Lucid Dreaming

chriscubed said:
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.
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Yeah that's another thing - If it happens to me then I know that I'll get extremely over excited, and end up waking up and knowing my luck being paralysed. It'd be a lose lose situation :P
 
Deehjay said:
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?
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It's weird to analyse and think about a lot as it doesn't happen nearly as much when I do (aka if I am conscious about it I just get very memorable non-interactive dreams, they only become interactive when I can feel more immersed in them but then become aware).

My only advice is its quite hard to trick your self into it happening, so going to bed with the purpose of lucid dreaming is almost an oxymoron because it happens when you least expect it. The woman in the videos advice to try and remember dreams is helpful though in that it should make you more aware of your dreams as quite often they are repeated or similar. Making more of them is more down to how relaxed you are by sleep and rest, then becoming aware of how relaxed and good it is to enjoy those moments (and dreams).

I only dream about bad things when I am really stressed about something or have been hammering L4D or something similar but its not something that just happens, theres usually a reason you dream about something, usually its just not thinking about the right things.

I thought most dreams were in first person? Usually its me doing something in the first person perspective with some weird cutways sometimes.

Does tinnitus prevent you from relaxing or sleeping normally? If you can't relax enough then dreams and lucid dreaming don't happen in the same way but thats the only thing I can think of changing things.
 
Coincidentally I was telling someone about my lucid dreams yesterday. I have them quite often, as I've mentioned in a thread before. Usually I become aware it's a dream if there's a threat, like if someone is chasing me or creatures are attacking me, I realise it's not real and I get superpowers and punch them away, or break their knife/gun.

It's difficult for me to fully control them like Neo in The Matrix. My mind imposes the laws of physics, so generally if I try to fly I can only hover just above the ground or I can just leap higher than usual. I also find that if I try to change too much the dream ends. I have to go along with the storyline if I want to keep it going. Like if people are trying to shoot me, I have to catch the bullets or make them bounce off me - if I try to make the enemy disappear or if I try blow things up, the dream will end. I also find it difficult to imagine people. They tend to be blurry. I think pingwing told me before about the trick to remember someone rather than invent someone, but I haven't been able to do that yet.

I can also have conversations with the characters in my dreams where I tell them it's a dream and that I'm talking to myself.
 
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pingwing said:
It's weird to analyse and think about a lot as it doesn't happen nearly as much when I do (aka if I am conscious about it I just get very memorable non-interactive dreams, they only become interactive when I can feel more immersed in them but then become aware).

My only advice is its quite hard to trick your self into it happening, so going to bed with the purpose of lucid dreaming is almost an oxymoron because it happens when you least expect it. The woman in the videos advice to try and remember dreams is helpful though in that it should make you more aware of your dreams as quite often they are repeated or similar. Making more of them is more down to how relaxed you are by sleep and rest, then becoming aware of how relaxed and good it is to enjoy those moments (and dreams).

I only dream about bad things when I am really stressed about something or have been hammering L4D or something similar but its not something that just happens, theres usually a reason you dream about something, usually its just not thinking about the right things.

I thought most dreams were in first person? Usually its me doing something in the first person perspective with some weird cutways sometimes.

Does tinnitus prevent you from relaxing or sleeping normally? If you can't relax enough then dreams and lucid dreaming don't happen in the same way but thats the only thing I can think of changing things.
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As I said, since I don't remember the last time I actually had a dream - I have pretty much the same routine every single day and have had for a very long time now - I'm woken up by my mother at around 7;30 am, and she brings breakfast to me, so I immediately just start eating it, so I haven't actually thought about what I've dreamt about for a long time now. Saying that, any dream that I've ever remembered thought it's always been an out of body experience. The nightmare I made reference to in an earlier post about being chased by the wolf like creature I remember vividly being an out of body experience, because I was watching myself being chased. Like I say, I haven't at least remembered a dream for many years now, and even when I have had one it's been weird, and I've gone to tell my mother about it then it's completely gone out of my head by the time I go to tell her.

Tinnitus, to a certain extent can be annoying a little bit at most. I can still relax, but I don't really relax often, apart from sometimes just lying on my bed for a bit with my cat when I get home from school. It doesn't prevent me from sleeping at all, if I'm tired it'll take a max of 20 mins after I put the laptop down to get to sleep. Obviously if it's a Sunday and I've been to bed at 2am in the previous 2 nights then I won't get to sleep till later and I toss and turn a lot, but I doubt that has any relevance to tinnitus.

At the minute I'm going to bed at about 23:30 after I watch EastEnders, 12am at latest, and waking up at 7:30 on weekdays. I think if I want to start doing this then obviously I'll start going to bed earlier in order to get more dreams.

If you don't mind another "couple" of questions of my concern :P;
In reality, how long does each Lucid dream last for, and will you have multiple throughout the night?
If you are having multiple dreams, do you wake up after each dream ends and are you paralysed for the time you are each time you wake up?
Some people are saying that you have to remember and write down the dream as soon as you wake up, is this the same for every scenario even taking part in a lucid dream?
Say in the dream you want to be at a specific place, be a specific person or it be a specific point in time, how do you choose this? I know you essentially are controlling the dream but what if you're put into an environment which you don't want to be in?
Once you get into the pattern and successfully become a 'Lucid dreamer', does it happen every single night as long as you are keeping the diary? Is there any way to tell yourself that 'Maybe tonight I don't want one of these dreams'?

I had another, but it's gone now :P
 
Good job I can't lucid dream else every night would be a massive orgy with many beautiful Asian girls.
 
Damn man. Been watching up on some of the videos about sleep paralysis and it sounds scary as hell. The fact that people have had these experiences where you're essentially powerless, whilst having these hallucinogenic images is quite frightening.

I think it'd be a better idea to start trying to do it in the future to be honest, not right now.
 
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