Lucid Dreaming

scrabface · #1 11-17-2010, 03:29 PM

I read about the possibility of lucid dreaming and I really wanna try this out. By thinking back I know that as a kid I sometimes dreamed lucid. But it mostly was kind of a nightmare and I knew it was a nightmare and tried to escape by reaching myself so I could tell me that I have to wake up. sounds odd.
the first time I heard about lucid dreaming, which was longer ago, I talked about it with a fried who's studying neuropsychology and he said there is also the possibility that dreaming itself is a hallucination as we can only look back at them after we woke up. so what we call a dream is only memory. Neither of us do really believe this, but there is no chance of proving it.
only a lucid dreamer could communicate with the real world with his eyes. the eye motion should confirm the arranged pattern.

anyway, I am not up to prove the reality of dreaming, but if lucid dreaming is possible, I want to experience it.

Bullet Magnet · #2 11-17-2010, 04:17 PM

You'll need to be able to sleep without resting your frontal lobe. If you call that resting.

ziggy · #3 11-17-2010, 04:52 PM

I've had a lucid dreaming episode before when I was like 6, but I still could barely control anything in my dream. That was the only time when I was aware I was dreaming. It's really hard to do though, and I don't know if you can just will yourself to do it.

Daxter King · #4 11-17-2010, 05:59 PM

The other night I was having a nightmare. Sometime within it, I said to myself "This is just my subconsciousness messing with me, conciseness, attack!" An army showed up and shot up everything from my nightmare. I dont know if this counts, but it was pretty cool.

enchilado · #5 11-17-2010, 06:53 PM

A few years back we had pet axolotls. For some reason, I often would dream of one or two of them being dead.

Then, one time, I was dreaming it for the umptimillionth time and I realised, 'this is just ANOTHER of those darned dreams!'. I then woke up, and never dreamt of them being dead again.

Mainly because soon after that I went to New Zealand and one died while I was away, but yeah.

MagogCartel · #6 11-17-2010, 07:17 PM

Do 'premonitions' fit this category? Example: I would be anywhere (home, school), space out for what seemed like forever, but actually only a few seconds. Then, like 2 weeks later, I would live through what I saw two weeks previous, whether it be me talking, conversation or actions of others, visual images I've never seen, etc. I think of it as super Deja Vu. Also, I could choose to act differently than in the original scene. Sorry if I sound crazy, but this used to happen to me for like 2-3 years.

MagogCartel · #7 11-17-2010, 07:19 PM

To Daxter King:

Similar to what the dreamers do with their subconscious in 'Inception.'

***Nate*** · #8 11-17-2010, 07:58 PM

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Do 'premonitions' fit this category? Example: I would be anywhere (home, school), space out for what seemed like forever, but actually only a few seconds. Then, like 2 weeks later, I would live through what I saw two weeks previous, whether it be me talking, conversation or actions of others, visual images I've never seen, etc. I think of it as super Deja Vu. Also, I could choose to act differently than in the original scene. Sorry if I sound crazy, but this used to happen to me for like 2-3 years.

It's not 'super Deja Vu'; that is deja vu. Deal with it.

Also, don't double post. Use the 'Edit' button if you want to add to your post.

abe619 · #9 11-17-2010, 08:04 PM

Lucid dreaming is simply awesome...i used to have more of it when i was younger.....also binaural beats help.

MagogCartel · #10 11-17-2010, 08:06 PM

Wow, apparently you can't speak your mind on here without someone saying something rude. Sorry my comment was so idiotic and I'm new and wasn't aware what double posting was exactly. I thought this community would be inviting.

***Nate*** · #11 11-17-2010, 09:31 PM

We are inviting. We are just sarcastic at the same time. Deal with it.

enchilado · #12 11-17-2010, 09:51 PM

Most insults you'll read here aren't really meant to be insulting. It's the way we are.

Deal with it.

T-nex · #13 11-17-2010, 11:29 PM

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Wow, apparently you can't speak your mind on here without someone saying something rude. Sorry my comment was so idiotic and I'm new and wasn't aware what double posting was exactly. I thought this community would be inviting.

If you start taking people seriously around here, you'll end up in the gutter X_x
Some people live off of being sarcastic and poking at people. Just take things with a grain of salt.
Oh and don't double-post! It's the single most worst thing you can ever do!!

Anyway, I've had quite a few lucid dreams during my years of existence. The most recent one was a few months ago... I think. It was quite nice. I was super-aware but I was still dreaming. So I filled up my dream with spaceships in the sky, and I flew back to my child hood place and hung out there for a while. Maybe that's a waste of lucid dreaming, but at least I enjoyed it.

Lately I haven't been so aware of my dreams. It's a strange development, cos I always used to be able to tell when I was dreaming and then tweak them a bit.

MeechMunchie · #14 11-17-2010, 11:45 PM

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Wow, apparently you can't speak your mind on here without someone saying something rude.

Having unusual opinions is fine. Getting your facts wrong isn't.

Deal with it.

I seem to mention this example every time we have a thread about this, but there is one dream I had where I fell off a cliff. I got up off the ground, and realised that since I wasn't dead, or even hurt, this must be a dream. So what did I do? I walked back to the top of the cliff and jumped off again. Wheee! And that was how I spent the rest of the night, reapeatedly basejumping without a parachute. Fair point by Bullet Magenet, I was dog-tired in the morning.

AlexFili · #15 11-18-2010, 12:02 AM

Anyone seen Vanilla Sky or Inception? I like those films :P
I've not had many lucid dreams, but the ones I do have are nice.

***Nate*** · #16 11-18-2010, 02:36 AM

I had a dream a week ago in which I was thinking about the fact that I regularly have dreams about flying/floating, Arthur Dent-style, and how absurd that is. Then I found a large helium balloon, sat on it, and it gave me just enough lift that my innate magical ability took over and I was able to fly.

Then I dreamed that I woke up, fell back asleep, had the same dream again but it ended with me having a conversation with someone about the fact that I was dreaming and how goddamn stupid it is. Then I pinched myself in the dream and woke up.

T-nex · #17 11-18-2010, 05:28 AM

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I had a dream a week ago in which I was thinking about the fact that I regularly have dreams about flying/floating, Arthur Dent-style, and how absurd that is. Then I found a large helium balloon, sat on it, and it gave me just enough lift that my innate magical ability took over and I was able to fly.

Then I dreamed that I woke up, fell back asleep, had the same dream again but it ended with me having a conversation with someone about the fact that I was dreaming and how goddamn stupid it is. Then I pinched myself in the dream and woke up.

XD that does sound like a fairly retarded dream XD ... Well funny any anyway. And entertaining.

I love absurd dreams. I have too many of them.

I remember I woke myself up at some point cos I was having a really tedious nightmare, and I suddenly thought: I'm really fucking tired of this dream. So I woke myself up and was a bit surprised.

Dreaming is fun. I'd like to teach my brain to have more lucid dream. They are quite nice.

MagogCartel · #18 11-18-2010, 07:26 AM

Haha oh okay, sorry. I'm just new and shy. I'll suck it up and deal with it.

MA · #19 11-18-2010, 07:29 AM

YEAH

DEAL WITH IT, MAN

DEAL WITH IT

OANST · #20 11-18-2010, 07:30 AM

I have a giant dream penis.

Deal with it.

Bullet Magnet · #21 11-18-2010, 08:26 AM

I've had a dream when I was about 14 in which I was playing a mature-rated videogame. An entirely fictional one that I invented in my dream.

Later that night I had a nightmare about it.

MeechMunchie · #22 11-18-2010, 09:41 AM

I keep dreaming that I'm at my computer, having a great time playing games that I don't own in reality.

I guess that says a lot about my life and interests.

STM · #23 11-18-2010, 10:14 AM

I lucid dream infrequently but not rarely, usually, once you become aware that you are in fact just dreaming it is not a case of contacting your sleeping body but trying to wake yourself up, if it does not happen automatically this is very hard!

Mac Sirloin · #24 11-18-2010, 10:22 AM

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Wow, apparently you can't speak your mind on here without someone saying something rude. Sorry my comment was so idiotic and I'm new and wasn't aware what double posting was exactly. I thought this community would be inviting.

I remember thinking Lucid dreaming was the coolest thing a few years ago. Then I realized you don't get any rest, it's a miserable pain in the ass to actually "initiate" a Lucid dream, and it's not like you have a whole lot to do once you exhaust flying and having sex with a tank (or something).

I prefer normal sleeping as the entire point of sleep is to actually be rested when you're done, not irritable and with a headache.

scrabface · #25 11-18-2010, 10:35 AM

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I remember thinking Lucid dreaming was the coolest thing a few years ago. Then I realized you don't get any rest, it's a miserable pain in the ass to actually "initiate" a Lucid dream, and it's not like you have a whole lot to do once you exhaust flying and having sex with a tank (or something).

I prefer normal sleeping as the entire point of sleep is to actually be rested when you're done, not irritable and with a headache.

so how did you initiate a lucid dream? got any tips? I wasn't able to start lucid dreaming on purpose so far, so I really would be thankful for any help.

Mac Sirloin · #26 11-18-2010, 10:42 AM

You basically have to think about it, REALLY REALLY HARD, then fall asleep without falling asleep.

OANST · #27 11-18-2010, 10:42 AM

Mac Sirloin · #28 11-18-2010, 10:46 AM

You'd probably be better off with LSD, yeah.

Protip: Pot doesn't help. Pot is good for using your imagination when you're awake. And working.

T-nex · #29 11-18-2010, 10:46 AM

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so how did you initiate a lucid dream? got any tips? I wasn't able to start lucid dreaming on purpose so far, so I really would be thankful for any help.

Well.. Sometimes it helps not getting a good night's rest

No seriously, it's true. All the times I've been lucid dreaming, were the times when I kinda fell asleep while still awake is that makes sense. Half-sleeping until it turned into a full-fledged lucid dream. I've read that sometimes it helps if you wake in the middle of a dream and then go to sleep again, keeping in mind that you wanna have a lucid dream.
Also, many people stress that you should believe that you will have one. And some people use meditation/hypnosis.

I dunno though. I've never initiated a lucid dream myself.

Ridg3 · #30 11-18-2010, 10:47 AM

So you effectively have to fall asleep whilst remaining conscious? Christ.