Dreamers

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Just wondering about peoples dreaming experiences.

I am a lucid dreamer and have been fortunate enough to have waking dreams.

I can also wake and go back to sleep and rejoin a dream.
I have some recurring dreams or themes. I am also kind of dream aware or conscious I am dreaming and can steer my dreams.

I blame a love of movies and gaming. With a good imagination.

Just wondering if there is many lucid dreamers out there at all?
 
When I was younger I used to have amazing dreams. Unfortunately most of them were scary ones. It was like watching a TV series. I would have dreams set in similar locations, houses, etc. Different dreams but set in the same location or with the same people. Quite often I'd have similar dreams with each one continuing from roughly where the last one ended. But in my late 20's or 30's this stopped. I'm in my 50's now and I very rarely dream (or at least I don't remember them when I wake up). I'd actually like to remember them but sadly I just don't now.
 
I've woken up a couple of times and managed to fall back into a the same dream state before, very rare for me.

I've been having more dreams recently, about old jobs and faces of people who I've not seen in 10 years.

Most if them are pleasant thankfully.
 
I have a recurring dream about this beautiful arabesque girl with deep blue eyes and vast sprawling deserts.
Also horrifying dreams of jihad and the death of my father.
 
used to have some recurring style dreams, generally centered about this big country house, it's nowhere i've been to and i'm not even sure it exists, at least as i've dreamt it. there were variations on the theme (running up stairs that fall away behind you, chased by invisible shadown monsters, the usual weird dream stuff) but the location always stayed the same.

not so much these days, the occasional nightmare, the occasional dream i can't remember, sometimes i'm lucid enough to realise that i'm dreaming, although not enough to exert any control on events.
 
Looks like the OP is ... Just in time

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I used to try different techniques to encourage lucid dreaming...the one I remember most that worked was...holding your nose every 20 mins or so throughout the day and trying to breath in whilst saying/thinking to yourself ‘I’m not dreaming’, obviously you can’t breath in through your nose when holding it but if you’re dreaming then you can!
So if you do that often enough during the day then you start holding your nose and trying to breath in your dreams, and when you do it and are able to breath you realise you’re dreaming!
I could never get much further tho...Almost always immediately woke up once I realised I was dreaming, or anything I did manage to influence in the dream just went weird...like a bad trip :p

Had sleep paralysis quite a lot at times, I’m not 100% if that can be classed as a dream...
 
I don’t dream that often, well I don’t remember many, but the ones that I do recall, involve my previous working life.
From 18 to maybe 22, I drove trucks around the U.K.
At 22 I was recruited by a Yugoslavian guy to deliver yachts and motor launches overland by truck, from U.K. to Nice and Cannes in France, and the Italian Lakes.
Eventually I got a job with another outfit, driving 18 wheelers all over Europe, France, Ukraine, Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Germany, anywhere.
In my forties, my wife began to get the zig because I was away nearly all the week, and leaned on me to go for a job where I was home most nights.
I knew that I would find the U.K. very mundane after travelling around and staying in, Marseille, Barcelona, Warsaw, or Ljubljana, so I did “The Knowledge” and drove a London taxi for 30 years.
Now, in my dreams, I’m driving an 18 wheeler through London, and I get hailed as if it’s a taxi.
I pick up a fare and try to negotiate London’s narrow streets, until eventually I get stuck and have to terminate the ride, in some dreams, I’m trying to muscle my truck on to a taxi rank outside a station or hotel.
The other cab drivers are telling me to take my truck and **** off.
These dreams seem to be easing off of late, good.

I feel that I’ve written of this before, I hope I remembered it right, or that it was in another forum!
 
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Am I right I’m thinking this might relate to Being Her Eyes on Netflix?

I have weird dreams, but nothing I’m in control of. When I was at uni (you make the connection) I didn’t dream but when I moved in with my wife my dreams came back just as odd.
 
ChrispyKarma said:
Just wondering about peoples dreaming experiences.

I am a lucid dreamer and have been fortunate enough to have waking dreams.

I can also wake and go back to sleep and rejoin a dream.
I have some recurring dreams or themes. I am also kind of dream aware or conscious I am dreaming and can steer my dreams.

I blame a love of movies and gaming. With a good imagination.

Just wondering if there is many lucid dreamers out there at all?
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You're dreaming about sleeping with your friends' girlfriends aren't you...admit it. We all would.
 
As a child I had vivid dreams am then for many years I used to think I didn't dream. These days I can recall a dream for a few moments after waking and then it's gone. In many dreams I realise I'm dreaming and sometimes this tends to send the dream south, resulting in me waking up.
 
hans gruber said:
As a child I had vivid dreams am then for many years I used to think I didn't dream. These days I can recall a dream for a few moments after waking and then it's gone. In many dreams I realise I'm dreaming and sometimes this tends to send the dream south, resulting in me waking up.
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I find they often come back to me at some point in the day
 
I never dream these days and haven't done for a few years now. I used to a bit when I was young but never now. It's a shame really as I used to enjoy a good dream.

I blame the grind of family life. But the time I'm in bed I'm absolutely shattered and when I wake up I'm still shattered so when I do sleep im like a rock
 
3-4 times a week I dream about working in McDonald's. It is never laid out the same, not often the same people and the same thing doesn't happen, but working in McDonald's is often the theme. I worked there for a few years when I was in college. I stopped working there 18 years ago... It's very odd. Started about a year ago.

Apart from that, I always seem to have really crazy dreams that I remember for about 20 mins after waking up then forget, BUT again, I always seem to remember the ones where I was working in McDonald's.........
 
I used to have a dream as a kid where I'm riding a BMX on the roof of my primary school, then I would fall and wake up just before hitting the ground.

I used to get the occasional dream where I was being chased. When I studied martial arts in my late twenties/early thirties I stopped trying to run away, and instead turned around and gave the demon/monster what for. After I stopped attending I started running away again!

I occasionally get flying dreams which are great, often soaring on the wind. I occasionally have lucid moments but that stops my flying ability and I plummet.
 
I get you @ChrispyKarma about being able to rejoin a dream. I call them link-thru dreams but that's just my word for them. Didn't know it was a thing though.

I can occasionally lucid-dream too.

I sometimes "wake up", but I'm still in a dream. I call them dream-within-dreams.

Last but not least, I have also been able to rewind a nightmare back to the start so that the nightmare takes a different course from before to give a better outcome. I can then keep repeating it until it is no longer a nightmare. I had this a lot in the mid-2010s but not so much now.
 
I find unfortunately my dreams are limited as I have aged because my mind becomes too quickly aware that I am in actual fact dreaming. Remember that film Inception? Kind of like that when there are clues and behaviours so your mind kind of rejects the fact this could be real and therefore I find usually one of two things at this point happen:

1: I can "steer" the dream as the OP refers to, or lucid dreaming.
2: I can usually wake up if I want/need to to end say a threat or something.

Unfortunately with number 1 comes other problems when I attempt to steer dreams to my liking/favour:

1: My mind seems to make things too taxing/complex which causes it to not be relaxing and hence I wake up
2: In extreme dream situations like for example the ability to make love to a beautiful women, my mind again kicks in that in fact I am married and can't continue down this road, and again, rejection and gradually it becomes more a thought where I am left lying consciously thinking about it.

What is funny, is when external real life noises enter your dream. Like something loud and in time with the alarm clock etc. Or when you hear a cat fight outside your window and it becomes part of the dream. :)
 
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