[quote]Shadow_Boxer wrote:
I’ve only had one lucid dream. In it, i had my back to a cliff, with a lion approaching me. It lunged at me, and i grabbed it around its head and tossed it off the cliff. Woke up right after… gonna have to try some of those “techniques” to induce another.[/quote]
I keep saying Im going to do them, but then forgetting. I need practice xD
I regularly have very vivid dreams. There are definitely times where I have all my senses, but only functioning at “drunk” capacity. This usually winds up with me confused as to whether I dreamed something or it actually happened and I was just sloshed. I never know I’m dreaming while I’m dreaming. I’m gonna start working on that.
[quote]wfifer wrote:
I regularly have very vivid dreams. There are definitely times where I have all my senses, but only functioning at “drunk” capacity. This usually winds up with me confused as to whether I dreamed something or it actually happened and I was just sloshed. I never know I’m dreaming while I’m dreaming. I’m gonna start working on that. [/quote]
That’s all you have to do to become lucid. It’s the realization that your dreaming that’s the key, or so I hear 
I’ve been able to do this since my teen years. All I have to do is think about what I want to dream about before I go to sleep, then find my hands while I’m dreaming. Once I see the scene I wanted, I realize I’m dreaming. When I can see my hands, I have control.
I don’t know if it qualifies as lucid dreaming, but I have been out of my body in a dream. When I realized I was out of my body, everything, the whole world, was upside down and vibrating strangely. The girl that provoked me out of my body no longer looked as she did, she appeared to have a giant eye in the middle of her forehead colored light purple. An upside down face and a giant eye in the middle. That’s all I can say.
I used to have fully lucid dreams all the time. Nowadays it only happens about once a week or so. I am pretty good at controlling/mainpulating my dream environments and have developed a lot of techniques that make the process easier.
I still have a hard time maintaining lucidity for an extended period of time, though - that’s the real rub when it comes to lucid dreaming.
A couple of my favorite things to do:
Realize I’m dreaming mid-nightmare and obliterate whatever monster/bad guy is coming after me.
Approach a character in my dream and ask them what it feels like to be a figment of my imagination/let them know they are merely a concoction of my imagination.
Anyone else try these?
[quote]pushharder wrote:
I’m not sure whether this qualifies as lucid dreaming or not but I had a dream inside of a dream last night. Yes, I dreamed I was dreaming another dream. I awoke from the “inside dream” and then proceeded to awake from THE dream to the real world.
Weird huh?
Fitting that this post should immediately follow one by my good buddy, Molotov.[/quote]
I’ve had these many times. It’s kind of annoying, actually.
anyone dream and then all of a sudden you notice in your dream that it’s a completely different dream?
only thing I can think of is going in and out of REM sleep and remembering one dream to the next
Lucid Dreaming is one of the very, very few seemingly “paranormal” things that actually happen as far as I can tell. They are probably responsible for any and all sort of “Astral Projecting”, out of body experiences, and other such reports.
Many people have them for fleeting moments, they are often intense(they tend to involve high sensory things like flying, sex, falling…) and cause the person to wake up, usually right after you realize “Hey, I’m dreaming right now…” poof you snap out of it.
Its an interesting thing to have happen, to be able to “control” the dream world. I understand its a bit hard to stay in them for many people because the reality checking your brain does usually alerts your body to wake up.
[quote]Brayton wrote:
I used to have fully lucid dreams all the time. Nowadays it only happens about once a week or so. I am pretty good at controlling/mainpulating my dream environments and have developed a lot of techniques that make the process easier.
I still have a hard time maintaining lucidity for an extended period of time, though - that’s the real rub when it comes to lucid dreaming.
A couple of my favorite things to do:
Realize I’m dreaming mid-nightmare and obliterate whatever monster/bad guy is coming after me.
Approach a character in my dream and ask them what it feels like to be a figment of my imagination/let them know they are merely a concoction of my imagination.
Anyone else try these?[/quote]
I’ve never had a nightmare since I’ve learned about lucid dreaming. I’m still working on getting it down for pleasure or experimenting though.
Does that qualify as talking to yourself, with the dream figures? =p
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
anyone dream and then all of a sudden you notice in your dream that it’s a completely different dream?
only thing I can think of is going in and out of REM sleep and remembering one dream to the next[/quote]
That kills me when I wake up in the morning. I recall one dream, and then suddenly I go straight into a completely different one. The REM patterns make sense.