Can you see your dreams?

[InsomniJack]

I sometimes remember my dreams, especially if something completely strange and unprecedented occurs. I also can do lucid dreaming, but I usually have to remember that I can do that before I can really control things. I can't really have things the way I want, but I can alter myself and manage to fly or otherwise be invulnerable.

One of my most memorable dreams is how I was attempting to jump my motorcycle from the inside of one cargo plane to another. I almost made it (I was practically inside) but I went a bit too far and started falling towards the ground. But I didn't wake up. Instead, I began soaring down and saw an old pickup truck on the ground, so I drifted my body to its location. Then I crashed into the bed of the truck and destroyed a good portion of it, and then got out of the truck and started walking away, feeling kinda like a bunch of christmas ornaments taped together in a box that had been thrown down the stairs.

Then I thought "Weird... I had just...", and when I tried to remember what happened, I relived the crash all over again.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

All of you has made me depressed.

When you wake up, do you not get the feeling of how the dream is skippy and inconsistent? When I think about it, I can recall having a dream of going to school and attending class, etc.
When I woke up and immediately wanted to write it down, there were so many blanks in between "events".
How time was skipping and I couldn't remember anything in between, I could only recall "flashes" (Like I said in opening post)

That's how most people remember things...

 

[JackKrauserFtw]

Try to think about the dream the second you wake up, then try memorising it

 

[Woodsey]

What you're talking about is lucid dreaming, most people can't.

 

[ethaninja]

I've been able to control my dream once.
I tend to remember them right from the go of waking up.

Unless I've been drinking of course.

 

[Nexoram]

Can any of you guys give me some personal tips on achieving Lucid Dreaming. I REALLY want to experience it again (I had a lucid dream once) to the point where I'm considering buying a NovaDreamer (machine supposed to help lucid dreaming) if it isn't too expensive.

I feel like I've been cheated by life, for I don't see my dreams. I can remember a single flashing moment, but that is it.

Yeah, if you think about it half of your life is spent sleeping and a fraction of that time is spent dreaming. If you could lucid dream or recall more dreams than your life would be must more meaningful.

Another one I can also remember (Which I'm guessing I was slightly awake during the time) is that I kept trying to open my eyes. I don't remember WHY, but I just remember that I had to open them, but I couldn't.When I woke up, my eyes were sore, as if I tried to open them in my sleep.But mine are nothing in comparison of what I've read, heard or seen. What's up, Escapist? Care to share your experiences? (Yes, I demand to make larger paragraphs.)

Holy shit, that dream/nightmare sounds really creepy. Some dreams are pretty scary and sometimes disturbing. So maybe that's one of the cons of dreaming then.

 

[Latinidiot]

I wake up when I realize I'm dreaming, and the dream just slips away.

 

[Rhymer]

I sometimes suddenly realize that I'm dreaming. Last night it suddenly dawned upon me that a colossal flying worm sailing through a liquified red sky wasn't very realistic. And when you realize it, just imagine something happening and it most probably will. Don't however, try to change too much, or you will wake up or slip into another dream.

"Wait, worms can't fly... Ah, of course! Oh hi gorgeous..." Teehee.

 

[AmbushIntheDark]

Ive only had a few really vivid dreams but I mostly forget most of them when I wake up

 

[Scarim Coral]

I only had a lucid dreams a few time. I found regular dreams to be annoying sometime depending how much I think the dream is real. If I think the dream event is real, it make me confuse when I wake up and it even more annoying when I get emotional in the dream (if I'm sad in the dream then I will wake up feeling sad but then realise it was a dream).

 

[sheogoraththemad]

I can see my dreams, sometimes I draw them, and when I drink Monster Energy drink before sleeping, I get strange dreams

 

[Nickolai77]

One of my friends taught himself to dream lucidly, but it backfired when he got sleep-paralysis and started "waking up" from his dreams hallucinating things such as a clown at the edge of his bed. Pretty freaky stuff, it's put me off trying to lucidly dream.

 

[TheDandyHighwayman]

I've had some pretty weird dreams.
Once my maths teacher turned into the slenderman and tried to eat me,
Once my mum turned into the slenderman and tried to eat me,
Once my dad turned into the slenderman... can you see a pattern... it was all one dream.
another dream I had I met Jonathan Coulton but he was the character from "Skullcrusher Mountain"
another dream I went to Australia to meet Yug from australian gamer then he fired me from a catapult (I woke up at this point to find my iPod playing the AG podcast and Yug was talking about a catapult he purchased)

I've never been able to control my dreams though, always wanted to

 

[Leppy]

I never remember my dreams, unless im suddenly woken up during one. I'll remember it for a few minutes, then forget all about it. And, like several others above me, my memory of dreams lasts longer after a drunken sleep.

 

[ViletteMadr]

I often have dreams and don't remember them until later on. If I do remember them i cant remember them clearly. And i don't have any control in my dream. It's like I'm watching something. I'm not part of the dream i just see what happens and then i get cut off. Like a cliffhanger. I also have the weirdest dreams.

The last dream i had was like two days ago. It was raining in the middle of the night.There were twins they resembled each other only little. They were in their pj's like they just woke up and they were guarding someone. A lizard demon that was crimson broke into their house asking for 'the girl' they wouldn't let him go any farther so the boy and the demon started to fight. Then 2 of the demons minions which looked like the Pokemon sneasel with a lizard tail started looking through the house for 'the girl'. The twin girl took her outside into the rain and they started running. I just woke up then not knowing what was going to happen next. I felt like i knew what was going on. Like i know the twins were born to protect her like they're her guardians. And the whole time i wasn't part of the dream but i was just watching it. Like a movie.

 

[huigho1215]

I've been able to control my dreams ever since I was little, now though I tend to just let go rather than control them, I find all the random enjoyable

 

[Something Amyss]

Never had a lucid dream, but I have some REALLY vivid and detailed dreams from time to time.

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

I have a pretty surreal subconscious, so I usually get some pretty unreal dreams. Weirdest one was something outta an Alan Moore story. Had a pretty bad one last night too. Dreamt I was being crushed alive by a giant mutant man baby...

...last time I watch Akira before bed.

I see my dreams, sometimes very vividly. Too vividly. I have more nightmares then dreams though. In a way, it may be better to not see your dreams, because as with most things in this world, there's a good side to it and a bad side to it.

You mean like a killer rabbit?!

 

[Shadow_Bunnies]

I remember my dreams usually, but most of the time they're very insignificant, but I then get deja vu about something like 1 month later. I decided to start writing down some my dreams when I wake up and comparing them to what happened during the day whenever I get deja vu. Some of the dreams actually happened in real life, so I have some sort of clairvoyance in that sense.

 

[random980]

I remember only a few dream but I never could controlled it
A few examples
1 I gave a fear of aliens and I sometimes have nightmares about them, 1 dream has stuck to me and it goes like this: I don't remember how it started but I started running in my house going to every exit, but all of the exits were blocked by aliens (I couldn't see the faces) and when I'm going to the main something blocked me, and then I wake up In shocked like if everything was real.

2 Once my dream went incepcion like, I was doing something and then woke up in my couch, then I was walking around and all of the sudden I woke up (really now)
Well those are my examples

Edit: this 2 weird things also happen to me:
1)I sometimes can dream the future and "see" it later as dejavu's
2)Some dreams are so vivid that I think they are memories (I had some really embarrassing moments because of this)

Also I dream in black and white

Odd, the exact same thing happens to me, I sometimes dream so vividly that I mistake it for a memory which leads me to having futuristic dejavu's despite the fact its never happened before and that the dejavu is out of proportian to the actual event in real life.(example: dreaming of family driving over a huge winding bridge in a forest, then when we went on holiday in Tasmania months later, we were driving through a forest and I called we would drive over a bridge and minutes later we did, except the bridge was only about 3 metres long.) I once when i was really young had a dream I was drowning that was so vivid i mistook it for a memory which lead to me having a temporary fear of deep water and accidentally telling my swimming teacher about it who then asked my mum about it who responded wtf!?. With your alien dream, same thing but with zombies and some mountain climbing. Oh and i dont dream in black and white, that's just weird... :/

OT: I've had all sorts of weird dreams, from ones to being blind and if i open my eyes i would wake up, to dreams were they are so vivid it feels real but as soon as i wake up fully/open my eyes I forget all of it except the very end or one big moment. As far as lucid dreams were I control what's happening I've had one I can remember in detail and the others, as soon as I realise I can control the dream and I start making changes, something other than myself has waken me up every time, like a really loud noise or something.

Two questions for the escapists, 1. do humans dream every night? because most of the time I dont dream/remember anything at all, 2. are there anti-lucid dreams? because I've had several complete/vivid dreams were im watching a complete stranger from a third person view!?...