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- From: greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Nowak)
- Subject: Re: how i can tell if i'm dreaming
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.120627.13217@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <1992Aug12.143716.28395@wetware.com> <MJD.92Aug12112327@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:06:27 GMT
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- In article <MJD.92Aug12112327@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Angel of Tar") writes:
- }
- }I realized once that a sure-fire way to tell is: if you consciously
- }wonder whether or not you're dreaming, or if you think about being in a
- }dream, then you're not dreaming.
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- }Then I woke up.
-
- I don't have completely lucid dreams, but I have control over some
- things. ("In my dreams, I can WILL my SMALL INTESTINE to tie itself
- into a KNOT!" -- no, nothing like that...)
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- Whenever I'm having a dream that is boring me or becoming unpleasant,
- I simply lie down wherever I am, no matter what is happening, and go
- to sleep _in_the_dream_. The stack collapses, and there I am sleeping
- peacefully without having ever woken up.
-
- Works like a charm ... but there have been a few difficult moments when I
- applied the algorithm and turned out not to be dreaming.
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