Can you Lucid Dream?

[Airgemini]

What are the books called if you don't mind me asking?

One that I can remember right now is Dreams and What They Mean to You by Migene González-Wippler.

 

[Greenstreet]

One that I can remember right now is Dreams and What They Mean to You by Migene González-Wippler.

Cool, thats a good starting point.

 

[L__]

I remembered the last dream I've ever had; I was 8.

I was in the middle of a giant lake with high mountains surrounding it.

A giant whale lay swimming below; circling me.

The whale came up; tackling me down.

I "drowned" and then woke up gasping for air.

That's it, my last dream.

 

[Agi]

Whenever I've had a bad day, I always conjure up a telekinesis dream... makes me feel like I have more control over my life.

 

[BrawlBro]

I have great dream memory and what seems to be slight control over myself when im asleep (I can wake myself up during a nightmare) but I really dont even want to learn to lucid dream, to me it kills the purpose of dreaming...

 

[Boxob]

You're dreaming right now.

 

[Mini Mic]

Lucid dreaming? Sounds sticky... And no I can't control my dreams. Rest assured if I could they would suck anyway.

 

[TigerWoods]

You dream everyday. It's impossible not to dream if you are asleep. Your concious mind is forgetful however, and dreams aren't so important to remember, so most of the time the brain dumps these memories. Stress is a factor that can bring up vivid dreams, whether it be good or bad. Anyway the body uses dreams to reherse all it has learned throughout the day. This includes coordiantion and memories. I do not see any facts saying lucid dreams are real, or fake. I'm judging you all as telling the truth and im currently trying 0.0


Its actually impossible to "dump" a memory with your own will. When you "forget" your body stores it somewhere away from your concious self, because it is not apparently necessary.

 

[1048576]

I've never had a dream where I didn't simply start from a high height, fall, and cease dreaming when I hit the ground, and yet I still can't tell when I'm having a dream. I must be psychotic.

 

[4Serial]

i'm going to sleep right now and seeing if i can do this. it sounds so awesome

 

[LordoftheMorning]

I am able to control dreams sometimes. Although it's strange.... MY subconcious can sometimes overrule my commands. Example: Once I was having a nightmare and the only thing I could think of saying was "NO!" and then something totally random (i won't say what cuz its kinda stupid) happened that basically stopped what I was afraid of. But ten seconds later it came RIGHT BACK because my subconcious thought "i hope it doesn't come back".

I try to control my dreams, often using monosyllabic commands. It's like a weird struggle. I'm dueling my subconscious for control.

 

[The Fail Tracer]

I had been keeping a dream diary to help me be able to lucid dream once, but I ended the thing about a month ago. My dreams are way too long and have way too much detail nowadays for me to write them down without my wrist hurting.

 

[smash inc]

That happens to me too like in my dreams i fall of a deck or something high and i like feel the fall its unscrible but i've felt it since i was 5 i got scared cause i thougt i fell it just likes gives a tingle in my leg.

 

[The Executive]

I taught myself to Lucid Dream in eighth grade. Since then, I've had erratic sleeping, sleep paralysis, and insomnia.

This is very disconcerting. I have enough issues with my imagination when I'm conscious (flipping through photos of The Exorcist at nine years of age does that). Is there any way to ensure that you don't have lucid dreams?

I personally have not experienced sleep paralysis but I have had extremely vivid hallucinations upon waking (I swear I've seen a ghost) as well as several night terrors with lasting effects.

 

[Hobobloke]

i wish i could lucid dream could be very interesting

 

[Zeruda]

I can't lucid dream at all... my brother was able to, though, and he never had to do the necessary practices to be able to do it.

The only thing I can do is force myself to wake up if a nightmare is too much for me. I'm able to realize that I'm dreaming, and then I can just shut it off.

 

[Crimson King]

Bumping this up for great justice.

Anyone try to induce Lucid Dreams? I bought some induction goggles, and the results have been pretty interesting. The first full night I wore them, I had enough dreams recalled so that when I woke up, it felt like I forgot what I did the previous day, but it was all dreams. Last night, I had a hyper vivid dream.

Gonna try again tonight, and try out the dream alarm.

Other than this, I do DILD (Dream-Induced Lucid Dreams), WILD (Wake-Induced Lucid Dreams) and MILD (Mnemonic Induced Lucid Dreams). So far, no induced lucid dreams, but my hybrid technique is improving my dream quality.

So, anyone else LD?

 

[INSANE CARZY GUY]

I can control some I once made my borther's mouth shirk into nothingness because he won't shut up. i've once had a mnetal breaj down in one of my dreams and I was seriously f***ed up. Also what messes with me is how i'll think about some things in my dream like once I thought about what I was doing and i still caved in a babie's skull with a hammer worse than any moive you ever seen sure it was a zombie but really wasn't that big of a deal.


also for in dreams and in real life you aren't control really if you don't think about thinking.

 

[Fuelbi]

I've only done that like twice in my life. Once when I got control of myself in a dream where I was in school in my underwear when I realized I was dreaming (where I woke myself up because of the ridiculosity of the dream or something >_<) and another where the bell rung at school and somehow I noticed I was dreaming. Then some force came over me and tried to get me to wake up and even though I struggled to keep dreaming and do whatever the hell I wanted, I accidentally got taken over when I took one step while concentrating :/ Then I woke up

I've heard you can do it if you stare at a watch and tell yourself you're dreaming every 5 minutes, which I can't really do since I'm in school and I'll likely forget that I have to do it

 

[Lore]

I do it all the time, but I take sleeping medication. I have a mild case of insomnia, so I've taken Melatonin and other things for a while.

That stuff can make a lot of nights very, very interesting, lol.

 

[Kason Birdman]

every time i get a lucid dream my perverted mind turns it into something sexual

 

[Fuelbi]

every time i get a lucid dream my perverted mind turns it into something sexual

Lol, I actually had that in mind when I lucid dreamed the second time... stupid force waking me up *grumbles*

 

[Geist]

I had like a straight week of lucid dreams once, a long time ago. They still pop up once and a while but not as much as I'd like them too :[

 

[Crimson King]

I do it all the time, but I take sleeping medication. I have a mild case of insomnia, so I've taken Melatonin and other things for a while.

That stuff can make a lot of nights very, very interesting, lol.

Actually melatonin causes a decrease in dreams since, the way it works, you are in the dreamless phase longer. If you add B6, you'll dream more.

Fuel_, it doesn't take THAT long to do reality checks. Here is my "regimen":

- 4 times a day (at non-standard times) I check my surroundings for things out of the ordinary
- I randomly push my finger into my palm and count fingers (in dreams, your finger will go through and have extra fingers)
- I check the time, look away, then look back when I see a clock
- I read a passage every now and then and check for coherence
- When I wake up or go to sleep, I hold my nose. In dreams, you can still breathe.

Try that.

 

[Lore]

Actually melatonin causes a decrease in dreams since, the way it works, you are in the dreamless phase longer. If you add B6, you'll dream more.

Fuel_, it doesn't take THAT long to do reality checks. Here is my "regimen":

- I randomly push my finger into my palm and count fingers (in dreams, your finger will go through and have extra fingers)
- I check the time, look away, then look back when I see a clock

Really? I always seem to remember my dreams when I take it, and I've never noticed a decrease in the number of dreams.

Now that I think about it, I usually remember them anyway. I guess Melatonin just helps me actually go to sleep and stay asleep, and when I wake up the next morning, I think of it as more vivid because I was actually asleep all night.

I do those two things too, lol. However, I usually just do it to check whether or not I'm hallucinating.

Yes, I usually doubt my perceptions of reality. Maybe it's just a sympton of major self-doubt issues? XD

 

[cookieM0Nster]

i've done it plenty of times. it's really cool once you know you're in a dream.

 

[SharkAttack]

I've only had one lucid dream in my life and that was about 8-10 years ago. I can't remember much of that dream now; but one thing I do remember vividly was a witch flying in the air commanding three black ninjas on skateboards to chase me down my street around 3 A.M. (In my dream it was 3 A.M.) I actually remember running around my neighborhood and could feel the force of me running. Once I got to a certain point I turned around and said "Forget this!" The next thing I did was knock a ninja off a skateboard. I don't remember if I had fought them off or just stole the skateboard to get away from the other two.

I think once I got to the "Forget This" part I was able to control my own decisions/actions because for some reason at that point I knew I was in a dream because the whole situation was unreal/dumb. I wasn't waking up and I got tired of being chased (I think the ninjas were catching up to me in the dream. I managed to run down three streets suprisingly.)

The whole experience was cool. I bet I could do it again because I constantly recall dreams when I wake up. I just haven't been able to control them for years. They get to the point where they feel real; but not where I have ultimate control. Ironically I was reading about lucid dreaming right before the lucid drem I had.

 

[Fuelbi]

Actually melatonin causes a decrease in dreams since, the way it works, you are in the dreamless phase longer. If you add B6, you'll dream more.

Fuel_, it doesn't take THAT long to do reality checks. Here is my "regimen":

- 4 times a day (at non-standard times) I check my surroundings for things out of the ordinary
- I randomly push my finger into my palm and count fingers (in dreams, your finger will go through and have extra fingers)
- I check the time, look away, then look back when I see a clock
- I read a passage every now and then and check for coherence
- When I wake up or go to sleep, I hold my nose. In dreams, you can still breathe.

Try that.

Do I need to try all that? At about how long do I do this ****?And for how long do I do it before I start dreaming? Or does that **** vary per person?

Because having fake sex getting payback at all the douchebags in my life would be great

 

[cookieM0Nster]

^^^ lmfao.

 

[Crimson King]

Do I need to try all that? At about how long do I do this ****?And for how long do I do it before I start dreaming? Or does that **** vary per person?

Because having fake sex getting payback at all the douchebags in my life would be great

That's for DILDing. You essentially want reality checks to become habitual so in dreams you do it... habitually.

There's also WILDing, where you trick your body into falling asleep, undergoing sleep paralysis, then transition your consciousness to the dream state. This is how to induce the most vivid lucid dreams.

There's MILDing, where you repeat a mantra (whatever you want really), wake up after a dream via an alarm clock or naturally, write the dream down, then fall asleep visualizing the dream. Dr. Steven LaBerge (I may have butchered that) said that with practice, this will generate Lucid Dreams 100% of the time.

 

[TigerWoods]

Do I need to try all that? At about how long do I do this ****?And for how long do I do it before I start dreaming? Or does that **** vary per person?

Because having fake sex getting payback at all the douchebags in my life would be great

I'm not sure if this is just me... but I warn against this. I've tried to attack while in one before... and I got thrown into a nightmare.

I'd stick to something more constructive if I were you.

That's for DILDing. You essentially want reality checks to become habitual so in dreams you do it... habitually.

There's also WILDing, where you trick your body into falling asleep, undergoing sleep paralysis, then transition your consciousness to the dream state. This is how to induce the most vivid lucid dreams.

There's MILDing, where you repeat a mantra (whatever you want really), wake up after a dream via an alarm clock or naturally, write the dream down, then fall asleep visualizing the dream. Dr. Steven LaBerge (I may have butchered that) said that with practice, this will generate Lucid Dreams 100% of the time.

Have you done it through WILDing or MILDing before? I haven't heard of those two ways. My method involves checking my hand for fingers, looking at mirrors for reflections, and turning TV's on and off manually to make sure they work.

 

[Crimson King]

MILDing, no, but I have been able to induce Sleep Paralysis pretty quickly.

I am taking a weeklong break (work) from my sleep mask, but so far I've been pleased with the results.

 

[Zook]

Whenever I realize I'm dreaming, I wake up.

 

[global-wolf]

Whenever I realize I'm dreaming, I wake up.

Same

I rarely remember my dreams anymore. I can only remember dreams if I was dreaming right before I woke up and I woke up naturally, not to an alarm clock or something. And then I have to replay the dream over and over again for at least 10 minutes not moving from the position that I woke up in and force myself to remember it and even then most of the details are lost.

I have dreamed in dreams before. When I fly in dreams I have full control over my flight, as in I can go wherever I want, and somehow I never realize it's a dream when I'm flying. Also once in a while I get this sudden jolt through my body and I just wake up I could be in the middle of saying a word and I'd still wake up.

 

[BluePSI]

I've never had a lucid dream which really sucks, they sound awesome :O
...though I do find I wake up on a cliff hanger most the time, which is even worse :/
Edit: and same here global! I hardly remember any dreams.

 

[UberMario]

I guess I have, but most of the time when I start "controlling" it I physically wake up, like Zook said. On a semirelated note, for some reason most of my dreams end up ending with a lightning strike obliterating something in front of me. 0_o

 

[Fuelbi]

That's for DILDing. You essentially want reality checks to become habitual so in dreams you do it... habitually.

There's also WILDing, where you trick your body into falling asleep, undergoing sleep paralysis, then transition your consciousness to the dream state. This is how to induce the most vivid lucid dreams.

There's MILDing, where you repeat a mantra (whatever you want really), wake up after a dream via an alarm clock or naturally, write the dream down, then fall asleep visualizing the dream. Dr. Steven LaBerge (I may have butchered that) said that with practice, this will generate Lucid Dreams 100% of the time.

Oh? How so does waking up, saying something, writing a dream down, and fall asleep while thinking about it help you lucid dream?


And what's the difference between a WILD and a MILD? Because I want the one that's the best

 

[Evil-Guy]

Sometimes I can! Most of my dreams are weird though. :|

 

[Shy Guy 86]

I think I might have done a bit of Lucid Dreaming when I was around 10-11, but recently I get weird dreams, such as yesterday(August 30) where I was able to read things in a Video Game box(The game was Mario Galaxy 2, even though I never saw the box of it before) and then later I was in a hotel-like thing and all the staff were familiar people. then I found some animal thing talking about superpowers and flying and then I woke up...

yeah, some weird ****.

 

[Omnicron's Baklava Enterprises]

I don't think I've ever had a lucid dream.

It would be cool though.

But lol why would I waste my time having fake sex and getting revenge on the people in my life.

Why do that when you can raise mountains and blast out oceans?