{"id":1933,"date":"2012-06-21T21:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T21:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2023-07-13T23:45:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:45:44","slug":"lucid-dreaming-squid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/lucid-dreaming-squid\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucid dreaming squid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/7416296710\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8003\/7416296710_08c1fff034.jpg\" alt=\"Lucid dreaming squid\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever had a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucid_dream\">lucid dream<\/a>? If you&#8217;re not familiar with the term, it&#8217;s a dream where you are fully conscious and can exert influence over the dream. (Yes, you can be asleep and conscious at the same time.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As this squid points out, looking at one&#8217;s hands is a good way to check if one is in a dream or not. In waking life, one&#8217;s hands look like, well, hands. But in a dream one doesn&#8217;t have hands &#8212; it tends to be a dead giveaway that one is dreaming when one look at one&#8217;s hands and they disappear or are unstable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just to be clear, however, this is not a lucid dream. The squid is messing with your head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Spotted at 18th and Valencia.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever had a lucid dream? If you&#8217;re not familiar with the term, it&#8217;s a dream where you are fully conscious and can exert influence over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Lucid dreaming squid - MrEricSir.com","description":"Ever had a lucid dream ? If you're not familiar with the term, it's a dream where you are fully conscious and can exert influence over the dream. (Yes, you can"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35,119,778,38,23,474],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-16thmission","tag-graffiti","tag-luciddream","tag-photos","tag-san-francisco","tag-streetart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10180,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/10180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}