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Lucid Dreaming

kevin 714 said:
have done it, works if you stick with it. start by keeping a dream journal and waking yourself up periodically during the night to record. dont turn a light on to record or use a red bulb so your eyes don't wake up and wake up your brain. write it down, then go back to bed. do this every night and you will start remembering dreams like you remember normal memories. thats the first step
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and what exactly do you expect to accomplish with this ultimate endeavor in navel gazing?
 
it's whatever- i just think that most people are better served by paying attention to what their brains are doing when they are awake and not trying to intentionally interrupt the organic defrag that is the sleep cycle.

while they can be pretty interesting to remember, your dreams don't really mean shit.
 
When I smoked a lot of weed, I stopped having dreams, or remembering them anyway. A couple years after I stopped smoking dope, they came back. Some different t pills have an effect on my dreams. Clonazepam makes me have really weird dreams, not nightmares, but oddball shit like driving a forklift down Main Street. Or arguing with my wife about the numbers on the bottom of the dishes (really). Just off the wall shit. Muscle relaxers make me dream about odd things also, but in a different category. Like delusions of grandeur.

For the most part though, I don't seem to be able to do anything about my dreams.
 
I used nicotine patches a long time ago and those gave me super duper, lucid, surreal dreams.

I actually got scared.
 
I like having what people call night mares cuz I seem to be able to control my actions in it..I try to watch a spooky or an Adam sandler movie to give me horrifying dreams..
 
Abyss said:
Can you do it?

I hadn't been able to for about 4 or 5 years, then seemingly out of nowhere a few days ago I became able to somewhat regularly gain cognizance that I was dreaming. I was not able to change anything as it was more a passive awareness that what I was experiencing was not real and simply allowed me to act in accordance; basically like playing a video game.

A couple nights ago I had a dream that I was riding my own bike on the freeway when a cop on a Harley lit me up from behind. I was thinking about what to do when it occurred to me that something was off, most likely because I was dressed like a squid :laughing I thought, "hey, this is a dream, real-life consequences wont' apply." So I took off :laughing Epic high speed chaseness.

Is there a particular key to gaining complete awareness or is it just luck? Are some people naturally better at it? I've found that despite a questioning nature I have a very active personality trait called "absorption" and IMO it makes me accept dream reality more strongly.
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dunno. theres this "i know this is a dream, but I'm digging it so let it roll" thing, absorption, but for me what works is not limiting it to that. not going, in the dream realm, 'this is going to end, and I will be in reality again.'
My guess is a lot of stuff in the 'real' world sort of happens like that.

sooo...I'd say let your dreams roll till reality sets in. might never happen!!:laughing:laughing:laughing

coincidences aside, can't even begin to go there, a word to you, my young friend. the energy to sustain real world dreams from scratch disappears with age, that well toothed skeletal hound who will nip at your heels at first, and the first little blood loss you won't notice, but it slows your step till the hound can get a solid bite on your calf, and you stumble, and then it will go right for your fucking throat.

be careful how you stack your realities.
 
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V4 said:
I like having what people call night mares cuz I seem to be able to control my actions in it..I try to watch a spooky or an Adam sandler movie to give me horrifying dreams..
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I got to admit a good nightmare is a lot more memorable than a pleasant dream.
 
I used to have nightmares a lot. I became really good at recognizing when a dream was about to become a nightmare, and now I can "will" myself awake if I feel one coming on.
 
Britny said:
I used to have nightmares a lot. I became really good at recognizing when a dream was about to become a nightmare, and now I can "will" myself awake if I feel one coming on.
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It all started when I had a dream that some guys gutted my bike while it was tied up outside my place. Then I thought, hey, why would they bother taking out the entire engine and leaving the frame when it would be easier to just saw through the chain? And then I realized the bike had a chrome frame, and mine is matte black. So I'm like... wait. This isn't actually happening... and then I did the same, I woke up. But apparently that was the first step in becoming aware.
 
Abyss said:
brb buying nicotine patches
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Try it.

It actually says it on the box. "May experience surreal and vivid dreams" or something to that effect.

I thought, how crazy could it be? Oh it was pretty crazy for me. I thought I was losing my mind when I was dreaming.
 
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JMack said:
Try it.

It actually says it on the box. "May experience surreal and vivid dreams" or something to that effect.

I thought, how crazy could it be? Oh it was pretty crazy for me. I thought I was losing my mind when I was dreaming.
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Cheaper than acid, and legal :thumbup
 
When you become lucid during a dream, it's pretty amazing, exhilarating, fun.

I believe the science supporting it is pretty solid--that is, the science that proves people can be lucid during a dream state.

You can find information on how to increase your chances of having a lucid dream. One of the basic tools is to create a habit of reality checking. I think it's where Inception got the top thing.

So, for example, an effective reality check is to open a book, read a sentence, close it, open it again, and see if the sentence is the same. Do this a couple times an hour, every hour, during waking hours. Once it becomes a habit, there is a good chance that you might do it during a dream. And then when the sentence changes, you will realize you are in a dream.

At that point a lot of people wake up, but with practice you can stay in the dream and explore the environment.

Both the possible benefits and potential drawbacks are largely untested, AFAIK.
 
I rarely remember any of my dreams let alone be close to lucid dreaming. I bought a book on it years ago, but I could never get close.
 
kongjie said:
When you become lucid during a dream, it's pretty amazing, exhilarating, fun.

I believe the science supporting it is pretty solid--that is, the science that proves people can be lucid during a dream state.

You can find information on how to increase your chances of having a lucid dream. One of the basic tools is to create a habit of reality checking. I think it's where Inception got the top thing.

So, for example, an effective reality check is to open a book, read a sentence, close it, open it again, and see if the sentence is the same. Do this a couple times an hour, every hour, during waking hours. Once it becomes a habit, there is a good chance that you might do it during a dream. And then when the sentence changes, you will realize you are in a dream.

At that point a lot of people wake up, but with practice you can stay in the dream and explore the environment.

Both the possible benefits and potential drawbacks are largely untested, AFAIK.
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That's what I've heard, and apparently I was doing it without realizing it. Sometimes I'll talk to someone who allegedly speaks a different language and ask them to say something in that language, and because I don't know that language it literally sounds like backwards speech :laughing

Other times I think about how ridiculous a situation may be or how completely sporadic and fucked the logic of my dream is, like I'm going to the 7-11 down the street but it's actually a portal to hell or something.
 
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