Eh, I’m not particularly happy with this one, but here it is.

And yes, that is a real trick to see if you’re dreaming or not: the brain can’t process fives unconciously, so if you don’t have five fingers on your hand you know you’re dreaming, and can therefore control the dream.

Neat tidbit of info! Thanks for participating. :)

Oh wow…
See, a bunch of my friends have said you can’t read in dreams, but I can, and have. I see the text and everything. For them, it’s just a blur or unintelligible symbols.

I’ll try it though.

I’m not sure about reading per se, but you can definitely count in dreams. But the finger counting thing should preferably become a habit, as you perform your habits in dreams.

Hmm, not sure about that dreaming rule of 5’s, but it makes for a trippy little situation all the same. And yeah, I’d heard the reading thing too…in an episode of Batman. I’ve read in dreams as well, so apparently the producers of the Batman cartoon weren’t authorities on the psychology of dreams. Go figure.

Lucid Dreams are the coolest.
I trained my mind to allow me to control my brain, and it’s like….
awesome. Just a random tidbit for ya.
But if anyone wants to learn how to you could go to http://www.ehow.com/how_2045527_control-dreams.html

it takes like a month

I like the fact that realising its a dream comes quickly, but it takes longer to realise its not his own.

As an aside, light switches often don’t do anything in dreams – your brain doesn’t simulate changes in light levels very well in dreams :)

never knew that about dreams. i’ll keep that in mind. neat story.