Lucid Dreams

Lucid dreaming is so g'damn interesting. But there's steps to lucid dreaming.
1) you have to realize you're in a dream. This can be approached by many ways...but an amazing (and interesting) thing to realize is that in dreams, you can't turn on light switches.
so if you're in a dream, try to turn on a light. if nothing happens, then hopefully you'll realize that something's fishy.
2) another way to realize it's a dream is draw a dot on your hand before you go to sleep. concentrate on that dot while you're trying to get to sleep, and then when you finally get so sleep if you realize that there's no dot...then that's proof it's a dream.

Once you realize you're dreaming, you can do whatever you want. I've had 2 lucid dreams; the 1st was a pack of lemors were trying to get into my house. I was "fighting" them off by using colored pencils. At that moment, i thought "why the fuck are lemors trying to get into my house?" everything stopped, and i just decided to continue fighting them off. but it was a lot diff. it was like i was really there and experiencing it.

2nd lucid dream i've had was a few nights ago. my snake was loose in my room and trying to lunge and bite me. so i tried turning the light on, it wouldn't turn on. i flipped out and ran to the bathroom and tried to turn that light on. nothing happened. that's when i realized it was a dream and "woke up"...but it was actually a dream inside of another dream.
i've been having some crazy ass dreams recently...
but lucid dreaming is amazing. i totally reccomend you looking up on it and trying it. it's something to do...

[DaBurner]

I have no control over my dreams...its rare that I actually get any sleep to be honest thats why i need the weed ya feel me.....I do have dreams but mostly its about things thats happened in my past and its usually a blur

I cant sleep cuz i did sum fucked up shit in my life and my brain keeps bringin it back to me whenever i go to bed

actually come to think of it i do remeber one dream...the last dream i could remember

"Sitting at a bench at my house....sum kids that I had problems with came to kill me....I could tell they had guns....I tried talking them out of it and saying that I didnt do what they think I did...they didnt believe me so they shot me in the neck...fell to the floor bleeding then woke up"

It felt so real because I was trying to push off the ground to get up and get help while holding my neck at the same time and trying to remain calm. Then after i couldnt really move i just sat they're knowing it was a dream and hoping to wake up soon(which felt forever) until finally i woke up sweating in shock and hard to breathe

i did sum fucked up shit

[Liquidtruth]

I have had one such dream. It resulted in a head-ache sadly, but it was probably the most fun I had during a dream.

[Mars1102]

It resulted in a head-ache sadly

never heard of someone getting a headache from a dream LOL

[TokinBlue]

i have started messing around with this lately, completely focusing on stuff during the day, setting my alarm for 5-6 hours later, wake up think about everything that happened in my sleep, then go back to sleep and try to re enter dreams and stuff. I think i am getting close to mastering my dreams, mayb after a few more weeks of practice and i will get it. I would like to experiment with DMT to see if i can get into a dream world often during the day, that could help enormously

[hippiedude]

Originally Posted by Pink Oddity

2) another way to realize it's a dream is draw a dot on your hand before you go to sleep. concentrate on that dot while you're trying to get to sleep, and then when you finally get so sleep if you realize that there's no dot...then that's proof it's a dream.

i was actally gunna try this right now cuz im in bed right now but i dont know how you can see the dot? it dark man!

Originally Posted by hippiedude

i was actally gunna try this right now cuz im in bed right now but i dont know how you can see the dot? it dark man!

Lol..I dunno. Get a night light or something...

[Liquidtruth]

Originally Posted by Mars1102

never heard of someone getting a headache from a dream LOL

Not so much the dream, as trying to control it. I realized I was sleeping, made some changes, got a headache.

[Terpsichore]

Man the only time I realise I'm dreaming is when things start going bad... I guess that's a good thing, cause I'm usually up for whatever, but when shit starts getting freaky, I start looking for ways out and shit, and start to realise I'm dreaming... like in that boogyman dream a few days ago (post was "tell us about your day" if you're interested in hearing the details), I was all ready to throw down with this like 6 foot shadowy figure just cause I knew it was a dream, and I knew if I threw gasoline on him and lit him on fire that would be the end of it.. but about the time I take control of the dream is when I wake up from it... Sometimes I wish I could just finish it off, you know.. it's so unsatisfying when you know you're gonna win and you don't get the chance...

~ Terpsichore

[jive]

my snake was loose in my room and trying to lunge and bite me.

dude one of my main reacurring sp? wtf dreams, is that im gettin chased and bitten by snakes, and cant get away. i have that dream at least once a week ssht sux. another dream i have over and over, is that my teeth crumble and slowly fall out and then theres the tittlewave dream. i had a lucid dream when i was bout 15 or 16 remember it like it was yesterday, i was walkin in the feild at my moms and realized i was dreaming, but never woke up, i realize im dreaming often but then wake right up after that, anyway i never woke up, so take off running and blast off like superman. i fkn flew dude it was so great ill never forget it. *tear* and its not like a normal dream its like u actualy did in your waking life. hadnt had one since then that i could hang on to. but i know if it ever happens again, Jinnifer Aniston better brace herself.

[DirtyPete]

Last night I had my first real lucid dream. I believe I have been teetering on the verge of this wonderful ability for a few years now, and am just now learning to harness it's power. Last night I had a dream and I realized I was dreaming. When I realized I was dreaming I ended up falling on the ground and not being able to move, but I was still aware of the dream that was going on around me. I could hear, and see what was going on, but I had no control over my body. At this point I began flickering in and out of conciousness, I was aware that I was lying in my bed, but I was also aware of what was going on in my dream. After this happend I was excited because I was able to ignore the fact that I was indeed asleep on my bed, but once I realized this I gained control over my motor funcitons in my dream reality. After I did that I was so excited, I began thinking about controlling other people and it worked. I was able to control other peoples reactions to me, although not as specifically as I would have wanted, and unfortunately I was still unable to alter the physical world I was perceiving, only actions that were happening in it. It was so real though, and that excited me so much. I could touch things and feel things, and because I was semi concious it became my reality. Awesome shit.

I just wanted to let you guys know that I am on the verge of being able to dream lucidly (if that is a word).


Edit: I just remembered my very first memory of the dream, I was standing in my room, right next to my bed and I decided to fly, so I just jumped up and floated int he air. That was the coolest feeling I've ever had I think.

[SenorDingDong]

Originally Posted by Peace Pipe

That's called hynogogic shock, its common among lucid dreamers. Your body paralyzes when you dream so you don't act out the dream physically. I've read you can get intense hallucinations if you realize what's going on when this happens.

Yes, this is when the shit happens friends! I dont want to sway you against lucidity, but if you are caught in this state while lucid, you will have some extremely vivid hallucinations, just be prepared for this, I hate it when I get caught like this, because things are extremely unpredictable and out of control.

One of the phenomena experienced by many during this state is known as the "Old Hag Syndrome." This term was actually coined in the 1700-1800's or around there. When your brain is fully awake and your body is unresponsive to your brain, people report (and I have had this to an extent) feeling as if something extremely heavy is sitting on top of you, and in old times, they used to say that this was an incubus or succubus sitting on top of you trying to have sex with your body. Its a scary thought, but merely old wives tale folklore to try and explain it.

So I will tell you why I am hesitant at trying to break through to the lucid realm anymore. If you are sensitive then you might want to skip this part.

So I wake up in the paralyzed state as I have before (at least I thought this), and I was trying to literally shake myself awake. Then all of the sudden, I get the heavy sensation of my body, being pushed through my bed, underneath to my roomate's bottom bunk. And Im like fuck, Old Hag Shit. My eyes were closed this whole time, Im kind of afraid to open them during that fleeting stage, I dunno why . So instead of fighting it like usual I thought, "well, lets see where this takes me." So Im being pushed, deeper and deeper, and suddenly the world is black, and I start hearing these voices. I cannot understand them, but there is one voice in particular that stands out, very very deep, dark voice seeming to be speaking Latin, demonic and pretty fucking scary, and I start flippin out man. Im like holy shit, this is not good, this is very evil, this is the darkest of evil, the devil or something, I had never felt this type of evil in my life. And the voice kept getting louder and louder, to the point of almost shouting at me, chanting in this Latin or some backwards language I couldnt understand. And at this point Im thinking, Oh My God. I need to seriously do something right now or im going to die in my sleep. So Im Catholic right, so I shout back at this thing, whatever it was, "God is protecting me and you cannot hurt me, I am the controller of my body and dream, I am blessed by Christ" and I repeat that several times, trying to shout over the voice, and the voice seemed startled, caught off-guard like it was not prepared for me to assert myself, and it kind of got quieter almost to the point of studdering. Well that gave me a little more confidence, and soon before I realize it the voices are gone and I suddenly wake up out of my dream, just realizing it was a dream/partial false awakening and I wasnt actually awake at all or not even trying to wake up but that I fell back asleep in the hynogogic stage by letting myself go. And Im thinking to myself, "what the Fuck just happened!" Everyone has nightmares but this nightmare was lucid and crazy and felt like it really happened instead of just a bad dream.


So from that point on I felt like I had conquered an evil and could do it again, but i dunno dudes, the lucid world is a very crazy place to say the least! Its the same thing like our waking life: you have good and evil and all that, but it is a much bigger and intentisfied world where you feel very small and vulnerable at times. You will experience goodnesses that will blow away anything you have ever experienced, and badnesses as well.

Like Joe Rogan said, you trip off DMT all night in REM sleep, you are gunna have varied experiences whether you like it or not!
Happy landings!

[ZimZallabim]

thats really intreresting. I've had an experience almost identical to that when experimenting with lucid dreams, however the voice that I was hearing was speaking in what sounded like african. Everything was black and I had no control over my body, however I distinctly remember opening my eyes for a split second and glancing at my pc, all the while this voice kept repeating what it was saying and I slipped back to sleep with this voice saying whatever it was to me. It seemed to last for a very long time, I distinctly remember feeling as if I was falling down in a spiral motion, followed by a very brief but immensely vivid visual hallucination. I cant remember what it was that I actually saw, I just know that it sent me into a deep panic and I immediately awoke feeling deeply disturbed. I've only ever had that kinda of lucid dream once, however it didnt put me off continuing my lucid dreams later, just made me much more wary of listening to the voice again.

[Maitereya]

ooo scary stuff. are you guys on anti depressants or meds? ive heard they can fuck up your dreams immensely. been watching too many scary movies?

i had a dream i was walking down an empty super-highway with like 1000 people, some i knew. and i would jump and start flying and i tried to show these people how to fly but they couldnt. so i just started to flirt with some girls and took them on a flight with me.

one of the most vivid dreams ive ever had. theres something about flying in dreams that makes them more vivid than normal dreams. ill have to look it up and get back on it.

my lucid dream was me walking down a hallway (from rainbow six 3), it was unbelieveably bright. then i got close to the end of the hallway, i could see the door, and there was ho standing there and i couldnt resist. the downfall of man lol.

ive have recurring dreams where i can do crazy acrobatics and defy gravity and walk through walls and stuff. i have to look that up too i guess unless anyone can help me on that?

[DROandWIDOW]

man senordingdong you just made my day. i was a very frequent lucid dreamer when i was in like 3rd and 4th grade and what you just described as waking up and not being able to move and being able to feel what you thought was te deepest darkest form of evil is exactly what i felt. i swear to god that i am not even kidding, when i read that post i was like O my god and it described in perfect detail of what i used to expierience. that is crazy shit and i am glad i am not the only one who has felt it. i am currently trying to start dreaming lucidly again and it is not working very well. any ideas?