Waking Dreams

[8bitmaster]

I have been reading up on lucid dreaming, the wake-initiated kind, and I was wondering if anyone else has researched this or has done it, either by accident or on purpose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

and also was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I could induce it easier, because I can't get it to work.

edit: for those who don't know what it is, lucid dreaming is the phenomenon to have an awake conscious while sleeping in order to control your dreams and be able to be in them as if you were still awake. It can cause a lot of different phenomena which is very interesting.

 

[faspxina]

LSD

xD just kidding

 

[The Cheezy One]

its a great experience, just a shame im generally immersed in the dream to much to take advantage of it
im not sure how to induce it, i think you have to be sleeping fairly lightly, just on the border of sleeping and waking

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I have been reading up on lucid dreaming, the wake-initiated kind, and I was wondering if anyone else has researched this or has done it, either by accident or on purpose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

and also was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I could induce it easier, because I can't get it to work.

edit: for those who don't know what it is, lucid dreaming is the phenomenon to have an awake conscious while sleeping in order to control your dreams and be able to be in them as if you were still awake. It can cause a lot of different phenomena which is very interesting.

I get a lot of articles about lucid dreaming on StumbleUpon for some reason-- I've never experienced one and am more than a little skeptical about a lot of the "techniques" people claim to use to induce lucid dreams.

One of the methods I've heard is to train yourself to ask yourself the question, "Am I dreaming?" regularly throughout your waking day, which supposedly allows you to adopt the same habit while dreaming and recognize that you are dreaming, which I guess is how a lucid dream works.

But what the fuck do I know, honestly, it could all be bullshit.

 

[8bitmaster]

Well I have heard of it happening without realizing. I read on another forum of someone having the out of body experience it talks about on the wiki and basically being "awake" while still in sleep paralysis.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

I have been reading up on lucid dreaming, the wake-initiated kind, and I was wondering if anyone else has researched this or has done it, either by accident or on purpose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

and also was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I could induce it easier, because I can't get it to work.

edit: for those who don't know what it is, lucid dreaming is the phenomenon to have an awake conscious while sleeping in order to control your dreams and be able to be in them as if you were still awake. It can cause a lot of different phenomena which is very interesting.

When im sick or ill (like last night) i fall into this strange trance like state where i am half asleep and half awake, and i experience strange halucinations in real life. For example last night i freaked shit cuz i kept seeing things and heard screaming through my headphones. This morning its obvious it was a fever induced imagining but at the time it was very very real. Ive never met anyone else who has this to... does anyone?

 

[8bitmaster]

When im sick or ill (like last night) i fall into this strange trance like state where i am half asleep and half awake, and i experience strange halucinations in real life. For example last night i freaked shit cuz i kept seeing things and heard screaming through my headphones. This morning its obvious it was a fever induced imagining but at the time it was very very real. Ive never met anyone else who has this to... does anyone?

I think that is still part of it, but im not sure.

 

[Palademon]

Happens quite alot for me. As I have stated in a similar thread, it is hard to control and probably caused by my fear of the dark and therefore need for a lamp on my shelf as I sleep.

 

[johnsom]

I've had 2 lucid dreams that I have induced. What I did was to just tell myself that I was going to have one as I fell asleep. The dreams I had weren't really spectacular but like I said I've only done it twice. I don't often remember my dreams anymore. I use to have very vivid dreams that I would look forward to every night now...nothing its sad.

 

[8bitmaster]

hmm..... how would it just stop happening? did you just stop trying?

 

[Jack_Uzi]

It happened to me 3 times in my life, but they didn't last long. I realized I was in a dream and could do about anything. Same did go for some terrible messed up nightmares I had. I thought: "Oh, this is just a dream, the only thing I have to do is wake up." .. And so I did.

 

[8bitmaster]

My medication causes a great deal of these to occur to me.

It gets sort of disturbing after a while.

how? I get the fact that some of the things that happen might be weird, but disturbing?

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

I've never been able to do it myself but there's a movie called Waking Life that devels into the topic a bit...actually its more like the film is suppose to be a lucid dream itself but it also does go into the subject of lucid dreaming and various charaters experinces with it. It's an amazing movie and should be seen just to experince it but in your case it is also a bit realivant

 

[Sephychu]

It's happened to me about three or so times.

It's a truly unique experience. It's like the best kind of dream and you have full control over it, or it's like the worst kind of dream that you have to go through. I'm at a roughly 2/1 ratio so far.

 

[zehydra]

I've been trying for about a month so far, and I've only had one semi-successful experience, where I was about to, (I recognized all the signs that had been talked about on forums, e.t.c) but it kind of freaked me out and I moved and snapped out of it.

It was after I had woken up from nap in the middle of the afternoon, and I laid down back on my bed and closed my eyes. After a few seconds, that's when everything went super bright, and a really loud ringing in my ears happened. I started to see people, and it got louder and I guess it just freaked me out at the time.

Anyway, a good forum for you to visit:

http://www.dreamviews.com/forum.php

and also, a nice tutorial if you're interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP_jzImhP8s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ggjnx3OqCU&annotation_id=annotation_87228&feature=iv

 

[Doclector]

I kinda had that this morning. I had a series of dreams beginning with one in which I wasn't lucid, I was late for my first day back at college and completely lost it, and when I woke up, I went back to sleep within five minutes, only to have another short dream in which I was surrounded by fish burgers. I was lucid in my own actions, but the dream was not in my control. This happened a few times, waking up, dreaming, repeat, always a completely different dream, except occasionally there was a blocky, almost robotic version of the rabbit from donnie darko watching me. Finally I had a dream where I was in some sort of boiler room, almost like in nightmare on elm street, with the rabbit, and I decided to ask this creature from my subconcious movie trivia what all these dreams meant.

At which point, he sung this:


I then woke up, and decided to stop falling asleep watching films.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

The dreams are extremely vivid - to the point of seeming completely real. However, being dreams, and being on anti-depressants, they tend to be disturbing; I have lots of dreams that involve me being harmed and being forced to do terrible things.

Not fun night after night.

Lucid dreams aren't about being "vivid"-- the idea is that you become conscious of the fact that you are dreaming while you are dreaming, which gives some people the ability to freely change the content of the dream. So, unless you are consciously inflicting those terrible things to yourself (in your mind), you aren't lucid dreaming.

 

[8bitmaster]

It's happened to me about three or so times.

It's a truly unique experience. It's like the best kind of dream and you have full control over it, or it's like the worst kind of dream that you have to go through. I'm at a roughly 2/1 ratio so far.

When you say it could be the worst experience, What do you mean? I thought if you can control it nothing can go wrong.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Happens to me quite alot. Sometimes they are fun and cool but other times...once I was forced to walk into a room where I was shot, and it was like I could feel the people pushing me, and I tried to resist. Wierd crap.

 

[Erana]

The problem with Lucid dreaming is that yes, you know you're asleep and are in absolute control, but you're still a bit emotionally and sensually influenced by the dream. I wasted my last lucid dream because the seven-story swing in the middle of a forest was too exciting in-dream for me to conjure up much of anything.
Except butterflies and hummingbirds.

Jesus, my subconsciousness is super-girly. In retrospect, I'm suprised the forest autumnal, rather than rainbows and springtime, with unicorns prancing around.