@tigerlilly:
Man, that sounds really trippy…but reading what you were able to do it was worth it !
It was!
@Gravy-Kun:
Several times. Most of these dreams are pretty childish, like flying using my arms as wings, walking through a maze from an art piece, fighting aliens and winning, and some dreams that are 18+. Those are my "control dreams"
lolwhat?
@Chastity-Autumn:
Wow! : D I really wish I could go in to a lucid dream through a MILD (Mnemonically Induced Lucid Dream). That's never worked for me because I just go on to think about different things. xD
looks into MILD with more detail
Yeah :D, this would never work for me normally, either, because I'm very rarely in that Sleepilicous(<– Copyright of Taily 2008 XD) state I described, so it's not exactly an easy route. The dream was very short (felt like 20 seconds which means it probably was) because I was to caught up in the moment to rub my hands together and spin to increase lucidity. I heard speaking in a loud, clear voice "INCREASE LUCIDITY"[in your dream, of course] helps if the dream starts to fade, but I hadn't heard of that tactic back then.
I woke up in sleep paralysis a few days ago after a lucid dream.
I had just finished doing a reality check (looking at my hands - They were blurry and I couldn't count them, so I knew I was dreaming.) I had lost lucidity a short time after and I woke up during sleep paralysis. I experienced really weird hypnogogic hallucinations. I literally saw an outline of a man falling down towards me and then when he was just about to land, it disappeared and then it kept happening over and over again like a loop. xD
I managed to jolt myself out of it, though, the sound of buzzing and the feeling of vibrations were really intense. xD
Scary O_O. Why didn't you just close your eyes, to atleast stop the visual effects? Does that ruin the chances of DEILD?
On the topic of hallucinations, have you had, for lack of a better term, a "dream while you're awake"?
However, I was annoyed at myself for not going through with it to achieve a DEILD (Dream Exit Initiated Lucid Dream) because it would have meant I could go straight into another lucid dream.
Aww, didn't work like that with me. just got up.
(You might already know about these techniques because you're a fellow dreamer who has an interest in dreams and so on, I just typed what they mean into brackets incase someone else is reading and don't know what they stand for. : D )
:D I do know quite alot, however I'm not nearly as guru-like as you XD, I've only achieved lucidity about 4 times in the couple of months I've been interested in the subject. I also had a lucid dream before then, like five years ago.
I've used binaural beats before, the music can actually sound really nice! : ) Pieces of music specially made for lucid dreaming with subliminal messages are known to work, too!
I might try these!
A step towards doing this, is that you must become better at dream recall, which can easily be done by writing up your dreams a dream diary. Once you start doing this, you'll actually begin to remember more dreams, it's weird really. Before I kept a dream diary, I only remembered a single dream every few weeks, but now I can remember up to 3-4 every night.
Luckily for me I've always been able to remember 1-3, sometimes even 4, dreams a night.
Also, there are a range of different techniques of Lucid induction you could try. Perhaps you can try them to see if any of them are for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream#Induction_methods <– here's a list if anyones interested
But overall, the work has to come from you and you can't do it by being demotivated. It sometimes takes years for some people to actually have a lucid dream at all. X_X
Unfourtunatly this is very true :sad: ;_;
@Buuhan1:
Okay, I was really wanting to do this, but now you guys are saying it usually is followed by sleep paralysis and hallucinations. I've never experienced those things and I don't want to. Maybe I should not mess with forces that I'm not willing to suffer the consequences of.
Don't worry, give it a go anyway; for one I think I entered the dream very recklessly, it almost felt like as I was going into the dream I was climbing scafolding which could drop at any second. And even if you do get it, the important things are too remember it's not real, close your eyes, and think "Well, it was an experience"
@Mr.:
And I'm sure you've all had those REALLY weird dreams when you're ill.
Err…is it a bad sign if I get these kind of things all the time?
Has anyone had those weird moments where you're about to fall asleep and you imagine yourself running or something, and all of a sudden you fall, and just when you're about to hit the ground, you JERK awake?
That has a very interesting back story, it's pimitive instict from way back when we were apes and slept in trees, a small movement could mean falling off so the brain has learned to ampify any fall sensation so you wake up instantely and grab a branch.
@Buuhan1:
Recently, very recently, I've found myself walking up and right as I wake up I say… it's like I'm finishing a sentence I was saying. I can't remember dreaming or what I was originally saying, I just know I woke up and half said something. This only has ever happened to me recently...
Also, why is it that you never seem to dream of something you're really interested in that's always on your mind? Like I've always wanted a OP dream... but it's never really happened.
I use this to me advantage. If I see a scary movie I don't want to have nightmares about, I think about it alot during that day, and don't get them XD
Taily