Lucid Dreaming

[XeroTolerance]

Hello everybody. I was just wondering who knows what lucid dreaming is. Did any of you ever do it before? If you dont know it is when you become conscious in your dream. You could do anything you can imagine.

 

[Fyurae]

I haven't. My dad has when he was younger, because he used to have terrible nightmares as a kid and as he got older he trained himself to control them. I have precognitive dreams all the time though. Only ever about mundane things so far. Like conversations when we are watching TV, or I will dream about myself doing something kind of unusual and then some time later I will find myself in that situation.

 

[XeroTolerance]

Same! The only thing though mine are a little weird though. I wake up and say " That can never happen". A few days later in happens.

 

[micko]

Too much L.S.D my friend.

 

[GrayScale]

When I was younger ive had dreams like falling from buildings and being shaken and stuff and I would wake up like I could really feel it or like it really happened. I get dejavu all the time still though.

 

[Delloy12]

I can still control my dreams, if something bad happens in it I either run away or tell it to go

 

[Caprichoso]

I wake up several times in the night and am a very light sleeper, which makes a person more prone to having lucid dreams. The first time I was aware I was dreaming, I woke up instantly, it seems your body wants to wake you up as soon as you're aware of it. But, through the years I've gotten much better at it and have been able to make some very strange things happen in my dreams.

Depending on the night, I can control certain things better than others and can be lucid for a few minutes at a time...now I don't know how much time really goes on in the dream world but it seems like a few minutes.

A useful exercise a person can do throughout the day to promote lucid dreaming is this: Throughout the day, stare at the back of your hand and ask yourself, "Am I dreaming?". Keep doing this repeatedly. I also would do this each time I went through a doorway. Honestly, after a couple of months of doing this, I had a dream one night where I was in a house and I walked through a doorway, suddenly looked at the back of my hand and realized I WAS DREAMING!!! OMG it was the most insane feeling ever!

Since being able to do it the first time, I've been able to change the scenery of my dreams(one time my dream started out as a cold winter evening and I changed it to a warm summer day!). It's very hard to change things and stay in the dream at the same time because your body wants to keep waking up. Sometimes in the lucid dream, my periphery starts to get fuzzy, this is when I am starting to wake up and at times I can focus on something and stop it from happening.

On average, I have a lucid dream about every 3-6 months. My last one I flew around my back yard for about 5 seconds before I woke up, it was AMAZING!! And no, I do not do drugs, lol.

Thanks for posting the topic!

 

[Clarousel]

I wake up several times in the night and am a very light sleeper, which makes a person more prone to having lucid dreams. The first time I was aware I was dreaming, I woke up instantly, it seems your body wants to wake you up as soon as you're aware of it. But, through the years I've gotten much better at it and have been able to make some very strange things happen in my dreams.

Depending on the night, I can control certain things better than others and can be lucid for a few minutes at a time...now I don't know how much time really goes on in the dream world but it seems like a few minutes.

A useful exercise a person can do throughout the day to promote lucid dreaming is this: Throughout the day, stare at the back of your hand and ask yourself, "Am I dreaming?". Keep doing this repeatedly. I also would do this each time I went through a doorway. Honestly, after a couple of months of doing this, I had a dream one night where I was in a house and I walked through a doorway, suddenly looked at the back of my hand and realized I WAS DREAMING!!! OMG it was the most insane feeling ever!

Since being able to do it the first time, I've been able to change the scenery of my dreams(one time my dream started out as a cold winter evening and I changed it to a warm summer day!). It's very hard to change things and stay in the dream at the same time because your body wants to keep waking up. Sometimes in the lucid dream, my periphery starts to get fuzzy, this is when I am starting to wake up and at times I can focus on something and stop it from happening.

On average, I have a lucid dream about every 3-6 months. My last one I flew around my back yard for about 5 seconds before I woke up, it was AMAZING!! And no, I do not do drugs, lol.

Thanks for posting the topic!

Wow that's amazing. Like WOW way cool! Never heard of anyone being able to do that! But doesn't it freak you out a bit? I'd hate to be lucid dreaming in a nightmare. That would be scary...

 

[Caprichoso]

Actually, I've never become lucid in a nightmare before so I don't know what that would be like. It didn't freak me out at all, I thought it was sooo amazing. The exercises I mentioned doing really worked to make it happen though! I had heard about lucid dreaming years before that but I didn't realize you could "train" yourself to increase the chances of it happening. For people that sleep the whole night through, it's not likely to happen. That's why it happens to me somewhat regularly because I wake up so many times during the night and my brain is in the right sort of dream phase that's conducive to lucid dreaming! Apparently, you can also purchase some type of dream goggles for about $150.00 that can enhance lucid dreaming but I tend to think that's more of a cash grab than anything. After all, the method I used worked for me and it didn't cost me any money. A person can set their alarm clock to wake them up in the middle of the night and you have to stay awake for about 30 minutes, then go back to sleep, that will also increase the chance of it happening but only of you can recognize that you're dreaming(which is where the doorway and hand exercise come in).

I can't wait for my next lucid dream! Hopefully I can try flying again

 

[golfzzin]

Iv done it loads, not as much these days, long hours at work takes its toll.

 

[XeroTolerance]

I wake up several times in the night and am a very light sleeper, which makes a person more prone to having lucid dreams. The first time I was aware I was dreaming, I woke up instantly, it seems your body wants to wake you up as soon as you're aware of it. But, through the years I've gotten much better at it and have been able to make some very strange things happen in my dreams.

Depending on the night, I can control certain things better than others and can be lucid for a few minutes at a time...now I don't know how much time really goes on in the dream world but it seems like a few minutes.

A useful exercise a person can do throughout the day to promote lucid dreaming is this: Throughout the day, stare at the back of your hand and ask yourself, "Am I dreaming?". Keep doing this repeatedly. I also would do this each time I went through a doorway. Honestly, after a couple of months of doing this, I had a dream one night where I was in a house and I walked through a doorway, suddenly looked at the back of my hand and realized I WAS DREAMING!!! OMG it was the most insane feeling ever!

Since being able to do it the first time, I've been able to change the scenery of my dreams(one time my dream started out as a cold winter evening and I changed it to a warm summer day!). It's very hard to change things and stay in the dream at the same time because your body wants to keep waking up. Sometimes in the lucid dream, my periphery starts to get fuzzy, this is when I am starting to wake up and at times I can focus on something and stop it from happening.

On average, I have a lucid dream about every 3-6 months. My last one I flew around my back yard for about 5 seconds before I woke up, it was AMAZING!! And no, I do not do drugs, lol.

Thanks for posting the topic!

Wow that's amazing. Like WOW way cool! Never heard of anyone being able to do that! But doesn't it freak you out a bit? I'd hate to be lucid dreaming in a nightmare. That would be scary...

Actually people try and become lucid in nightmares to stop it. Especially if it is a recurring one.

 

[fluttermoth]

I'm still practising my lucid dreaming prescisly because I have really bad nightmares; I'd love to be able to stop the bad stuff. I can at least (mostly) wake myself up now.

I hadn't heard about the back-of-the-hand technique; I'm trying that one

 

[Delloy12]

I also fly in my dreams like superman but I only seem to be able to fly 1metre above the ground

 

[Caprichoso]

Iv done it loads, not as much these days, long hours at work takes its toll.

I agree. If a person is utterly exhausted, it won't work because you are in such a deep sleep. My spouse works long hours plus has a very physical sort of job and hardly even remembers dreams.

 

[XeroTolerance]

Yep that's right too. The same thing if your stressed. You won't be able to Lucid Dream.