Lucid Dreaming
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OK, time for a little guidance.
Help me out: how do you exactly DO lucid dreaming? Are there techniques? Or is it an innate skill?
I'd like to experience this lucid dreaming thing.
Help me out: how do you exactly DO lucid dreaming? Are there techniques? Or is it an innate skill?
I'd like to experience this lucid dreaming thing.
Quintus Curtius said:
Take a nap during the early afternoon somewhere where you don't usually sleep, like your living room couch. Preferably after you'd spent a several hours away from home i.e. at work, running errands. It is likely your mind will still be preoccupied by your experiences of the day, which could help it to take place.
Used to happen to me a lot when I'd get home from school and fall asleep on my couch. My dreams were incredibly vivid.
Also, sleep paralysis happens the same way. Sleep in an unfamiliar setting while lying on your back. At some point you will realize that you've fallen asleep, yet your mind is still clearly conscious but you can't move.
One time I felt myself fall deeper and deeper asleep and at the same time I could feel the emergence of an evil presence to the point that I knew if I were to open my eyes, I'd see the girl from The Ring standing in front of me. Very scary shit.
As far as I know its not something you practice and can do out of no where. I think you either have them or you don't. If you have them I'm sure there are things you can do to try and have more of them or more vivid ones. The more you have them the better you get at controlling things when you are in them. I also find the more frequent I am having them its easier for me to realize I am dreaming while I am in the dream. Then I am free to do whatever I want to a extent. Sometimes if I get to carried away controlling my dream I will start to wake up.
Jackr
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There are lots of ways to encourage lucid dreaming:
How To Lucid Dream: 16 Steps
Something like this can help too:
Remee mask <-- no affiliation, I've just heard they work.
How To Lucid Dream: 16 Steps
Something like this can help too:
Remee mask <-- no affiliation, I've just heard they work.
ryanf said:
There is a similar experience that involves waking up, but still seeing something from your subconscious.
I still remember how disconcerting it felt (a euphemistic phrase) the first time that it happened, which involved someone standing at the end of my bed. It happened a few more times --and mainly involved creatures flying around the room.
I thought that I was losing it, but then I read a science article that mentioned the phenomenon. I seem to recall that it has something to do with sensory perceptions from the the optic nerve upon waking.
cardguy said:
Probably. I get erotic dreams only when I haven't blasted for several days. It's like a precursor to a real wet dream.
Concerning lucid dreams, I don't think I've ever had one. The idea seemed alluring, but I was always too lazy to practice. I'm content with the usual dreams, or rather lack of.
Has this ever happened to anyone...
..a dream involving an event or sequence of events, that culminates in a CRASH or BANG, for example, dreaming about a car careening out of control and you just know it's going to crash...it's gonna crash... it's gonna crash.. it's gonna crash.. and then *BAAM!!!* it crashes.. to be abruptly awoken by some loud noise or crash that took place OUTSIDE at the exact moment the car in the dream crashes!
It's like how the fuck does your mind know to set up that dream before the sound actually happened??
Perhaps the mind is capable of backward-constructing a dream based on an outside stimulus, which we then recall in memory as having taken place chronologically?
I've had this several times
Really bizarre..
..a dream involving an event or sequence of events, that culminates in a CRASH or BANG, for example, dreaming about a car careening out of control and you just know it's going to crash...it's gonna crash... it's gonna crash.. it's gonna crash.. and then *BAAM!!!* it crashes.. to be abruptly awoken by some loud noise or crash that took place OUTSIDE at the exact moment the car in the dream crashes!
It's like how the fuck does your mind know to set up that dream before the sound actually happened??
Perhaps the mind is capable of backward-constructing a dream based on an outside stimulus, which we then recall in memory as having taken place chronologically?
I've had this several times
Really bizarre..
By the way, use this thread as bedtime reading material at your own RISK-- was so thoroughly SPOOKED last night I couldn't turn out the lights 
I was extremely interested in Lucid Dreaming this past summer…I did a little research, and ended up ordering this book off Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Wor...qid=1388457669&sr=8-2&keywords=lucid+dreaming
It's a solid step by step guide…The first important step is being able to recall your dreams. I have a small notebook and pen that I leave next to my bed every night, and with practice I am now able to remember dreams I have almost every night.
The key to remembering my dreams is simply thinking about the idea of dreaming before I go to bed, and trying to focus on remembering what I dream as I drift off to sleep….sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and record what I just experienced. Other times I wakeup in the morning and I'm able to recall a bunch of dreams.
My record was waking up at 9:30 AM and recording 5 separate dreams that I had. Some I was able to write about in great detail, while others were a little foggy. That was pretty crazy.
Aside from using dream-recall however, I have not been able to actually become 'conscious' or lucid while in the dream-state. I recommend the book I mentioned above if you want a thorough guide to lucid-dreaming…but it honestly isn't easy at all. I think it takes a good amount of time and effort to become awake while dreaming, and it's personally been pretty frustrating only being able to wake up and write about my dreams, rather than experience them fully while asleep.
http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Wor...qid=1388457669&sr=8-2&keywords=lucid+dreaming
It's a solid step by step guide…The first important step is being able to recall your dreams. I have a small notebook and pen that I leave next to my bed every night, and with practice I am now able to remember dreams I have almost every night.
The key to remembering my dreams is simply thinking about the idea of dreaming before I go to bed, and trying to focus on remembering what I dream as I drift off to sleep….sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and record what I just experienced. Other times I wakeup in the morning and I'm able to recall a bunch of dreams.
My record was waking up at 9:30 AM and recording 5 separate dreams that I had. Some I was able to write about in great detail, while others were a little foggy. That was pretty crazy.
Aside from using dream-recall however, I have not been able to actually become 'conscious' or lucid while in the dream-state. I recommend the book I mentioned above if you want a thorough guide to lucid-dreaming…but it honestly isn't easy at all. I think it takes a good amount of time and effort to become awake while dreaming, and it's personally been pretty frustrating only being able to wake up and write about my dreams, rather than experience them fully while asleep.
Slightly OT, but have any of you guys had prophetic dreams?
This has happened to me three times previously.
It's kind of like deja vu, but I could source it back to the memory of the dream.
For the first two, it has been landscape imagery that triggered it, but the most recent one was different. I dreamt that a girl I worked with previously had a baby. When I woke up, I checked her facebook (I don't go on there often - had no idea she was pregnant), and sure enough, she'd had a baby 2 weeks prior. So that one was dreaming of something that happened in the past. By the way, although we never hooked up when we worked together, I always felt a strong connection to her.
After having these experiences, now I wonder, what if some dreams are glimpse into your own future (or past). During most dreams, I'm dreaming random and jumbled things that make no sense upon reconstructing them when wakening, but upon closer inspection, and linking certain moments of the dream to events in waking life (retrospectively) maybe there's a lot more to them than we think.
This has happened to me three times previously.
It's kind of like deja vu, but I could source it back to the memory of the dream.
For the first two, it has been landscape imagery that triggered it, but the most recent one was different. I dreamt that a girl I worked with previously had a baby. When I woke up, I checked her facebook (I don't go on there often - had no idea she was pregnant), and sure enough, she'd had a baby 2 weeks prior. So that one was dreaming of something that happened in the past. By the way, although we never hooked up when we worked together, I always felt a strong connection to her.
After having these experiences, now I wonder, what if some dreams are glimpse into your own future (or past). During most dreams, I'm dreaming random and jumbled things that make no sense upon reconstructing them when wakening, but upon closer inspection, and linking certain moments of the dream to events in waking life (retrospectively) maybe there's a lot more to them than we think.
^^Sometimes I used to have a dream and someone would be in it, someone I had not seen in a long time, and then I would see them randomly that day.
I also had a terrible terrible dream one night and woke up for work but still just had a awful feeling so I drove to my friends house and didn't go to work (I'm not one of those guys this was the first day I missed and had been working there almost 6 months) I ended up just going to sleep on the floor in his spare room. My other friend who was there woke me up and told me America was under attack, I had no idea what he was talking about so I went and watched the news. This happened on 9-11-2001
There was two other dream occasions I used to think about that was along the same lines of the 9-11 dream. I can't even remember them now. I do think the mind is a powerful thing. I don't really believe in psychics to the extent you see on tv and in the movies. After some of my dreams and some things that happened when I was on psychedelic drugs, I do think theres a lot to the mind and brain that is very powerful we dont know much about.
I also had a terrible terrible dream one night and woke up for work but still just had a awful feeling so I drove to my friends house and didn't go to work (I'm not one of those guys this was the first day I missed and had been working there almost 6 months) I ended up just going to sleep on the floor in his spare room. My other friend who was there woke me up and told me America was under attack, I had no idea what he was talking about so I went and watched the news. This happened on 9-11-2001
There was two other dream occasions I used to think about that was along the same lines of the 9-11 dream. I can't even remember them now. I do think the mind is a powerful thing. I don't really believe in psychics to the extent you see on tv and in the movies. After some of my dreams and some things that happened when I was on psychedelic drugs, I do think theres a lot to the mind and brain that is very powerful we dont know much about.
The most important part of lucid dreaming is being able to recall your dreams. If you can't recall your dreams consistently, it's very possible you are having lucid dreams without remembering them.
Vivid dreams are not lucid dreams. Lucid dreams require that you realize you are dreaming and also have an epiphany moment, which will either lead you to wake up out of surprise or you will stay in the dream and begin to manipulate it.
I still have an interest in lucid dreaming. Although I'm not patient enough to make the time for it daily to practice techniques to help me lucid dream. Writing down dream journals to increase memory/drift off to sleep while reinforcing the thought of waking up in a dream are supposedly very effective techniques. Also, set your alarm an hour before you usually wake up, and then go back to sleep with the though of lucid dreaming in mind. By doing this alone you will increase the chance of you having a lucid dream 1000%.
I think I've only ever had 2 full lucid dreams (that I remember) my entire life. One I woke up after 5 seconds of exploration and the other I took flight over a building and woke up when I realized how awesome it was to be flying. Sadly I did not get to fuck lucid, although I've had those moments in vivid dreams.
Recently, I've been snoozing my alarm like crazy in the mornings and sleeping in longer. This causes me to drift off to sleep and vividly dream and recall them perfectly. It gets to the point I try to force a lucid dream, but it's very difficult. I realize I am dreaming but I'm not able to fully manipulate it because I'm not having that epiphany 'holy fuck I'm dreaming' moment.
The most interesting thing about lucid dreaming I think isn't fucking that teacher you always crushed on or flying over mountain everest or teleporting. It's gotta be interacting with dream figures. Imagine asking your subconscious questions..
- what do I really fear?
- what do I miss the most from my childhood?
- what was the happiest moment/event of my life?
The possibilities are endless.
Vivid dreams are not lucid dreams. Lucid dreams require that you realize you are dreaming and also have an epiphany moment, which will either lead you to wake up out of surprise or you will stay in the dream and begin to manipulate it.
I still have an interest in lucid dreaming. Although I'm not patient enough to make the time for it daily to practice techniques to help me lucid dream. Writing down dream journals to increase memory/drift off to sleep while reinforcing the thought of waking up in a dream are supposedly very effective techniques. Also, set your alarm an hour before you usually wake up, and then go back to sleep with the though of lucid dreaming in mind. By doing this alone you will increase the chance of you having a lucid dream 1000%.
I think I've only ever had 2 full lucid dreams (that I remember) my entire life. One I woke up after 5 seconds of exploration and the other I took flight over a building and woke up when I realized how awesome it was to be flying. Sadly I did not get to fuck lucid, although I've had those moments in vivid dreams.
Recently, I've been snoozing my alarm like crazy in the mornings and sleeping in longer. This causes me to drift off to sleep and vividly dream and recall them perfectly. It gets to the point I try to force a lucid dream, but it's very difficult. I realize I am dreaming but I'm not able to fully manipulate it because I'm not having that epiphany 'holy fuck I'm dreaming' moment.
The most interesting thing about lucid dreaming I think isn't fucking that teacher you always crushed on or flying over mountain everest or teleporting. It's gotta be interacting with dream figures. Imagine asking your subconscious questions..
- what do I really fear?
- what do I miss the most from my childhood?
- what was the happiest moment/event of my life?
The possibilities are endless.
nmmoooreland20
Woodpecker
Windom Earle said:
You are right on the money with your suspicions about dreams.
I've had a couple prophetic dreams before, but those are rare. Mostly my dreams are a way of communicating to me who I am at this point in my life and what is going on. I think that's true for most people. A dream uses symbolism to express this. The symbols used are from events and things we've seen in our waking life.
For example, is it possible that you may have known or heard that co-worker was pregnant? Maybe you just sensed she was pregnant early on? I sensed it once with my sister. I just somehow knew she was, before she even told anyone.
Giving birth in a dream symbolizes a new beginning. Since it's a young woman giving birth it probably means you are developing a new relation to the feminine, though it's still in it's infant stages of course. An old woman in a dream would represent wisdom.
The guy who mentioned the dream about a car being out of control and crashing….well…the car symbolizes the vehicle with which you use to move forward in life. If it's going too fast, broken down, out of control, crashes….well…I think it's clear what the dream is saying.
Flying over buildings would represent some type of transcendence. What kind of building was it? A little bodega or a skyscraper? Was it a hospital (realm of care/feeling) or a high school/library (realm of higher learning). As they say, the devil is in the details. Just as important as the details are, the kind of feelings you had in the dream are also very important. Fear? Calm? Anger? Sadness? Joy? etc.
OneManWolfPack
Pigeon
My experiences on my occasional lucid dreams. Keep a journal or notes of your dreams. If I wake up in the middle of the night I scribble some quick notes if I remember the dream. Or upon waking, we've all had the moment where we want to sleep more to finish the dream. Make some quick notes to recall this later.
I love to fly like a bird in my dreams. I know this and when it happens it triggers me to realize that I am dreaming and I can enjoy the show.
I love to fly like a bird in my dreams. I know this and when it happens it triggers me to realize that I am dreaming and I can enjoy the show.
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