I've experienced most of these "dream signs", and have in the last few years found myself becoming aware that I was dreaming. Sometimes I experiment with creating a scenario, but mostly I just decide whether to continue the scene, or wake up.

My favourites are the flying/leaping dreams. Seems I can "crawl" into the sky, as a swimmer in water; or, more often, I can leap from a great height and confidently float down to the ground without harm. Occasionally I feel a bit of trepidation when I get very, very high abvove the ground, but I always assure myself I'm safe, and capable of navigating down easily.

I often "take off" from a place not quite at the edge, in case the floating fails...

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I've experienced most of these "dream signs", and have in the last few years found myself becoming aware that I was dreaming. Sometimes I experiment with creating a scenario, but mostly I just decide whether to continue the scene, or wake up.

My favourites are the flying/leaping dreams. Seems I can "crawl" into the sky, as a swimmer in water; or, more often, I can leap from a great height and confidently float down to the ground without harm. Occasionally I feel a bit of trepidation when I get very, very high abvove the ground, but I always assure myself I'm safe, and capable of navigating down easily.

I often "take off" from a place not quite at the edge, in case the floating fails...

I often fly from back yard to back yard, exploring neighbourhoods. I'm always careful to avoid power lines, tree branches, and other structures.

It seems, in these dreams, that I'm the only one able to do it, and that perplexes me, sometimes.

One night I lept from telephone pole to telephone pole, feeling the night air and the freedom of my ability.

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Worst part about becoming aware that you're dreaming is that you just know you can't bring back into your real world the treasure or the beautiful woman or the cool object you've just found!

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Another recurring dream is what I call "the futility dream". I'm searcning for a location, or trying to solve a simple problem, and nothing works. There's a motivation to keep trying, and to succeed, but sometimes I reluctantly bail out and wake up, knowing that it's a "futility dream" and won't work out, no matter what. Lots of room for psychological analysis in that one....!

Pardon the book-length comment, please.

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