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Lucid Dreams

AWWWWW MMMM so good there's a thread on this - this is something I have been experiencing more & more.
I can't remember the first time I had one, but I got them more & more frequently after the first dream I realized was a dream and started to control in one way or another...

Now I have lucid dreams very frequently - coupla times a week...often around the time I'm about to wake up (if I have a lie in with nothing to do), so if I'm having an amazing dream then get woken up (like, if I get a SMS), then I'll drift off back to sleep and start to control my dream MORE...quite often with amazing consequences...

I think I really need to start a dream journal, coz alot of the dreams are SO clear & so intense that it annoys me that I have such a bad short term memory that I'll have forgotten all the details by the afternoon...=[
Think I will start this week

Peace

PS yeah I've noticed how alot of the lucid dreams can be about having sex and flying for me - showing my predominant urges I guess lol.

I did however have my first killing dream as the end part of one of my lucid dreams - I walked up to someone who had stolen my brother's car and crashed it, and poured JD all over them and lit them on fire - woke up like "whaaa?!?!"
 
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There was a period of roughly 5 years where I had a lucid dream roughly twice a month.

Tricks:

If you feel yourself waking, spin around (eventually, you will rotate about your vertical axis like a frictionless top). This somehow keeps you in the dream (no idea how or why).

To determine if you're dreaming, check the time twice in rapid succession (digital clocks preferred). If the time changes in an impossible way, or if the clock displays random garbage, you're (likely) dreaming. There is a similar check with light switches, but it is less reliable. Try to get in the habit of doing this while awake, and you'll achieve lucidity in your dreams more often.

Ask a dream character to give you an analysis of your dream-content. You may be surprised by how apt said analysis is.

I've flown, generated objects, generated people, controlled people, etc.

The greatest mind-fuck has to be nested false-wakings. I've had a couple episodes of this that breached 12 or so. It took me a while to figure out when I really awoke.

ebola
 
ebola? said:
There was a period of roughly 5 years where I had a lucid dream roughly twice a month.

Tricks:

If you feel yourself waking, spin around (eventually, you will rotate about your vertical axis like a frictionless top). This somehow keeps you in the dream (no idea how or why).

To determine if you're dreaming, check the time twice in rapid succession (digital clocks preferred). If the time changes in an impossible way, or if the clock displays random garbage, you're (likely) dreaming. There is a similar check with light switches, but it is less reliable. Try to get in the habit of doing this while awake, and you'll achieve lucidity in your dreams more often.

Ask a dream character to give you an analysis of your dream-content. You may be surprised by how apt said analysis is.

I've flown, generated objects, generated people, controlled people, etc.

The greatest mind-fuck has to be nested false-wakings. I've had a couple episodes of this that breached 12 or so. It took me a while to figure out when I really awoke.

ebola
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This post has lots of good advice for using lucid dreams to explore your own mind. Anything self-reflexive is more likely to be fruitful because it forces the subconscious into higher cognitive modes like self-reflection (such as, as mentioned, asking dream characters for their analysis of the dream you're having.) Also, ask about important dreams you've forgotten. State dependent memory may allow you access to amazing things you've never known you've experienced before. For example, I know my way around a dream city I've never been to in waking life, and have remembered past dream events that have occurred in the city while dreaming.

Additionally, though I unfortunately haven't dreamed lucidly enough to try these lucidly, looking at yourself in a mirror, walking through a mirror, seeing a film, watching TV, or tuning a radio are all chances for your subconscious to open some kind of sensory window into itself. If I could, I would ask my mirror image in a lucid dream to help me better lucid dream. I would ask my dream reflection to remember the qualities of dreams that help me to remember those dreams in waking life and, in the future, to try to form dreams with these qualities; I would ask it to remember the nature of the events that precede the shift from normal dream awareness to lucidity, and to repeat them; I would ask it to use consistent and salient symbols to communicate any important meanings. The prospect of consciously training the subconscious mind to use it's unparalleled analogical and associative intelligence in ways that can be communicated to our potential benefit in waking life is a prospect that shouldn't be ignored by those lucky enough to naturally attain the lucid state. Flying and random sex is fun, but you may be able to do so much more.
 
I've never gotten full control over a lucid dream, but I think that's my psyche expressing the self doubt I have about myself.

Everytime I try to fly it feels like i'm bolted to the ground :p
 
I been into lucid dreaming for aobut 4 years and have learned to control and variate my dreaming experience. This book really helped: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, By: Stephen LaBerge
 
Ever wonder if the people we pass by each day may be "dreaming" this reality, as in THEY are currently in their dream state.
 
I had a lucid dream, once a year ago another cpl days ago. The one a few years ago I was on the highway on a motorcycle and I was going really fast. I got scared so I said to myself I need to be in my dads truck....poof I was in my dads truck.....then I said I do not want to be here....and poof I was in a household, and i controlled myself going up and down (bending my knees) while looking in a mirror....I got scared by my facial expressions and I woke up.

Recently I do not know what happened, I may have been half awake, I am not sure...but I looked at my arm the way it was positioned as I was sleeping, but I couldn't move it. I got really scared I could not move my arm and then my alarm went off, and I was in the same exact position however I could move. That was a very scary experience.

I am reading a book "Exploring th World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen Laberge and Howard Rheingold, and it gives tips of how to lucid dream, and how you should not be afraid of them, and also gives some good insight and information. Maybe you should check it out.
 
Ousley said:
Ever wonder if the people we pass by each day may be "dreaming" this reality, as in THEY are currently in their dream state.
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wow, I like this idea - never thought of this...

Maybe people are, unless of course you touch them, like the ones you do just walk past without knowing if they're tangible or not...weird idea!!
 
Waking Life is a very good movie for this. Also FFX (the video game) touches on this a bit...in the sense that he is a dream of the fayth ... (didn't mean to spoil this for anyone but it is a very old game, figure most have played it by now if they were going to lol).
 
I used to do it quite a lot, but have only done it twice recently (I think its because I smoke pot before bed, which inhibits dreaming). The first time, I was having a very strange dream about a homosexual male friend of mine, who, for some reason, was putting random things in my pussy. I don't really understant this dream from a psychological point of view, but I woke up, decided that actually, I was having fun in the dream so what was the harm, and when I fell back to sleep I returned to the dream but with full awareness that I was dreaming, at which point I began directing the dream, introducing non-gay men and gay women, and turned it basically into a big dream-orgy. I woke up with the biggest smile on my face.

The other time was with a recurring nightmare I have. It happens about twice a week - I grind my teeth until they all fall out, and I'm just grinding the bloody stumps of my gums, trying to tell people what's going on, but unable to talk. Sometimes the dream ends with me choking on my own blood, sometimes I wake up before that point. Anyhow, it's gotten to be rather a problem, but I dreamt about it last night and I realised it was a dream, because my dream-self thought "God, it can't keep happening that my teeth fall out. How do they keep coming back?" Anyhow, in many ways this lucid dream (nightmare?) was far better than the sex one, because I just made all my teeth magically re-appear. Since recurring nightmares actually stop me sleeping (I'm afraid to sleep 'till the point where I collapse of exhaustion, unless I'm stoned) and the teeth one has been particularly bad, it's restored a sense of control. Tonight, I will fall asleep a lot less worried that I'll spend the whole night freaking out in my head!

Lucid dreaming is WORTH it. If you set your alarm for abour 4am, and then again for about half past, and continue like that, you will find it easier to lucid dream. I don't know why this works (sorry!) I just know that it does :) Putting a clock by your bed and getting into the habit of looking at it can also help, because often you need a 'trigger' when you're dreaming to make you realise that it's not real and let you go lucid. A clock is great for this, because if you look at a clock twice in a dream, even if you just blink, it won't tell the same time both times. Same with writing, it wont read the same thing twice, and you can kinda twig that it's a dream. If you don't have a clock and you think you're dreaming, hold your nose. If you can still breathe through it, it's a dream! Also, DPH and Prozac can both create some wacky dreams, if you're just looking to experiment :)
 
Lucid dreaming is one of the coolest things i think the human mind is capable of really.

I often try to fly and use that to prove to others around me that it is indeed a dream.

Its great sometimes when I try to fly I end up just jumping really high and falling back down, I have to really convince myself and then I'm able to soar around big buildings and such.

Anyone else find that the majority of thier lucid dreams consist of trying to convince others around you that it is a dream, I find it strange that this is my typical behavior during these dreams?

Also, I remember reading about a certain culture in which lucid dreaming is practiced, and people of this culture almost always have lucid dreams.
anyone know which culture/ society this is?
 
Nice topic, i just starting getting into the discussion of lucid dreams. I would have to say that many times I can have complete control over my lucid dreams. If someone is pissing me off I can just turn them into a chair or whatever it is I feel like. If I choose to levitate or fly then thats pretty easy. All in All I would say that in my lucid dreams I have complete 100% control, I have had lot's of practice ;)
 
i'm glad i stumbled across this thread.

i used to be really into lucid dreaming a couple years ago. read all about the different methods of how to induce and stay in one. only actually produced a couple lucid dreams (both spent raping the closest person i could find) so i gradually lost interest.

but this has sparked my interest again, and i think i'll start off by picking up 'Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming'. thanks for the recommendation!
 
I have never gone too deep into it..I've been able to do it for a while...but apart from waking up from one and consciously going back to sleep - I have never gone to sleep trying to induce a lucid dream.
This is on my to-do list for this year...however, right now I am sorting other stuff out.

It had been a while since I had any lucid dreams but the past 2 weeks I have been having some intense ones again..I'm going to start a dream journal coz I simply cannot remember my dreams and want to - when I lucid dream usually I can't seem to wake up out of them properly - I will loop into waking up and going straight back to sleep so I can continue my adventures..

The only part I do remember about one of my most recent dreams is black men swimming...so I'm going to take up swimming again, coz it's been a while & I loved swimming lol..
 
I have begun to lucid dream - but find it difficult to hold myself in this state. I often push myself to wake up - because all of my lucid dreams to date have been quite scary.. Dark colours, creepy voices etc.
 
I fall into this state frequently in the early morning and afternoon but find that it's rather difficult to control what is taking place after realizing I am in a dream. I have been doing reading on the matter lately and will try to practice this. I have also found that piracetam tends to make my dreams pretty wacky.

Also, I have had this idea floating in my head for a while: If you can lucid dream and have good control of your lucid dreams can you do drugs in them? For example if you have a cup of coffee can you feel the effects of it? If you smoke weed will you get high? Since DMT is naturally occurring can you access it by some means in your dream? Could you make up your own drugs with their own effects and experience them through your own dreams? I would absolutely love to hear if anyone has been able to do anything like this or has even contemplated the matter.
 
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