Quote (DrDeraphis @ Oct. 30 2006, 3:09 pm) |
Lucid dreaming is difficult to do! I think that the hardest thing about lucid dreaming (next to actually doing it) is to remember to keep a dream journal after you wake up all groggy in the morning. I think that I might have to start working on it again. I've been getting a strange series of numbers and places rattling off in my mind (1960s varients are the most prominent). Also, Isn't it possible to get to the root of your problems (mental illness, addictions, and insecurities) through your lucid dreams? |
Quote (Rooster @ Oct. 30 2006, 11:36 am) |
I'm an insomiac, I'm lucky if I get 5 hours a night anyways. |
Quote (Mikey @ Oct. 30 2006, 10:22 pm) | ||
Lucky if you get 5 hours? Dude, that must make you the most well-rested insomniac on earth. The rest of us have to get by on 1-2 hours a night MAYBE |
Quote (Mianame @ Oct. 30 2006, 7:31 pm) |
It's probably more likely that you have sleep apnea Rooster. That's a case where people have trouble reaching the final stages of sleep causing one to barely get rest, be woken up often, or feel tired all the time. I highly recommend seeing a doctor if you have trouble sleeping. In fact, I recommend that to anyone. I work with my mother every now and then when she does sleep studies and there are major dangers from missing even a few hours of sleep. |
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The ability to control one's own dreams |
Quote (Holley @ Sep. 19 2007, 4:13 am) |
Had a bizarre semi-lucid dream this morning, and it was all new and with a touch of Furry to boot ... I'll do a cut-down description of the important bits, a psychologist could have a field day with this! Myself (in Fursona form) and two of my old school friends were in a mall, except that instead of being full of stores there were fairground rides, adventure playgrounds, go karting etc. We were queing to see the new 3 hour extended edition of Kaze Ghost Warrior, but before being admitted we had to give a sample of blood so they could check if we would have a heart attack during the showing. While waiting for the test results we went for a walk but got lost, and ended up outside where a gigantic song & dance routine was being filmed, and everyone was dancing (we joined in but weren't very good, lol). Next on the filming schedule was a battle sequence, only all the actors were fighting and dying for real, and we were stuck in the middle of it all. Having survived that with only minor injuries I then got in a fight with Shredder from TMNT, however I wasn't afraid of him 'cause I had claws And thats when the alarm clock went off! I know it was lucid since, despite scary / threatening situations I wasn't scared at any point, and a couple of times when the dream was going to a dead end I could 'reset' it and move on to the next thing. Hope I get another one soon, it was fun! Also I got to feel how having a tail helps when you're trying to climb and balance ... |
Quote (wulf_star @ Oct. 24 2007, 8:09 pm) |
sorry to bring up an old topic but how long has it taken for all the people who couldn't do it, to learn how? |
Quote (hd25 @ Nov. 06 2007, 4:59 pm) |
I've never been in control of my dreams (when I have them, not that often since I'm not usually in that deep sleep); I've been aware that I was dreaming and tried to wake myself up (usually in nightmares) but without prevail. btw that whole thing that you can't die in your dreams? It's true - I've had a few nightmares that I wake up right before I hit the dirt. |
I don't know whats wrong with me but my sleep style is rather... odd.
According to some people who have seen me sleep over at sleepovers or w/e say that I'm quite dexterous in my sleep (for example picking up my coat and putting it on) but I never dream.... or at least I never remember them, this led me to believe that I was having a hard time getting REM sleep, but once I am actually asleep NOTHING can wake me, I sleep through thunderstorms and fireworks, people would be able to come into my room, switch on my computer and play some music and I would not wake up :D
So in the end I dunno whats wrong with me... I'm a heavy sleeper but I don't dream (:
Sometimes when i dream (the few times that i do dream) i'll have thought about what's going to happen in my day. As if i where awake going over my plans, when i'm actually taking part in my dream. While in my dream i may be trying to get away from something (i have more nightmarish style dreams then good ones). All the while i'll be like "ok where low on bread so i should get some of that today" well something like that lol.
anyone else get these wierd happenings in their dreams. :o
Oh, sounds like normal thinking to me....
....But then again, i think different to other people, so maybe its just that we're special :D
It's even more impressive when you can pull it off while fully awake. ;D
Good tutorial. Ultimately it comes down to will power. If you believe without a doubt you will have a lucid dream, you will have one. If you believe without a doubt you can do anything you want in a dream, you can do it. Building up this confidence is what the technques are for.
As for you reality check when you bite your tongue, I've come to realize, and others have agreed with me, that reality checks that involve pain are not completely reliable. It IS possible to feel pain in a dream if you expect it to happen.
So the whole pinch me I must be dreaming thing doesn't always work. ;) I know, I've tried.
When I get some spare time, I'll write up some transformation tutorials.
I'm only lucky enough to have a Lucid dream once in every couple of months, but each of the last few times have been as an anthro being in the dream itself.
cool on being an anthro.
did you have complete control over the tail and ears or was it like wearing a fursuit?
Do you have lucids randomly or are you trying to have them?
I know I'm not an important person so finding out I was in the ceremony made me realise I was dreaming. (Hows that for a sense of self worth?)
I had a dream the other night that I had partialy control of.
I was on an island where this princess was undergoing some sort of ceremony that I was a part of, I know I'm not an important person so finding out I was in the ceremony made me realise I was dreaming. (Hows that for a sense of self worth?) To make a very long story short there were complications and I wound up in quite a few fights, however instead of being able to fly I could only glide.
I strongly remember mimicking a bird when gliding because I couldn't just 'take off' so I'd think of a bird jumping off and gliding down and thats what I'd do, I'd spread my arms like wings and leap, then tuck my legs close to my body and I glide, I even managed to fly a little by flapping my arms.
I wish I could fly like superman, but my logical mind won't let me. So I must abide by the rules of birds when flying in my dreams. :'(
At least it was a fun dream.
cool on being an anthro.
did you have complete control over the tail and ears or was it like wearing a fursuit?
Do you have lucids randomly or are you trying to have them?
In the dreams (esp. the most recent) I had full control over myself. The environment changed on it's own accord as the dream progressed, but I was still getting input from my body and the environment (footpaws through snow felt kinda cool) I 'felt' everything, but again that's my brain doing it's best to make up sensory input for what it thinks fur/tail/ears/snout would feel like. I'll admit, it felt cool, I just wish dreams like this lasted longer.
While I'm not familiar with how you're going about inducing lucid dreaming, I think with some time and a little patience, you'll achieve your goal.
I s'pose it comes easy for myself as I've been daydreaming about Anthro beings and the such since I was 6, but I think you'll hit your goal with the results you want and then some, if you don't try to force it. Just visualize what you want to be, and let your mind take it from there (:
My dreams are indistinguishable from reality, I can even read in my dreams and feel pain as real as I can in reality. I was once in a dream where I was in the Civil War and got thrown by a canon blast, I woke up and was in terrible pain all over my body.
My sense of touch is very strong and if I go numb in a dream it scares me enough that I immediately wake up.
actually, if you want good info on meditation exercises, you can look up information on what pagans call "grounding." some of the "idiots guide to..." books that address pagan things really, really have solid information about that.
if you want, i'm pretty good friends with my head priestess & she knows a ton of meditation exercises. i could ask her for a couple others that she uses.
the tree one is a really common one in the pagan community, though.
I know the more I try to recall the better I get, but I was wondering: are lucid dreams are easier to recall than regular dreams? And does just attempting to become lucid make them any more memorable either? I would assume that a lucid dream, since a sleeper is basically conscious while asleep, would be as easy to remember as a normal day's event, but I want to make sure.
Now for the interesting part of the post: I reached a weird form of lucidity in my dream last night. All I could remember was that I was caught up in a huge fight with my mom which turned extremely violent -- everyone was in tears, punches and kicks were flying from both parties, and a truly sadistic hatred overwhelmed me. After we parted for a moment, I realized that neither of us would EVER do anything like this in real life nor feel that way at all, so it must have been a dream. Of all decisions, I decided to perform a reality check! I tried to push my thumb into my palm, and lo! my hand was completely elastic, and the thumb pushed straight through! Now you would think that I would gain at least some lucidity at that point, but that wasn't the case.
My dream self "realized" that he was in a dream, but still (for some paradoxical reason) thought of the palm-penetrating occurrence as something consistent with reality. Even though there was awareness that it as a dream, I had no control over my actions or thought processes (as in a normal dream), and I still awoke with that feeling that I just watched something but had nothing to do with it.
Any suggestions concerning what exactly happened, or why the reality check malfunctioned absolutely?
So please, Don't give up!! I really can't stress that enough!
somehow, its like everything but my brain has shut off
Lucid dreaming and regular dreaming are very different. While lucid dreams seem to make more seance and things aren't that random as they appear in regular dreams.
Quotesomehow, its like everything but my brain has shut off
that is what i usually feel like i'm starting to lucid dream, but it's not just that my brain won't shut off--there is vivid dream images happening while my brain is going.
Wow, thanks, all, for your advice and support (those who's replies were directed to me). I'm taking everything into account!
To Hayaikawa, I don't remember much of what happened after my reality check. I know that the only "excuse" my dream gave for the failed RC was that pushing a thumb through a hand was something that could realistically happen in real life. Strangely, though (and I didn't mention this before), the RC made me aware that it was a dream not because of the fact that my palm was unrealistically elastic, but simply because performing the check is supposed to help with the realization. It's hard to explain, since it seems contradictory, but my dream-thought process went something like this: "Oh, my thumb went through my hand. Ok, that's perfectly normal, but since this is an RC and is supposed to make me lucid, I guess I'm dreaming."
Is there any reason for this, and can I use it to help me dream lucidly?
However, I've become increasingly interested in this discussion and finally decided to make an appearance.
Anyway, I'm going to start keeping a dream journal. I really do remember my dreams pretty well, but I have the hardest time distinguishing between reality and dreams. I DID have a scary dream a long time ago when I realized it was all fake; I wasn't scared after that.
Thanks for all the info here! It really intrigues me. :D
Wow, so all you have to do is become aware that you're dreaming for it to be considered lucid? Even if you have zero control of your thoughts/actions? That means that I technically had a true lucid dream, right? Whether I actually achieved one or just simply came close, I AM going to keep trying and see where it leads me!
BTW, thanks for all the effort you put into helping me, Hayaikawa, and thanks in advance for continuing to help me through my adventure! :D
I find it odd that I have lucid dreams without trying. I look forward to nightmares so I can control my dreams, as I have more power to influence things in them than normal dreams.
Never doing that again.
I woke up clutching my pillow to my head thinking my brains were coming out lol.
Some one who has lucid dreams evernight.
I think Kaloyan Alett is actually a natural since
he say's every one of his dreams is a lucid.
Ah, I dont dream every night, so I wasnt sure.Oh, yes you do. You just don't remember all of them.
cool lets hear about it.Sorry, (I haven't been on here in a while :P). It started as a normal lucid as myself but at one point in the dream I figured out it was lucid and remembered I wanted to be a anthro cat. I sort of imagined myself as that and I turned into it. Then I went on doing various things and at one point found myself out in a big park. Suddenly, I noticed that my dream kitty was sitting on a bench nearby and the rest of the dream is adult oriented ;). Sure wish I had lucids more often, lol.
P.s. i think Dak3ras was talking about lucid dreaming every night. correct me if im wrong
Sorry, (I haven't been on here in a while :P). It started as a normal lucid as myself but at one point in the dream I figured out it was lucid and remembered I wanted to be a anthro cat. I sort of imagined myself as that and I turned into it. Then I went on doing various things and at one point found myself out in a big park. Suddenly, I noticed that my dream kitty was sitting on a bench nearby and the rest of the dream is adult oriented ;). Sure wish I had lucids more often, lol.
Well I...
It could be good, they get scary at times, so it might be helpful.
Timing isnt important, I can lucid dream when I only have 4 hours sleep. You just need to realise its a dream
cool lets hear about it.Sorry, (I haven't been on here in a while :P). It started as a normal lucid as myself but at one point in the dream I figured out it was lucid and remembered I wanted to be a anthro cat. I sort of imagined myself as that and I turned into it. Then I went on doing various things and at one point found myself out in a big park. Suddenly, I noticed that my dream kitty was sitting on a bench nearby and the rest of the dream is adult oriented ;). Sure wish I had lucids more often, lol.
P.s. i think Dak3ras was talking about lucid dreaming every night. correct me if im wrong
One thing I have noticed though is that I can remember details from dreams much more easily if I wake up in the middle of them, usually as a result of my alarm going off. I'm the type of person that hits the snooze button about ten times before actually getting out of bed, and I'll often fall back into REM during those cycles... these are the dreams I can usually remember the most from. Could this be another way of training one's memory to remember dreams better?
Obviously I hope to be able to have lucid dreams some day, and be able to remember them afterward. I think I could have quite a bit of fun with them (:
while i find lucids generaly more realistic and more of an experince i find them difficult to achieve
and so i was wondering if any one here has self-hypnotysed
i find it genealy easier to acheive though it is'nt as real (but can feel realer with practice) and you have the same freedom you would in a lucid
so has any-one self hypnotised?
while i find lucids generaly more realistic and more of an experince i find them difficult to achieve
and so i was wondering if any one here has self-hypnotysed
i find it genealy easier to acheive though it is'nt as real (but can feel realer with practice) and you have the same freedom you would in a lucid
so has any-one self hypnotised?
I've heard of its uses but. I cant go into them here since hypnosis is a banned subject here. sorry
oh sorry, did'nt knowthat's ok.
i had a look at your 105 post on page 5 and found i t very helpful thanks
I've heard of its uses but. I cant go into them here since hypnosis is a banned subject here. sorry
I've heard of its uses but. I cant go into them here since hypnosis is a banned subject here. sorry
WHAT!?!?!? Why is hypnosis a banned subject? That's ridiculous! I see no reason for it to be banned!
sorry guys, I'd tell ya all i know, but Kobuk has explicitly told me not to talk about it.
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I can suggest that before you go to sleep to drink a glass of apple juice, It's been proven to increase vividness as well as recall.
Hmm. I see why it would be a good idea to write your dream down as soon as you wake up, but sometimes I find that I can remember more of it the longer I think of it (like midday). Weird huh?
i had a lucid .... well i don't know if it was a dream, more like an expiereince
anyway i was sat watching t.v (no one else in the room) and i sortta zoned out and i remember seeing a huge house, really nice, beautifull gardens almost like my ideal furry residence on the furry residence thread.
http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php/topic,34654.0.html
and then some gentel music started playing in the background and i saw the fox of my dreams (anthro) at this point i realised that i was in the form of my fursona and i walked up to her and she ran in to the house so i followed her to find her laying on a sofa by the fire and then (as is sods law) i woke up to find that i had been out of it for about 10 minuites
it sounds more like a vivid day dream than an actual dream but it was lucid because i had control of how everything looked, so i wonder why i dreampet her running into the house?
i had a lucid .... well i don't know if it was a dream, more like an expiereince
anyway i was sat watching t.v (no one else in the room) and i sortta zoned out and i remember seeing a huge house, really nice, beautifull gardens almost like my ideal furry residence on the furry residence thread.
http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php/topic,34654.0.html
and then some gentel music started playing in the background and i saw the fox of my dreams (anthro) at this point i realised that i was in the form of my fursona and i walked up to her and she ran in to the house so i followed her to find her laying on a sofa by the fire and then (as is sods law) i woke up to find that i had been out of it for about 10 minuites
it sounds more like a vivid day dream than an actual dream but it was lucid because i had control of how everything looked, so i wonder why i dreampet her running into the house?
Congratulations.
question time
Is this your first lucid?
and
Can you explain more about the control you had?
i had a lucid .... well i don't know if it was a dream, more like an expiereince
anyway i was sat watching t.v (no one else in the room) and i sortta zoned out and i remember seeing a huge house, really nice, beautifull gardens almost like my ideal furry residence on the furry residence thread.
http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php/topic,34654.0.html
and then some gentel music started playing in the background and i saw the fox of my dreams (anthro) at this point i realised that i was in the form of my fursona and i walked up to her and she ran in to the house so i followed her to find her laying on a sofa by the fire and then (as is sods law) i woke up to find that i had been out of it for about 10 minuites
it sounds more like a vivid day dream than an actual dream but it was lucid because i had control of how everything looked, so i wonder why i dreampet her running into the house?
Congratulations.
question time
Is this your first lucid?
and
Can you explain more about the control you had?
definatly not my first lucid dream, i'v had quite a few.
in awnser to your second question the controle i had was somewhat like a lose connection, at one point i remeber thinking the garden of the house would look nice with toperie cones leading to the door and then they appered
but at the same time i dont remeber wanting her to run inside so it was as if i had controle over almost everthing in the dream
whatever it was i hope it happens again, iwoke up feeling increadably happy
a tenth of my dreams (which i can remember, and that's were the trouble starts, i can only remember about one dream per 2weeks) are lucids, and i CAN teleport, shapeshift, and do whatever the heck i want, but the problem is, that once i realize i'm dreaming, i wake up after a few seconds :( , i DID manage to make a dream last about 30 seconds longer by shouting 'TIME STOPS' once... thats about the only problem i have , and the fact that i can only recall about 1 dream in 2weeks... so it will be very hard to discover my 'dream signs'... the only thing that's constant in my dreams which i noticed so far, is that everytihng is out of proportion, and there are ALWAYS skeletons with purple shields in it, IDK why.
i once dremt that i was in my old school, and i saw that the stairs were WAY higher than normal (so yeah i noticed i was dreaming), and i took of a la DBZ, aura and all that flashy stuff but i couldn't turn around, only fly in straight lines... i could however perform a kaaaameeeehaaameeHAAAAAAAAA by just yelling it and imagining a blue beam coming out of my hands, blowing up the stairs in tiny pieces... best...dream...ever... and another one where i was being chased by a skeleton woth a purple shield, i just went psychotic or something and slashed it in two with my mind
also, i tend to have the same dreams lots of times, i had like this weird dream about a giant chocolate man eating easter egg, and i can now predict where it's gonna show up, so when i have that particular dream, i know i'm dreaming and have lots of fun killing it in all ways possible, flamethrower, bear traps and whatnot , i am however restricted to a 10-20 second killing spree :( because after that, i just wake up. :(
i had a lucid .... well i don't know if it was a dream, more like an expiereince
anyway i was sat watching t.v (no one else in the room) and i sortta zoned out and i remember seeing a huge house, really nice, beautifull gardens almost like my ideal furry residence on the furry residence thread.
http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php/topic,34654.0.html
and then some gentel music started playing in the background and i saw the fox of my dreams (anthro) at this point i realised that i was in the form of my fursona and i walked up to her and she ran in to the house so i followed her to find her laying on a sofa by the fire and then (as is sods law) i woke up to find that i had been out of it for about 10 minuites
it sounds more like a vivid day dream than an actual dream but it was lucid because i had control of how everything looked, so i wonder why i dreampet her running into the house?
Congratulations.
question time
Is this your first lucid?
and
Can you explain more about the control you had?
definatly not my first lucid dream, i'v had quite a few.
in awnser to your second question the controle i had was somewhat like a lose connection, at one point i remeber thinking the garden of the house would look nice with toperie cones leading to the door and then they appered
but at the same time i dont remeber wanting her to run inside so it was as if i had controle over almost everthing in the dream
whatever it was i hope it happens again, iwoke up feeling increadably happy
from the more detail you've given me it actualy sounds more like a semi lucid(where the person is more subconsiously changing the events in the dream world) but cool and very good none the less.
as for fealing happy after a lucid, that happens to me as well there such great mood bosters and a fantastic way to start the day.
This was defiantly a partial lucid.
The partial awareness, and control with out completely realizing it was a dream are both dead give a ways that it was only partial.
But, this is a very good sign that your getting very close to having a full lucid.
i had a lucid .... well i don't know if it was a dream, more like an expiereince
anyway i was sat watching t.v (no one else in the room) and i sortta zoned out and i remember seeing a huge house, really nice, beautifull gardens almost like my ideal furry residence on the furry residence thread.
http://forums.furtopia.org/index.php/topic,34654.0.html
and then some gentel music started playing in the background and i saw the fox of my dreams (anthro) at this point i realised that i was in the form of my fursona and i walked up to her and she ran in to the house so i followed her to find her laying on a sofa by the fire and then (as is sods law) i woke up to find that i had been out of it for about 10 minuites
it sounds more like a vivid day dream than an actual dream but it was lucid because i had control of how everything looked, so i wonder why i dreampet her running into the house?
it seems to me more like a vivid daydream/fantasy than a real lucid but i do have controle over most of what happens, whatever it is it keeps happening, not that theres anything wrong with that its just a bit wierd that it keeps happening and each time it seems as if i get closer to her than i did the last time
all i know is that i wake up feeling exedingly happy (:
it seems to me more like a vivid daydream/fantasy than a real lucid but i do have controle over most of what happens, whatever it is it keeps happening, not that theres anything wrong with that its just a bit wierd that it keeps happening and each time it seems as if i get closer to her than i did the last time
all i know is that i wake up feeling exedingly happy (:
hrm,
the more you say this the more it sounds like a day dream, as you said. But the fact that you're getting further each time intrigues me greatly, I would definitely like to here more about this as your dream progress's.
As for the time after words, having great dreams is super fun, am I right ;)
When I died in my lucid, it scared the hell outta me. Never gonna let that happen again.
They might actually have been the same thing. As I once read, "Your mind is like a pond and ripples are your thoughts, but excitement is like dropping a boulder." can't think of who said it... but it is an acurate quote.
as for you saying you didnt have control, please expand upon that for me.As previously stated, I was able to experience nothing in the dream but reruns. I saw random, memorable moments of what had previously transpired, and had no motor control or other sensory perception. It felt like I was remembering the dream itself as opposed to actually dreaming like I was earlier. I had no control over which parts of the dream were revisited, nor was I able to influence the dream to keep going in its previous direction, despite my efforts.
like was it your body won't move or your vision was just what was happening and you didnt really see your body move?
Its never really bothered me, but I can never remember any of my dreams, it just seems as if I close my eyes then open them again and it's suddenly the morning...
Any advice? I really would like to remember a dream, just to see what it's like.
Huh. Maybe I'll try that too. I never remember my dreams either... even if I wake up in the middle of a dream, I usually forget it by the time I get to my alarm clock. :(for such an exteamly week dream memory i would suggest keeping a tape recorder near you bed so EXACTLY when you get up you talk out loud about your dreams to the recorded, it puts the dream into a whole new memory area since you did actions regarding the dream, which dont fall under the same super week memory that dreams are usually under.
The lucid part didn't last long, but it still happened! For some reason, though, my lucid dreams have both had extremely bright and shiny colors. I love it. :)
Wow.
I just had my second lucid dream last night. My friends and I had been talking about lucid dreaming yesterday, and I seemed to remember that.
My sister and I were riding a roller-coaster that was attached to some wires, and it broke. The guy in charge came and gave some speech, and we left. While running away, I started thinking, "Wait. Roller coasters don't have wires that are THAT frayed without having someone work on them. This isn't real life. This is a dream." BAM! It was lucid. Everything was so colorful!
My sister came over and talked to me, and everything got all cloudy and monochromatic. I just reached up with both my hands and made the clouds separate from the sun so the colors would come back. It was simply amazing.
The lucid part didn't last long, but it still happened! For some reason, though, my lucid dreams have both had extremely bright and shiny colors. I love it. :)
still have only gotten one lucid, however, i did have this 'half-lucid-thingy-conscious' dream
i KNEW i was dreaming, using my dream check (finally found it, in my dreams , if i poke my finger through my hand , it stretches and bones crackle), and i was like, 'AK-47 GET' , to chase of the giant worm...but i only got a small gun :o i did have a degree of control , but everytihng i wanted was toned down (which means no tanks, machine guns, giant wings, or full fursona transformation >:( ) i got a small gun and a piece of coal instead of the giant gun and meteor... any advice on this? (1 in 2 dreams is in this strange toned down lucid state now, i get like 3 of them per week, i remember a lot of dreams, but i don't have full control :o i already tried pep-talking myself into 'if those guys can do it, i must be able to do so too' but i doesn't quite work.)
i think i have a problem,lately i havent even been dreaming instead everything will be completely black and it will only seem like its been five minutes then i wake up and its already morning
i think i have a problem,lately i havent even been dreaming instead everything will be completely black and it will only seem like its been five minutes then i wake up and its already morning
I used to do that, then i read about lucid dreaming...then i started having dreams. it's weird, i was like I WANT to dream, and then i actually dream, i still don't have control about what i dream, unless it's a lucid of course.i think i have a problem,lately i havent even been dreaming instead everything will be completely black and it will only seem like its been five minutes then i wake up and its already morning
I got that most nights starting from over 2 years ago, I wasn't aware it was an actual problem...
All of my lucid dreams involve flying. I once became a seagull and flew over the ocean; another time, I purposefully transformed myself into a dragon (I stretched out the webbing between my fingers to form wings.)
More recently, I have been plagued by sleep-paralysis. I occasionally feel as though small children are climbing on me as I lie in bed, and can hear their voices. Once, as I lay in bed, I opened my eyes to see a small, ghostly apparition of a girl floating in the corner of the room. She wafted towards me, and slipped into my mouth like an icy wind. She slipped in and out of my throat several times like this, whispering "Come to me". Each time she entered me, I felt weaker and weaker.
I also have sleep paralysis hallucinations involving caterpillar-like monsters that sodomize me and do other horrible things. It's not as fun as it sounds, trust me... I'm terrified of caterpillars.
Alright, I had this awkward problem when I slept last. I was in the middle of a nightmare, and I did catch it and enter the lucid state. However, I could not change the contents of the nightmare. The only thing I could do was control myself. I don't know what went wrong, but by the time I did wake up, I was terrified. I was wondering if I could possibly get some advice on changing a nightmare into something else. They seem so much scarier in the lucid state than they do normally.
A reality check is something you do to make sure your dreaming these include.
pushing your finger through the palm. In the dream your hand should streatch like rubber or you finger could just go through your hand.
try counting your fingers. In the dream you might have move than five, less than five, they could be disfigured, or be something totally different.
My favorite
you look at a digital clock. It should be going crazy. the numbers could be letters, or there could be 20 digits in the clock all moving and changing.
This one looks really cool
plug you nose and try to breath through it. In the dream since your real hand isn't covering your nose you can breath through it just fine. This is a very strange feeling.
Look at the ground. In the dream It should look different than it normally does. Like its made out of the wrong material.
I came up with this one
Bite your tongue. Since your in the dream world your experience no pain so your tongue should feel numb, You would only be experiencing the pressure not the pain.
I lucid-dreamed last night. I tested to see if I was dreaming by trying to alter my body (I made my nose long and pointed.) I tried to transform into a dinosaur, but it only half worked and I ended up moving like a dinosaur, but still human shaped. At one point, I woke up and was paralyzed (I could hear that static-hissing and see my bedroom) I did what you advised me to do, Hayaikawa, and just allowed myself to fall sleep again by not fighting it. I was inside the living room of my house, flying (floating to the ceiling.) I decide to try and get outside, but I can't get through the window. I think I must have managed to make myself float through it somehow, because the next thing I know I'm outside, on a film set containing my house. It's all deserted. I'm still floating, and I see a mirror. I decide to look, so I can see how I really perceive myself in my own mind. I am wearing my ordinary clothes (hat, coat and boots.) My face is unnaturally thin and attenuated, my eyes cold and hard... and the entire right side of my face is pinkish and raw, as though it had been burned recently and was still not healed.
I realize I'm in an office building, and I float out into a corridor. There are workers there, and they are all animals. (a weasel and an elephant I recall vividly)
They are in a board meeting of some kind, and I get fed up so I decide to try and manifest a unicorn. I visualize a door made of plywood, and open it. It there it is! It's pure white, with golden, transparent hooves and pink eyes. But it has an unusually small head, and it doesn't look well. It begins to mutate until it becomes it tiny, white thing resembling an alien-queen chestburster (from the alien movies).
Then I started to get paranoid that I would accidentally manifest a caterpillar, so I woke myself up.
Hayaikawa, I wan't to bring up a trick I use.
When you are in a tough spot, fighting for your life, etc, look down at your hands. Somehow, this gives you control. I think it short-circuts something in your sleeping brain. What I mean is, it's like it activates circuits of conscious control. In the dream world, it arms me.
I think that's primal. So look at your hands when you need.
Also, I have noticed that reading will wake me up. In RL, I can read upside down and backwards, but if I try to read something in dreamworld, it always wakes me up.
I believe that reading in dreams activates waking conscious circuits in the brain. That is, you must be conscious to read, so the mind wakes you up so that you can consciously understand. This is a natural function of the language center of the brain.
This is why you can only start to read books in your dreams, but never finish them without waking.
Do you have a different experience?
P.S. It's time we hammered all this stuff out.
- Wingshadows, serial dreamer.
Can I get a moderator to delete the poorly formatted version of my above post? Reply #268? I fixed it in reply #270.
I don't wan't anybody to have to suffer through reading that.
Over and out.
Any advice from fellow lucid dreamers would be welcome, Hayaikawa.
On a different note, i had a semi lucid the other day, nothing really special about it, lasted like 30 seconds and i was barely away before I woke up. I seriously have to stop being so lazy and go back to writting my dreams down, my recall is absolutely terrible right now.I have only had 2 full lucids, and half of my dreams is semi-lucid...why won't my powers of FIRE AND FLAMES work...lol
Um, I'm part Comanche, so you can ignore this sentence, but do pure blood Europeans experience anything like this? I'm just curious. Well, OK, I want to know.
My spirit guides are a man and a woman: parent figures. I mean, I feel the Great Spirit, but he never sends me animal missionaries. Instead, a man and a woman tell me that I can have anything I want.
Hayaikawa, Chirgath
I want to try an experiment.
I have been wondering for a long time if vivid dreamers can contact each other in their dreams.
Here is the plan: we try to to look for a book buried somewhere in a location that's hard to get to. For me, that means stairway dreams that go down, and down, deep into an important building: I suggest a library, but a university or a government building should do.
In that building, somewhere in the basement or the archives, look for a book.
Mutants, robots, sorcerers, whatever will try to get in your way. Show them no mercy, for they are the enemy. Go in with your team - they are part of you, don't leave them behind.
And write your real name in that book. I will write mine.
I will try to find it, regardless of the cost, because finding the truth is why I write my dreams down in a journal.
Just an experiment, of course.
I have quite a few mental "issues" and i keep a dream journal. I am starting to suspect I'm having lucid dreams more and more often, the only problem is that the part of me that controls my dreams is the part of my mind that is the "bad" part... I often wake up in cold sweat or in a state of wonder, I don't rely like this part of me as it makes me do counter-productive things ect. But sometimes looking back at what I've written in my journal these dreams tell me things about myself. However it isn't always stuff I want to know. What should i do?
Bump, and,
I'm totally new to this, and even though I've read through most of the pages on this thread, I'm still not quite sure I understand everything, so I'm a complete newbie here. I first heard about lucid dreaming a few months ago, and I was intrigued, but could never actually..do anything? (The blue indicates "NEWBIE STATEMENT").
Recently though, I've been having trouble remembering dreams, and after reading this thread, almost all the way through, I've learned that its hard NOT to have dreams. Even if each scenario was only seconds, or minutes long, it still happened.
Any possible hint as to why I can't remember anything, when I try to make it a point to? I've been keeping a journal, or rather, a page, so far, of random bits and pieces of a total of 3 dreams I've had?
Lucid dreaming is something I'm very much interested in, but I have no idea where to start, because none of what the thread says seems to be working for me personally. Any advice?
I'm not entirely sure how to explain this.Yes, you're too heavy to fly. :D Seriously though, I've had this happen a few times when I first started lucid dreaming, probably because I was thinking "Woo! I'm flying! ... Wait, this is impossible... ARGHHHHH*splat*". Try not to think logically. Remember, there is no spoon.
I have slightly-lucid-dreamed before, but this scenario always seems to play out.
Usually, if I have a lucid-dream, I fly. I'm not sure why, but always flying. The problem, is that I try and try, and I always start up, and end up falling at an angle. I can only fly for a couple of seconds before I just completely fall left or right in midair.
Is there any logical explanation :o?
Try not to think logically. Remember, there is no spoon.
*wonders why I haven't posted here yet*
I'm not entirely sure how to explain this.Maybe you're losing control of the dream?
I have slightly-lucid-dreamed before, but this scenario always seems to play out.
Usually, if I have a lucid-dream, I fly. I'm not sure why, but always flying. The problem, is that I try and try, and I always start up, and end up falling at an angle. I can only fly for a couple of seconds before I just completely fall left or right in midair.
Is there any logical explanation :o?
I've had a couple that involve Anthro Vixen's and Feline femme fattales and engaged in things that would be censored here so I'm not going to bother saying them, I'll just let you use your imagination.
Somewhere in this thread, I believe Hayaikawa was right. Drinking apple juice does help with lucid dreaming. But......I'm not drinking juice, but have been snacking on apples instead before bedtime and it's helped with dreaming.
I am not saying that this is false or anything, but I don't see why apple juice helps with lucid dreaming... Is there an actual scientific reason or just trial and error?mostly trial and error, but it's fairly accepted by the main lucid dreaming community.