My brain is on theta, almost delta. Whatever you call it, is very deep relaxation, auto-hypnosis, trance state.
Lucid Dreaming
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My brain is on theta, almost delta. Whatever you call it, is very deep relaxation, auto-hypnosis, trance state.
I only experienced once and I'm pretty sure I almost shat my pants in the dream. I must have been like 5 years old, and I was a friends house and for some reason a disney character (either mickey mouse or donald duck) was trying to kill me. I honestly remember being so fucking scared and I guess that triggered something to suggest I was in a dream, however when I realized it was a dream, I could wake up. I remember thinking well fuck, I better run then. I then came to the conclusion that if it is a dream, then I can't die or that I need something to knock me awake. At 5 years old, I had to jump head first into a pavement just to wake up (which I did). That whole experienced fucked me up so hard for a while. I swear I'm not trolling, that's a true story brah.
once after like 3 day conscious loosin parties i had this on hangtover day. was stressfu las fuck.
i have a ftriend who does this 'daily', hes some kind of teacher of this so i knew from him what happened to me. anyways i didnt like it because i was like 'omg if i know i sleep how am i susposed to wake up?!'.
i have a ftriend who does this 'daily', hes some kind of teacher of this so i knew from him what happened to me. anyways i didnt like it because i was like 'omg if i know i sleep how am i susposed to wake up?!'.
Wait serious question though,
Since you're dreaming, can you fuck like some serious bitches if you imagined them?
Since you're dreaming, can you fuck like some serious bitches if you imagined them?
If you can imagine it you can do it. You have to be really good at it to do anything you want though. I never got to that level.
You might wanna check out this site - Welcome to the LD4all forum, the lucid dreamer's community
I used to frequent it back in the day. It has some pretty helpful information.
I'm unsure whether I've been in a lucid dream before.
For example, I've flown in my dreams TONS of times before. I know exactly what it feels like (it has a very very specific sensation -- in my case, I can move similar to how you would move under water), I have to take off from the ground a certain way, etc. In the dream at a certain point eventually I slowly lose the ability to fly, come back to the ground, and that's when I wake up.
But then I can usually go back to sleep and start flying again.
I generally have dreams every night...and coincidentally I have *NEVER* experienced the feeling of waking up feeling refreshed. No matter how much sleep I get, I'm always tired in the morning.
My brain never shuts off, so I always end up dreaming about whatever I'm thinking about when I go to bed. Is that essentially lucid dreaming?
For example, I've flown in my dreams TONS of times before. I know exactly what it feels like (it has a very very specific sensation -- in my case, I can move similar to how you would move under water), I have to take off from the ground a certain way, etc. In the dream at a certain point eventually I slowly lose the ability to fly, come back to the ground, and that's when I wake up.
But then I can usually go back to sleep and start flying again.
I generally have dreams every night...and coincidentally I have *NEVER* experienced the feeling of waking up feeling refreshed. No matter how much sleep I get, I'm always tired in the morning.
My brain never shuts off, so I always end up dreaming about whatever I'm thinking about when I go to bed. Is that essentially lucid dreaming?
Used to b able to do it once I got to like 300 mg of oxy a day they weren't all that pleasant. Now the only time it happens is if I gotta take a piss and same as mentioned earlier in thread but always woke up as soon as ready to start so it's not bad cuz it's like a reminder to get up and piss. Do worry about not waking up though
Dream come true! Two 'mad scientists' create sleep mask that lets people CONTROL their dreams
I was going to do this as OP but.... here ya go.....
I was going to do this as OP but.... here ya go.....
It was mickey and that costume was uncomfortable as hell. It's been a long time but I finally found you again, see you tonight. JK, seriously there will be no pavement to save you this time.
Yo OP here is a thread that had some interesting observations.
Wonder if you had two or more people that were really good at controlling their lucid dreams what might be possible if they tried to be at the same place at the same time within their dreams? Say meet in London on top of Big Ben at 00:00 GMT? Might never buy another mmo.
Yes. Lucid dreaming is awesome. Fuck flying, all I ever do is bang bitches. It's tough to stay asleep though. Problem is, I rarely have dreams, probably less than 25% of the time. Of the dreams I have I can start lucid dreaming in about half of them. It is alot of fun, but hard to control.
I've had lucid dreams a bunch of times, and they've almost always occurred during a mid-day nap for some reason; after running hard or something. Once I realize I'm in a dream, it can be a bit difficult to control the dream and lead into the direction I want, probably have had a 50% success rate.
Sometimes I get the whole dream within a dream too, it's fucking nuts. Like once I was lucid dreaming, and I was trying to stay focused on the dream because my wife and child were walking past the bedroom door being loud... so I'd have to keep going back to sleep and get in the dream.... then I really woke up and none of that shit happened, because I realized the room that they kept walking past was my bedroom growing up when I was younger. So I was dreaming I was having a lucid dream.
I got to the point once where I controlled blowing a load, woke up and it happened. Hi wife if you ever read this, it was definitely a dream with you only. :1orglaugh:
Sometimes I get the whole dream within a dream too, it's fucking nuts. Like once I was lucid dreaming, and I was trying to stay focused on the dream because my wife and child were walking past the bedroom door being loud... so I'd have to keep going back to sleep and get in the dream.... then I really woke up and none of that shit happened, because I realized the room that they kept walking past was my bedroom growing up when I was younger. So I was dreaming I was having a lucid dream.
I got to the point once where I controlled blowing a load, woke up and it happened. Hi wife if you ever read this, it was definitely a dream with you only. :1orglaugh:
I'd say 90% of the time I've ever lucid dreamt it has been during a nap. Same thing for sleep paralysis.
I lucid dream 1-2 times a week...been doing it for years. I usually don't talk about it because if someone hasn't done it or is unaware of it, they tend to think you're insane.
A side note: I can't usually fall asleep on my back, it's weird...when I lay on my back I start imagining really frustrating situations and the second I turn on my side it all goes away. The best way I can describe the "frustrating situations" - Imagine trying to thread a tiny needle and you keep missing the whole. Like a minor task that you MUST complete, but something keeps getting in your way.
A trick I do that usually works: I have to be tired enough where I can fall asleep within a 1 minute or so on my back. So, if I wake up in the middle of the night...or pulled through a long night and I'm dying for a nap, then I'll just lay on my back and fall asleep quick enough where the "frustration" doesn't matter. I assume something about this keeps my conscious on a more aware level.
I've got flying on lock down and I love it. It's seriously like my favorite thing about it. It's hard to sit here and describe how real it feels: It's loud as hell, there's insane pressure, insane speed, g-forces, ect.
Honestly, for me, trying to have sex can be risky - shit can go wrong fast. I've had a girl blowing me turn into a demon. (similar to looking at mirrors in a dream. If you can't handle some freaky shit, DON'T DO IT).
If I catch myself slipping out of the dream, I can usually get back in my rolling my body or scratching my hands. I read these tips online and they seem to work. The idea is that, you aren't rolling in your bed or actually scratching your hands, so somehow this makes you focus on what your feeling in the dream and helps you stay in. (I think that's how it works, don't quote me on that)
For some reason, even when I'm fully conscious that I'm dreaming, I still try and ask people in the dream if they will remember. After you do it a while, it can get really lonely...it's hard to explain and there's a since of confusion sometimes. I've lucid dreamed and stayed in the dream so long that I purposely woke up because of an extremely lonely feeling that comes over me...almost like I might not get out.
On occasion, my mind tries to fool me, as if it doesn't want me to know. Dreams will start out in a "3D movie" or some scenario that has me convinced that what I'm seeing is not a dream and I should pay attention, almost as if I should just play along and should not manipulate it.
Also, I do get sleep paralysis every now and then and I cannot stand it. Before I knew what it was, and that it was fairly normal, it scared the shit out of me. I still hate it on occasion, but at least I know that it's no big deal.
Crazy Story 1: Once I caught myself in a dream because I woke up and thought I missed an important meeting, but then I realized that I had set 3 alarms and there was no way. At this point I caught myself in the dream, but here is the interesting part: I was lucid dreaming in my bed, in my house, and everything was pretty much identical, except for the fact that is was a few hours later. So then, remembering that I was asleep on my back, I laid back down in the exact position I knew I was in real life. So then it hit me: I was lucid dreaming the exact same day, room, position, scenario, and everything that I was actually doing in real life....just a few hours ahead of time (and in my own mind of course). Total mindfuck.
Crazy Story 2: I read online about a guy who liked flying to space when lucid dreamed. The next lucid dream I had, I tried it and when I hit space everything went dead silent...which I thought was odd. I later looked it up and apparently, since there are no sound waves or w/e, that would actually happen. Mind = blown.
Crazy (real life) Story 3: I was on a flight one time and woke up from a nap paralyzed. Aware that it was sleep paralysis, I thought in my head, "Oh fuck, this is going to be pretty embarrassing". To get out, I had to viciously rock back and forth and the 2 people beside my thought I was having a seizure.
I was going to make a blog about it, but then I realized it's nothing that unique and plenty of people can do it. If you have never done it though, I'd really look into it...there's nothing like being in full control of your world.
TLDNR; Shit gets crazy.
A side note: I can't usually fall asleep on my back, it's weird...when I lay on my back I start imagining really frustrating situations and the second I turn on my side it all goes away. The best way I can describe the "frustrating situations" - Imagine trying to thread a tiny needle and you keep missing the whole. Like a minor task that you MUST complete, but something keeps getting in your way.
A trick I do that usually works: I have to be tired enough where I can fall asleep within a 1 minute or so on my back. So, if I wake up in the middle of the night...or pulled through a long night and I'm dying for a nap, then I'll just lay on my back and fall asleep quick enough where the "frustration" doesn't matter. I assume something about this keeps my conscious on a more aware level.
I've got flying on lock down and I love it. It's seriously like my favorite thing about it. It's hard to sit here and describe how real it feels: It's loud as hell, there's insane pressure, insane speed, g-forces, ect.
Honestly, for me, trying to have sex can be risky - shit can go wrong fast. I've had a girl blowing me turn into a demon. (similar to looking at mirrors in a dream. If you can't handle some freaky shit, DON'T DO IT).
If I catch myself slipping out of the dream, I can usually get back in my rolling my body or scratching my hands. I read these tips online and they seem to work. The idea is that, you aren't rolling in your bed or actually scratching your hands, so somehow this makes you focus on what your feeling in the dream and helps you stay in. (I think that's how it works, don't quote me on that)
For some reason, even when I'm fully conscious that I'm dreaming, I still try and ask people in the dream if they will remember. After you do it a while, it can get really lonely...it's hard to explain and there's a since of confusion sometimes. I've lucid dreamed and stayed in the dream so long that I purposely woke up because of an extremely lonely feeling that comes over me...almost like I might not get out.
On occasion, my mind tries to fool me, as if it doesn't want me to know. Dreams will start out in a "3D movie" or some scenario that has me convinced that what I'm seeing is not a dream and I should pay attention, almost as if I should just play along and should not manipulate it.
Also, I do get sleep paralysis every now and then and I cannot stand it. Before I knew what it was, and that it was fairly normal, it scared the shit out of me. I still hate it on occasion, but at least I know that it's no big deal.
Crazy Story 1: Once I caught myself in a dream because I woke up and thought I missed an important meeting, but then I realized that I had set 3 alarms and there was no way. At this point I caught myself in the dream, but here is the interesting part: I was lucid dreaming in my bed, in my house, and everything was pretty much identical, except for the fact that is was a few hours later. So then, remembering that I was asleep on my back, I laid back down in the exact position I knew I was in real life. So then it hit me: I was lucid dreaming the exact same day, room, position, scenario, and everything that I was actually doing in real life....just a few hours ahead of time (and in my own mind of course). Total mindfuck.
Crazy Story 2: I read online about a guy who liked flying to space when lucid dreamed. The next lucid dream I had, I tried it and when I hit space everything went dead silent...which I thought was odd. I later looked it up and apparently, since there are no sound waves or w/e, that would actually happen. Mind = blown.
Crazy (real life) Story 3: I was on a flight one time and woke up from a nap paralyzed. Aware that it was sleep paralysis, I thought in my head, "Oh fuck, this is going to be pretty embarrassing". To get out, I had to viciously rock back and forth and the 2 people beside my thought I was having a seizure.
I was going to make a blog about it, but then I realized it's nothing that unique and plenty of people can do it. If you have never done it though, I'd really look into it...there's nothing like being in full control of your world.
TLDNR; Shit gets crazy.
A friend of mine passed in a car accident this January, a month to the day later (coinciding with the first day I wasn't baked out of my mind when I went to sleep in a long time), I had a really vivid dream with him in it. He was sitting on a couch across the room from me with two mutual friends, although both of them were looking and laughing at something in the far corner of the room (I don't know what it was, it didn't really matter).
My friend was staring straight at me, and the window behind him was lit up by the sun almost in a movie-like, angel kind of way. A few seconds later it clicked in that both the location and the fact that he'd passed away made this all impossible, and I started to peak out a bit. I read somewhere that checking to see if light switches would turn on was a good indicator of whether you were dreaming or not. At the time I was under the impression that the light switch shouldn't work, so when I went and flicked the switch and the light came on, I freaked the fuck out and it kind of jolted me out of the dream.
The weird part is that even though no words were passed, it was really clear that he was trying to 'tell' me to find peace with what happened to him. Thinking back on it, I think it was my brain's way of finally accepting his death and moving on. I really did feel a lot better about the situation after the dream, but now I'd really love to go back and take it a step further, talk to him and hang out with him, even if I believe that it's just my own image of him and what I think he'd say to me now.
On a sidenote, I can totally see how someone could interpret an experience like this as something religious or other-worldly.
I don't know if that's considered lucid or not, but I did have complete control over the dream from the time I realized it made no sense until I hit the light switch.
My friend was staring straight at me, and the window behind him was lit up by the sun almost in a movie-like, angel kind of way. A few seconds later it clicked in that both the location and the fact that he'd passed away made this all impossible, and I started to peak out a bit. I read somewhere that checking to see if light switches would turn on was a good indicator of whether you were dreaming or not. At the time I was under the impression that the light switch shouldn't work, so when I went and flicked the switch and the light came on, I freaked the fuck out and it kind of jolted me out of the dream.
The weird part is that even though no words were passed, it was really clear that he was trying to 'tell' me to find peace with what happened to him. Thinking back on it, I think it was my brain's way of finally accepting his death and moving on. I really did feel a lot better about the situation after the dream, but now I'd really love to go back and take it a step further, talk to him and hang out with him, even if I believe that it's just my own image of him and what I think he'd say to me now.
On a sidenote, I can totally see how someone could interpret an experience like this as something religious or other-worldly.
I don't know if that's considered lucid or not, but I did have complete control over the dream from the time I realized it made no sense until I hit the light switch.
I've had an obsession with lucid dreaming ever since I read think and grow rich and the laws of success by napoleon hill. He talks a lot about how he would lay in bed every night and imagine sitting in a chamber with his "invisible council" and how he would be able to extract/receive characteristics from his council.
He took traits from guys like carnegie, lincoln, newton, etc. All of this really got my mind working and I think about it all the time.
You know how you really don't know shit until you have actually done something? Ex. the guy who reads 5 ebooks a month vs. the guy who spends $XXXX on 1 sinlg etraffic source a month.
I've always wondered if you can build "experience" or expand on ideas inside dreams. Also, how long have we been told that reality is first created in the mind?
If you can lucid dream about something, and taste it, touch it, experience it in your mind, then can't it carry over and have a positive effect on your actual life? The reason I feel like this can't help but be true is the fact that your subconcious is always running in the background and I feel like if you focus on/imagine something long enough and it feels real enough that you can make it a part of your subconcious makeup and carry it over into every day life.
Want to be a rapper? Maybe you can take that motivation you got from the that P. Diddy interview where he talks for 30+minutes about killing it in the music business, and have KFC with dat nigga every night in your head and apply the knowledge from your video 100x more than you wluld have normally.
TLDR too much beer maybe someone can expand on this for me.
He took traits from guys like carnegie, lincoln, newton, etc. All of this really got my mind working and I think about it all the time.
You know how you really don't know shit until you have actually done something? Ex. the guy who reads 5 ebooks a month vs. the guy who spends $XXXX on 1 sinlg etraffic source a month.
I've always wondered if you can build "experience" or expand on ideas inside dreams. Also, how long have we been told that reality is first created in the mind?
If you can lucid dream about something, and taste it, touch it, experience it in your mind, then can't it carry over and have a positive effect on your actual life? The reason I feel like this can't help but be true is the fact that your subconcious is always running in the background and I feel like if you focus on/imagine something long enough and it feels real enough that you can make it a part of your subconcious makeup and carry it over into every day life.
Want to be a rapper? Maybe you can take that motivation you got from the that P. Diddy interview where he talks for 30+minutes about killing it in the music business, and have KFC with dat nigga every night in your head and apply the knowledge from your video 100x more than you wluld have normally.
TLDR too much beer maybe someone can expand on this for me.
Sleep Paralysis is no joke. I used to get it all the time for months straight and then one day it just went away and never came back. I have no idea what caused it or why it was happening to me, but I am just glad it seemed to resolve on it's own. It's not a fun experience at all. In fact, it's downright terrifying.
As far as dreaming, I dream almost every night and remember my dreams which I guess is healthy because it means I am hitting REM sleep. As far as lucid, I've had a few and they were really intense. You almost wake up from a really lucid dream and don't even feel rested since it was so lifelike haha.