Lucid Dreaming

[PiggyJibbleFish]

In class we're learing about Lucid Dreaming (realising you're in a dream) and I was just curious if anybody here has done it and changed their dreams in some way?

There are ways to conciously to do it too, such as trying to poke your finger through your hand

I actually remember a dream I had a few years ago, when I met Freddy Kruger. I realised it was a dream because he was in my dream (if that makes sense) and I asked him if he wanted to get coffee

 

[Lord Ferrok]

I do that sometimes. If I want to wake up, I just blink.

 

[coldwarkid]

I can only remember this happening to me once.

I was five, and having one of those nightmares where you're attacked by something horrible from the dark. I just remember realising very suddenly that it wasn't real, and I then proceeded to smack the darkness about with a baseball bat (I was five. I was a violent child, and I don't know where I got the baseball bat from. Don't you just hate inconsistent dreams?).

I then saved my parents and they took me to Disney Land. It was awesome.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

No. My dreams don't like to break the Fourth Wall.

 

[damselgaming]

I find myself in those situations a lot... usually I use it to swap out my boyfriend for Hugh Jackman and swap the situation to a more ... heated one. Man I love being able to do that.

 

[Major_Sam]

Oh yeah I do it all the time. It is a bit of a skill and does take practise but after awhile, yes you can control your dream. The way I've trained myself to do it is by setting an alarm for 6 hours after I've fallen asleep, and when it goes off, I get up and do something for to excerise my mind for 20 minutes or so. I go back to bed and easily fall back to sleep. I find it a lot easier to get a lucid dream that way.

Another way to help lucid dream is to remind yourself when you are awake, that you are awake so that it becomes easier to realise that you are dreaming.

I haven't had much luck with the poking your finger through your hand trick though.

The only problem with lucid dreaming is that when you become aware that you are dreaming which is needed to be able to manipulate your dream, you tend to wake up, making lucid dreams short. But after practise, you can increase the length of your dreams.

I had one the other night and it had Heath Ledger in it. I realised it was a dream and I asked him, "How are you?" and he says he is fine. Last night I had one and I was on a canel in a boat. A friend and I had scones with jam and cream as we sat in the boat.

I find myself in those situations a lot... usually I use it to swap out my boyfriend for Hugh Jackman and swap the situation to a more ... heated one. Man I love being able to do that.

I wasn't going to say anything but yes I've had some "fun" with people I will never meet.

 

[JC175]

Yeah, I have once or twice.

There are several techniques to doing it, the most important ones are that in a dream you can never distinguish between different light levels and the flow of time. So if IRL you get into the habit of turning light switches on and off when you walk past them, its likely to happen in a dream and for you to realise, same with checking your watch. Another tell-tale sign is if you're breathing underwater, or something like that.

It'll all very subjective though, it's a bit hit and miss. There are a lot of techniques out there that are a lot more complex than this, though.

 

[AroLombardi]

No. My dreams don't like to break the Fourth Wall.

You just gave me a Chuck Norris joke somehow... And atleast they stay in character.

Anyway, I sort of do. If something bad comes along my mind (me being a pessimist), it happens. But when I want something good to happen, nothing.

 

[insectoid]

I have Lucid dreams all the time. Usually ends with me hearing someone say something or make noise, and I think "I should get up", and end the dream.

Those dreams are usually the best too.

 

[Korolev]

Sorry - haven't managed to be able to do lucid dreaming yet. I've tried, for about 2 years, and failed miserably.

I do have dreams which I swear are photorealistic in quality, dreams which I could not distingush, by vision alone, from reality - but I never know its a dream, and when I do realize it I always instantly wake up. For example, one dream involved me studying for a university exam - but the very second I realized that 1) I finished all my exams last year and 2) I never did take a full blown mathematics course in University, I woke up. Another involved me being diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. In my dream, I panicked, I cried, as the doctor said I had only a week to live. At which point I wondered "hang on...... pancreatic cancer takes a LEAST a few months to manifest and kill you, and should take years. Shouldn't I be in horrible pain if the cancer is this advanced?", which caused me to wake up feeling exhausted from all that dream-time worrying.

Having said that, Lucid Dreaming does exist - it's a well documented ability, which some people can do. So you should try it. I've given up though. I've settled for my extremely strange, unsettling nightmares about my parents dying in car crashes, being in tremendous debt, dying slowly in the desert, etc.

Pleasant dreams.

 

[AroLombardi]

In class we're learing about Lucid Dreaming (realising you're in a dream) and I was just curious if anybody here has done it and changed their dreams in some way?

There are ways to conciously to do it too, such as trying to poke your finger through your hand

Also, congrats on your first post I suppose...

 

[GodsOneMistake]

My dreams are never real enough for me to do so, just random shit going on for a while

 

[FallenRainbows]

I do sometimes... lets take Monday night for example I was having a beautiful dream with my girlfriend (no not that you pervs) and I knew it was a dream because we where cuddling around my primary school on a bench in the middle of the playground. I knew it was a dream but I wished it wasn't so very much

 

[WolfThomas]

I am not sure, I often have omnipotent godlike powers that allow me to control everything in my dreams, but rarely do I realise it is a dream.

 

[Gadzooks]

I've done it a few times, but only via the hard way - skipping the falling asleep normally part and falling straight into a lucid dream. I can't wake up, go back to bed and have one. I have to try and keep aware of my surroundings as I fall asleep slowly so I know I'm passing into lucid la la land.

It is amazing, if only I had the patience to perfect it so I could live out my fantasies every night.

 

[vampirekid.13]

In class we're learing about Lucid Dreaming (realising you're in a dream) and I was just curious if anybody here has done it and changed their dreams in some way?

There are ways to conciously to do it too, such as trying to poke your finger through your hand

happens to me everytime something that cant happen IRL happens in a dream. it seems i instantly realize im dreaming and start controlling stuff.

i cant quite make things appear/dissapear, but i can change which way im going, or just basic stuff, drop something, pick up object so on and so forth.

 

[DazZ.]

Recently watched a film called Waking Life [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/] which is basicly a man who's dreaming discussing philosophy with various people and talking about the fact he's dreaming them.

After watching that for an hour and a half and pondering over the subject, I managed to get afew lucid dreams in the week, but then it wasn't fresh in my mind and I haven't had any since.

 

[Mongodyr]

I'm not totally sure. I felt that it was "Me" that was controlling the dream, but I never thought "This has got to be a dream".
After a while I started to slip back into a regular boring dream.

 

[Sark]

I think this happened a few nights ago. I was having a reasonably bad dream whose details escape me, when I realised this was in my head so under my control. Felt like a jolt but then dream ended and normal sleep ensued.

Edit: Apparently, the average dream only lasts 2-3 seconds.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Sure, every time I dream, especially if it's a rerun of an old dream, I change it. Eventually I always end up being the evil omnipotent overlord.