Do You Lucid Dream?

[vashthestampede0987]

RE: Do You Lucid Dream?

I've had lucid dreams except that in the back of my mind (in the dream) I would always tell myself it was a dream.

[nforcer06164]

RE: Do You Lucid Dream?

It's odd. Sometimes I'll have dreams in the third person, and sometimes in the first person. Easy enough to believe, I can only control dreams in the first person. But sometimes I control it, and sometimes I don't. And also, oddly enough, sometimes I believe it is real, and other times, I'm sure it is a dream. I could go into detail about it, but I'm too lazy right now.

[CypherToorima]

RE: Do You Lucid Dream?

I've never really had a Lucid dream, but there have been a couple where I thought it was real.
It sucks, though, because for the past two weeks, I've been having nightmares every night, which is odd since before than, having just a dream was an uncommon accurence.

[torres1287]

RE: Do You Lucid Dream?

Actually, there was a study done my freshman year of high school (currently a junior) that people do have many many dreams during the night, but they don't last long enough to leave an impression on you. I don't know. I dream quite often. My dreams are recently being turned into things that aren't sooo 'dreamy', but it's odd at the stuff I do dream and how they become in some point in my life...reality. If that last one made any sense....

[jewpinthethird]

RE: Do You Lucid Dream?

When one has a lucid dream, they have control over their actions.

FYI: Everyone dreams everynight. It is just a matter of whether or not your remember a dream. The only way for one to remember a dream is when someone wakes up directly from the dream.

I dont believe I have ever had a lucid dream, but I wont like to. I did have an interesting dream today though...it was a fairly long dream, but there is one line that really stood out: "I am laying on the basement floor. I can smell blood and vacuum cleaners."

[torres1287]

RE: Do You Lucid Dream?

Blood and vacuum cleaners...sounds like a real classic. I will have to differ on your statement that you only remember the dreams that you wake up from. I've got up in the morning (with no interruptions during the night) and could remember quite a few dreams that I had during the night. Although I will have to say that if I didn't write them all down as soon as I woke up, I couldn't remember quite everything from them except the one I woke up to. So, I can safely say I straddle the fence on that one.

[talisman]

RE: Do You Lucid Dream?

Some info about dreaming:

You dream in the REM period of sleep. These occur cyclically throughout the night, first lasting for only about ten minutes and eventually up to about thirty-forty minutes. You can only remember a dream if you wake up during or right after the REM period. So you have several dreams a night that you don't remember. During REM sleep, most people lose the ability to control their muscles. If you can, you basically act out your dreams (lots of punching, gesticulation, shouting, etc). This is NOT the same thing as sleepwalking, or even talking during your sleep. (That occurs as you move from deep sleep to REM sleep and your brain waves change dramatically). So when you wake up sometimes and feel numb and unable to move, it is because you haven't yet reactivated your motor cortex and thus can't move.

Lucid dreaming is when you can control your dream. It is difficult to do, as it goes against the natural process of dreaming. I often find that when I attempt to lucid dream (when I notice that I am dreaming), my brain invents a way to put me back into real dreaming.

[torres1287]

RE: Do You Lucid Dream?

I have learned something...thank you tailsman. I can pretty much choose when or when not I can control my dreams. Sometimes, I just choose to let my mind take hold. Like in dreams where I think they're supposed to mean something. Others, I just 'think it out' so to speak. It's great to think of something and have it happen...if only this could happen in reality. Sometimes that thinking and having it happen thing can get oddly scary. Other times, I just don't have the power to control it. In fact, my thoughts of the worst do happen...and this has happened recently. I hate when that happens! It ends up putting me in a total coma in the waking world. Not literally a coma, but it does seem so from the way I talk and perform my daily routines. Thank goodness that my boyfriend has only went through one of those 'coma' days. It was a weekend, so I couldn't snap out of it completely when I talked to him...but I do believe that if I could've seen him for about 30 minutes that day, it would've helped bring me totally out of it. He's the only one who has ever been able to affect my 'coma' stage to the good...or in other words...back to my normal hyper self.