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Waking Life aka The Dream Thread

just realized that the talking cat is from the book The Master and Margarita. I'm reading it now and it had a talking cat that is a friend of the Devil. how obvious is that connection...
 
Waking Life

Waking Life is an awesome movie, not many people seem to know about it though unfortunately.
 
Ive had a handful of dreams come true.

Like when for like three nights I dreamed about this girl that I liked went out with one of her EXs that she said she would never date again and then like a month later they ended up getting back together.
 
^yes, I get that all the time. It's interesting to question how it influences you're day as you go along. And, yes, these experiences do influence your thoughts throughout the day.
 
I had the first lucid dream I've had in quite some time last night, of all the lucid dreams I've had I probably got the furthest in this one. I was having a weird dream about crossing the road to smoke but already being too high to cross, eventually somehow I got across, I was walking along the path, and suddenly I just thought "This is a dream!", and started moving around freely, realising I was in full control. Then I flew up in the air, attempting to fly, and I managed to float up, but unfortunately, for some reason the moment I started floating my vision went black, and a few moments later I "woke up" into another non-lucid dream, not realising that I was still dreaming :(

Anyone here have any good tips for improving dream recall and lucid dreaming? I haven't really found a trigger for my lucid dreams, and I've only ever had 4 that I recall in my entire life.

Lucid dream 1: I'm walking down a hill, I see some kids playing, one of them asks me something, I reply, then I walk down to the bottom, I feel quite thirsty, and somehow at that point I realised I was dreaming, willed a vending machine to appear and it did, but as I drank I woke up.

Lucid dream 2: This one was about a month ago, I was having a very random dream, when I ended up in what I was sure was a book-store, with a lion. Now a few days previous to this I had a trip in which I saw a tiger, so something about the lion triggered that memory, I had a huge sense of deja vu, suddenly realised I was dreaming, flew up through the roof and began jumping across the rooftops (I was jumping like 20 feet in the air), it was really fun, but I woke up shortly after.

Lucid dream 3: This dream started with me getting deployed in the military - which is weird since I have no interest in the military whatsoever. We were in the back of a tank, moving along, when suddenly I realised it was a dream, I took control of the tank and drove around shooting random things, for some reason though, even though I knew it was a dream, I didn't want to shoot anything living just in case it wasn't or just in case this was some alternate reality or something. This was the longest of my lucid dreams but after a while I woke up.

Lucid dream 4: The one I detailed earlier, where I walked around for a bit and then flew, this one was about as short as my first lucid dream but of all 4 I felt like I had the most control in this one, in the others I often lapsed back into losing control etc, whereas this one I was fulling in control until I woke up.

(As a final note: Interestingly enough, I watched Waking Life the night before last while tripping, I wonder if the information I gathered subconsciously while watching it was what made me have my lucid dream last night?)
 
i had a dream last night where i was sentenced to the death penalty for a minor crime i didnt comit, i never knew what it was but i knew it was minor. i tried to run but got caught and after a while the reality that my life was going to end for no real reason sank in and i had a total emotional fit.

i met my mother and she told me that i brought it upon my self, i tried to run but i couldnt. i was so trapped and terrified.

yet i felt hopeful because one of the investigators was trying to help me but failing. i had a sort of jason bourne type feel but i couldnt cope. my "deadline" was drawing nearer and I was feeling more and more emotionally screwed

then i woke up, heart beating fast and all.



Ive been having all sorts of strange feelings with dreams though, i dreamed that i replanted my garden with some new pepper plants and when i went out the next day i was shocked when they wernt there. it felt so real. =\
 
i have a book at the side of my bed and write down as much as i remember about my dreams,
i have so much dreams written down here's a few for now,

this is 3 different sexual dreams i had

1. was about a friend that i have never thought or felt that way towards him,

I dreamt that we had full blown on sex and it was amazing,
not dreaming now - the morning after the dream there was a knock my door i answered it and it was him and it was weird, the atmosphere, the way he smiled and talked to me, we were both blushing, it was like he knew what i dreamt or even that we both had the same dream,

2. this one is about another friend with same thoughts and feelings as first,
but the difference with this friend was that he had previously tried to get into a relationship with me,

I bacame aware in my dream that i was just about to have sex then i saw who it was with and i didn't want this to happen so i forced myself to wake up, i awoke sitting up shouting no,

3. this one ive had a few times and they are with a stranger and its more than just sex

Its weird because they alway's leave me feeling that strange feeling that you get sometimes with dreams, for the whole day or longer,
Its almost like the dreams last a lifetime as im living my life in them they feel more realer than others,

so its just me living my life with this man as you would in a relationship, i feel every feeling in the dream that both of us are feeling, it is so stong, i know we are both feeling exactly the same, the love is so stong like no other feeling of love , we both know we have found our soul mate and know that we will spend the rest of our lives together, know that we should be together and every time we realise this it get deeper and stonger,
its just perfect, then i wake up and its just a dream,

but the thing is i see the man so clearly as i am living my life in it,
i don't know who it is, i have never seen him before, a stanger.
 
what the fuck... ive just woken up from the most strange beyond fucked up vivid dream ive ever had in my entire life...infact this is probably my first proper "lucid" dream.... i got "stuck" fully conscious and couldn't wake up, trapped there, but my eye lips were retarded and droopy and i had to hold them up to see, running around shouting at people to wake me up. every time my eye lips dropped i would re-appear somewhere else, with different people. i started to panic, like "how am i gonna wake up??? im gonna be trapped here!!!" then try to throw myself infront of a lorry to prove it was just a wasn't real and wake my ass up... but the lorry stopped....twisted. i don't even feel awake now. am i awake? perhaps reality is just a massive dream. to be frank that was fucking weird
 
I had an interesting experience last night, infact this has happened two times before, it seems to be somewhat like a lucid experience, but at the same time different from my past experience's.

Usually i will awake into lucidity.. this time however i went straight into lucidity as soon as i closed my eyes, within 10 seconds the darkness behind my eyes turned into a vivid image, i was suddenly in a room with roughly 10 other people.. all standing around none of them could see each other or myself for that matter, though i could see them.. the vividness of this shocked me and i opened my eyes, very strange most of my lucid dreams involve just myself interacting with inanimate reality.

I did eventually fall asleep, and am quite certain i awoke into lucidity this time.. this particular experience has actually happened in the past a few times, i will wake-up without opening my eyes.. this is very confusing, as i can see my room and everything in it with my eyes closed.. i opened my eyes to see the 'exact' same thing i was seeing with my eyes closed (poster on my wall, my desk etc).

It was like looking through my eyelids and seeing what i would normally see, it reminded me of Sam Niel in Event Horizon; "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see"
 
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Jblazingphoenix100 said:
sounds mental!! ^ wicked description...god I want another one.
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carrying on from what i posted ^ up there...it was mid day sunday... and i was hungover from the night before...so i decided to go for a quick sleep on my bed. man it was the weirdest thing ever. i appeared in this girls house, sat on their sofa with her parents there... and i was like... am i dreaming? and they were like no. and i was like where am i? why am i here? and everything started to vibrate and shake...then boom i was talking to some random people... and i was like im dreaming.,.. im stuck in a fucking dream... please can somebody go get my parents to wake me up. then my parents appeared and i was like i need to wake up... and they disappeared. so i started to panic, thinking i was never going to wake up. ended up running around shouting i need to wake up, somebody wake me up!! it was like being underwater and fighting to the surface. then i appeared outside my house and everything was crystal clear... i walked down the road and watched the traffic... saw a lorry coming and thought fuckit, this will wake me up, im gonna jump infront of it... but didnt have the balls so i just walked infront of it slowly... and it stopped. i could see that the driver was wearing sunglasses
 
'Excuse my crudeness of this post, i wrote it quickly as i remembered it upon waking'

I had a dream last night, where human violence,hate and fear was normal, that we've always acted like this. I felt i was in a building with other humans, all experiencing fear and violence towards each other, while been watched by 'observers'. i remember lying next to someone who had been stabbed, and was bleeding all i could hear were sceams, yelling and total chaos..

And then someone else appeared, i dont know if they appeared visually or as a voice/guide and said to me;

"Pay attention, this has happened before, you dont remember? Focus on whats happening around you, remember the faces."

He/she/it then disappeared from my dream, i followed these instructions and began to focus on peoples faces.. remembering that i had seen them before, i remembered everything.. this same situation had happened time and time again.. The fear and violence was all an illusion of my mind, the reality was that everything was peaceful and calm, i had just forgotten.

Between now and the next part it gets hazy, i only remember bits a pieces.. so i wont include it.

I had overcome these observers and slipped between the cracks, understanding the truth behind the veil. I seemed to now appear to be on a train surrounded by people dressed like retro-1950's, a waiter looked at me and shifted his eyes left towards a phamplet and pointed at it.. he then suddenly disappeared from my dream.

I picked the phamplet up and was shocked to realize it had detailed writings on my past life. It described how the human condition was pre-programmed to experience fear,hate,violence out of ignorance of the truth, the compilers of this phamphlet were the 'observers'. As i tried to read more, everyone's attention on the train drew to me..they were all yelling at me to stop reading and were getting very angry at my persistence.. i then wokeup.

I couldn't help but notice these two 'beings' in my dream which were telling me things were not a part of my actual dream-state, they seemed to be giving clues as to what was happening.

I've never had a dream which has been so powerful and had such an impact on me that i felt the need to write it down at 5:30am upon waking.
 
I have been going to the same place in my dreams for years now, maybe 5 years. I call it Astral Town, and it is basically the west coast USA where I am from. . . But in a different setting. Buildings are abandoned, the only people around are a few friends and some random people about scavenging metal and stuff. Last week in my dream I was tearing down a Playstation games rack inside of something like a Target store, for the scrap metal and I was helping another person to accomplish this. The basic theme I get from the dreams is a future setting in familiar locations. It seems that society has collapsed and that towns and cities have become a free for all.
 
stonerish said:
Valerian+5-htp+Melatonin+Kava

Gives me the best dreams ever...
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now THIS is what I was looking for...will try this to see if I can get some again...then I will wait until they occur naturally again, as I do believe my body is telling me lucid dreaming is not what I need at the moment.

I got heavily into it last spring...not trying to fuck around with them too much, just had them alot, and kept drifting back into them purposefully, often waking up at like 12/1pm.:|
 
i've gotten better at lucid dreaming. usually i question whether i'm dreaming or not, and look at my hands for confirmation. if they're distorted, i know i'm dreaming. at that point, it nearly always feels like i'm right on the edge of wakefulness.

last night, for the first time, i remembered to ask someone in my dream to interpret the dream for me. but i can't bloody well remember what he said, dangit! something about how i was protecting myself.

then i found a guy i wanted to have sex with, but as we walked together to find a spot to be alone, he started shrinking until he was doll-sized.

i'm taking my phone to bed tonight so i can journal things as soon as i wake up.

a little valerian root does seem to facilitate lucid dreams.
 
I haven't smoked for a week straight ( first time in nearly 4 years of smoking daily)

and everynight i've had at least 3 ridiculously lucid dreams.

last night I had nightmare after nightmare after nightmare. Little ones but still, like everyone screaming ' i hate you' when i entered a room, or a friend just continually puking all over me.


WTF
 
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