Lucid Dreaming

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I looked into a mirror sometime a couple weeks ago, I saw some demented demon lady thing as my reflection and woke up scared. I’m thinking it’s because when I googled “lucid dreaming” a couple years ago, the guide I came upon told me that would happen. So, now that you’ve read this and the seed is planted, don’t do it.

most of the non-lucid dreams that I do remember are something like:
-I’m the main character in a boring dumbed down version of the LOTR or Star Wars trilogy
-I’m getting ready for the day and go about my morning, then wake up to do it again, then again
-I’m in high school or middle school again and it’s the first day of class and somehow I’ve forgotten to do the homework
-something great for a while, then ending in a PG-13 nightmare

so in general, I think remembering dreams is stressful/exhausting. Maybe I’ll try lucid dreaming again though so they become more exciting.

Jack doesn't want to get incepted - YouTube.

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[quote]lemony2j wrote:

Excellent responses and anecdotes from everyone thanks.

When you become lucid is it in the first person or are you watching yourself do things, like an OOBE?[/quote]

I was wondering if anyone was going to mention OBE in this thread! I think some dreams are you going off to other places and times to try to work out all the crap in your head.

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TOOTS!!!

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[quote]imhungry wrote:
TOOTS!!![/quote]

TIGERBOY!!!

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[quote]tootles27 wrote:

[quote]lemony2j wrote:

Excellent responses and anecdotes from everyone thanks.

When you become lucid is it in the first person or are you watching yourself do things, like an OOBE?[/quote]

I was wondering if anyone was going to mention OBE in this thread! I think some dreams are you going off to other places and times to try to work out all the crap in your head.[/quote]

Well… I did have a dream where reality was not at all material. There were only dark cool colors like blacks, purples, dark reds, and cool blues with a cloudy appearance melding into each other with flashes of yellow causing distress in the shape of lightning and my consciousness was the same as the backdrop going on forever in all 2-dimensions. Meaning that my dream was 2-d and time didn’t exist. I’m not sure if that counts.

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[quote]tootles27 wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
TOOTS!!![/quote]

TIGERBOY!!![/quote]

Got any Guiness?

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[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]digitalairair wrote:

[quote]lemony2j wrote:
I just heard about this.

Anyone ever had one? Intentionally or otherwise.

I’m kind of interested to try it.[/quote]

I think the key is practicing. When you know you are dreaming, there’s a part of your brain that knows it and make sure you keep telling yourself that it’s a dream it’s a dream! while doing crazy shit.

My best lucid dream:

I was about to go down on Vivian during a 69 when I noticed a pinhead sized frog egg attached stubbornly between the 7th and 8th folds of her labia.

I tried to blow it off. No use.

Then I examined it with a microscope and saw a white, almost see-through elephant floating in the middle of the egg like a nucleus, with what looks exactly like me floating around it like an electron in extreme high speed.

I put down the microscope and started licking the egg until it squirted out creatine like a lazer beam.

All the while she gave me the best blow job of my life.

Afterwards I gained 10 pounds.

Also, write down all your dreams in a dream journal. If you do this, it will make lucid dreaming more frequent. But I think the most important thing is to keep thinking about and believing that you will lucid dream at night during waking hours.

Hope this helps.[/quote]
I’ve seen this from you before
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I posted it on my Facebook before.

I think lucid dreams are never completely lucid. You are in control some of the time while in others you are just riding along your dream. When you wake up, you fill it in the blanks with your rational mind and make it into a story.

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I wonder how people with sensory loss dream… Like a deaf or blind person, and if the time with the impairment makes a difference and if so how much?

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I can do it, but don’t really like to.

I had a recurring nightmare as a kid (I kept losing my bike. Yes I know, I had a rough childhood). I basically did what has been recommended as far as lucid dreaming, but of course at that age I had no idea what lucid dreaming was. I just kept telling myself during the day that if I lose my bike, just remember that it’s a dream. It didn’t take long at all before I was cognizant that I was dreaming, but it wasn’t until I read a thread here a few years ago that I actually tried to take control of my own dreams.

The biggest reason I don’t like it is that I find it mentally taxing. Not because of trying to keep a log or remembering your dreams, but I don’t feel like I get quality sleep with lucid dreaming. It was cool at first, jumping up and flying was one of the first things I would do, but I’d always kind of get to a point of “what’s next?” I think the best part of dreaming is that you really delve into your subconscious and let your mind wander, lucid dreaming blends the subconscious with the conscious and I don’t think this allows you to fall into the same state of sleep. Actually trying to decide what to do in your own dreams is too much work.

The other big reason is that you can’t really do any of the cool stuff you would want to. As other’s have mentioned if you go for stimulation you will wake up, but that leads me to my ‘inception’ point.

When I wake up from a lucid dream, I only dream that I wake up and then start a whole new dream. Typically this would instantly tip me off that I am still dreaming and put me back into the lucid state. This cycle could repeat many times and I think it was the major reason behind the poor quality of sleep. When I finally would wake up I felt like I was very restless all night.

I have also had some issues with sleep walking that have led to embarrassing situations. I’d be remiss if I didn’t think there was a relation here.

One more story you might find interesting. I think people generally recognize that they wake up right before they die in a dream. I’ve had multiple dreams where I do die. This is hard to explain because nothing really happens afterward, but in the dream I am cognizant of both my existence and my death yet I am unable to do anything about it. This is not sleep paralysis as I am fully asleep the entire time as well, but I am paralyzed in my dream. It’s not frightening or exciting, it just is what it is.

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[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
I wonder how people with sensory loss dream… Like a deaf or blind person, and if the time with the impairment makes a difference and if so how much? [/quote]
I’ve been deaf and mute before but never blind at least from what I recall

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[quote]Waylander wrote:
Top tip: If you go lucid, don’t have sex in your dream. You will wake up upon sexual stimulation.[/quote]
THEN WTF IS THE POINT

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[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]Waylander wrote:
Top tip: If you go lucid, don’t have sex in your dream. You will wake up upon sexual stimulation.[/quote]
THEN WTF IS THE POINT[/quote]
Every time I’ve done it, it was pretty awesome

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[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]Waylander wrote:
Top tip: If you go lucid, don’t have sex in your dream. You will wake up upon sexual stimulation.[/quote]
THEN WTF IS THE POINT[/quote]
Every time I’ve done it, it was pretty awesome[/quote]

Yeah it’s awesome for like 5 seconds, then you wake up in a sticky mess.

I have found in a lucid dream though that I ran out of things to do, so maybe I should really think about things to do in a dream. I’d like to explore space some more, that was fun when I flew into space, very weird too. I’d like to try conversating with people more in a dream, see what shit they say. My friend says that if you want to change your setting in a dream, just spin around really fast and everything changes. He uses this as a reality check, but I’ve never remembered to try it.

I’ve also had semi-lucid dreams where it’s as if my subconcious mind is trying to take over again and take away my concious control. This will usually be in the form of when I fly, it pushes me back to earth, or pulls me in different directions.

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Also, I found it interesting how time passes when you are dreaming. I woke up and checked my clock to see it was about 10:00am, then went back to sleep and continued the dream I was having but became lucid. It was my most productive and comprehensive lucid dream to date and in the dream it felt like it lasted about 320 minutes. I then woke up to look at the clock to see 11:30am. A 20 minute dream had lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes, just showing that real world time does indeed fly by when you are dreaming, and not the otherway round as is depicted in inception. I believe this probably has something to do with the intense processing your brain has to do, because I did a lot of crazy shit in those 20minutes and flew to space. So rather than may the dream seem jarred as your brain processes the scenario, I think it just slows down your sense of time in order to make the dream run seamlessly.

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[quote]Waylander wrote:

[quote]spar4tee wrote:

[quote]csulli wrote:

[quote]Waylander wrote:
Top tip: If you go lucid, don’t have sex in your dream. You will wake up upon sexual stimulation.[/quote]
THEN WTF IS THE POINT[/quote]
Every time I’ve done it, it was pretty awesome[/quote]

Yeah it’s awesome for like 5 seconds, then you wake up in a sticky mess.
[/quote]
Not for me. Can even recreate it upon wakening. Same sensations.

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[quote]Waylander wrote:
Also, I found it interesting how time passes when you are dreaming. I woke up and checked my clock to see it was about 10:00am, then went back to sleep and continued the dream I was having but became lucid. It was my most productive and comprehensive lucid dream to date and in the dream it felt like it lasted about 320 minutes. I then woke up to look at the clock to see 11:30am. A 20 minute dream had lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes, just showing that real world time does indeed fly by when you are dreaming, and not the otherway round as is depicted in inception. I believe this probably has something to do with the intense processing your brain has to do, because I did a lot of crazy shit in those 20minutes and flew to space. So rather than may the dream seem jarred as your brain processes the scenario, I think it just slows down your sense of time in order to make the dream run seamlessly.[/quote]

I was dreaming the other day and I tried to tell myself that I was dreaming and when I did this air started hitting my face and was loud and freaked me out. I got scared so I woke myself up, I am not sure what it was.