My dreams are often pretty chaotic. It would be very uncharacteristically solemn for me to write something and check if it's there when I look again.
I haven't tried, but I can imagine blinking lights always present would be a much bigger clue to me.
Same, it's pretty difficult to take notes while attempting to rescue someone from a possessed building that looks a bit like a brutalist interpretation of the Globe Theatre, what with having to fight your way through its zombie-like denizens and arguing with a disembodied voice that seems to be controlling the lighting.
I'm not really sure what I'd do differently in a lucid dream anyways, my subconscious seems to have a better imagination than I do. Remembering more details from dreams would be more important for me I guess.
Re:God Helmet
by pavel_lishin on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @07:50AM
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> since you can just check whether written text changes when you’re not looking at it
To throw an anecdote into the bucket, I've had a dream where I read a word, and it didn't seem to change on closer inspection, and I remembered it when I woke up. But it didn't cue any lucid dreaming.
But I'm also out of the habit of checking.
Clocks are a good one, except if you're office happens to have a broken clock hanging up in a meeting room.
Of course, it’s still a dumb product since you can just check whether written text changes when you’re not looking at it, but it’s not necessarily as dumb as it sounds.