you find that happening...you know your dreaming!  And if that happens, good for you!  You've just entered a lucid dream, one of the most wonderful tricks you and your brain can pull.

So, you've just read to the end of this post...and the words haven't gone soft and splodgy on you...you know you're not dreaming.  But keep asking yourself the question.  Make it a habit of mind...and then one day, you'll ask, and discover that in fact, yes, you are.

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