Lucid Dreaming

How many of you experience this phenomenon? I started training myself at 15 to exploit it, and it is just starting to click. I can finally pull it off without waking myself up (most of the time).

Anyone else here practice lucid dreaming?

is there where you can control the path of your dreams and their possible outcomes?

That's about the gist of it. The actual interpretation I have been chasing is based more on consciousness and self awareness. I can influence my dreams quite readily now, but a dream is a dream. I don't think I'll ever reach a state of consciousness where I am in complete control of my subconscious.

I do it all the time.I used to have horrible nightmares, so I had to.Anyone ever get sleep paralysis?i do, but I've taught myself to scream with my mouth closed in my sleep and my old man shakes me out of it.

I can to some degree. But most of the time I just wake myself up if something is happening that I don't like. I have a lot of nightmares... especially when I'm not smoking.

When I was little I used to wet the bed. I would dream of walking through the house to the toilet, see myself sitting on it and let go. To stop myself doing this, I gave my dream toilet a red door. Then if I saw myself walking towards that red door, I knew that it was a dream.

It worked for me.

This sounds interesting, can anyone explain on how to attempt and achieve this?

I never read any book.I just started doing it.It took me a while to master it.You just have to stop the action..just like yelling "Cut" in a movie.I had horrifying zombie dreams, and each one was unique and grotesque...but they all had the same feel.I learned to recognize the feeling and snap my mind awake, if you will, and say, "no, I'm not having this dream." Now I can go anywhere in my dreams.But whenever I have a sex dream, it never fails some jerk wakes me up right when George Clooney is about to make me pop an ovary so hard I blow my feet off.

Igotdialup said:

This sounds interesting, can anyone explain on how to attempt and achieve this?

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Stoney McFried said:

But whenever I have a sex dream, it never fails some jerk wakes me up right when George Clooney is about to make me pop an ovary so hard I blow my feet off.

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LMFAO. Damn! Aint it always the way??

Always!I must make noise or something.

ph03nix said:

LMFAO. Damn! Aint it always the way??

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I never read any books either. I just talked to people about dreams a bunch. Most of it started from dreams where I was running. I wold notice i could take bigger and bigger steps until I could vault huge distances. Pretty soon I'd be able to just float or appear wherever I wanted to go.

The majority of my personal "training" has focused on the level of awareness that I can achieve before I wake myself up, and trying to separate the waking instinct from that awareness. If it happens too fast, I wake up.

Our minds are very interesting places, and I am constantly surprised by the sophistication and imagination that my sub conscious is capable of demonstrating. I use lucid dreaming to turn good dreams into awesome dreams, and to turn nightmares into mockeries. It's really funny when you turn on that evil monster that's chasing you and extinguish it with a Kid's In the Hall like "SQUISH!"

yup i actually started training myself at 15 aswell..

Its like evry dream is something special.... Its amazing sometimes what you see, feel.....

But i allways wake up

Igotdialup said:

This sounds interesting, can anyone explain on how to attempt and achieve this?

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It takes time. I was told that I need to learn to recognize myself in my dreams, and then I would realize that it is MY dream, and subject to my conscious thoughts. All that didnt make any sense to me, but what I found useful was recognizing that moment in my dreams where I wanted something to happen and it did. Sex dreams are easy ways for this to happen. How many times did you wake up RIGHT before you were about to pound the crap out of Ms. Hottiebags? I used to wake myself up wrestling with my dreams to make them be what I wanted them to be. I learned how to stop this by recognizing my conscious influence slowly, instead of all at once. Maybe it sounds like gibberish, but describing something like that is like trying to describe an acid trip.

Here are two tips that I've heard work well when starting out. Put a reminder of these two phrases next to your bed or alarm clock. Anywhere that you will see it every time you go to sleep.

While dreaming:
1. Look at your hands.
2. Turn the lights on and off, or activate switches.

Both of these actions are supposed to help you recognize that you are dreaming, and that you DO have an influence on things around you.

I had better results by focusing on the moments that I could feel myself waking out of dreams. Especially when I keep waking up from the same dream. Over time, I learned to recognize just how much I could "push" my awareness before I was completely awake.

This sounds really great, so while im in a dream i have to look at my hands and turn lights on and off? lol

it doesnt matter what particular device you use, the trick is to recognize triggers in your dreams, and interact accordingly.

I'll try... I will post on how it goes, anyway to have dreams almost all the time?

I didn't read anything but the first post but check out my story

I was home alone once when i discovered i had a dangerous sleeping disorder...well, sleep walking or something idk the doctor gave me a different term. i don't remember going to sleep that night, I remember this all as if i were awake

I was in bed texting on my phone when i heard a noise, so i walked out of my room to check it out. all of the doors, which were closed before, were now open and i heard someone in another room. then a guy walked around the corner and had a butchers knife, he was a robber i guess. i ran into my room and pressed against the door but he got in and stabbed me. so i called the kid i was texting and told him a guy was in my house and stabbed me near my shoulder. so he told me to call the police, i did call the police and the police came to my house and woke me up in my bed!

I called my friend while i was asleep and called the police too, the cops told me i sounded like i was about to die, it was just me sounding sleepy or something i guess. and the entire dream...well, felt totally realistic to me. i didnt even know i had fallen asleep. then i went to a doctor and got evaluated and this happened again, i left my house and woke up outside on my lawn. so i had to take something to induce a really deep sleep or something. i havent been taking the medicine or dreaming like that lately, but now in every dream I die or something tragic or really crazy happens. every time i dream...it's depressing, i've learned to just live with it and not let it get to me. lucid dreaming? sounds like a skill i'd like to relish

It sounds like it would help you! That is some scary shit right there though man.

you dream more than you remember dreaming. the best thing i can say is to get REGULAR sleep, and try to be sober when you go to sleep. many people report difficulty achieving REM sleep after drinking or heavy marijuana use. REM periods are generally considered to be the time when you have the most vivid and memorable dreams. The longest bouts of REM sleep typically occur near the end of your sleep cycle.

yeah I know all of this, after I developed this problem I read up in neurology and everything. I honestly don't like having vivid dreams because all of my dreams have been pretty...weird, scary, depressing, etc. I don't understand why either because I'm a happy person, I'm normal, I may have problems most people don't have but that is no reason for me to dream like that. i also used to dream in series but i can't remember the last time that happened. i had an OK dream last night the only bad thing I can remember is pissing blood, A LOT of blood...it was so morbid. i don't even think of these things while i'm awake

yeah, that was for dialup. i don't think i could manage that many nightmares. would drive me crazy!!!

Nobody REALLY understands sleep disorders. there are just so many factors involved i doubt anyone really will understand the what when how and why...