Lucid Dreaming

Deehjay

Deehjay

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Heard somebody expressing their experiences with Lucid Dreaming in a YouTube video earlier and wanted to post this as I'm concerned as to whether or not anybody here has tried it and their experiences. I myself haven't attempted it, and haven't known about it for that long, I want to try it some time, but it sounds creepy as hell. Lucid Dreaming is obviously, being in a dream, but you are controlling the dream, and not observing it, so you KNOW you are in the dream. Since you know you are in the dream, your body becomes paralyzed by your brain so your dream motions do not mix with your physical movements. It's pretty deep and hard to explain so I'll link a video of anybody unaware.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g3YBXyvXSo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wl0nN99E-Y

As I say, I just wanted to know if anybody has experienced it, and whether or not it's a 'terrifying' experience. I've heard some stories where people wake up in the dream surrounded by monsters etc...

F.Y.I, There was a topic on this posted but I didn't feel like bumping a 3 year old thread.
 
I've had a few lucid dreams in my time, not out of choice though.

Once when I realised I was dreaming, I made the ruler I was holding turn into an electric guitar. I then jumped into the TV (MTV was on for some reason) and started rocking out.

It's the holy grail of dreams as far as I'm concerned. A few times, I've realised I was dreaming and then woken up seconds later EXTREMELY disappointed.
 
I am unsure if you are confusing lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis.
From my experience I would differentiate it in this way:

Lucid dream - a very vivid dream, you are aware it is a dream and you can control it. What limits this is practice really, I had constant nightmares at one period in my life and developed this then.

Sleep paralysis I have had when I have just been nodding off to sleep and woke up but been unable to move. It is scary as you cant move to view things correctly in the room and your mind can play tricks on you.

I may not be using the techinical terms, im sure someone will help, these are just my experiences. I have never gone from a lucid dream state into being awake with sleep paralysis however.
 
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I've had some like that, some not so much, where im aware, but not fully controlling.

I had one where i could fly, a flew out of the world with my friends and landed in disney land. I then started fighting people and riding rides. Crazy.
 
I mostly have lucid dreams in that once I become i'm aware i'm dreaming (usually due to reasoning it out), I can then control my actions in the dream and can wake up when I like. I can't control other things that happen in the dream or actions of anyone else.
 
davey36 said:
I am unsure if you are confusing lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis.
From my experience I would differentiate it in this way:

Lucid dream - a very vivid dream, you are aware it is a dream and you can control it. What limits this is practice really, I had constant nightmares at one period in my life and developed this then.

Sleep paralysis I have had when I have just been nodding off to sleep and woke up but been unable to move. It is scary as you cant move to view things correctly in the room and your mind can play tricks on you.

I may not be using the techinical terms, im sure someone will help, these are just my experiences. I have never gone from a lucid dream state into being awake with sleep paralysis however.
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Nope. I know about sleep paralysis with waking up paralysed and only being able to move your eyes etc. I think I kind of approached it differently, hence why I advised watching the video I posted since I suck at giving advice (and don't have any experience either), but when you are in the lucid dream you are weary of the fact that you are dreaming, and since you are controlling it you have to physically make something in the dream happen that would otherwise terrify you in real life in order to wake up (making the body jerk). People say that in order to wake up they were for example driving a car on the motorway at 135mph, then they sped up and crashed into a bridge, thus ending the life of the dream, and ending the dream itself and causing them to wake up. People also are saying that their experiences of pain being caused in the dream to you, can be transferred to real life..
 
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Deehjay said:
Nope. I know about sleep paralysis with waking up paralysed and only being able to move your eyes etc. I think I kind of approached it differently, hence why I advised watching the video I posted since I suck at giving advice (and don't have any experience either), but when you are in the lucid dream you are weary of the fact that you are dreaming, and since you are controlling it you have to physically make something in the dream happen that would otherwise terrify you in real life in order to wake up (making the body jerk). People say that in order to wake up they were for example driving a car on the motorway at 135mph, then they sped up and crashed into a bridge, thus ending the life of the dream, and ending the dream itself and causing them to wake up.
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Interesting, I cannot watch the videos where I am now but will look later.
I simply shout during a lucid dream to wake up, whatever this is I tend to wake up shouting or speaking to wake myself, but I am fully mobile once I have woken myself this way, I only do this though if I am struggling to control a nightmare. This usually only happens when I wake up in the dream, but I am actually still dreaming, that is tricky!
I have never needed to alter a dream to wake myself other than using my voice though.

Again though this is just personal experience !
 
ChroniC said:
I have never managed to stay asleep once I work out I'm dreaming. The second I do, I can feel my eye lids.
How do you do it.
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This, kind of... I know I'm not actually standing in a hallway and I'm aware I'm not awake, as soon as i think about the fact I'm dreaming I wake instantly and it is quite frustrating.
 
Kanifee said:
This, kind of... I know I'm not actually standing in a hallway and I'm aware I'm not awake, as soon as i think about the fact I'm dreaming I wake instantly and it is quite frustrating.
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Yeah, I think you have to try and concentrate and focus as much on the dream as possible and not reality. I think that if you think about the fact of whether you're dreaming or not, it will consequently cause you to awaken.
 
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. It is nothing more than that.

Sleep paralysis is a result of a chemical released in your brain during REM sleep that is supposed to prevent you from acting out your motions in real life. If you are snapping out of a sleep but that chemical is still active, you are immobile. And it is a freaky feeling.
 
Actively have lucid dreams about 3 times a week for as long as I remember.

Sometimes I have the same dreams from 20 years ago when I was 4. Always a funny surprise when those ones come up because they are much longer and more detailed now than I remember them when I was a kid.

I never get the sleep paralysis thing those, can imagine that as been weird!

Lucid dreams for me tend to come at times where my body is changing less (so got less of them during growth spurts and puberty) and get less when I don't drink, i.e. if I only have say one evening a week where drinks are involved chances up to 4 of those nights sleeps will be littered with lucid dreams. Daily physical activity has no real effect though but different levels of mental activity produce really different results (not always linked to the subject matter), spend a day hammering FM things get interactive in a real managing situation, spend a day studying nationalism had all sots of consequences.

It's also weird waking up next to someone after having a lucid dream that either involves them or another female I have been involved with! :eek: thankfully I don't talk or move in my sleep...

Either way I have no idea what sets it off but its always great fun, just not as addictive as inception makes it out to be.
 
I'm always aware I'm dreaming but any time I try to adjust my mental state so as to take control I wake myself up.
 
I've done it quite a few times as a kid, although not through choice.

I've had flying ones where I've realised it's a dream and flown around for a bit. One that sticks to mind was, I had left a school when I was about 8 years old and moved away. I didn't really get to say goodbye to everyone and it bothered me for months and months - at some point (maybe a year after) I had a dream where I walked into my old school and became aware of it, lined up in my old school yard were all my old friends and I said goodbye to them one by one.

A few adult ones :cool: but not many.
 
pingwing said:
Actively have lucid dreams about 3 times a week for as long as I remember.

Sometimes I have the same dreams from 20 years ago when I was 4. Always a funny surprise when those ones come up because they are much longer and more detailed now than I remember them when I was a kid.

I never get the sleep paralysis thing those, can imagine that as been weird!

Lucid dreams for me tend to come at times where my body is changing less (so got less of them during growth spurts and puberty) and get less when I don't drink, i.e. if I only have say one evening a week where drinks are involved chances up to 4 of those nights sleeps will be littered with lucid dreams. Daily physical activity has no real effect though but different levels of mental activity produce really different results (not always linked to the subject matter), spend a day hammering FM things get interactive in a real managing situation, spend a day studying nationalism had all sots of consequences.

It's also weird waking up next to someone after having a lucid dream that either involves them or another female I have been involved with! :eek: thankfully I don't talk or move in my sleep...

Either way I have no idea what sets it off but its always great fun, just not as addictive as inception makes it out to be.
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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.
 
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