Weird dreams

"andy" · 15 May 2007 at 17:50

honestly everytime we have a "weird dream" thread its the day after i very very rarely remember my dream

lastnight in my dream i got a hair cut then spent the rest of the dream moaning to people saying how crap the hairdresser is :confused:

woke up feeling my head for hair

weird...

p4radox · 15 May 2007 at 17:56

Phate said:
Takes more than a month

Takes a lot of effort and hard work, but once you can go into lucidity, it's simply amazing.

You can do anything.

ANYTHING!!!

How long did it take you?

Was it just a case of training yourself to be perceptive to signs of being awake whilst awake and hence signs of being asleep whilst asleep?

I read this:

http://www.psychwww.com/asc/ld/faq.html said:
There are several methods of inducing lucid dreams. The first step, regardless of method, is to develop your dream recall until you can remember at least one dream per night. Then, if you have a lucid dream you will remember it. You will also become very familiar with your dreams, making it easier learn to recognize them while they are happening. If you recall your dreams you can begin immediately with two simple techniques for stimulating lucid dreams. Lucid dreamers make a habit of "reality testing." This means investigating the environment to decide whether you are dreaming or awake. Ask yourself many times a day, "Could I be dreaming?" Then, test the stability of your current reality by reading some words, looking away and looking back while trying to will them to change. The instability of dreams is the easiest clue to use for distinguishing waking from dreaming. If the words change, you are dreaming.

What techniques did you use?

Zogger · 15 May 2007 at 18:41

RichieUK said:
I was just reading about lucid dreaming on Wikipedia yesterday, strange.

it's not that strange, you'll start to notice now that there's actually a thread on dreams every few days and lucid dreaming comes up in most of them

trojan698 · 15 May 2007 at 18:57

Phate said:
Are you stalking me?

kinda yeah...

Phate · 15 May 2007 at 19:14

p4radox said:
How long did it take you?

To get to the point I'm at now? probably about 6 months.

Was it just a case of training yourself to be perceptive to signs of being awake whilst awake and hence signs of being asleep whilst asleep?

I read this:

What techniques did you use?

I started off by finding the dreamviews forum very good, i could ask all the questions I wanted with reliable answers.

Then i started dream recall, if I kept a pad next to my bed and if i woke up in the middle of the night i'd write down what I was dreaming about, and same in the morning.

No point having a lucid dream if you can't remember it!

Once you can manage 2 or 3 dreams a night then I began working on my sleeping patterns, knowning from when you go from sleeping into a deep sleep. It's during this time that if you manage to realise your awake without actually waking up, you enter lucidity.

Lucidity means being concious of the fact your asleep and then what you can do is only held back by your own imagination.

Tobes · 15 May 2007 at 19:34

I had a dream the other day. It was about me waking up and just doing what I do when I wake up. Was strange when I woke up and realised it was a dream.

Oh and if any body can explain to me why I wake up sometimes but cant move so I have to fall back to sleep that would be great. I'm starting to get slightly scared :confused:

iraiguana · 15 May 2007 at 19:38

I have had one of those waking dreams, i was in my bed and had just woken up. Took me a second to work out i was paralised, I could also see that i was not alone in my bedroom. There was a young kid 8-9 would have to say (the age where they act evil in horror films) and it was just starring at me. I knew it was evil and needed to get away but couldnt.

It would leap at me and i would eventually wake up but with the same force i was trying to move my body, so usually would actually leap out of bed. The muscles of my whole body would be tensed and hurting from the effort.

Very strange experience which repeated for a few weeks, until i could control the situation and exit the dream at will.

Camalot · 15 May 2007 at 19:40

When i was younger. I had these really cool dreams. I could fly.

In the dream it it was a bit 50/50. I did have a slighy controll. For example i knew i could fly, and in the dream i could think right im going to fly home, and id simply fly home. The feeling of flying was so cool. Sometimes i could fly at will, other times i could fly but only for a short time.

I diddnt have complete controll tho. For example. Sometimes the location i was in changed, i couldnt always go where i wanted. Or the location was different in some form (which was always the tell tail sign that i was dreaming)

They diddnt last long, would this be a lucid dream? Or close?

And can any of you lucid dreamers give me an example of what you can actually do?

Ie, when you enter, can you simply get out of your bed, get dressed and fly out your window if you wanted?

Im interested in dreams, i think i might try some of this training

knip · 15 May 2007 at 19:43

Years back I used to have two recurring dreams, one involved me keeping a baby in a drawer, and I used to take the baby out to feed he/she and then put it back in the drawer.

The other involved Ian Beale from Eastenders, being chased by someone in a car who drove up and down my street chasing him, I was watching from the window in my dream while all this happened, sometimes the car would crash into the front wall of my house.

God knows what either of them meant though.

Phate · 15 May 2007 at 19:47

Camalot said:
When i was younger. I had these really cool dreams. I could fly.

In the dream it it was a bit 50/50. I did have a slighy controll. For example i knew i could fly, and in the dream i could think right im going to fly home, and id simply fly home. The feeling of flying was so cool. Sometimes i could fly at will, other times i could fly but only for a short time.

I diddnt have complete controll tho. For example. Sometimes the location i was in changed, i couldnt always go where i wanted. Or the location was different in some form (which was always the tell tail sign that i was dreaming)

They diddnt last long, would this be a lucid dream? Or close?

And can any of you lucid dreamers give me an example of what you can actually do?

Ie, when you enter, can you simply get out of your bed, get dressed and fly out your window if you wanted?

Im interested in dreams, i think i might try some of this training

If it's a full lucid you have complete control (usually) - sounds like a lucid though.

You can do literally anything, it's only limited by your imagination, I've read storys of where people have died and come back from the dead, I've flown, slept with women (I won't deny it, every lucid dreamer has done it lol) - I once figured out a work problem I was faced with, when I woke up I tried it and it worked

seriously, can do anything, only limited by your imagination!

Coolest thing I can think of was either going to space, professionally rally driving, or going underwater and swimming with fish, like a fish etc.

Smiley Man · 15 May 2007 at 19:54

these damn strattera im taking are giving me the most insane and awesome dreams, astral projection and general sleep wierdness

i can now get my work done and get free proper psychedelic drug experiences at night - its awesome

Phate · 15 May 2007 at 19:55

Smiley Man said:
these damn strattera im taking are giving me the most insane and awesome dreams, astral projection and general sleep wierdness

i can now get my work done and get free proper psychedelic drug experiences at night - its awesome

Why are you taking them?

Smiley Man · 15 May 2007 at 19:56

Phate said:
Why are you taking them?

because my procrastination and "i'll do it later" and "oOo look something else to do" have got a bit too tiresome

Camalot · 15 May 2007 at 20:01

Phate said:
If it's a full lucid you have complete control (usually) - sounds like a lucid though.

You can do literally anything, it's only limited by your imagination, I've read storys of where people have died and come back from the dead, I've flown, slept with women (I won't deny it, every lucid dreamer has done it lol) - I once figured out a work problem I was faced with, when I woke up I tried it and it worked

seriously, can do anything, only limited by your imagination!

Coolest thing I can think of was either going to space, professionally rally driving, or going underwater and swimming with fish, like a fish etc.

So, a lucid dream would always start off with you waking up in bed...feeling awake, but actually dreaming? Or do they start off in whatever situation the current dream is in?

Kristoph · 15 May 2007 at 20:02

The more im thinking about this the more i can remember dreams that would fall under the term 'lucid dream'.

I had one once where I could just run around my town and jump, but jump to stupidly high places. I wanted to get away from someone, like the police, i'd just jump. I'd show off to people by just jumping over lamp posts and cars.. random :confused:

Kristoph · 15 May 2007 at 20:04

Camalot said:
So, a lucid dream would always start off with you waking up in bed...feeling awake, but actually dreaming? Or do they start off in whatever situation the current dream is in?

Nightmare ones I've had were when I woke up in my bedroom, everything looked normal. When I turned the light on it blew, then I lost control and had a sort of ghost train of a dream through my house which I couldnt get off. It was so real too

Camalot · 15 May 2007 at 20:06

mp3kla said:
The more im thinking about this the more i can remember dreams that would fall under the term 'lucid dream'.

I had one once where I could just run around my town and jump, but jump to stupidly high places. I wanted to get away from someone, like the police, i'd just jump. I'd show off to people by just jumping over lamp posts and cars.. random

Quite similar to me mate. With flying.

I was walking to school once, felt like a normal day, but i could jump up and fly, the feeling i was getting was like jumping as high and as far i wanted in a way. But everytime this happend, the location was changed in a way. For exaple my school had this massive clock on the top, which i know wasnt there. So when i seen this, i think hey this is a dream? cool! Id fly around and make the most of it. But as soon as i see this tell tail sign, id start waking up. And my fredom in the dream to fly woulnt last long. Not even a minute because id wake up

mp3kla said:
Nightmare ones I've had were when I woke up in my bedroom, everything looked normal. When I turned the light on it blew, then I lost control and had a sort of ghost train of a dream through my house which I couldnt get off. It was so real too

Heck, its things like that what really put me off trying to lucid dream

Phate · 15 May 2007 at 20:29

Camalot said:
So, a lucid dream would always start off with you waking up in bed...feeling awake, but actually dreaming? Or do they start off in whatever situation the current dream is in?

Mine all start off in bed as during a normal dream if I realise I'm dreaming I wake up.

A good lucid dreamer can slip in and out of lucidity as and when they please.

Camalot · 15 May 2007 at 20:34

Phate said:
Mine all start off in bed as during a normal dream if I realise I'm dreaming I wake up.

A good lucid dreamer can slip in and out of lucidity as and when they please.

It all sounds confusing, if you realise your dreaming you wake up. I cant get my head around that part :confused:

DuncyBoy · 15 May 2007 at 20:51

I've just re-read the whole thread and this really intrigues me.

I remember a dream around ten years ago I was at a large country house with a massive grounds. I remember jumping off the terrace and was able to will myself to float. After a while I tried "swimming" through the air and it worked. It sounds absurb but I was literally doing breast stroke through the air. I don't remember whether or not I was conscious of it being a dream, though? Does this make it a lucid dream or not?