Lucid Dreaming

[LythincaMan]

I've done this before. I can easily wake myself up from a dream, and even sometimes controll a LITTLE bit of the dream, but thats usually if I go to sleep while content or extremly stressed out.

I'll try it tonight, going to sleep, controlling my dream, and forcing myself to wake up.

[lord_carbo]

Originally Posted by LythincaMan

I've done this before. I can easily wake myself up from a dream, and even sometimes controll a LITTLE bit of the dream, but thats usually if I go to sleep while content or extremly stressed out.

I'll try it tonight, going to sleep, controlling my dream, and forcing myself to wake up.

You probably didn't do it.

Lucid dreams are very vivid and you have a good amount of control over the dream.

[8Shade8]

WOW, these freakin pills are wierd. They work, and then they don't. I felt more awake while asleep, and in turn I can remember my dream, but did not lucid dream. I was pretty much in awe of how "vivid" my dream was. I wasn't too vivid though, but I remember the dream. I had super-man like powers and I was being chased by godzilla, who could shoot me with a gun. LOL it was insane.

[RandomPscho]

So it is like tripping in your sleep? Fun.

Please post back if they start really working.

[dead_juggalo]

I can wake up whenever I want in my dreams.

[Hr2]

Originally Posted by talisman

I have dreams regularly where I have some degree of control over what happens, but they are far from what I would call "lucid". Also, I suspect that they aren't REM dreams but are more stage one/stage two hallucinatory type stuff, because I've found that I can move somewhat during them (and you can't move during REM sleep unless you're messed up). And like others here, if I try to control them too much, I will eventually wake up (which is another reason I suspect they aren't REM dreams).

I have a lot of dreams where I have some control, but it often is sluggish and weird. But, I have also had lucid dreams a few times. Lucid dreams in the middle of the night where I did not wake up afterwards, even though I assumed extreme control over the dream.

I personally love stage 1 dreaming haha, whenever I'm taking a nap I normally lapse into those weird vividly lifelike hallucinations 2 or 3 times before falling asleep. I think they are one of the most fun things ever. I know they are stage 1 dreams, because my head will often loll around a little bit while they are happening.

The first dream which made me actually look up what lucid dreaming was (not my first lucid dream) involved me waking up inside the dream. But it was snowing outside, and the dream happened in the summer. That was how I knew it was a dream, interesting way for it to happen. I once talked to someone on the internet who said he got interested in lucid dreams a few years ago, and practiced it so diligently that now he almost always lucid dreams. He is sick of it, he said it's great for the first few months, but then it's just a chore, right now he said he's trying to stop lucid dreaming. I'd be careful about trying too hard to lucid dream, I'd say confine it to napping. Which makes it a seperate activity instead of an accompaniment to sleep.

[MrPoptart]

iv done this many times but 2/3 of the time i wake up because i found out i was dreaming not on purpose but i just wake up...

I can wake up henever I want in my dreams

same with me

So it is like tripping in your sleep? Fun.

i do this all the time, when im half asleep... im just thinking about somthing then all of a sudden, i have a thaught like "ooh god i tripped" and i try to catch my self, but all i really do is twitch or jump and wake my self up...

[SulferDragon]

I'm almost always fully aware I'm dreaming when I am. Heck, the only time I'm not is when I find a lot of money in my dream. Then I wake up thinking I'm filthy rich, and then want to go die because I realize I'm not.

But no, I can't make myself wake up.

[DHS1]

I can only remember having 2 lucid dreams before I looked more into lucid dreaming. In the first one, I was in my parent’s room and my sister came in, and following her were 5-6 clones of her. I was like ... WTF IM DREAMING! I was really scared when I realized this and tried to wake up. I slapped and pinched and I couldn’t wake myself up. I never thought, "Wow, I can do absolutely anything I want!" I just knew I was dreaming, but I still had earthly boundaries.

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen Laberge - I would recommend that book to anyone who wants to be able to lucid dream. It helped me a lot, and at the moment I can have a lucid dream 2-4 times a week.

Also http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html is pretty interesting.

I wrote a speech on Lucid Dreaming last year, and I'll post it (if anyone's interested) once I get my laptop back from the repair place >_<.

[ToshX]

Originally Posted by DHS1

"Wow, I can do absolutely anything I want!" I just knew I was dreaming, but I still had earthly boundaries.

That's the thing, you don't need earthly boundaries.

You could have raped all six of your sister's clones and no one would have cared because it was a dream.

Usually when I have lucid dreams, I end up in either some sort of sexual thing or I end up flying, both of which I love. Sometimes I spawn things I've never even thought of before, where I don't even know or think about what's happening next. I don't know how it works, really.

[T3hDDRKid]

Originally Posted by ToshX

Usually when I have lucid dreams, I end up in either some sort of sexual thing or I end up flying, both of which I love.

Flying isn't impossible.. I know somebody with wings [you can PM me if you're interested.]

As for myself, I've realized perhaps five times that I was dreaming, but only had a dream I could control two or three times.

[lbinator]

I used to have a lot of lucid dreams, none lately, but I can still remember them all so vividly. One of them was me and my friends on top of my old public school's roof, right before sunset, and we were talking when all of a sudden my friends jumped off the roof andstarted to run really ****ing fast, and it was about this point where I realized I was actually dreaming, so I jumped down after them but they were already long gone, but still wandering around my old empty schoolyard being able to do anything I want was so cool. So cool that I've decided to put 3 or 4 of my lucid dreams together into a short film. Lucid dreaming is the ****.

[Lucifericrucifix]

For as long as I can remember I've been able to "Live" my dreams and see them exactly as I do life itself. I control each variable everything, it's just a second life so to speak. I've always seemed to dream like this though..Even as a child. I find it sort of odd to explain, and I find it even more obscure that people try to figure out how to have them. There are actually books written on it, and it makes me wonder what brings them. (A trait? Something triggered?) I've always had them so I don't know what to believe on that.

[Hachi86]

Well does anyone here have any special techniques that they use to induce them? BTW, 8Shade8, how are the pills going so far?

[DHS1]

Originally Posted by Hachi86

Well does anyone here have any special techniques that they use to induce them?

Look at your hand multiple times a day; try to make it a habit. In your dreams, your hand won’t look the same.

Look at the clock once, then look again right after to make sure it didn’t jump a few hours. This is a reality check.

Before you sleep, tell yourself "I'll know that I'm dreaming, and I'll try not to wake up during my dream."

Create a dream sign. Do this by keeping a daily journal of your dreams, and find something that is in your dreams very consistently. After you figured out your dream sign, you should be able to realize you're dreaming if you see it.

You can buy a NovaDreamer, it’s a sleeping mask that beeps/flashes when you go into REM sleep. It knows when you're in REM sleep because it has sensors that detect the rapid eye movement. In your dream, you might see a huge flash, and that will make you realize you're dreaming.

<3 www.lucidity.com

[8Shade8]

Originally Posted by DHS1

You can buy a NovaDreamer, it’s a sleeping mask that beeps/flashes when you go into REM sleep. It knows when you're in REM sleep because it has sensors that detect the rapid eye movement. In your dream, you might see a huge flash, and that will make you realize you're dreaming.

<3 www.lucidity.com

That sounds, like a good idea, but I would freak the **** out.

BTW, the pills are actually helping. I had a lucid dream last night where I chose to be a super sayian with a lightsaber being chased by Godzilla. LOL IT WAS CRAZY!! I enjoyed jumping over skyscrapers. It was an actual awesome feeling. I just wished the dreams would last longer.

[UberMario]

Godzilla again?

Man, this stuff seems really cool... maybe I'll try it out some day.

[Hachi86]

What if every morning i drew something in the palm of my hand with a sharpie. Wouldnt that change in the dream?

[UberMario]

Many people told me that you can't read in your dream. I'm figuring because your brain can't develop writing on a paper for you to read since it would have to make things up.

I however have read many times in dreams and took note of it because people have said that. If I start reading something really long, sometimes I would wake up.

[DHS1]

Originally Posted by UberMario

Many people told me that you can't read in your dream. I'm figuring because your brain can't develop writing on a paper for you to read since it would have to make things up.

I however have read many times in dreams and took note of it because people have said that. If I start reading something really long, sometimes I would wake up.

I've heard that too. But I've heard that you CAN infact read, the text just changes. Like if you read a whole page, then read it over again, it will be completely different than the first time you read it.