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AI pics used to look like things you'd see in a dream. Hands are not different, in fact one of the best ways to find if you're dreaming or not is to try and cou
by chaosbolt 4y ago
AI pics used to look like things you'd see in a dream. Hands are not different, in fact one of the best ways to find if you're dreaming or not is to try and count your fingers, in a dream your hand would look exactly like a hand generated by AI. I remember reading this on some lucid dreaming subreddit and tried it, you need to get into the habbit of doing it awake so you also get the reflex to do in dream.
- carlmr 4y agoIs that why potheads look at their hands all the time?
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoAll humans look at their hands all the time. It's called hand-eye coordination. Potheads merely consciously realize they're doing it, and are probably more mesmerized at the constant, subconscious looking at hands we all do, than the hands themselves. Having said that, our hands are perhaps the most crucial instrument for manipulating reality, so they are quite amazing.
- mrob 4y agoHand-eye coordination doesn't involve looking at the hands. Hand-eye coordination involves looking at the object you want to interact with, e.g. a button you're going to click, or a ball you're going to catch. You don't look at the mouse or your hands.
- mft_ 4y ago1) Do they? Having spent lots of time around stoned people, I don't remember this. 2) Why the need for a relatively pejorative term, "potheads"?
- loloquwowndueo 4y agoMaybe you were also stoned and thus don’t remember doing it :)
- bryanrasmussen 4y agoreplying 1) - it's a well known comedic trope that when someone is stoned they look at their hands and say "have you ever really looked at your hands, man?"
- giraffe_lady 4y agoHave you though?
- saiya-jin 4y agoMore like acid heads, never seen anybody high on just pot itself to be so far off reality to marvel at their hands, thats usually reserved for next levels of dissociation
- giraffe_lady 4y agoyou need better weed then
- smusamashah 4y agoCounting fingers is one of the tricks. Another is to try to go back to the room/street/place you just came from, when you do, it will be changed to something else. This is also what AI video generators fail at. Another which I discovered myself as a kid as a first sign was that if I go back and reread the same text it never stayed the same. Discovered other lucid dreaming signs later. The brain continuously generates/halluicnates stuff while dreaming, keeps too little context.
- thatjoeoverthr 4y agoAnother trick is it pinch your nose and try to breath through it. As you aren't really pinching your nose, your breathing is unobstructed. I got in a habit of checking when I would see certain signifiers (like machines behaving in surprising ways) and maybe 1/3 of the time, I would find I'm dreaming.
- causi 4y agoHabitually counting your own fingers seems like a much worse problem to have than not being able to tell you're dreaming.
- freilanzer 4y agoIt's not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
- kerblang 4y agoTwo reasonably valid contradictions: 1) You are having serious problems with nightmares (esp. kids) 2) You're a massively obsessed sex pervert
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- anentropic 4y ago> in a dream your hand would look exactly like a hand generated by AI I'm going to say... no, this isn't true.
- euroderf 4y agoYes, Carlos Castenada's books said it's sufficient just to look at your hands. I wish I could remember to do this :-O
- nextaccountic 4y ago> in fact one of the best ways to find if you're dreaming or not is to try and count your fingers Or looking twice in a clock and seeing if the mind is making up the position of the clock hands on the spot. Or looking text in a book and seeing if it's gibberish