Lucid Dreaming

[Pawnless Endgame]

I've had a few lucid dreams in my time, not out of choice though.

Same here, although I still can't tell that it was only a dream until I wake up. My latest example involved me making mistakes and I could press a rewind button back to before a mistake and 'redo' that part of the dream.

 

[Waza]

I've had many lucid dreams and i could have pick what nights i want to have a lucid dream.


as someone said

Lucid dreams are simply recognising patterns in your dreams, then being able to consciously act on them instead of waiting for them to play out. If you write down your dreams in as much detail as you can remember each time, you will eventually find these patterns and be able to control them.

You have to train your self to recognize symbols of when your awake or in the dream world.

Have a look on www.lucidity.com the man behind this is a Dr Stephen Laberge. He was having lucid dreams back in the 80's, that's when me and a friend became curious as to how to do it.

I have a nova dream mask that does have 2 led's, sensors to let you know when your in rem sleep and a small speaker to give a buzz sound. this all helps you realize your in a dream. I also have a book and a audio tape that helps you in your quest to have lucid dreams.

The first thing you have to do is write your dreams down when you wake up, the more you remember about your dreams the better.

When you become aware your in a dream you can simply do anything, but it's hard to stay awake in your dream and there are a few techniques to keep you in a lucid dream. one is spinning around on the spot for some reason you stay in the dream longer.

there are a few steps as to train yourself. if you want them i can write them down but it will take me a while and i already think this post is far too long. lol.

One thing when you do have a lucid dream when you wake it revitalizes you and makes you feel good.

 

[Deehjay]

I've had many lucid dreams and i could have pick what nights i want to have a lucid dream.


as someone said

Lucid dreams are simply recognising patterns in your dreams, then being able to consciously act on them instead of waiting for them to play out. If you write down your dreams in as much detail as you can remember each time, you will eventually find these patterns and be able to control them.

You have to train your self to recognize symbols of when your awake or in the dream world.

Have a look on www.lucidity.com the man behind this is a Dr Stephen Laberge. He was having lucid dreams back in the 80's, that's when me and a friend became curious as to how to do it.

I have a nova dream mask that does have 2 led's, sensors to let you know when your in rem sleep and a small speaker to give a buzz sound. this all helps you realize your in a dream. I also have a book and a audio tape that helps you in your quest to have lucid dreams.

The first thing you have to do is write your dreams down when you wake up, the more you remember about your dreams the better.

When you become aware your in a dream you can simply do anything, but it's hard to stay awake in your dream and there are a few techniques to keep you in a lucid dream. one is spinning around on the spot for some reason you stay in the dream longer.

there are a few steps as to train yourself. if you want them i can write them down but it will take me a while and i already think this post is far too long. lol.

One thing when you do have a lucid dream when you wake it revitalizes you and makes you feel good.

I don't get it though. Do you choose where the dream starts? And is it actually like real life from a first person perspective?

 

[areksnumbr1sxylady]

I've had many lucid dreams and i could have pick what nights i want to have a lucid dream.


as someone said

Lucid dreams are simply recognising patterns in your dreams, then being able to consciously act on them instead of waiting for them to play out. If you write down your dreams in as much detail as you can remember each time, you will eventually find these patterns and be able to control them.

You have to train your self to recognize symbols of when your awake or in the dream world.

Have a look on www.lucidity.com the man behind this is a Dr Stephen Laberge. He was having lucid dreams back in the 80's, that's when me and a friend became curious as to how to do it.

I have a nova dream mask that does have 2 led's, sensors to let you know when your in rem sleep and a small speaker to give a buzz sound. this all helps you realize your in a dream. I also have a book and a audio tape that helps you in your quest to have lucid dreams.

The first thing you have to do is write your dreams down when you wake up, the more you remember about your dreams the better.

When you become aware your in a dream you can simply do anything, but it's hard to stay awake in your dream and there are a few techniques to keep you in a lucid dream. one is spinning around on the spot for some reason you stay in the dream longer.

there are a few steps as to train yourself. if you want them i can write them down but it will take me a while and i already think this post is far too long. lol.

One thing when you do have a lucid dream when you wake it revitalizes you and makes you feel good.

please do write it down lol... sounds well nice.

 

[Waza]

no you don't choose how the dream starts what usually happens is

if you have mask on lights will flash and in the dream it might be interpreted as a very bright light and since this will be an unusaual light in your dream youwill say hey why the bright light in your dream and you will do a test that you do in every day life and then realize your in a dream. from then you can do as you please.

 

[Dave****]

I do remember it once happening to me. I was at my Mams house walking down the stairs and all of a sudden I knew it was a dream. So I jumped through the window.

And then I woke up.

EDIT: Also remember "waking up" to find that I couldn't move my body or speak yet I could see perfectly. I could hear, what sounded like, tribal drums playing.

It was very scary and really freaked me out as I woke up out of breath and my heart was pounding.

EDIT 2: Not really related but back when I was in high school (around 1995) I recall one of my friends was convinced that if he said the words "sweet valley high twins" to himself all day he would then dream about them. Suffice to say it didn't work for him. But he kept on trying nevertheless.

 

[MookJong]

Had many lucid dreams over the years probably 30 or 40. Some amazing and very spiritual experiences and some very scary. I have been trapped in a dream with multiple false awakenings where I would wake back up in bed thinking I was now really awake except it was another dream. One I will never forget where I was convinced I was dead, not good.

They have made me very open minded about consciousness and the possibilities out there.

 

[Waza]

ok here are some examples of what you must do. Remember i was doing this for about 4 weeks before i had my first ever Lucid dream.

So in the waken world you must ask yourself

Is this a dream or reality? - yes it sounds cheesy but does work.

so before you ask yourself look at say your watch and remember the time and when you do say is this a dream or reality look back at your watch. If it's saying the correct time then it must be reality. In your dream your watch will tell a different time or not even be your watch.


So every time say a light switch goes on or off ask yourself is this a dream or reality, the idea is to train your mind to notice things like this in your dream state.

Examples to when to say the phrase:

Lights on/off
Doors open/close
someone ask's you a question
you walk into another room
when your phone rings etc etc etc


yes i know you might think you would be asking yourself this all the time; yes this is what your supposed to be doing so when you are sleeping it's automatic.

Also keep writing your dreams down have a notepad and pen beside your bed. even if you wake up during the dream try and write it down then so it's all fresh.

You can lucid dream without the mask but it might take you longer to get your first lucid dream.

 

[One]

Lucid dreaming is a very simple concept all it takes is time and determination.

Dream journal. Why? For dream recall. Even people that say they don't dream do, they just don't remember them. No point lucid dreaming if you won't remember it. If you can recall at least two seperate dreams in a night then you're good to go.

Dream signs. These are things that help you realise you're dreaming. So start asking yourself in the real world, is this a dream, then do a dream check, get your phone out and look at the time in digital, ask yourself if you can read it. If you can you'll know you're not in a dream. There's lots like this, such as turning a light on and off, the room will not change in brightness.

Then it's lucid dream training. This is when you've successfully realised you're in a dream, so now you practice your ability to control it. If you think about it like juggling, you'll pick up the balls often but in the start you'll also drop them often.

There's lot of tips and tricks to try and get into a lucid dream quicker than normal but tbh, it's just lots of tryng that'll make you acomplish it.

I've had 1 when I tried for about a month then sort of gave up. The one I had was amazing though.

 

[Nerusy]

It's not hard to achieve it, many people had it, you probably had it too.

When doing that though there's a chance that you will wake up but your body is still paralyzed and it takes like a minute (which seems like eternity) for your body to wake up, sometimes people also see "demons" as brain is still mixing up reality with dreams. So if you get that don't freak out, just wait till you regain control of body.

If you want to achieve it then put an soft sounding alarm to "wake" you up at 3 a.m. then when it does wake you up turn it off without opening your eyes and go back to sleep, that should be sufficient enough to give you a good chance to control your dream.

For me, after I realize it is a dream I just generally just observe, watch it like a movie, each time I try to interact with "people" or create something I wake up fully.

 

[Renton]

Cool thread, think i will keep an eye on this one

Love dreaming myself and can sometimes get a certain amount of control on them, personaly I think that most if not all cases of deja vu are the at least partial reliving of a past dream

gets popcorn

 

[Deehjay]

After reading, I think I've had some sort of close experience when I was younger. I never usually am able to remember my dreams - but I can still vividly remember one nightmare I had when I was of a younger age. Not to a finer detail, but I had the dream twice, I think once and then again 2-3 years later, I remember that I was on some sort of high street and being chased by some sort of Wolf/human like creature (Very much looked like a Worgen from WoW). The only parts I can remember was that the rest of my family were killed, and I was attempting to escape from it chasing me. I think I then walked into some sort of building and there was a gang of them there - and then the dream ended as I recall because I'd woken up, and I was sweating and my heart was beating like crazy.

I've also sometimes had dreams where I've actually been conscious because I could feel my eye lids, and I remember desperately trying to keep sub-conscious because I was towards the ending of one of the dreams I was having, but then right before then end I came into full consciousness and woke up. Since I knew that I was kind of conscious, I also noticed that I couldn't move any parts of my body until I was fully awoken.

Not sure if either of these experiences are even remotely close to resembling a lucid dream but I feel those are the closest experiences I've had to an 'out of body' experience.

I think it's strange that not very often I have dreams that I can actually remember, but I often encounter signs of Deja Vu when people say or do something, particularly in school or my parents.

I think I'll start trying this in the future, my only fear is peoples experiences of witnessing these 'demons' so to speak, as these kind of fantasies are the things that terrify me the most of anything - to put it into perspective, I've never condoned watching any sort of horror films due to the fact that at night when I'm trying to sleep something will happen or I will have a nightmare.

 

[Deehjay]

I also always try and challenge myself by attempting to remember what side I wake up on, whether it be on my back or either of the sides, but it's always to no avail. Maybe this has something to do with consciousness at present times when waking up and those first few moments where the body is waking up from the sleep, then you forget everything that has happened if you haven't managed to capture the memory?

 

[pingwing]

Hi. Thanks for the feedback. Mind if I ask a few questions?;

1. Have you ever experienced within a lucid dream what other people say they have with being surrounded by somewhat 'scary' monsters or anything of that nature?

2. When the dream starts, how does it simply start? Are you in your bed and you can get up and do whatever you want? Or do you choose where the dream takes place?

3. What is your vision like controlling the dream? Is it from your eyes perspective or from a third person perspective? Is the vision blurred if it's coming from your eyes?

4. What does it feel like?

5. Do you get the feeling of the five senses whilst in the dream?

Thanks.

Yeah ask away!

1. Yeah but its zombie apocalypse for me, very specifically the 28 days later zombies. Hate that one, ruins sleeping for me for the night waking my self up from it is properly like inception with the whole drop thing. Really hate that but I only get that one when I am really stressed/worried about things and don't deal with them immediately.

2. Usually its just like a light switch were you go from dreaming, enjoying a dream (like watching a film) to where you are suddenly calling the shots, so you are the star of the show and the director at the same time. Its really hard to change the setting of the dream though, unless it is sort of part the dream, ie if say I am dreaming about somewhere you sort of have to imagine the movement between the places, no matter how over the top (becoming superman) it is.

3. Its first person, but you are aware of it as a 3rd person too. Like I described in 2 its sort of like being the director and the star of the show at the same time but the settings of the events are controlled by a different part of your sub conscience. It is always really vivd as well, very occasionally I get the dreams mixed up with reality, can confuse me when the odd evening out becomes confused between what happened and what I dreamed happened though I generally have a grasp on that one

4. Both great and horrible, its easy to control whats going on but sometimes it still is a bad dream/almost memory, hard to explain other than it can be bother bad or fun and occasionally exhausting, sometimes I wake up tired from being over stimulation.

5.Sort of, smell isn't as prominent but other senses (ones you have experienced) can be almost over exaggerated, thankfully I can't imagine/dream in sense experiences that haven't happened which is the saving bit of the zombie dreams as I haven't felt like being torn apart by a zombie before...

It always odd to think about it as sometimes I just think I am just over thinking my dreams and sometimes I am amazed it doesn't happen to other peoples dreams, can't believe some peoples dreams are just something to watch and not participate in.

 

[Paton]

I have lucid dreams and sleep paralysis all the time.

I can't quite fully control what happens when i am lucid dreaming, only kind of give it a push in a certian direction. Usually when this happens i know that i am dreaming and tend to wake up shortly after, usually i can get back into it if i do awake from a really good one though.

a lot of the time my lucid dreams turn bad which is where i have to wake myself up where it then turns into sleep paralysis, i am usually unable to move for atleast a few minutes and i always get the feeling of dread as described, the feeling someone is standing over me. Can never have a good night sleep after this, since i usually fall back into the same dream again.

I would say this happens a couple of times per week for me.

 

[Kanifee]

I do remember it once happening to me. I was at my Mams house walking down the stairs and all of a sudden I knew it was a dream. So I jumped through the window.

I kid you not i have had the exact same lucid dream, it was a random house but i knew it was a small house with a white fence around it on a street with hill views in front of it and descending streets moving away from it, this from not moving off of the landing. Strangest thing to realise half way down the stair i was dreaming and then jump through the window next to the front door.

weird!

Is it wierd that i quite enjoy nightmares now im older, should they still be considered nightmares if they aren't fear inducing? i hate horror movies though.

 

[Deific]

There's been brief periods (three to be exact) in my life where I would have several lucid dreams every night, for several consecutive nights in a row - to the point that I would be extremely excited all day to get back to sleep because I knew I would have another.
However, these periods have never lasted for more than a week and came at random intervals in my life.

Other than those periods, I'll have 1 maybe 2 a year but those one off occasions have been extremely difficult to manipulate (usually resulting in me waking very quickly).

I have often tried to figure out what it was in my life that allowed me to have those extended periods of lucid dream states, but I look forward to the next.

 

[Kanifee]

There's been brief periods (three to be exact) in my life where I would have several lucid dreams every night, for several consecutive nights in a row - to the point that I would be extremely excited all day to get back to sleep because I knew I would have another.
However, these periods have never lasted for more than a week and came at random intervals in my life.

Other than those periods, I'll have 1 maybe 2 a year but those one off occasions have been extremely difficult to manipulate (usually resulting in me waking very quickly).

I have often tried to figure out what it was in my life that allowed me to have those extended periods of lucid dream states, but I look forward to the next.

I would wager there is something that coincides, good news that subconsciously sets you at ease, a period of no stress even stress that doesn't register on your radar but is there any way. or may be subconsciously the onset of lucid dreaming and you welcoming it sort of perpetuating your own lucid mind set.

Made sence when i thought it in my head

 

[Deehjay]

Yeah ask away!

1. Yeah but its zombie apocalypse for me, very specifically the 28 days later zombies. Hate that one, ruins sleeping for me for the night waking my self up from it is properly like inception with the whole drop thing. Really hate that but I only get that one when I am really stressed/worried about things and don't deal with them immediately.

2. Usually its just like a light switch were you go from dreaming, enjoying a dream (like watching a film) to where you are suddenly calling the shots, so you are the star of the show and the director at the same time. Its really hard to change the setting of the dream though, unless it is sort of part the dream, ie if say I am dreaming about somewhere you sort of have to imagine the movement between the places, no matter how over the top (becoming superman) it is.

3. Its first person, but you are aware of it as a 3rd person too. Like I described in 2 its sort of like being the director and the star of the show at the same time but the settings of the events are controlled by a different part of your sub conscience. It is always really vivd as well, very occasionally I get the dreams mixed up with reality, can confuse me when the odd evening out becomes confused between what happened and what I dreamed happened though I generally have a grasp on that one

4. Both great and horrible, its easy to control whats going on but sometimes it still is a bad dream/almost memory, hard to explain other than it can be bother bad or fun and occasionally exhausting, sometimes I wake up tired from being over stimulation.

5.Sort of, smell isn't as prominent but other senses (ones you have experienced) can be almost over exaggerated, thankfully I can't imagine/dream in sense experiences that haven't happened which is the saving bit of the zombie dreams as I haven't felt like being torn apart by a zombie before...

It always odd to think about it as sometimes I just think I am just over thinking my dreams and sometimes I am amazed it doesn't happen to other peoples dreams, can't believe some peoples dreams are just something to watch and not participate in.

Wow... that sounds so crazy...

Would you say it's worth doing and would you be able to give any sort of advice to me?

I know that everybody has 3-7 dreams per night supposedly but I can literally never remember anything or even feel it as I'm asleep. What's the best way to remember dreams even if I feel like I haven't had them? The woman on the video says that as soon as you wake up you need to focus entirely on what you have been dreaming on, not moving a muscle otherwise you will lose the memory, and from there you need to grab as much detail of any of the dreams as possible and write them down as soon as possible?

The only thing that I'm actually afraid of is the sleep paralysis part, with waking up whilst your brain actually thinks you're still asleep and hallucinating, hearing sounds etc, and the fact that it's possible to see 'demons' or 'horrific' things like that. I don't watch any kind of horror films and haven't had a nightmare that I can recall since I was very young. What are the chances of encountering something like this in the dream? And if it happens and you are awoken in a paralytic state then what is the best thing to do? I EASILY get scared at night when I'm trying to sleep if I've seen some sort of trailer to a film or along those lines earlier in the day, like I constantly keep still, not moving a muscle and keep my eye on the door of my room to make sure.

I find it crazy that the dream itself can be first person.. like I can't even comprehend that right now. It sounds so fascinating, but like I say before I start trying to do it I want to know that I'm safe, and of course trying to be able to remember the dreams I've had..

I also have Tinnitus, (constant ringing sound in the ears) and it completely destroys silence when in a quiet room, would that have any sort of effect?

 

[chriscubed]

I occasionally have a dream that I find I can control. Usually it's me playing football in the dream, but could be other physical activities! Of course I'm amazing in the dream just like real life.

If I wanted to wake up I could, it gets harder and harder to stay dreaming as time goes on.