Did you ever see Waking Life? It’s really cool, and you ought to see it if you haven’t. In that movie, they talk about how if you look at numbers or a clock, or letters in a dream, and focus on them really hard, that they will kind of shift, and you cant exactly pin them down, and that’s a sure way to make yourself realize that you’re dreaming, and a doorway into becoming lucid in the dream.

I think I may have found another one, shortly before waking up this morning. In my dream, I was in the bathroom somewhere, standing in front of a mirror. I looked into my eyes, and they looked weird. There was this huge magnetic resistance against me being able to look directly and deeply into them. Noticing this resistance, I fought it, so that I could see where it would take me. And eventually, I pinned it down. I became aware that my eyelids were closed, and yet at the same time I was looking into the mirror at my eyes. Seeing through my eyelids basically. And there was this moment of ultra-realization wherein I grasped what was happening and that I was dreaming, but then I woke up.