Have you ever dropped something in a dream, and not picked it up because you knew you were dreaming?

[Boojatta]

Poll question: Have you ever dropped something in a dream, and not picked it up because you knew you were dreaming?

[Demoiselle]

1. No, but if I get into trouble in a dream, I tell myself I'm dreaming...

and fly away. (Honest.) Or at least, I used to do that. Haven't gotten in trouble in a dream for a while.

[JTG of the PRB]

2. Only when I'm in a dream within a dream within a dream.

Because otherwise, I'll need to go deeper before I know that I'm dreaming.

[Kaleva]

3. I've had nightmares and knew it was a dream and told myself to wake up.

It's usually the same with little variation. There's a large, dark object or being floating nearby where I'm sleeping. I can't move or speak but am aware. A buzzing starts in my head and it gets louder and louder until I reach a point where I know if I don't wake up, I'll never get back.

When I was young, the dream scared the heck out of me but I'm so used to it now, I fuck with the dark being by calling it names and swearing at it. After a bit, I tire of the buzzing sound in my head and the feeling of being paralyzed and I tell myself to wake up.

[Inchworm]

4. My ex

:P

[pitohui]

5. i dream every nite but can't recall dropping something in a dream

if i'm dropping shit and being all clumsy it's usually a pretty fair clue that i'm awake!

[raccoon]

6. I always wondered why there was so much junk on the floor in dreams. nt

[Bucky]

7. Your answers are too long to read. I don't know I'm dreaming in my dreams

I'm a very willing-suspension-of-disbelief kind of guy. When I dream, I'm 100% there (although some times "in character"). There's never the thought in my head that what I'm doing or watching is of a less concrete reality.

[Heidi]

8. Not exactly. But I've declined to validate dream situations because I knew they were fictions.

Like the time(s) I dreamed a bus dropped me off outside a bar/truck stop Podunk, Nebraska on a snowy night, and all I had in my pocket was Swiss francs, which I knew wouldn't work in the US pay phone. I also knew I'd play hell paying an imaginary taxi (there aren't many taxis on call on cold, snowy nights in rural Nebraska) to get me out of there.

And (or but), in the only reality-based part of this (series of) dream(s), it occurred to me that my situation wasn't the end of the world. There'd be people to talk to -- maybe even people I knew -- a warm place to get a cold Coke and a greasy burger, and that morning would come and I'd wake up.

True story. I've had this dream many times.

[MilesColtrane]

9. Other: I didn't pick it up because it didn't stop spinning.

[LeftishBrit]

10. No but...

I can still remember having a dream as a child that I was picking up each card in turn from a deck of cards. Instead of being playimg cards, they had letters of the alphabet on them, each of which had its own meaning. I don't remember all of them, but I knew that there was a W for Wake, and a D for Dead,and that if I picked up the D before I got to the W, I would drop dead, but if I picked up the W, I would wake up. I don't know whether I ever picked up the W card, but I woke up anyway!