Who can have Lucid Dreams?

i wanna try this out. so the best time to do it is an hour before you wake up in the morning? so if i set my alarm for quarter past 6 and the secondary alarm for quarter past 7 i should in theory get better at trying to control my dreams, yet at the same time never be late for work. ingenious :D

any good sites for tips on what i should be thinking when dozing off?
 
So what happens when you're aware of yourself dreaming?

Do you get excited at the fun you can now do etc? Whenever I realise I'm dreaming I begin to wake up and I hate the feeling, do you lot relealise that you're dreaming but nothing happens, allowing you to control what goes on? How do you wake up if you're in control? Do you have to 'think' about waking up?
 
iCraig said:
So what happens when you're aware of yourself dreaming?

Do you get excited at the fun you can now do etc? Whenever I realise I'm dreaming I begin to wake up and I hate the feeling, do you lot relealise that you're dreaming but nothing happens, allowing you to control what goes on? How do you wake up if you're in control? Do you have to 'think' about waking up?
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i always thought it must be a timed event, you only get so many minutes dreaming before you wake up. or whatever, or do you dream in real time i.e if the night is 8 hours do you dream 8 hours or do you dream like you've only been asleep for minutes?
 
I have Lucid Dreams quite a lot,normally in the morning. I can wake up anytime I want but tend not too cause the dreams are normally too good :D .

I've also had sleep paralysis once, nasty thing to have. For about 2 minutes I was fully concious but couldnt move , I tried shouting out to someone but couldnt. My whole body was completely paralysed. Shook me up quite a bit cause I didnt know what it was, then I read about it on the web and understood it so I doubt I'd panic as much next time.
 
Interesting thread. Used to be into this when i was a teenager. I was learning to play guitar and got really into Steve Vai. I read an article about him in which he was talking about lucid dream experiences that had really affected him and his approach to creativity and music and life in general. This really got my attention at the time. His advice was to sleep with headphones on and set your stereo to come on very quietly whilst you were sleeping - enough to bring you into awareness of the dream state but not enough to wake you.

I practiced this for several months and got results a few times. I was able to become aware whilst dreaming, and control my actions. I never really had control of the dream, in terms of the location and scenarios etc. But i could consciously move around and do stuff within the dream world. An incredibly liberating experience.

Not sure why, but i've not attempted it since then.
 
bringerofdecay said:
what about having dreamed an entire day, and then re-lived it the day in which i woke up, stuff which i couldn't have possibly known before hand.
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I've had this, but not an entire day. I've have a lucid dream about a situation I'm in. Like 3 or 4 things happening at once and then It happens a couple of months later exactly as I dreamed it.

There's also another thing that's happened to me, I get it when I've 'just' woken up and I go and sit somewhere really quiet. Once I got out of bed and went straight onto my PC and messed around with PaintShopPro . Then I started hearing whispering , I thought it was coming from outside my door , but it was inside my head :eek: . It was the weirdest feeling I've ever had, When I started thinking about it the whispering stopped, then I'd just sort of sit there not thinking about anything and then I'd hear the whispering again! I want it to happen again because I could almost make out what saome of the voices were saying.
I'm thinking it was some sort of dream that was still going on , But i was lucid sleepwalking or something :D

Havent had any of this happen recently though.

And no I'm not mad :p .
 
KadreMoD said:
I've had this, but not an entire day. I've have a lucid dream about a situation I'm in. Like 3 or 4 things happening at once and then It happens a couple of months later exactly as I dreamed it.

There's also another thing that's happened to me, I get it when I've 'just' woken up and I go and sit somewhere really quiet. Once I got out of bed and went straight onto my PC and messed around with PaintShopPro . Then I started hearing whispering , I thought it was coming from outside my door , but it was inside my head :eek: . It was the weirdest feeling I've ever had, When I started thinking about it the whispering stopped, then I'd just sort of sit there not thinking about anything and then I'd hear the whispering again! I want it to happen again because I could almost make out what saome of the voices were saying.
I'm thinking it was some sort of dream that was still going on , But i was lucid sleepwalking or something :D

Havent had any of this happen recently though.

And no I'm not mad :p .
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Probably just other peoples thoughts, happens to the best of us :p

But don't tell your parents cause they will send you for counciling once a week :rolleyes:
 
I think flying is the most common Lucid Dream I have....I love those dreams :)

Oh and Brad Pitt nailed me the other week... not sure why I dreamed of him as I'm not an 'Oh My God Brad Pitt is the fittest man on earth' type of girl.

So to me it was quite random. (But very good! :D)

BB x
 
I can definitely have lucid dreams especially when lying in to late in the afternoon, can wake up briefly then continue the dream again and can remember it when I wake.

A bit weird but mostly the dreams consist of things that are happening in the background when I'm asleep e.g. if there's something on TV or music on in the house etc.
 
InwardSinging said:
Out of body experience is tougher, i feel i was on the brink a few times, but never made it, you empty your mind and picture yourself floating upwards, when your body starts to vibrate, your nearly there, but i always thought to myself "this is it, im going, im going, ah ******** my minds not clear" and it subsided.

Ill master it yet :D
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I used to be really into this and have tried it once or twice lately but don't get much spare time like I used to. The closest attempts I found forced me out of the meditative state really quickly and it was bloomin scary. In typical film fashion I would dart up gasping for breath with eyes bulging wide.

I'm sure Ive lucid dreamt many times before but never really know after I wake up whether it was fully lucid or not. I can to some extent control the subject of my dreams but not necessarily my actions or movement :(
 
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