Lucid Dreaming

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mikeshinobi

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Any of you guys have experience with lucid dreams?

I used to be really into it. Kept a dream journal, read and thought about it constantly, etc. After a while I actually got pretty good at it and it became a somewhat regular thing.

For anyone unaware, a lucid dream is where you're dreaming but you figure out it's a dream, so you can "take control" and basically do whatever you want. It's hard as fuck at first and very frustrating, since immediately upon realizing you're dreaming you wake up. After a while, though, you learn to stay calm and will remember to do certain things to keep you in the dream.

Staying in the dream is one thing, but actually controlling the dream is another. I can get myself to fly pretty easily, but everything else is really difficult. I've tried to make people appear, but they appeared all distorted. I've tried to shoot fireballs but they come out really weakly. Stuff like that.

Btw, if you get the chance, I highly recommend eating in a dream. It's the only place where you can get 0 calorie pizza and ice cream.

>that feel when you think you might be in a dream, but you're pretty sure you're not, but you decide to do a reality check anyway by plugging your nose and breathing in and HOLY SHIT YOU CAN BREATHE THROUGH YOUR PLUGGED NOSE YOU'RE DREAMING RIGHT NOW OH SHIT and then you wake up
 


The first person that I believe that can do this cool. I have studied it extensively and practiced it (currently not practicing) and got close a million times but I get to excited and I wake up. Only 2 times I was able to remain asleep and be lucid. Fucking perfectly super awesome. I gotta get back into that :)
 
I used to do this a lot. I mostly did telekinetic things and flying. I could do the telekinesis for a while but eventually I got so overwhelmed with a sense of awe and power that I'd wake up.
But pretty sure i haven't done it in many years now.
 
just hear about it from you too, thanks for share, search more info on mr g then... interesting one..
 
A couple more things I'm remembering now:

- Time moves ridiculously slowly when you lucid dream. Maybe this is common to all dreaming, but I don't notice it. When I dream normally, time seems to actually pass pretty quickly, but I can recall at least one instance in particular where I fell asleep around 11 p.m., began lucid dreaming, and when I came out of it I thought "oh it must be like 3 a.m. or so by now"... I check the clock and it's 11:20.

- Whenever I wake up from a lucid dream I don't feel like I've slept at all. It's almost like lucid dreaming is some sort of half-sleep state; like it's just a weird form of really deep thought or something. I think you could say it's like somewhere between lying in bed and imagining doing something in your head, and regular dreaming.

- If I close my eyes in a lucid dream it causes me to wake up, and it's just my luck that my eyes always feel ridiculously heavy every time I manage to become lucid. I guess it's like I'm fighting sleep while I'm asleep. Weird shit.
 
I had a lucid dream. I had to pee. I stood at the urinal peeing. I woke up peeing in bed. Every time while awake and went to pee i didn't know if i was peeing in the urinal or bed. I stopped lucid dreaming.
 
when Inception came out there was a thread about this. I tried it during that time but never got anything going but I also never stuck with it. I do remember a few times where I went to bed and felt like I slept for hours and it was only like 20-30mins.
 
Glad someone else is sharing this.
It's a great experience. I was used to do deep relaxation and visualization (I guess it's the same of lucid dreaming) and this helped me a lot to change bad habits, I did 10 days in a row and felt like a snake that changes skin, a new man.
 
It's a very very cool thing and you can definitively train yourself to do it. I wanted to get into Eckankar after mastering the lucid state. I think when my life settles back down I will retrain to be lucid. This is a really cool topic.
 
Flash4Ever said:
I was used to do deep relaxation and visualization (I guess it's the same of lucid dreaming) and this helped me a lot to change bad habits, I did 10 days in a row and felt like a snake that changes skin, a new man.
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You mean like meditation?
 
Flash4Ever said:
I was used to do deep relaxation and visualization (I guess it's the same of lucid dreaming)
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Actually this isn't anything like lucid dreaming. When you are in a lucid dream, it's more like what they did in The Matrix to train Neo. After the dream stabilizes or once you realize you're in a dream, everything feels 100% real as if you were wide awake.

I've had a few, one of my first ones was just sitting at my computer, and noticing a date on some box wasn't quite right. I did a reality check by checking the clock on the taskbar, then looking at it again, and both times it was just random lettering that I couldn't read. I knew I was dreaming then, but woke up as soon as I realized it.
 
When lucid dreaming I very often 'dream' I wake up and then go back to lucid dreaming.

The way I would check for a lucid dream (don't do this much anymore) is I would always, when awake, pull out my cell phone (which has a digital clock), check the time, look away and then check again. If you are dreaming the numbers will be random and change when you look away and look back. So since I did that often enough while awake I would then occasionally do that while dreaming, which would then lead to me realizing I was dreaming and lucid dream.

But the other thing that sucked for me was I would get sleep paralysis a lot more when I was trying to lucid dream.
 
cardine said:
When lucid dreaming I very often 'dream' I wake up and then go back to lucid dreaming.

The way I would check for a lucid dream (don't do this much anymore) is I would always, when awake, pull out my cell phone (which has a digital clock), check the time, look away and then check again. If you are dreaming the numbers will be random and change when you look away and look back. So since I did that often enough while awake I would then occasionally do that while dreaming, which would then lead to me realizing I was dreaming and lucid dream.

But the other thing that sucked for me was I would get sleep paralysis a lot more when I was trying to lucid dream.
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Yeah I've had my fair share of false awakenings. I've even had some crazy Inception-style shit a few times (dream within a dream within a dream). If I recall correctly there was even one time that I started getting legitimately scared that I would never be able to wake up for real.

I've also been fortunate enough to have never experienced sleep paralysis, at least not with my eyes open. I'm not really into the whole "dark figures slowly approaching my bedside" thing.
 
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