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jammies · 09-03-2008, 03:57 PM

I had this really strange dream just before I woke up today - not strange in the normal sense of dreams - where strange is what's normal - but in the sense that it was very lucid and realistic. Usually I don't remember dreams at all, other than nightmares, which I think is probably because I only remember when I'm scared to hell and wake up in the middle of one, and even then I don't really retain much more than fragments. So this was also strange in that I remember it all very well, for once.

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I dreamt that I was in this small room, with whitewashed walls and a stone floor. There was a dresser made of some reddish wood, a bed, and a small mirror on the dresser, oval, like you would use to comb your hair in front of, or fix your makeup with if you were a woman. I am getting dressed, and I'm wearing some kind of raggedy pants made of coarse, yellowish fiber, and am pulling on a brilliant white button-up shirt, very loose in the arms and cool to the touch.

There are sandals by the door, old ropy looking things made of rubber with hemp cords, and I push my feet into them - while doing so, I look down and I have very broad feet, dark and hairy. I decide to look into the mirror, and obviously it isn't me I see: I have black straight hair combed back from my forehead, and a wide square sallow face with dark, dark eyes. I look very vital, very strong, as if a labourer in the prime of his strength and hardened by exposure to harsh weather.

I turn from the mirror and open the door, which leads into a dim hall pierced by a long spill of intense sun from its near end. Far away I can hear pots banging together in a kitchen. I walk outside and am on a street, and there is dust everywhere like dry snow, and a sky overhead that looks like washed old bronze. Suddenly I realize I am really HERE, and it comes to me that it is 1958 and I am in northern Mexico, and if I want to I can stay here and never go back. I think about it for a minute, daydreaming about going north, to California, and I will know everything that is going to happen and there must be some great advantage in that. Then I wake up.
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Now I am the last person to put any faith into dreams, but all day long it's been difficult to stop thinking about this. I know there are people who claim to do "lucid dreaming", where they can control what happens in their dreams, but this was less control than it was being controlled, and so unbelievably convincing. Anyone else ever had a dream of this sort - one where you were actually regretting waking up and hoping you would dream again?

4X4 · 09-03-2008, 04:02 PM

Did you have a beard? Are you Jesus?

Sounds to me like you've got a decision lingering in the back of your head that you're procrastinating on, but you know the answer, you just don't want to make the decision.

I say that because there was alot of detail in the dream. You knew exactly what was going on and you knew exactly what you wanted to do.

Dion · 09-03-2008, 04:22 PM

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Did you have a beard? Are you Jesus?

Sounds to me like you've got a decision lingering in the back of your head that you're procrastinating on, but you know the answer, you just don't want to make the decision.

I say that because there was alot of detail in the dream. You knew exactly what was going on and you knew exactly what you wanted to do.

I agree with 4x4. I've had dreams in the past that initialy left me shaking my head. More often than not it had to do with something i was dealing with in my life. Of course the dream itself is a totaly different situation but the bottom line, when you get down to it, has to do with a decision i have to make or a lingering problem that i have yet to find a soltion to. To me it's our minds way of helping us solve a problem.

CaptainCrunch · 09-03-2008, 04:23 PM

I had a dream last night that a bug with a dogs head bit me and I slowly disolved from the inside. I was literally looking in the mirror and watching flesh and muscle dropping off of my arms and back. I can honestly remember feeling pain and panic.

Woke up and my heart was beating 100 mph

troutman · 09-03-2008, 04:27 PM

You guys have weird dreams. I dream about my French mistress:

CaptainCrunch · 09-03-2008, 04:28 PM

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You guys have weird dreams. I dream about my French mistress:

Insert applicable mother joke.

4X4 · 09-03-2008, 04:32 PM

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You guys have weird dreams. I dream about my French mistress:

Your french mistress is a trout with a flames logo on it? Ew.

Circa89 · 09-03-2008, 04:34 PM

I think it is quite obvious what is going on here.
Sometimes a cigar, is just a cigar but the other 99% of the time.....

Not that there is anything wrong with that!

Traditional_Ale · 09-03-2008, 04:49 PM

Based on your description I think you need to lay off the Dungeons and Dragons and LSD...

BlackArcher101 · 09-03-2008, 04:52 PM

It sounds like Jammies experiences are making it to your own mind.

jammies · 09-03-2008, 04:58 PM

Hmm, so either I have to stop floating thru life and make a decision; admit my repressed love for men in sombreros; stay away from Cap'n Crunch in case he sics his dog-headed bugs on me; stop with the drugz already; or get a french mistress.

While it's a tough call - I think I'll go with the mistress. Although first I suppose I'll have to get married. Stupid dream - so much for my life of langour!

missdpuck · 09-03-2008, 07:08 PM

Hey Jams. I used to have TONS of lucid dreams ! This part is pretty personal but in high school,long before I lost my virginity, I would have dreams of making love with guys I couldn't do that with and yes I was in control. Those were great! It's been a long time since I've had a lucid dream but I want to research them again as I've read that you can provoke them and that they can be therapeutic.

Dion · 09-03-2008, 07:10 PM

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Hey Jams. I used to have TONS of lucid dreams ! This part is pretty personal but in high school,long before I lost my virginity, I would have dreams of making love with guys I couldn't do that with and yes I was in control. Those were great! It's been a long time since I've had a lucid dream but I want to research them again as I've read that you can provoke them and that they can be therapeutic.

Maybe you should start writing romance novels

missdpuck · 09-03-2008, 07:12 PM

Well Sweety I am !!!!!!!! One about Steve Montador ..........

TSXCman · 09-03-2008, 07:21 PM

I'm all about the lucid dreaming. got it on lock down. a good trick is when you wake up from a dream. write it down quickly in a journal or something, everything you can remember. after a bit, youll be able to tap into previous dreams to mix up.

I have a good time flying, being an agent like jack bauer, playing in the superbowl, on the flames, etc.

missdpuck · 09-03-2008, 07:25 PM

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I'm all about the lucid dreaming. got it on lock down. a good trick is when you wake up from a dream. write it down quickly in a journal or something, everything you can remember. after a bit, youll be able to tap into previous dreams to mix up.

I have a good time flying, being an agent like jack bauer, playing in the superbowl, on the flames, etc.

Cool! You're one of the few who actually get it!!! It is really awesome.

Dion · 09-03-2008, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by missdpuck

Well Sweety I am !!!!!!!! One about Steve Montador ..........

Guess i won't be in your future dreams

missdpuck · 09-03-2008, 07:55 PM

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Guess i won't be in your future dreams

Silly boy! You are my favroite CPer in case you dont know. And Monty knows I'm writing about him on many levels. I'd tell you about that but wouldn't want to burden you with stuff you don't want to know! It's nothing sleazy but there is a POSSIBLE reason he got 8 goals last season!!!! And everyone with the Cats knows about it....they think it's pretty odd and it gets me good seats and a possible job and some interesting golf buddies so what the heck!!!!!! I had never even been to an NHL game until March 2007: you never know what odd circumstance will change your life.

photon · 09-03-2008, 08:28 PM

I remember reading something about how to increase your ability to lucid dream (like TSXCman said one thing was to write them down)..

The warning they gave though was that if you could lucid dream too much, that you'd lose the ability to differentiate between reality and a lucid dream, which could result in embarrassing or even dangerous circumstances. "I can fly, it's a lucid dream!" followed by a loud SPLAT kind of things.

That part scared me off.

simmer2 · 11-23-2009, 03:37 PM

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Cool! You're one of the few who actually get it!!! It is really awesome.

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?