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L3lack_light Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Trigger

"When a dream event triggers you, it’s usually because you are dreaming about lucid dreaming!"

Could anyone please tell me what it means?
  

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Hi, I don't know what that means. Perhaps the context might make it clear. The usual structure is this kind of sentence is that something triggers you to do something Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, I don't know what that means.
  • Perhaps the context might make it clear.
  • The usual structure is this kind of sentence is that something triggers you to do something Clive
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Hi,

I don't know what that means. Perhaps the context might make it clear.

The usual structure is this kind of sentence is that

something triggers you to do something

Clive
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Hi,

Google gives around 715 000 hits for 'triggers you', but most of the cases I looked at either involve a 'to' construction like Clive pointed out, or some other one where the two words belong to two separate phrases.

Is there any chance your sentence was written by a non-native speaker?

I think what the writer might mean is that events in lucid dreaming may have a mo
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l3lack_lightWhen a dream event triggers you, ...
Could anyone please tell me what it means?
When something that you are dreaming about causes you to begin (to dream lucidly), ...

to trigger = to initiate; to make to begin (often in a sudden way)

CJ
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