Lucid dreaming - can you do it?

[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.

[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! 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?

[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?

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!

[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 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!