lucid dreaming

[soundtest]

anybody do it? i find it difficult... whenever i realize i'm dreaming, i get so excited i wake up :(

Edit: This should have been posted in the "Questions..." forum. STUPID STUPID :maul

[Matt Harty]

I always know when i'm dreaming, but I can't wake up at will.

Not cool when having nightmares. :(

[Anonymous]

all the time

[CastroMotorOil]

happens to me every now and then, i think it is a ton of fun.

[Esuohlim]

About every time. It's awesome, because you can actually do stuff in your dream if you think about it. Like flying, for instance.

And when I'm having nightmare or something, I can wake up on my own if I concentrate hard enough.

But that's not the case sometimes, and I end up thinking I wake up but then I'm still in my dream. :(

[Matt Harty]

Yeah, so I just hide until it's over. Or scream "fuck you" at whatevers chasing me, then run.

[Professor Cool]

That happens to me once in the while, but my dreams are weird, for example one time I was playing my keyboard at the Apollo Theather, and I ended up blowing it up cause they boo'ed me, and that damn black clown tried to kick me off the stage. >:

[The Unseen]

:lurker

[Rongi]

I don't seem to have dreams anymore :(

[Ninjavenom]

You mean Astral Projection? I tried it a few times, and once i got it to work. I had some sort of Ronin Warriors type of armor, and all i did was fly through my house to the yard. I was too excited that i got it to work and woke up. :/

[liquidstatik]

EDITTED FOR SOUNDING LIKE A FAG

[Ninjavenom]

http://astralvoyage.com/projection/guide.html

[liquidstatik]

thanks :)

[Jixby Phillips]

I had this fantastic nightmare where I accidentally caused a huge accident that brutally killed and maimed a bunch of children. My whole dream had built up to that moment where I cause the accident, then a bunch of people in radiation suits collected the bodies of the children (killing the ones that were still alive but crying and writhing around in pain). They stick the kids in those plastic bags where you suck out all the air with a vacume, the ones they sell on TV. Then with the movie camera in my head we cut to one of the guys in the radiation suits. He pulls up one of the bags off the ground and inside of it is one of the mangled children, and he's screaming in pain. He holds it right to the camera and it's extremely fucked up. This is the point where I'd normally wake up. But instead of waking up, I think I decided to stay on it. Just to see where it would all go. It then reveals that It's all taking place on TV, but I'm looking away from it, and my parents are watching it, and they are trying to make me feel better about the accident. I'm denying it ever really happened, and they tell me to watch the TV. I refuse. Then I go to school and everybody is giving me a look, like I'm some kind of asshole. In my dream I realized that they were all mad because I didn't wake up on the scary part of the nightmare. This is where the dream becomes lucid, because I then start acting like an ass to everybody, trying to get them to not ignore me. I'm actually trying to think of different shit I can do to get them to react in my dream. I got bored so I woke up.

[Anonymous]

:love

[Les Waste]

I can almost never remember my dreams. And when I can remember them, it's because the dreams is so weird and random that it's extremely scary. My dreams are fucked up.

I love it when you wake up, and for about two minutes (usually when I'm peeing) you think that what you just dreamed actually happened. That is so cool.

[Zomboid]

It seems like I only ever realize it's a dream when I'm having a nightmare and I wanna wake up or kill whatever's causing problems for me. The thing is, I can never turn my arms into gatling guns or anything, and I can rarely wake up from it. The only thing I can almost always do is fly.

[FS]

I think Astral Projection is more like going into trance and sending out your astral body as a sort of ghost, which allows you to travel and see/talk to people in the waking world, but not touch anything.

For the past few years my dreams have been mostly really boring. My knowledge that I'm dreaming tends to slip in and out all the time. One moment I'm jumping off a building to see if I can fly, the next I'm fearing certain embarassment because I was on a field trip and lost sight of everyone. The only effect it all really has is that my nightmares are hardly ever scary anymore, because I mostly know it's all fake.

I had fantastic dreams and nightmares as a kid :(

[pjalne]

If I'm really tired and wake up in the middle of the night due to full bladder, I sometimes enter this semi-somnabulist state where elements and people from my dream follow me around. I'm 100% aware that it's not real, but it's still a bitch trying to piss when your shadow keeps doing fucked-up shit and your sister insists on sitting on the sink talking to you.

Luckily, it doesn't happen very often.

[Ninjavenom]

Aye, i had them mixed. What pj is talking about is the lucid dream, and astral projection is visiting the astral plane at any time at will.

[Spectre X]

who needs lucid dreamig when you can just close your eyes and start gunning down innocent people in your dreams? er....I mean, bad guys.

I can never remember my dreams, but when I do, it's either a nightmare or a really fucked up one.

[Skulhedface]

I usually find that I can wake myself up if I'm having a nightmare 9 times out of 10... that last time, I'm just dreaming that I woke up, but I kind of figure out that I'm still asleep because something fucked up is still happening.

There are two things I feel need adding in here...

1. Does anyone else have this problem? Where you're falling asleep, but you're not quite there yet... Suddenly you feel like you're falling straight through your bed and you snap up fully awake? This used to happen in the morning at school all the time :lol

2. Most of the time, it seems that I only have nightmares when the day I had was a GREAT one. Most people tend to have nightmares if they had really shitty days or so, but I find that my nightmares come if I had a really good day. Anyone else have this problem?

[Captain Robo]

I thought I'd never see a topic like this in a place like I-Mockery :rolleyes

[FS]

1. Does anyone else have this problem? Where you're falling asleep, but you're not quite there yet... Suddenly you feel like you're falling straight through your bed and you snap up fully awake? This used to happen in the morning at school all the time :lol

Sometimes, mostly when I've been playing a videogame to death that day, I end up lying half-asleep and constantly slipping into a kind of waking dream where I'm more or less in the videogame. Kind of like I'm directly controlling the character. It's annoying, and I barely get any sleep then because I just go back and forth between waking and half-sleeping.

[Spectre X]

sometimes I fall asleep, but I'm still awake. it's kinda hard to explain, but i go to sleep, and I'm conscious of everything, and this causes me to wake up with a giant shock, making me feel like I just got hit by a lightning bolt of 6000 volts or something. it's very annoying.

[Esuohlim]

When I play a video game for more than half the day, I always lie awake looking at the clock and thinking that I still have time to do the objective that was in the video game.

It's fucking annoying. :/

[soundtest]

i was first able to lucid dream after seeing the movie "Waking Life". mentioned in that movie is how difficult it is to purposely change the lighting in a room when you're dreaming. now whenever anything weird or out of the ordinary occurs (no matter how convinced i am that i'm awake), i check a light switch. if it doesn't work, i'm pretty sure i'm dreaming. the problem then becomes either waking up if i don't like it, or staying 'there' if i do. i find if i try to keep the fact it's all a dream to myself it helps... the second i let anybody in a dream know that i know it's a dream, they all stare at me in a sinister way and it does not look good.

[noob3]

I just woke up and saw this thread, and I just had the most fucked up dream:

I was in an art museum, it was exactly like this one that I went to as a kid. It smelled exactly the same, I knew I was there. I started browsing around, and my friend skateboarded by on a broken skateboard with no wheels. I was like "What, dude?", and then someone chased him out and grabbed my skateboard. I wasn't aware I even had a skateboard until this moment, and he threw my skateboard at a painting. He yelled "Pop a casper!", and then he ran off. I was confused, but I was sad because he caved in the painting I was looking at with my skateboard. And then the security ran over to me, and my skateboard was sitting right there so he thought I did it. He began to chase me around the art gallery, which became maze-like. The chase was backgrounded by ska music. When I finally lost the security guard, I found my friend. He had sprained his ankle, and sat down to eat a peanut butter & jelly he found. I asked him for a bite, and then I woke up.

It was wierd by itself, by the best part was there was paintings/sculptures of colorful surrreal/scary/wierd things everywhere. It was bizarre.

[Rongi]

I don't dream much because I'm usually up all night drawing. For all you that don't know, I'm a cartoonist :/.

Does anyone have this problem? You're in a dream, and then something sudden happens. Like you get hit with a bat or a shark is just about to bite you, and then you swing up awake.

I've only had one lucid dream. I owned my own grocery store and ate stuff...yeah.

[liquidstatik]

Im a cartoonist :( Im pretty good I think, I cant ink worth crap though :(

Anyway, I thought that when you dream it was just your brain collecting and sorting all the thoughts you learned that day. So, if you were to control your dream you would have to concentrate on the dream enough to not wake up(or something like that, read it on the link ninjavenom sent me). But if you are busy doing that your mind wont sort the stuff you learned :/ So would you just not learn anything from that day or what?

[WorthlessLiar]

When I'm having a nightmare I'm usually in too deep a sleep to tell what reality should look like. Some of my nightmares are horribly scary. The type where its a seemingly benign, yet incredibly bizarre dream that has a really scary ending that snaps you awake in a cold sweat. Here's a more amusing one though.

I dreamed I was in my bed lying awake at night. I looked out my window and saw a squirrel crawling across the glass. It took me a second to realize that squirrels can't climb glass and that's when it said "I'm going to kill you Alexander." Then all of a sudden three zombie women jumped out of my closet and started doing this creepy chant/song that was also about killing me. I snapped awake at that point.

I can usually only lucid dream when I'm sleeping at odd times and I can't change the dream too drastically at once otherwise I'll wake up or slip into a deeper sleep.

[Esuohlim]

Hey, does anyone know where I can find information on this topic. Preferably two Internet sources?

[pjalne]

1. Does anyone else have this problem? Where you're falling asleep, but you're not quite there yet... Suddenly you feel like you're falling straight through your bed and you snap up fully awake? This used to happen in the morning at school all the time :lol

Happens all the time, and when it does I always kick into the air like a fucking rabbit. Only sometimes the air isn't there, and I kick into a bedpole instead and it hurts lots and lots.

[FeuerAffe]

Take your pick:

http://www.dreamviews.com/

http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pasquale/TTM/1/index.html

It happens to me a lot, but my dreams are usually pretty much like reality, with slight weird differences. So I'm thinking, "Am I dreaming?" and do stupid things to make sure I am. By the time I figure it out, my alarm goes off. :(

[Esuohlim]

Many thanks, FeuerAffe. :)

[pjalne]

Have any of you played Tetris before bed and then been lying half-awake for hours drifting in a neverending Tertis board?

My mom had the same problem with Dr. Mario.

[sadie]

with snood, i have. and mah jong solitaire. :(

[soundtest]

That happened to me all the time when I was first getting into Starcraft. I would, in a semi-concious state, select SUV's in my head and have them gather minerals. :hypno

[Esuohlim]

Exactly. Video Games are fucking with our subconcious.

I played Metroid Prime half the night once and I couldn't close my eyes without blowing up Pirate Ghosts with Super-Charged Missles. :(

[Skulhedface]

Have any of you played Tetris before bed and then been lying half-awake for hours drifting in a neverending Tertis board?

My mom had the same problem with Dr. Mario.

Not Tetris specifically... more like Tetris Attack. I saw those damn shapes for weeks.

[whoreable]

I can almost never remember my dreams. And when I can remember them, it's because the dreams is so weird and random that it's extremely scary. My dreams are fucked up.

I love it when you wake up, and for about two minutes (usually when I'm peeing) you think that what you just dreamed actually happened. That is so cool.

Yea this always happens to me. I wake up and think shit that would make for a great story. Except I cant remeber it at all in the morning. :(

Last nite it was some wierd shit about seeing some band play some wierd music that everyone was laughing at and I couldnt understand thats all I can remeber. But I was deciding what was happening at the end :/

[FS]

We'd better not tell anyone about these videogame-dreams. Some overprotective mom might mount a new effort to banish videogames from existence because it could cause us to kill in our sleep.

[Jixby Phillips]

I had a dream last night that Jon Stewart died. It was so fucking sad. Then today I still thought he was dead and then when I didn't see them mention it on Comedy Central I thought "Well this is weird" and then I realized it was just a dream :(

[Krythor]

I dreamt last night that I was in my old school again, only now they have this weird system where one child dresses up like the emperor of China (That's the closest I can think of for describing the costume) and sits on a silk cushion in the middle of the playground. They were supposed to be the Emperor of the Children or something, and people took turns being the emperor, but you had to earn it. I earned it someway, I forget how, and when I sat on the cushion I was all on my own, and everyone was looking at me as if to say "Look at that dork with no friends." I kept looking around to find someone to come over and talk to, but everyone else by now was long gone. Suddenly, some girl appeared in front of me, turned around, looked at me and licked her lips, which was odd. Next thing you know, we start talking about some random crap that I can't recall, then somebody else takes their turn as the emperor.

There may have been a bit more, it was all really clear to me 3 hours ago, but as far as I can remember, that's the point that I woke up at.

[sadie]

i've decided one of the main reasons i'm insomnia's bitch is my dreams haunting my waking hours.

[Matt Harty]

It's sorta creepy that I can remember things from dreams from months ago, almost as if they actually happened. Or... actual memories. :/