I get recurring Lucid Dreams. The first time I have it I am not in control, but the subsequent times i dream about it I can control what happens.
After Jurassic Park came out I had a crazy dream where i was trying to make my way through the park full of Dinos and get away. I eventually was eaten and never made it. For years after it would re-occur, but i could change which rooms i went into and I would know when we could get attacked and I could hide. I could also manipulate who the T-rex would eat and would get to the end. Finally I discovered that the end of the park was right by the beginning.. so i would just walk over to the end and i would start into a new dream.
Recently it has been huge games of virtual gunplay and Zombie infestations that I have been able to control.
The only issue i have with these dreams is that often i wake up feeling like i did not get enough sleep.
I remember having a lucid dream where someone was breaking into my house. I picked up the phone, curious to see what would happen if I dialed 911. There was no dial tone.
It's incredibly fun to realize you are dreaming, and then try to manipulate it. I have only had a lucid dream a few times, that I can recall.
I remember having a lucid dream where someone was breaking into my house. I picked up the phone, curious to see what would happen if I dialed 911. There was no dial tone.
It's incredibly fun to realize you are dreaming, and then try to manipulate it. I have only had a lucid dream a few times, that I can recall.
there was no dial tone because you chose the most thing to do. in dreams you can do whatever you want and you chose to call the cops? cmon man you gotta pull some karate s*** on that guy or something. something you can't do in real life
When I first read this post, I took it as meaning that in your dream, you realized you were dreaming, went to your computer, and googled about dreaming to find out what the term was.
I think that the next time I have a really strong lucid dream state, I'm going to go to my computer and google lucid dreaming and see what happens.
I am actually able to control my dreams some of the time. It can actually be pretty fun. When I am in a dream state, little things will tip me off, like something weird happening or something that just doesn't fit in my real life.
A couple nights ago I had a weird dream and I knew it was a dream. So in my dream I started to make things appear in front of me to see if I was in fact dreaming. I said "pineapple" and there a pineapple appeared! Once I knew I was dreaming, I took control and did whatever the hell I want. That night, I decided to play superhero and flew around for a bit. I have also played out some dark dreams also where I was a killer or assassin. Pretty neat huh!!?
there was no dial tone because you chose the most thing to do. in dreams you can do whatever you want and you chose to call the cops? cmon man you gotta pull some karate s*** on that guy or something. something you can't do in real life
True.
I just tried the phone, because I recalled reading that people had reported phones did hilarious things in their lucid dreams. Not in mine.
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?
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.
I was actually thinking of this thread on the weekend. I had a dream where I was writing a letter. I realized that this was a dream and made myself write out a sentence that I told myself to write. It was very cool and maybe the first step into lucid dreaming. Would like to be able to do that more. To make things appear in your dream is pretty cool. I would think you'd wake up after the dream is over, no? I did on the weekend.
I was actually thinking of this thread on the weekend. I had a dream where I was writing a letter. I realized that this was a dream and made myself write out a sentence that I told myself to write. It was very cool and maybe the first step into lucid dreaming. Would like to be able to do that more. To make things appear in your dream is pretty cool. I would think you'd wake up after the dream is over, no? I did on the weekend.
I used to have dreams where I would be in my bed and a "monster" would come in my room, out of my closet etc. I would get out of my bed and run to the door, open it and the monster would be standing right there.
I would then wake up in my bed, get up and go to my door, open it, and the same monster would be standing there. (Scary sometimes it was the girl from "The Exorcist") *shudder*
This would happen 4 or 5 times in a row sometimes. This is when I was a kid and it were dreams like this that made me start lucid dreaming. I would start doubting if the dream was real or not, and eventually able to control it and/or wake myself up.
It's fun when you suddenly become lucid, because then you can tell the people around you: "Guess what. I'm only dreaming! You guys don't even exist!"
On a slightly different note, does anyone experience sleep paralysis? It usually only happens to me if I've been sleeping for a very long time (>10 hours and I'm being lazy by staying in bed and escaping to dream worlds). When this happens each successive time I wake up I'll have a different hallucination. For example, just this last weekend there was a holographic owl that was sort of hanging out of the mirror in my room, and after that a strange black monster with sharp black teeth that was hovering overtop my dresser, then began to creep towards me and hung far over my bed snapping its teeth at me...and all the time unable to move, but somehow never afraid. I guess I'm lucky that I'm not one of those people who experience sleep paralysis in the middle of the night and are unable to move while they experience aliens jamming probes up their arses.
