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have you ever realised you were dreaming?

Ah yes, lucid dreaming. I've been able to do it ever since I was a kid and I started to hone a method for doing it during college. My best method is to wake up after only getting 5 or 6 hours of sleep, and then be awake for about 2-3 hours and then go back to sleep around 11am or so. As odd as it sounds, for me personally, they happen when a bit of sunlight is shining into the room and I lay ontop of my bed in my clothes, NOT under the covers. For some reason they never come then...as odd as it sounds. It probably has to do with the fact that when I sleep ontop of the covers I sleep on my back and face up. Anyways.

Lucid dreams have been around since dreams have been around. Religious sects have grown around lucid dreaming in various parts of the world in history and writers in Europe have been writing about them for 300 years or so. Lucid dreams were never actually proven, however, until the latter part of this past 20th century which, if you think about it, is pretty fucking recent.

Dr. Stephen LaBerge has been studying lucid dreaming for 20 years or so and can lucid dream at will and has developed and is developing accurate methods to get them when you want them. He was the man who scientifically proved the fact that we can conciously control our dream world inside of our sleep. I'll post a link at the end of this and it tells you how exactly he did it.

My biggest problem in lucid dreaming is that I get thrown out of them becuase I get over excited. Either that or they fade away without me wanting them to fade away. There are a couple methods I know of that work for me as well as others to keep this from happening. If you want to prolong being concious in your dream, #1) look at your hands, #2) spin around

Those methods have worked to an extent but they're aren't the end all be all of staying in your dream.

I've had so many experiences, including sleep paralasis and false awakenings I would like to type so much more but the fact is my dinner is ready and my brain is shot from working so I'll leave you with this great site. It has info on everything you'd want to know about it, including a message board to talk about ideas and methods to induce lucid dreaming.

Just remember EVERYONE has the abiliity to lucid dream, but only some are born with it naturally. Or so the theory goes right now.

http://ld4all.com/ Lots of good info for anyone who takes this seriously.
 
anyone ever read "the art of dreaming" by carlos castaneda?
its amazing whether he is lying or not...
 
I have lucid dreams nearly every night. I don't know how to tell anyone to control them though - it's very odd how my thought process works while I'm sleeping because I have a disturbed sleep cycle...
 
I often realize that I am dreaming, it happens 5 or 6 times a month but most of the time I am unable to control the dream even though I know I am dreaming.

Sometimes I will realize that I am dreaming and then I will wake up within the dream. When this happens, I usually don't realize that I am really still dreaming.
 
For some periods (certain week, months) I often realize I'm in a dream and I'm able to control what happens. If I wish to increase the frequency of these lucid dreams it's a good idea to remind one self of it throughout the day, ie. every time you look at a clock, think about if this is actually a dream. This will cause you to eventually do this while you are actually dreaming and you will realize you're in a dream and be able to control what happens. (If you're in doubt about whether you're in a dream or not (which can happen sometimes when you dream), 99.9% of the times you are in a dream.

The trick to controlling what happens is that in a dream, what you expect will happen will happen. If you have a fear in a dream of something coming out of the shadows and attacking you it happens. This can be used to do whatever you want in a lucid dream. Just close your eyes and really believe that 1 kg of coke is on a table and if you really believe it it will appear on that table.

Actually, for a period of my life when I was young, (~6 years) I had a reoccuring dream that would scare me a lot and make me crawl in bed with my parents every single night because I was afraid. One day my older brother told me this fact that what you think will happen in a dream, happens. After he told me this I have never had this reoccuring dream again when you uncover your eyes.

This "lightswitch"-trick (pressing a light switch and seeing what happens) is used to tell if you're in a dream and works on this concept. You flick the switch noticing if something happens and since you are expecting something to happen, it will happen if you're in a dream. My brother told me to notice clocks when dreaming since they don't work either. The first lucid dream I had a clock was present. So I looked and it, looked away and looked at it again and it disappeared, this is how I knew I was in a dream.
 
I can never control the setting, but I often realize I'm in a dream. I don't think I can actively control anything in it actually. The times when I do the most amazing stuff I am usually filled with extreme emotions within the dream, usually with extreme feelings of rage or love, and the feelings are so strong I don't even consider I'm dreaming.
 
the best way to have great dreams is to drink a couple glasses of water before you go to sleep. this ensures a gradual wake-up from conciousness, and your body will wait until your REM cycle is over to actually wake up. that way, youre awake enough to remember your dreams, and then when youre up to take a piss, you still have a great recollection of waht was occuring in your dream.
 
Shimmer.Fade said:
... I often realize I'm in a dream. I don't think I can actively control anything in it actually.
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Try reminding yourself of the fact that your whole dream is constructed of what you expect will happen.

Then close your eyes and imagine another setting and, provided that you believe it enough, you will be in this setting when you open your eyes again.
 
Lucid dreaming is rare for me, but the times it's happened are always memorable. My favorite instance was this one time when I dreamed that a friend and I dug up a fossilized buffalo on the side of the road. As soon as the skeleton was uncovered, the bones miraculously rose up out of the ground and a body materialized around it, and the resurrected bison started chasing us. We ran for our lives at first, but I remember thinking to myself, "I am NOT going out like this," and I was able to "manifest" a pickup truck for my friend and I to race away from it in.
 
yep. happened to me the other night when i was kind of having this nightmarish type dream. about half way through i remember realising that none of this was actually real and that i was in fact dreaming, which as you can imagine was pretty cool. so as the person lunged forward to try an strangle me i simultaneously flinched, having to remind myself that this wasn't actually happening, and then further began to realise that since i know that i am dreaming i most then also have the power to change things about this dream... however when i tried to put my arms out to block the person who was advancing towards me the fact that i knew that this wasn't real, on the one hand made them unable to hurt me, but also on the other made me unable to take a physical hold of the person. my arms just went through the figure like you'd imagine they would go through a ghost.

but the coolest lucid dream that i ever had happened to me once a long long time ago with a re-occurring dream of mine... one night when i started having this particular dream, very soon into it i realised that i was in fact dreaming cos i recognised all the stuff that was happening due to the re-occurring dream factor. so knowing exactly what was going to happen next i decided to mix things up and make it a little more interesting by changed some of my decisions and actions that i'd take in the dream so as to see how that would effect the way that things would evolve.

lucid dreaming a really interesting area. apparently you can train yourself to do it if you haven't already got natural tendencies.
 
haha, I remember when I was little and would have dreams where I could tell stuff was wrong, so I opened my eyes real wide in the dream, and thought about my real eyes opening, and they did. It was really cool how, when I would dream these dreams, I could control everything.

while on this topic, has anyone had any astral projection experiences?
 
(If you're in doubt about whether you're in a dream or not (which can happen sometimes when you dream), 99.9% of the times you are in a dream.
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This is how I'm able to lucid dream. If something is strange, I will sometime question if its a dream or not. I almost always realize its a dream if I am unsure because I have never thought I was dreaming while I was awake (when I am sober anyway.) This works for me cus while I'm awake, I'm overly conscious of the fact that I am existing.
 
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