Lucid Dreaming.

[Jalik]

Hello everyone, this threads topic is on being able to dream lucidly.

Before you back out of this page or actually close it, at least skim through it.


A lucid dream is a dream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream) in which the sleeper is aware that he or she is dreaming. When the dreamer is lucid, he or she can actively participate in and often manipulate the imaginary experiences in the dream environment. Lucid dreams can seem extremely real and vivid depending on a person's level of self-awareness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness) during the lucid dream.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream#cite_note-0)
The term was coined by the Dutch Psychiatrist and writer Frederik van Eeden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_van_Eeden) (1860-1932).[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream#cite_note-Frederik_van_Eeden_1913-1)
A lucid dream can begin in one of three ways. A dream-initiated lucid dream (DILD) starts as a normal dream, and the dreamer eventually concludes that he or she is dreaming, while a wake-initiated lucid dream (WILD) occurs when the dreamer goes from a normal waking state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awake) directly into a dream state with no apparent lapse in consciousness. A mnemonic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic)-initiated lucid dream (MILD) can happen when the dreamer intentionally affirms to himself or herself that he or she will become lucid during the upcoming sleep. Reaching lucidity can sometimes occur due to dream-signs or spontaneously upon remembrance.
Lucid dreaming has been researched scientifically, and its existence is well established.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream#cite_note-2)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream#cite_note-laberge-experiments1-3) Scientists such as Allan Hobson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hobson), with his neurophysiological (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurophysiology) approach to dream research, have helped to push the understanding of lucid dreaming into a less speculative realm.

One easy way to help train your body to possibly endure Lucid Dreams:

A Modified Version of Castaneda's "Looking At Your Hands".


As you prepare for sleep each night, sit in your bed and take a minute to relax (http://www.wikihow.com/Relax). Softly look at the palms of your hands and repeat to yourself, "Tonight while I dream, I will see my hands and realize I'm dreaming."
Continue to repeat this affirmation, "Tonight while I dream, I will see my hands and realize I'm dreaming," as you look at your hands. Do not be concerned if your eyes cross or you begin to get tired.
After five minutes, or once you feel too tired or sleepy, turn off the light and go to sleep.
When you wake during the night, gently recall your last dream. If you did not see your hands, remind yourself of your intent to see your hands in the next dream.
With consistent practice of this affirmation each night before sleep, you will suddenly see your hands pop up in front of you when dreaming, and consciously realize, "My hands! This is a dream."

INFO:

Wikipedia - Link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream)
FAQ - Link (http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html)
How to Lucid Dream Wikihow - Link (http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream)

VIDEOS:

Discovery Channel interesting Lucid Dreaming - Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASf55cov5F8) (Very cool to watch and not boring at all, entertaining learning)
Beginners Steps to Lucid Dreaming Part 1/3 - Link (http://%3Cbr%20/%3E%0Ahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GJTkG60X4)
Beginners Steps to Lucid Dreaming Part 2/3 - Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK0hDfBvZh0)
Beginners Steps to Lucid Dreaming Part 3/3 - Link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZO3RSI7PnI)

Discuss.

[YoureANubcake]

Yeah, I've had lucid dreams. What's there to talk 'discuss' heree?

[Jalik]

Well I'm guessing at least a few people have either heard about it, or experienced it. I, personally, would love to hear others' experiences with it. It seems like something that's really neat to experience.

Or, if someone had anything to add.

[denacioust]

Yeah, this thread pops up every so often and I'm still not able to do it. It sounds pretty awesome, but I never remember any of my dreams anyway.

[Eminemfan234]

My juicy.. I mean lucid dreams are just perverted.

[Jalik]

Yeah, this thread pops up every so often and I'm still not able to do it. It sounds pretty awesome, but I never remember any of my dreams anyway.

It's said to be like an outer-body experience or, in religious terms, very spiritual. If you actually put some effort into it, like I'm planning on doing, it doesn't seem very hard.

My juicy.. I mean lucid dreams are just perverted.
You'd be surprised on how many people in there dreams, as soon as they realize they're dreaming (and about to wake up) that they rape the first woman they see. And since that's there thought, there's always women close to you.

Aren't dreams awesome?

[criticism]

I've experienced lucid dreams multiple times. A lot of the time, the dream represents a large occurance that happened the day before or something like that (a fight in school, talking to someone I like, scoring a goal in soccer, etc), though I can manipulate the outcome of my situation to whatever I'd like....

For example, I've gotten this dream where I'm floating (like in Peter Pan) above my hometown. Then, when I wake up the next morning (or in the middle of the night) I'm light-headed and feel, again, that I'm floating.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that I'm crazy, too.... Yeah....

[fruitycaker1]

I've had a lucid dream once or twice, but to be honest, most of the time I'd rather dream passively. I'd rather see what my mind comes up with unconsciously.

[Jalik]

I've only felt anything close to a lucid dream once.

I was about to fly, but I got scared for a moment and the dream turned almost into a nightmare, because the rapid change in mood quickly can change the dream. So I had to hold on to this fence and close my eyes, in my dream, so I wouldn't fly up in the air. But I felt it, like it was completely real, which is what made my body think that I was dreaming (weirdly enough) thus making it lucid.

But, after that was gone and I was back to normal state of mind and the nightmarish feelings past, I went back on the ground in my dream and my mind lost it's lucidness. I can't remember anything after that.

[Alice Cooper]

I may have lucid dreamed in the past, but I'm never sure about it. I'm not really sure what draws the line between "Oh hey Lucid Dream" and "I'm awake and daydreaming".

[Jalik]

I may have lucid dreamed in the past, but I'm never sure about it. I'm not really sure what draws the line between "Oh hey Lucid Dream" and "I'm awake and daydreaming".

Lucid dreams are in a complete psychedelic state of mind. Everything you feel, smell, endure actually makes you feel like if were in that same position in reality, but no consequences.

Although you may have forgotten if you've lucid dreamed or not, which is a major downside.

[crusty]

I dream lucidly from time to time. It's pretty cool, I guess. I usually try to turn it into a sexual dream as soon as I can. It rarely works, though. Typically once I realize that I'm dreaming and start having a lucid dream, I wake up. I guess my mind doesn't want to let it happen.

[Jalik]

I dream lucidly from time to time. It's pretty cool, I guess. I usually try to turn it into a sexual dream as soon as I can. It rarely works, though. Typically once I realize that I'm dreaming and start having a lucid dream, I wake up. I guess my mind doesn't want to let it happen.
That happens to multiple people, all the time.

But a true lucid dream is when you keep sleeping. It's hardly a lucid dream if you're only dreaming lucidly for a minute or two.

That's why it takes practice and constant reality checks in real life, to get you prepared for your dreams. Hence, why I added so many useful links if anyone actually wanted to try it out.

[Scornic]

When I go Lucid (very rare) it's not too exciting. It takes all of my effort to materialize something as simple as a pencil and even then it like disappears the second I stop focusing. The only thing I can really do in lucid dreams is anything I could do in real life, except with the knowledge that it's only a dream.

[YoureANubcake]

I did it when I was 8. I always told myself I'd know that I was dreaming before I went to bed. Then I did, and I was just kinda flying around. Then I told myself, "time to wake up!" snapped, and woke up.

[Dragon]

Bah, this thread does come up every year. I've never really made the attempt to do it, although I'd love to experience it.

By "experience it" I mean all my sexual fantasties.

[e p]

My dreams are usually far from lucid. In fact, when I wake up, I'm usually so confused that I start babbling about stuff that could only make sense in a dream.

[Jalik]

Bah, this thread does come up every year. I've never really made the attempt to do it, although I'd love to experience it.

By "experience it" I mean all my sexual fantasties.

Drugs, Sex and Rockin' Roll!

All at the same time? No consequences?

Anything can happen in dreams.

[Masterchuf]

Shame for me - no matter how waked-out my dreams are I always consider them real enough at the moment to not exploit the situation. Had a few where at the end, often when something terrible happens, that I consider "now this has to be a dream". Always wake up upon once that happens though...

[Doug05257]

Had one, one time, where I was able to fly. Like, I was flying around my house and shit, weightless. Best dream ever... it was pretty awesome.

[Circuit]

Lucid dreams are bad for psychological development. Dreams are your sub-consciouseses (I can't say that word) way of revealing to you what goes on in the back of your twisted mind.

Constantly taking lead of your own dreams stunts messages.

[Alice Cooper]

Barely related to the topic at hand, but I thought I'd bring it up anyways.

Has anyone ever had Sleep Paralysis? It happened to me once, and it was one of the worst experiences of my life.

[Serisium]

Barely related to the topic at hand, but I thought I'd bring it up anyways.

Has anyone ever had Sleep Paralysis? It happened to me once, and it was one of the worst experiences of my life.
I had one once when I was young. Instead of panicking, I starting moving my limbs one at a time in order to roll over and look at the time. I was still asleep even though I was moving until I was what time it was. I noticed that I overslept, then immediately woke up.

[Tanktunker]

dreams...rape
That's pretty sad, that even in their dreams women won't go willingly.

[Helmic]

I lucid dream about once every two months. I usually end up conquering the world or winning the affections of a woman - nothing sexually explicit happens, though.

[zoglander]

I NEVER remember my dreams...

[hyperddude]

My dreams are only lucid when I'm very nervous and something bad is chasing me, or something. I usually take advantage of my lucidness to kill myself and wake up.

[Jaquan]

The only lucid dream I have is the one with the old hag. Common dream really. You're paralysed with an old hag staring at you in the dark while you're in bed. It's very terrifying and exhausting.

[Sweet Cuppin' Cakes]

Mine always have tits. And lazers. And tit spewing lazer chainsaws.

[Frigz]

I've probably had exclusively lucid dreams ever since I was 7ish. I don't know why but I always am aware that I'm dreaming. At this point i can manipulate anything, except for sexual interaction for some reason, which I find kind of strange, I guess my mind wants me to focus on other things when I'm asleep.

[HungryMonkey]

Barely related to the topic at hand, but I thought I'd bring it up anyways.

Has anyone ever had Sleep Paralysis? It happened to me once, and it was one of the worst experiences of my life.

Nothing like that, but I have had the WORST kind of dreams, the scary ones you think you woke up from but actually dreamed you were dreaming something scary AND THEN something scary happens. It's utterly terrifying because you are convinced you're awake, it's like some kind of horrible meta nightmare.

[Jalik]

That's pretty sad, that even in their dreams women won't go willingly.
When you get sex on your mind in a dream you focus on women, not that the women are like seducing you. You know you're going to wake up soon, so there's no time to talk. The clothes come off then in like a minute you wake up.

You have to focus on things to make them happen. When there's only a very limited amount of time to do something, you don't care about the small things.

[Lui]

I've only dreamed lucidly once or twice. I remember one quite clearly. I possessed the ability of teleportation and I was jumping around everywhere. One in time, in particular, I looked up into the sky and jumped to the moon.

<_< Which, as far as I can remember, looked like the Nevada desert.

[Jalik]

I've only dreamed lucidly once or twice. I remember one quite clearly. I possessed the ability of teleportation and I was jumping around everywhere. One in time, in particular, I looked up into the sky and jumped to the moon.

<_< Which, as far as I can remember, looked like the Nevada desert.
Welll, did you enjoy it? Was it fun? Did you actually feel like you were flying (or jumping) through the air?

You didn't really say if you liked it or not.

[Lui]

Of course I enjoyed it. All of what I thought I had felt during those moments have subsided, but I do think I was, despite aware of it, fully under control of the illusion that I felt everything; air rushing against my skin, sudden movements, and joy.

So yeah, it was quite brilliant.

[Jalik]

Amazing how your brain can develop these life-like experiences without leaving your bed.

Some people actually believe that that's the place you go when you die. Your spirit lives on in this 'other world'.

Has anyone ever felt like they've done something in there dream before, in there dream? But then when they awake they have no idea what it is or anything about it. That's a cool thing, when you are in that state of mind, and that state of mind only, you remember things that you don't normally remember, from other dreams and such

[Zapurdead]

When I lucid dream, I think about things I can only do when I lucid dream...

Not sex.

[xHysteria]

You forgot that one part...


This can lead to a state where a person is lying in his or her bed and they feel paralyzed. Hypnagogic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia) hallucination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination) may occur in this state...

In the nightmare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare), sleep paralysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis) may be attributed to an external occult entity such as the hag (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hag). The hag visits the dreamer in her nonphysical form and sits on the dreamer's chest causing feelings of terror, suffocation, and paralysis.

Many perceptions associated with sleep paralysis (visceral buzzing, loud sounds, adrenal mental state, presences, and the paralysis itself) also constitute a common phase in the early progression of episodes referred to as out of body experiences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_body_experience). Mental focus varies between the two conditions; paralysis sufferers tend to fixate on reestablishing operation of the body, whereas subjects of out-of-body episodes are more occupied by perceived non-equivalence with the body.

In addition, the paralysis state may be accompanied by terrifying hallucinations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinations) (hypnopompic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnopompic) or hypnagogic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia)) and an acute sense of danger. Sleep paralysis is particularly frightening to the individual because of the vividness of such hallucinations. The hallucinatory element to sleep paralysis makes it even more likely that someone will interpret the experience as a dream, since completely fanciful, or dream-like, objects may appear in the room alongside one's normal vision. Some scientists have proposed this condition as an explanation for alien abductions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_abduction) and ghostly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost) encounters. A study by Susan Blackmore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Blackmore) and Marcus Cox (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marcus_Cox&action=edit&redlink=1) (the Blackmore-Cox study) of the University of the West of England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_West_of_England) supports the suggestion that reports of alien abductions are related to sleep paralysis rather than to temporal lobe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe) lability.

[OG 123zooboy1]

Lucid dreams are the best. You can do what ever you wanna do and not be caught in real life. Wish that would happen all the time. I only had those like three times my whole life.

[literealm]

I've had a lucid dream before. I can't quite remember it and I could barely control it. From what I know, I had a dream where an evil moose with red eyes attacked and killed everyone at a wedding. The moose was under a piano waiting for me, it was at this part I could control it, but barely, only enough to make my own actions, but not stop the nightmare. I ran into my parents van and drove away, but I then noticed it was in back. I quickly thought of a brick wall and it apeared and I crashed and woke up. The only reason I made the wall was because I knew it would end. It was sadly one of my first memorys of when I was 5. After that dream, I didn't dream again until I was 8, I really have no idea why, but my only guess is that the moose scared me so bad, it made me not want to dream again.

[xHysteria]

I've had a lucid dream before. I can't quite remember it and I could barely control it. From what I know, I had a dream where an evil moose with red eyes attacked and killed everyone at a wedding. The moose was under a piano waiting for me, it was at this part I could control it, but barely, only enough to make my own actions, but not stop the nightmare. I ran into my parents van and drove away, but I then noticed it was in back. I quickly thought of a brick wall and it apeared and I crashed and woke up. The only reason I made the wall was because I knew it would end. It was sadly one of my first memorys of when I was 5. After that dream, I didn't dream again until I was 8, I really have no idea why, but my only guess is that the moose scared me so bad, it made me not want to dream again.

Moose + Red eyes + Evil + Dream = Scary as shit.

[crusty]

Barely related to the topic at hand, but I thought I'd bring it up anyways.

Has anyone ever had Sleep Paralysis? It happened to me once, and it was one of the worst experiences of my life.
I have it a decent amount. I'm used to it and can recognize it. It usually only lasts about 10 seconds. I don't see anything because I don't open my eyes. I just get a slight panicing feeling, and wake myself up as fast as I can. If I don't move positions in bed I'll go right back into it, but if I change and say, lay on my stomach instead of my back, it usually won't happen again.

[Bodadem]

There are naturally-occurring substances which, if ingested prior to sleep, can cause vivid, lucid, and easy-to-remember dreams. One such plant is commonly known as african dream root (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silene_capensis).

[Zapurdead]

there are naturally-occurring substances which, if ingested prior to sleep, can cause vivid, lucid, and easy-to-remember dreams. One such plant is commonly known as african dream root (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/silene_capensis).
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[crusty]

They are very fragrant and smell something like cloves, jasmine and bananas.
Cloves, jasmine, AND bananas? That's amazing.