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Originally Posted by simmer2
I've often wondered how common it is. Lucid dreams have been happening with a lot more frequency for me lately and I find it incredibly fascinating. It all started when I was younger and had a recurring nightmare. It sucked as all nightmares do but one time in the dream I realized that I was just in a nightmare and that if I closed my eyes in the dream that the entire thing would stop. Just like that I never had that recurring nightmare again.
Since then, my lucid dreams expanded. Going through puberty was a lot of fun...I would generally fly to a house, walk up and think that there will be a house full of girls and baam...women. The frustrating thing I found though was that dreams never lasted long enough.
Up until about 6 months ago I kind of accepted the fact that dreams were short, but now I realize you can extend your lucid dream by employing a few techniques in the dream...one of them is to spin around in your dream. That apparently links your conscious and subconscious and keeps your senses heightened enough to keep you in a dream. The other one which I still find really strange is to look at your hands. You hardly ever have 5 fingers on a hand, and often your skin will take on a really weird form. It's like your subconscious can't quite be focused for long enough to get it right.
I'm finding now that my lucid dreams consist of showing my friends that we are simply dreaming. I'll have a buddy in a dream and I'll say to him, "see we're actually just dreaming. Watch this!" And I'd say "Lamp" and this massive lamp just appears.
I don't Lucid Dream all the time, probably once every week and a half or so, but it seems to be happening more often lately; I'm not too sure why.
Does anybody else experience this?
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Crazy! You're the first person I've seen that has basically the same type of lucid dreams as me.
For me it started with terrifying re-occuring nightmares when I was a kid. They started happening so often that in my dreams I realized that I was dreaming and could wake myself up. To wake myself up I would close my eyes for a few seconds and then open them. Sometimes I would still be in the dream, so I would just try it again. It now works like a charm.
So now if I'm in a weird world it will just "click." And I'll be like "yup this a dream." And I will try to change things or do whatever but they NEVER last long enough! Which is frustrating. But sometimes I'll be dreaming and suddenly I can tell that something scary is going to happen (kind of like in the movie The Cell) and I will wake myself up before anything happens. I usually laugh to myself at that point like "haha nice try." Ya it's weird.
I've always thought it was a special to be a lucid dreamer cause your mind and sub-conscience are now connected somehow, and I feel like it gives you an edge in every day life. Like you can tap into your sub-conscience to help you if necessary. I don't know how exactly but I like to think it does.
I'm going to have to try that spinning around thing tho.