Lucid dreaming - can you do it?

[kiwifruit]

Sometimes, maybe 1 in 4 times, when dreaming i realise im dreaming and can change things.
Anyone else experience this or am i completely mad? :)

For instance;
I notice something is not normal(while dreaming), like water flowing up or something crazy, i think "thats not real! This is a dream" and it goes from there.

[James Deuce]

I used to be able to do that until I got smacked in the head by a road. Now I don't dream at all.

[bugjuice]

yeah, it's pretty cool.. but try doing something you normally wouldn't do in real life, eg kill someone or jump off a building. Even tho you know you're dreaming, it's still hard to do, if at all

[T.W.R]

Christmas harvest been good this season huh ?:shutup:

[Trudes]

Sort of, last night I was dreaming about Ewan McGregor then realised it was a dream and was sorely disappointed, especially upon waking!:angry:
But if you mean you can change things in your dream as you are dreaming, then yep, have done, just wish real life was that easy!

[kiwifruit]

yeah, it's pretty cool.. but try doing something you normally wouldn't do in real life, eg kill someone or jump off a building. Even tho you know you're dreaming, it's still hard to do, if at all

yep, i know what you mean.....
even if i do realise im dreaming doesn't mean i can do anything unusual, sometimes it can be done.
flying is fun!

[The Stranger]

yeah, it's pretty cool.. but try doing something you normally wouldn't do in real life, eg kill someone or jump off a building. Even tho you know you're dreaming, it's still hard to do, if at all

Yeah I used to do this to, but for some reason mine always ended in a sticky mess.

[yungatart]

Ewwwwwwww!

[The Stranger]

Hey, why waste a perfectly good dream when you can be with anyone you like.

[SwanTiger]

Hey, why waste a perfectly good dream when you can be with anyone you like.
I like your pattern of thinking.

I do this a lot and enjoy it, the last one I remember strangling someone, bringing them back to life then doing it again, and again.

[trumpy]

........Anyone else experience this or am i completely mad? :)

Mmmm, let's see now........possibly:nya:

[Hillbilly]

Being someone fictional is fun, like the being part of the Bridge Crew on Kirk's Enterprise. You can go on all sorts of adventures and visit all sorts of places when you're dreaming. Except when you're gonna get eaten by something.

The worst dream/nightmare I had was crawling throuugh a narrow tunnel in the dirt/clay under a road, and it collapsed on me. I could feel the weight of the dirt crushing my chest. I managed to wake myself up and struggled for breath.

The most amazing thing is feeling everything that goes on in a dream, emotions, pain, etc. Changing what happensin a dream?? It's easy to do. You wake up, then go bak into the same dream with the weapon that will defeat whatever nasty is chasing/eating you.

Let's face it, if it's a good dream, you wouldn't want to affect/change the outcome, would you? Have you ever had a dream where you're say on Auckland's Queen Street in the dream, and yet it's nothing like it's supposed to be? You know - different buildings and street layout etc.

Dreams I hate: dreaming about being with people I know are dead!!

[Goblin]

Let's face it, if it's a good dream, you wouldn't want to affect/change the outcome, would you? Have you ever had a dream where you're say on Auckland's Queen Street in the dream, and yet it's nothing like it's supposed to be? You know - different buildings and street layout etc.

Dreams I hate: dreaming about being with people I know are dead!!

Oooh that's weird...I've only dreamed about two people who have passed on. My Grandfather and my old neighbor Phillip who was the same age as me but died at 16 years. Dreaming of both of them, like they were sill here, I had an overwhelming feeling of peace and well-being. It's like they come and let me know they're still there, watching, approving.

I had a most lucid dream recently, was driving my ex's big Scania and came around a corner to see my father working under a truck on the side of the road....he rolled out from under it right into my path so I just drove straight over him. :gob: :laugh:

[Skyryder]

I had a California 'wet' dream once with this big busty chick.. I went there and it rained.:dodge:

Skyryder

[riffer]

I used to be able to do that until I got smacked in the head by a road. Now I don't dream at all.



I've had similar state since a crash aged 18 involving bad concussion (Car surfing - don't ask - suffice to say I was a young idiot once).

I wonder if this is a common problem, or whether its just coincidental that lots of people don't recall dreams. My wife claims to remember dreams and be able to interpret hers, and says its a matter of training, and that if I didn't go to bed so late I would give my body the opportunity to dream naturally, rather than collapsing into bed in the wee smalls.

[Mental Trousers]

It's quite possible that as we get older we have lucid dreams less often. That seems to be the case for me as I haven't suffered any head trauma such as concussion and yet I don't have lucid dreams these days whereas I did when I was younger. In fact, I don't remember dreams like I used to or any other stuff to do with dreams.

[James Deuce]

Can I smack you in the head? Or at least dream about it?

It'll have to be a waking dream because I don;t dream you see.

Let me know when it is convenient.

[MattRSK]

It's like a dream, except your not asleep.
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[Cajun]

i bearly remeber dreaming, maybe once or twice a year i am lucky if i wake up remembering a dream, but also sleeping a few hours a nite, in not very good fashion (wake up once at least an hour) i have got better since i got older, but my sleep pattens are very bad, and i don't dream that i remember.

[riffer]

So maybe my wife has a point, then?

[James Deuce]

I don't even dream when I'm on top shelf opiates anymore.

[Toaster]

Bartender, I'll smoke whatever he's having.

[McJim]

I rarely remember dreams but when I do I remember always controlling them. I have often tried to use this to get rid of pent up agression by making people I really hate appear in the dream and then kick he shit out of them or shoot them or something but as Bugjuice said it's really difficult even though you know it's a dream - the guns just won't fire, swords go blunt and floppy and your fist just stops inches from their face.

Dreaming is totally different from waking experiences for me - I could never mix the two up - my dreams just aren't that vivid.

pfft.

[Ixion]

I used to be able to do that until I got smacked in the head by a road. Now I don't dream at all.



I used to dream frequently and vividly when young. Now I hardly ever dream (maybe once a year), and when I do they are very boring.

I do not know if the various bangs on the head I have accumulated in life have anything to do with it.

When I do dream (now or in the past) the dreams are always very logical, none of the bizarre effects other people have. And sometimes I have even been aware of a part of myself expostulating, oh that is not logical, or what nonsense (not verbally, just an awareness)

[gijoe1313]

hooo boy, I think people that know me for a while wonder if I'm always in a perpetual dream world anyhows! :innocent: I love the trippy out of body experiences - flying acoss the universe as solar flares produce rainbow scintallations of cosmos fairy lights ... dipping into black holes and surfing on warped gravity compressed planetoids ... lassooing onto the back of comets and hitching a slingshot express ride into a gas cloud that feels like a feather down trampoline! From there I love feeling the magnetic anomalies that tickle me upside the skull and grab a handful of asteroids, compress them and stretch out a long line of glittering diamond chains, with which, I stitch a daisy chain of constellations together... then, as a rest, I visit some galaxies that have a fecund and diverse gathering of biomorphs where I sit and watch the setting of mushroom gas clouds that tinge the setting tri-polar suns ... bliss ...

And then, my fave recurring theme is that I'm dressed as a samurai warrior wearing a composite armour of traditional japanese laquer prints overlaid on milspec kevlar composites, katana slung on the back, a pair of micro-mini uzis strapped on the thighs and sitting astride the saddle of a motorcycle that has a horse themed look, all whilst looking down from the brow of a cliff surveying a post-apocalyptic cityscape, that is half-buried in sand and the nuclear-fused glass wasteland stretching into the distance and the scrofulous wailing hordes of cannibalistic mutants that infest the ruins...

Uhh...yeah...dreams? Love them I do!

[_Gina_]

I don't tend to change what I am doing or anything anymore, but I have dreams where I am aware that I have had that particular dream before, and I become quite aware of knowing what's about to happen next in the sequence, then I will drift off to dreaming state again, then come back to the sense of de ja vu again.

The dreams I miss are my childhood dreams. Just before I would come to, I would be quite actively involved in the dream and make decisions about what to do next. Then I would wake up for 30 seconds or so, still totally immerged in the dream.
I would choose to go back to the dream and move back into that state just before waking. Such nice memories.

[Laava]

Nice one GIJoe! Lol. I have the best dreams just prior to a hangover. I hate the one where you're at school and all of a sudden realise that you're naked! Why does it recur?:mellow:

[gijoe1313]

Nice one GIJoe! Lol. I have the best dreams just prior to a hangover. I hate the one where you're at school and all of a sudden realise that you're naked! Why does it recur?:mellow:

Thats a common one where you haven't been organised or left something uncompleted! Those new age books about dream interpretations go on a bit like that! Either that or you had a traumatic experience at school where a PE teacher got you to run down the corridors in your underpants for being too slow to change!

Meh, the ones I really hate are where you fall off from a great height and you bounce yourself awake with a jarring shock! Usually those are the ones where you fly like superman and some w**ker in your dream says "Oi! You can't do that! Flying is impossible!" Wile. E. Coyote moment! :doh:

[Blondini]

I have really action packed dreams often very frightening like beind attacked by the russians and having to sneak and disarm the weapons on the planes and other wierd stuff its like an adventure while I am asleep.When my partner died I only had 3 dreams of him The first was very soon after he died he came to me and put his arms around me and held me so so so tight in his arms that I felt it in my soul and he just said "you are right about god" and that was it. the second time i was with a large group of people and he appeared in a white t shirt (he always wore black)and he had the biggest grin on I have seen that to was over the third was I was trying to ring him and I could not get through to his number no matter how much I tried to ring it I could not push the number right and if I pushed them right it was wrong and I was getting really upset in my dream and I woke up crying so hard:weep: Since then he has not appeared in any dreams in nearly 5 years even though he is remembered every day and very sadly missed big time.

[Hillbilly]

I used to dream about a friend. Nothing silly ot smutty, just ordinary day to day stuff. But I hadn't seen them in years, and there was always this feeling of loss. I guess I really missed them. So, I did something about it! I made an effort to contact them and get in touch. Hy, waddaya know, the dtreams have stopped!

[Animal]

I love the trippy out of body experiences - flying acoss the universe as solar flares produce rainbow scintallations of cosmos fairy lights ... dipping into black holes and surfing on warped gravity compressed planetoids ... lassooing onto the back of comets and hitching a slingshot express ride into a gas cloud that feels like a feather down trampoline! From there I love feeling the magnetic anomalies that tickle me upside the skull and grab a handful of asteroids, compress them and stretch out a long line of glittering diamond chains, with which, I stitch a daisy chain of constellations together... then, as a rest, I visit some galaxies that have a fecund and diverse gathering of biomorphs where I sit and watch the setting of mushroom gas clouds that tinge the setting tri-polar suns ... bliss ...

And then, my fave recurring theme is that I'm dressed as a samurai warrior wearing a composite armour of traditional japanese laquer prints overlaid on milspec kevlar composites, katana slung on the back, a pair of micro-mini uzis strapped on the thighs and sitting astride the saddle of a motorcycle that has a horse themed look, all whilst looking down from the brow of a cliff surveying a post-apocalyptic cityscape, that is half-buried in sand and the nuclear-fused glass wasteland stretching into the distance and the scrofulous wailing hordes of cannibalistic mutants that infest the ruins...

Dude, whatever you're on... it must be expensive! :)

[mstriumph]

Sometimes, maybe 1 in 4 times, when dreaming i realise im dreaming and can change things.
Anyone else experience this or am i completely mad? :)

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i can not only do this while dreaming - i can do it while i'm awake, too :innocent:

[crashe]

Astro Travelling is cool fun.......... you can go where you want to go.....
so long as you dont snap that cord you are fine.

Havent done it for a while...... used to be able to do it real easy.


Dreaming - I get the dreams where you are asleep and yet awake at the same time... weird.

I can hear someone with keys rattling them in the keyhole trying to get in......
I get scared and freeze up and dont move and stay like that what seems hours upon hours..... yet I know there is no one at the door...
They are really freaky when that happens.
The mind plays weird stuff at times.

But I do have nice dreams at other times thou.....

[jrandom]

I never remember my dreams.

I made up for that by marrying a psychopathic insomniac with abandonment issues; I spent at least the first two of our years together being regularly woken up by the screaming, and then getting punched in the head.

She remembers her dreams.

[kiwifruit]

bump


lucid dreaming has gotten alot better for me recently.....
more often than not lately i know "this is a dream"
i've been practicing

dreams are so much more fun when you know its a dream,
things are still very (very) life like,
things are as they would be, at the time, as they seem to be "in real life", then... you realise.. this is dream...



please, if i say out loud to you "this is a dream!" correct me, some sort of slap etc

[wildpudding]

Kiwifruit, read a book called Phychic Warrior by David Morehouse. I've read it twice, facisinating. It will completely change the way you think about the world.

Stefan

[Waylander]

yep, i know what you mean.....
even if i do realise im dreaming doesn't mean i can do anything unusual, sometimes it can be done.
flying is fun!
Keep your flying.

I prefer running like a wolf. Can even feel the dirt between my fingers as I grb the ground to pull myself faster.

[Skyryder]

Astro Travelling is cool fun.......... you can go where you want to go.....
so long as you dont snap that cord you are fine.



That happened a few times. It was sort of weird. Like I was flying.

But to do it at will.................now that would be something.

Skyryder

[Panther]

i've been practicing



What exactly do you practice, clutching up in third, flipping?

My dreams are unchangeable, I'm normally a leader in some epic battle, organising my army with great urgencey and determination to kill or be killed.

[Waylander]

What exactly do you practice, clutching up in third, flipping?

My dreams are unchangeable, I'm normally a leader in some epic battle, organising my army with great urgencey and determination to kill or be killed.
Read many Gemmall novels?

[Lissa]

My dreams are ALWAYS about people I know. Ive had dreams about riding my bike, people dying and the other day I had one where I was posting on KB... which was friggin strange, and tells me I log on WAY too much!

[Panther]

Read many Gemmall novels?

Na, I'm discovering Stienbeck at the moment, exploring enduring friendships;

I'm Sallo, the little friend of all the world.

[Waylander]

Na, I'm discovering Stienbeck at the moment, exploring enduring friendships;

I'm Sallo, the little friend of all the world.
You should try Gemmel. I always have those battle dreams you talk about when reading one of his books.

[Panther]

You should try Gemmel. I always have those battle dreams you talk about when reading one of his books.

Why do i feel as though i have commited literary blasphemy by discussing it on *here*, next thing i know Salinger will be boring...

[jrandom]

Why do i feel as though i have commited literary blasphemy by discussing it on *here*...

Pearls, in spite of the popular aphorism, do not lose their value after being tossed before swine.

They can always be recovered with the aid of a fucking big knife...

[Mr. Peanut]

Yep, I can do it.

Clocks are fucked, and light switches don't work.

[Batcerb]

Not really a fan of lucid dreaming.

Do have moments when you half awake sometimes, and are awear of it tho.

Prefer just to let dreams happen uncontrolled, sometimes you learn about yourself or have those "duh!" moments when you realise something you couldnt when awake :stupid:

Water is a weird one for me, sometimes drowning or plummeting to my doom, no problems with it in waking life tho. Always vivid.
There was this disturbing 1 the other night involving Jackie Brown dressed as the trunchbull :buggerd: :blink:

[avgas]

Yep.
Also try reading a book in your dream - its fucked up (due to neuro stuff)

[jrandom]

My dreams are unchangeable...

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[Sniper]

You scare the bejesus out of me kiwifruit. :p

[kiwifruit]

i'm completely harmless!

[N4CR]

http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/

that site is very good check out the forum links for more **** on it.
sometimes i do it, wirting dreams down helps. i used to be big into this when sleeping was my favourite thing when my life was **** a while back. no bike/nothing etc. smoking pot dont help either.

[kiwifruit]

smoking pot dont help either.

you're quite right
since i've stopped they are more intense, easier to control and i can remember more of them