Foo - Lucid dreaming

Lucid dreaming is being aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming, hence giving you the chance to control your dreams once you are past a certain stage of that dream. While some cannot recall any of their dreams upon awakening, Lucid dreams are those that are vivid, and at the time realistic, resulting in the ability to retain the memory of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

Has any of you experienced this? Care to share your thoughts on this?

yep..it's kind of weird when it happens, but it's pretty awesome as well. i actually go to bed hoping it happens.....

Yes, and I might add that I've woken in the morning expecting to find more Paramounts in my room then when I initially went to sleep.

...that's no lie.

-Kurt

Lucid dreaming is pretty cool. It's an intense dream state in deep alpha cycle, but from some cognitive quirk involved with distributed network resonance, you can kind of control the outcomes of the dream in your mind. It's wish fulfillment at it's finest, and normal and quite healthy. :D

Strange. I am doing it now.

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Lucid dreaming is pretty cool. It's an intense dream state in deep alpha cycle, but from some cognitive quirk involved with distributed network resonance, you can kind of control the outcomes of the dream in your mind. It's wish fulfillment at it's finest, and normal and quite healthy. :D

Normal maybe, but it doesn't happen very often - at least for me. I have a lucid dream maybe once a year. I remember dreams often, but am not quite "in it" enough to be able to really experience or change them. Then some quirk happens and I dream on a different level. Usually it feels like a longer dream, with strong emotions and the realization that I'm dreaming. Freaky and quite cool. I'd be interested in hearing if there are ways to encourage them more. Other than dropping LSD before bed.

I bought this how to e-book (http://www.consciousdreaming.com/lucid-dreaming/how-to-lucid-dream-manual-book.htm) some 7 or 8 years ago. $10 today I think. Lucid dreaming is something anyone can do, but it does require a very focused effort over a fair length of time to really be able to manage a series of them.

I used to be really into lucid dreaming. I read info on websites that gave tips and exercises to help you dream lucid more often and stay "in the dream" once you are lucid dreaming. It was hella fun.

I do, I heard it was a bit rare, but from the replies I guess its really not, I think in my dreams, and all the while I'm telling myself,"You know this is a dream and you know you can do just about anything you want!"
it's pretty cool once one gets used to it. :) I've tried to bring things out of my dreams by holding them tight, but when I wake there is, of course, never anything in my hands, I've also awakened with pains in my abdominal, arm, and leg muscles when I drempt I could climb walls like Spiderman! Those dreams are the craziest as I'm making decisions like I'm awake! and I know exactly what I'm doing and about to do! It's pretty ****ing awesome!

Yep. I fly in my dreams all the time. I cross my legs and levitate like a Tibetan monk. I used to only bounce and fly across a room, now I fly wherever I wish and have started to fly more superman style.

The bad thing is I realize what I'm doing which wakes me up.

Oh, and I can kick Bruce Lee's and Bruce Willis' asses in my dreams too.

Wet lucid dreams FTW!

Like Allen, I've had some incredible flying dreams. It usually starts when something in my dream causes me to jump and I jump higher or farther than normal. When I settle back to the ground, I know that all I need to do is flap my arms and I'm up. I've had such fantastic dreams like that. Soaring above the ground, feeling the wind and the sun. I usually wake up excited and then saddened when I remember I really can't fly. If I wake up after landing, I can sometimes think about flying that way and I'll fall back asleep for more dreams. My flying dreams are very realistic in terms of what's surrounding me. I usually leave from my backyard or the street and I see the tops of my house and my neighbors houses. I dodge neighborhood trees and fly towards the mountains. :)

Lucid dreams are an incredible ability and, I think, can tell you more about your real desires and wishes than most anything else. Like Tom said, you are in control and able to make any wish come true.

Most of the dreams I have are quite disturbing. I'm almost always being chased/hunted, or am fighting. Sometimes I find myself the instigator of the fight, or where I'm the hunter/killer, but tends to be rare. Usually in the dreams where I'm being hunted, I have some conscious involvement. I'll run and run 'till the guy (usually it's a guy) catches up to me. When I actually have to fight, that's where I get control. These dreams are exhausting.

I could be anywhere, like a kitchen. I'd consciously choose what I'm going to use to defend myself with. Not going to go into too much detail in case y'all think I'm psycho.

In the dreams where I'm the hunter/killer, it's usually auto-pilot ... until I finally catch up to the "victim." Once I find myself in control of my... character, I suppose, I immediately stop. Horrified by my own actions in my dreams! It's like I'm third person, watching myself, wishing to get control to stop it.

I guess I have a darker side that I'm fighting with. ... maybe that's the only violent "escape" I get in life, 'cause usually I'm such a cheerful, easy going guy :).

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Another common dream tends to be what I call the "frustrating" dream. I'll consciously be trying to do something, like drive a car to the other side of town. However, it's impossible, no matter what I do. Y'know, the roads would be closed, or there'd be construction, or a friend would call you up and demand that you go see them, so you can't get to wherever you really need to be. In these dreams I can never get my goal accomplished.

Weird dreams, come to think of it.

i usually notice myself flying... a lot because i can't seem to control anything else. i am actually pretty good at flying around in my dreams now. i use to go up and free fall but not hit the ground. now, i can sort of control direction, swoop down, and stuff like that. my most vivid dreams are when i get closer to waking up in the morning. sometimes i'll wake up, and it won't actually be time to get up, so i will fall back asleep, and then i'll have an really intense and long dream for the 15 real minutes i have before getting up. those dreams are the best.

I did a project on lucid dreams in college-

Likely its more interesting to those who have experienced it and sounds like crazy talk to those who haven't?

At a young age I realized when I had a bad dream that "it was ok, because it was just a dream" and I'd let it play out or play along, even if it was scary.

Mine have all been DILD (dream initiated, where I realized I was dreaming during the dream).

I don't dream much any more, or if I do- I don't remember them. Sad.

oh, and how about deja vu (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=453293&highlight=lucid+dream)? :lol:

A way I've heard to try to make them happen is to set an alarm for when you know you'll be fast asleep, and set it again for 5ish minutes after that. After it wakes you up the first time, you turn it off, and say "5 I'm dreaming 4 I'm dreaming 3 I'm dreaming 2 I'm dreaming" and by then, if you were already pretty zoned out when you woke up, you should be back asleep, telling yourself you're dreaming.

Theoretically you'll then wake up in a few minutes, and remember your dream.

I can't say I've tried this because dreams don't tend to interest me much, but I thought I'd share the idea in case anyone was interested.

Lucid dreaming is being aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming, hence giving you the chance to control your dreams once you are past a certain stage of that dream. While some cannot recall any of their dreams upon awakening, Lucid dreams are those that are vivid, and at the time realistic, resulting in the ability to retain the memory of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

Has any of you experienced this? Care to share your thoughts on this?

Yes; it's happened to me, but in most cases, I can't recall exactly what transpired.

What I always really aimed for was an OOBE (out-of-body experience, also known as Astral Projection). I even read Uri Geller books which addressed this and provided steps. Of course, because I was an idiot and didn't know he was a fluke, I never pulled it off.

Ah, gotta love internet back in the days of dial-up...

Wet lucid dreams FTW!

Wet dreams are really, really weird. I've never had them that often, but those are usually the most vivid dreams I can remember.

I don't know, I think being able to control dreams would take some of the fun out of it.

The insanity, randomness, nonsensicalness, and WTFocity are what make dreams entertaining.

yep..it's kind of weird when it happens, but it's pretty awesome as well. i actually go to bed hoping it happens.....

Me too. I love it. My only problem is sometimes I think some dreams actually happened so I say something to someone and they get confused hahah. I usually get the best sleep when this happens as well.

Back a few years ago, my live-in girlfriend woke up pissed off at me. She was mad for a couple hours until she realized that what had angered her was a dream she had had. :lol:

When I was at uni, I could control every character in my dream. It took some time to train myself up to do this. Now, I can only vaguely control a couple of characters in my dream. For example, if I wanna be all-powerful, I can do that. If I wanna experiment with being on an equal-footing with an adversary, I can do that too. I usually dont let myself be less powerful than an adversary.

Typically I like my dreams to be about someone chasing me, or me helping someone out who is being chased.

I was advised to wake up during the middle of the night and write down what my dreams were to keep a log (I was part of the alt.dreams.something group) and I found when I went back to sleep, I could continue my dream from where I left off. But I didn't like doing that because I felt tired in the mornings.

I'm not sure why I stopped concentrating on lucid dreams so much, I think I wasn't as fresh in the mornings as I used to be without lucid dreaming. Now I only lucid dream once in a while, and the characters are not as controlled as they used to be.

oh, and how about deja vu (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=453293&highlight=lucid+dream)? :lol:

I made almost the same post in that thread and don't even remember it.
Nope, that neural pathway did not stick.

Back a few years ago, my live-in girlfriend woke up pissed off at me. She was mad for a couple hours until she realized that what had angered her was a dream she had had. :lol:

Some of the worst fights my wife and I have gotten into were because one or the other of us had a dream the night before where we had done something unpleasant. You wake up pissed off and find a reason to be mad!:D

I experience lucid dreaming every night and have since I was in junior high. I did a really elaborate research paper on it in college. I actually didn't know what was going on until I did the paper, so it was an interesting coincidence that I randomly came across the topic and then went, "ooooooooooooooooh........."

kind of reminds me of Carlos Castenadas when Don Juan gave him the task of finding
his hands in his sleep. . .
At one point in time I was able to do that, but can't remember why I wanted to do that. .

Only once, and it was brief. I couldn't control much of the dream, but I remember I made myself fly a short distance in the dream.

Any other time I'm in the air during a dream, I'm usually falling... and normally wake up with a racing heart. :twitchy:

Alls it takes is a little Melatonin and some positive thinking.