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Old 01-23-2005, 08:43 PM   #21
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Default 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.
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Old 01-23-2005, 08:51 PM   #22
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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.
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Old 01-23-2005, 09:09 PM   #23
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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.
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