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Lucid Dreaming

I used to be quite amazing at lucid dreaming, having one 2-3 days a week. For the 3 months i stuck with it, I had a total of 2 OBE's and around 35 lucid dreams. I stopped though because, i think i lost my touch.
 
I had my first REAL lucid dream the other night (with help of 10mg melatonin and vitamin b-6) and it SCARED THE SHIT out of me once i realized i was dreaming... I had watched that movie "Waking Life" a couple years ago and for some reason always remembered that if you think your dreaming look at a digital clock and if you can't see the time you are dreaming...also try turning on and off a light switch, if no lights turn on or off, you are dreaming... Anyways I know this sounds crazy but when i was dreaming i was dreaming that i was in my room for some reason and when i went to look at the clock i couldn't tell the time and was like wtf? so i went to turn on a light and nothing! once this happened i started to get real scared for some reason once i noticed i was dreaming and started freaking out trying to get outta the "dream world" (for some reason my 1st lucid dreaming experience really scared me.) For some reason once i realized i was dreaming i started to run, but something was different. When I started to run it was like i was running in SUPER SLOW motion even though i was trying to run as hard and fast as i could, it was like someone hit the super slow-motion button on my dream.. I eventually woke up after what seemed like a few mins of trying to run away scared..lol...

I have been trying to have this same experience again for some time and haven't succeeded yet..
 
I had one that I remember as a kid and one a few months ago, both accidentally. The last time I looked in the car mirror (in the dream) and realized there is something off about the fact that I'm in a Starfleet uniform, chasing some celestial object across a desert in a red convertible and my face in the mirror was warped in a scary way. But that made me realize I'm dreaming and it was great while it lasted, I remember simple stuff had INTENSE meaning in the dream that after waking up didn't mean anything or make sense anymore. This was a night after MDMA and a repair dose of 5-HTP.

I would love to learn to do that at will.
 
OH MY GOD FOOTSCRAZY. YES. I get high in my dreams off of psychedelics and pot and meth also! And it is indistinguishable from getting high in real life! I think Terrence McKenna once wrote about smoking DMT in his dream, which was what first inspired me! And right now I'm going through a pretty shitty time and I got my first panic attacks in my dreams and now I absolutely hate lucid dreaming!
 
I have them every night for the past 4 years. I think it's the ritual one undergoes including breathing, thinking, and "feeling" one does right before they shut their eyes and dream.
 
When I lucid dream I often trip in my dream (CEVS, OEVS, Halucinations, the works) and smoke grass were I feel stoned as if I were stoned in real life. These dreams always amazed me that my mind with no drugs could make up the trip and or stoned feeling just from memory.

EDIT: Had a strange experiance after a bad trip were an unknown man gave me an unknown powder and told me to smoke it. I smoked some and was imediatley in an aMT trip then he vanished and me and my fiancee started to smoke the baggie of powder tripping more the more we smoked. Unfortunatley every time I trip or feel high from any drugs in my dreams, it is a very weak feeling and never anything like the real thing.
 
i have had a few lucid dreaming incident before, but i have had them a lot at a young age. for example i had a dream avery night a monster would chase me around and aroundm finally one night i realized this is a s dream im safe so i layed down and let it get me, and woke up. then in middle school dreampt i was in a store, and i realized it was a dream , so i was stealing candy knowing there were no consequences, best part was walking right into the womens room lol, but as an adult i seem to have lost the power as most people do, i do once in a while, and it usually seems like when i have a few rough days little sleep, seems like my body drifts off but my mind is still conscious. their is another phenomenon i get which my and my girlfriend descrived as being glued to the bed, where you wake up and can hear stuff doing on around you , but feel like your havoing a hard time breathing, and cont speak, move, takes everyh ounce to wake your self up and you have a horrible feeling of impending doom. but anyway i must digress, lol but if ya wanna look up lucid dreaming go google, gnostics ot gnosticism, they have a lot of ingo on it , astral projection etc
 
Anyone got any tips on how to stay asleep while lucid dreaming?

I've noted a lot of lucid dreams I that detail starts fading away into nothing if i try and look for it..

Then i normally wake up disappointed :\
 
I learned how to lucid dream from a book that used a lot of Jungian techniques in it, a book which is now out of print unfortunately.

To achieve lucid dreaming, you have to be able to recognize that it's a dream. To do this, look at your hands in the dream. Usually they won't have lines on them, or the lines will look really weird. In fact, your entire hands will look strange to you. Some people ask how they can remember to even look at their hands in their dream, and the answer is that you do it while you're awake to confirm that you're awake. By doing it while you're awake, you will ingrain to do it while you're asleep. Another technique is to try reading something in the dream, if written text is available. Reading in dreams is next to impossible, but can be done while awake, so it's another way you can use to differentiate.

Another method is to look at a mandala before going to sleep. Mandalas represent infinite chaos with a calm, collected centre. As you look at the mandala, ingrain the idea that no matter where you are (awake or asleep) and no matter what situation, you will always be the grounded centre of the dream, and in control. If you can remember this in the dream, then no matter what is happening, you will be able to make calm, rational choices without waking up.

Learning to lucid dream without getting all excited and waking up takes practice. For the first while your amazement might engage your body's sympathetic nervous system which excites you into alertness, and wakefulness. With time you'll learn to keep cool so that you can do what you want in the dream without your body being disturbed.

Once you have achieved the lucid state, you can interact with your dream characters and symbols to ask what they want, even the scary ones. I used these techniques to disarm the fears in my nightmares and start engaging with the symbols, and it resolved a lot of unconscious problems that can't really be addressed in wakeful states.
 
^ you don't need that shit.. just wake yourself up at about 4am.. get up walk around for a few mins then go back to sleep.. the whole time you are doing this keep repeating to yourself (in your head) "This is a dream - I am dreaming*

Managed to start lucid dreaming in about 3 days then had one pretty much 70% of the time for months
 
^ I can't use that method because I am prone to sleep walking and don't want to trigger an episode, but I'm glad you found something that worked for you.
 
Pwnsauce said:
Tonight i heard about a harmless and money free Psychedelic Drug, Lucid Dreaming. Supposedly lucid dreaming allows you to control your dreams and see and experience anything you want. According to my brief research it takes a few months of practice but anybody can achieve lucid dreams almost every night.

At first i didn't believe it.. I could actually perform any fantasy i wished in my dreams? It sounds crazy but i guess its true.

Has anybody here ever practiced lucid dreaming? If so what are you dreams like? Obviously it is safer, but it is as good as real psychedelic drugs?
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Lucid Dreaming is ultimate trip . its very hard to master . but i think all of us at some point had lucid dream and some of us are lucky enough to remember it .
i remeber once i had lucid dream and was able to jump very high ,and see rooftops . as soon as i notice i have this power i started to do it over and over again becuz i knew it was lucid dream and i knew it could end any time so i made the most of it haha:D
 
500mg phenibut at about 3 - 4 hours after you fall asleep.. keep telling yourself you are dreaming as you drift back off.. wake yourself up in an hour or two and repeat..

Honestly last night I had the most vivid, controllable lucid dreams that seemed to go on for hours :D

(My dosing was higher but I am currently heavily addicted so tolerance is high)
 
Going back to sleep after waking up in the morning gives me intense lucid dreams (in the form of sleep paralysis, which is actually more like a hallucination than a dream).
 
There are certain drugs that can increase the chance of lucid dreams.

choline + galantamine is one combo

I have also heard good things about wearing a transdermal nicotine patch to bed

Basically anything that is cholinergic
 
I got into and practiced lucid dreaming for almost two years.
This can be an amazing and freeing practice to explore. It is easier to attain while foregoing using psychoactives recreationally; I got best results using nothing stronger than caffeine(coffee).
The thing is in dream reality I possess what in this reality would be considered superpowers, including flight, walking through walls, time travel, instantaneous manifestation of thought into matter(I'd think sword, and it would appear in my hand, for instance), travel to parallel dimensions.
I learned a great deal about myself and was able to overcome some phobias that had previously plagued me. It completely altered my beliefs/perspective regarding existence/life and the nature of consciousness/the soul, god, etc...
I only wish that I could have had friends exploring it simultaneously to confirm an objective reality to the experiences; I was alone in my exploration and doubts as to the veracity of the experience linger. The loneliness and somewhat lacking of love/fulfillment eventually led to my abandoning dream exploration in favor of chemical explorations of the innerscape.
Eventually I left the chemical for a thirteen year foray into deep and sustained drug-free exploration of consciousness using yoga and meditation. That was also a worthwhile and amazing journey.
 
I would love to lucid dream.
Damn it I got a book on dreams from the library weeks ago and haven't even opened it up yet.
So far I've only ever had vivid realistic dreams and I've enjoyed them. Crazy shit.
 
Oddly enough I found myself having one this morning. I just clicked on this thread yesterday. Last I remember I had one was last year maybe.
 
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