And by that I mean the most AWESOME thing in the universal alliance, not only realize you`re in a dream but control your goddamn dream!!!!
Ive done it about 3 times in the past year where I just suddenly realized, holy shit, Im dreaming! and proceeded to do everything I wanted which I would describe in detail but there are children present.
Have you ever demonstrated this AMAZINGLY AWESOME ability?
My life sucks. My dreams are perpetual. They will never reach the realm of the natural world.
T_T
mm, I do this all the time. It happens, when I am half asleep and half awake. It's not like "oh my god i'm dreaming, lets to rob a bank or something" more like, oh, I'm walking down the street, well lets walk to the mall then. I'd like to go to the mall" I'm still asleep enough to remain in dream state, but awake enough to have control what's going on. like, I won't see that weird flying lion as I'm walking down the street, and then, for no reason, be in the circus.
Usually, when I finally realize that it is a dream, I am awake, and can't remember the dream anyways.
wonders if anyone is giving her weird looks now
Only a couple times during my life. In the most vivid one I can think of, I was exploring Neverland but wanted to escape and the only way to do it was to board Captain Hook's flying ship and sail back to the real world. In the end I did manage to board the ship…by jumping off of a cliff then using a Kamehameha to blast myself onto the deck! It resembled Mr. Fossey's ship the "Sea Cucumber" from The Curse of Monkey Island.
Then I went into the cabin's quarters and saw a mall mattress store.
I woke up shortly thereafter.
I think this kind of happened to me many years ago. I can't remember what I did, though I was in the gymnasium of my old elementary school.
Last nights was particularly strange. Previously I realized that I was in a dream and then manipulated the dream to my will but this time as I was manipulating it, I actually **_thought_** about the fact that my body was lying at rest and that I was actively living` in my own mind. While I was dreaming I was thinking, woah, this is fucked up.
There's only been one time where I was aware I was dreaming and took complete control of it. I actually thought, "Okay, I'm dreaming which means I get to mess with stuff. Yes!". I was on a cruise ship with a bunch of rich people and I started messing with everything. I made walls of plexi-glass rise out of the railings and cage us in, I made the sea get really rough, I enchanted the food and their clothes, it was a lot of fun.
Every other time I've only been mildly aware in that what ever I thought was going to happen ended up happening but I didn't realize I was in control of it.
This has happened to me a couple of times, last month being the most recent. It was like I was actually thinking logically and not going along with the dream.
My memory of these dreams is pretty fuzzy, but I remember jumping off a giant tower into the ocean or something. It was pretty sweet.
It was like I was actually thinking logically and not going along with the dream.
YES!!!!!
It`s not just that I was aware that I was dreaming. I was literally conjuring up EXACTLY what I wanted to do and see while being aware that my flesh bag was snoring.
It's called lucid dreaming. I know the experience, but I think most of the time it's still a very abstract kind of ''awareness'' in the sense that's it more like a natural part of the flow of the dream than anything else. I think the illusions of control become amplified by distorted impressions that remain after awakening.
You can always try looking at your hands - it's supposed to be a sure-fire way of checking your conscience into action during a dream, and sometimes reportedly even causes out-of-body experiences.
phew
i like dreams
Happens to me frequently, i like it. But the worst thing is, i seem to have to wake up within the next 5-15mins of me getting to explore before i gotta wake up. Then i forget them all besides the basics.
Lucid Dreaming > Sleep Paralysis
Sleep Paralysis is scary as fuck when you dont know what the hell is happening. I swear i thought i was dead, i was like "So this how it feels like", floating in blackness like kingdom hearts. Except like when you thought of something like the words would fly by… like "COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL"
I don't remember my dreams. I don't even know if I have them.
but I think most of the time it's still a very abstract kind of ''awareness'' in the sense that's it more like a natural part of the flow of the dream than anything else. I think the illusions of control become amplified by distorted impressions that remain after awakening.
This is it. This is FASCINATING stuff. See what I experienced wasnt so much real as it was, I just did what I wanted knowing I was in a dream. Now what you bring up Mog is something that Im extremely interested in because the times this has happened I literally stop dead in my tracks and say, Wait….this is a dream. The first time was when I became aware that I was talking to a dead cousin. It was normal until that hit me and I realized, Wait...this scenario is impossible. Then I said, Whats the first thing Id want to do? and I went ahead and did it.
This has happened now three times where Ive stopped the progression of my dream, took a step back and then did EXACTLY what I wanted. And Ive done the same thing each time (just different ways).
While I believe it could be part of the dream, my clear decision to perform the same actions EACH time I realize it is creepy, culminating in last night where as I was doing what I wanted I was literally aware, within my dream, that I was sleeping and pictured in my mind (in my dream) the fact that I was actually sleeping at the time.
Which just.....it just blows my mind.
I don't remember my dreams. I don't even know if I have them.
Really? Not even maybe a particular impression or emotion you wake up with?
That's really hard for me to imagine, but then I guess you can't miss something you're not aware of.
Which just…..it just blows my mind.
I can totally sympathize. But then, you know, in a way almost everything about dreaming blows my mind. It's something I've always used to take for granted, but have really taken a step back to look at over the last few years. I'm still not really gaining understanding, but just a greater sense of amazement for how the human mind works every step of the way which is easily more awesome.
i'm sounding like a hippie
Happens to me frequently, i like it. But the worst thing is, i seem to have to wake up within the next 5-15mins of me getting to explore before i gotta wake up. Then i forget them all besides the basics.
This.
It seems that every time I have a really amazing dream experience, it ends very abruptly.
Generally my dreams tend to be trippy as hell. I rarely dream about anything that even resembles real life. It's cool because most of the people who tell me about their dreams seem to have really normal ones compared to mine.
Yeah, there's been times where I've been fully aware that I'm in a dream and even "taken over," and though I usually can't remember later on, I'm almost sure it usually evolves into me playing superhero or something.
I've had a pretty fucked up relationship with dreams.
Firstly, this happens to me ALL THE GODDAMN TIME. Everytime I dream a dream nowadays I start off just fine. Could be a bad dream or could be a good dream, doesn't matter. Halfway through the experience I become self-aware. It's like you're driving down Thunder Road in Greased Lightning at 88 MPH, about to turn the corner for a victory lap,
Then everything goes into bullet time.
And I suddenly realize "Hey, this is a dream".
From then on, I let the dream play out, but if I don't happen to like where things are going, I just rewind and take a different path, like a multi-choice adventure book. Even when I'm dreaming I realize dreams are no fun if you control every little detail.
But this just happened to me recently, and it kinda freaked me out.
I woke up from a peticularly vague dream, but as I was getting up and going through the routine of getting ready for work (5:20 AM), the dream kept playing uninterrupted in what felt like a fog in my head. I was moving around and doing everything right, but it was like the theatre lights went on and the doors were opened, but the movie kept playing. It stopped about 15 minutes later, but after I realized what was happening, I felt pretty dumbfounded.
I notice I dream less as I get older. Most of my dreams these days are aroused by horrible fear of not waking up in time for an exam.
I notice most of the dreams I do get happen if I wake up and bathroom or look at the clock, then go back to sleep. It's like I never get out of REM after slipping back.
From the title I was expecting a fail thread, but instead got epic.
Sadly… I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THIS! I can count all the times I've dreamed in my life, and most of the time it was nightmares. God, I so want this to happen now. I'd love to be able to fly through the air like a superhero, I know that's easy and lame… but dammit, it'd be awesome. I'M FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
a long time ago( like age 10 or younger) i had a dream i cant exactly but it was something reated to sailormoon, and a very cute girl. Anyway I wake up in tear crying, saying don't leave. and a few years later it happen again
It was weird and i don't no why I'm writing this lol
i had a straw hat but it became to small for me I'm a living One Piece anime ad
Hmm…I never have nightmares, but I haven't experienced lucid dreaming as far as I know.
Heck, I'm pretty self-conscious even in my dreams (mostly, because if the circumstances in dreams happened in real life, I'd be arrested) and only get a fantasy one every once in a while. They aren't that farfetched though (except I had 2 very vivid dreams where I was in a SAW movie), so it's hard for me to tell while dreaming.
Not that I recall. The only time I dream (or remember my dreams) are nightmares. With the notiable expection of a couple of dreams that happened around puberty that I can't talk about here.
Actually now that I think about my nightmares are mostly the same. Me swiming around my house trying to escape sharks or sea monsters. Maybe thats why I haven't dreamed in about a decade. I'm already out of ideas.
So, what do you guys suggest to do to possibly trigger dreams? I always hear the "eat things before bed" suggestion. Trust me, I do that anyways.
The best is when it occurs in the middle of a nightmare. Because nightmares always puts you on defense the whole time, whether it be running/hiding/etc.
But there's no greater thrill than turning towards the creeping horror that's been chasing you the last couple minutes and
. Then you get to play around till you wake up (like 5 seconds later).That begs me to ask: Has anyone here ever died in a dream/nightmare? I believe there's some rule that has always existed that you cannot die in a dream, and I know I sure never have, tho I've gotten close. A single time I think it was ambitious if I was killed or not.
The best is when it occurs in the middle of a nightmare. Because nightmares always puts you on defense the whole time, whether it be running/hiding/etc.
YES HOLY SHIT THIS IS TRUE!
But how about this.
Are you a wuss in your dreams?
I can't fight back for SHIT in my dreams! I always wind up for a punch and like, it goes in slow motion and I end up tapping the assailant. It's a pain in the ass!
(Curse the title for putting my mind in the gutter. >_>)
I'm not sure if this ever happened, since I tend to forget most of my dreams nowadays. Though, I do remember once that I was falling but before I hit the bottom, my body bounced on the bed. Really freaky.
I can't fight back for SHIT in my dreams! I always wind up for a punch and like, it goes in slow motion and I end up tapping the assailant. It's a pain in the ass!
That's usually the norm for me as well. When I'm not conscious of my dream state I'm usually moving as if I'm underwater. Like some jerk switched the gravity up a couple points.
Then I realise what's actually going on and like a wonderful shonen anime I magically get stronger.
Oddly enough though, my brain must want me to get scared. Because shortly after I started abusing said Falcon Punches, it started pitting me against non corporeal terrors, like ghosts and omnipresent demons. Now that's just cheating!
LOVE AND PEACE
Not sure considering I forget most of my dreams, but I've always loved the dreams I rarely have where I can breathe underwater and explore the ocean, or fly. I freaking love those, yet they're so scarce, that I'd have to be lucky to get them twice every couple of months.
I don't get many nightmares anymore, but when I do, I find that I really can't do jackshit, except run, I never die though, it usually just turns into another dream midway, like I'm running from something, and then suddenly I run into some political figure or celebrity or person from school and we start on another expedition or something.
I always love dreams though.
I hope for a dream tonight, as long as it's no damn Freddy Krueger business. Aka: No nightmares, please!
Then I realise what's actually going on and like a wonderful shonen anime I magically get stronger.
Oddly enough though, my brain must want me to get scared. Because shortly after I started abusing said Falcon Punches, it started pitting me against non corporeal terrors, like ghosts and omnipresent demons. Now that's just cheating!
Yeah, my most awesome dreams lately for some reason force me to pull off a Luffy and rely on Gear second and Gear third to cheaply overpower whatever tries to attack me
there was also this time I had to face some vengeful ghost thing (I had just watched a movie where a Greg-Guy and his american friends did nasty shit to some innocent japanese girl, which later made her to come back as a omnipotent ghost) so i just relied on magnets (which in my dream could only push back the ghost) and Gear second. It was an annoying repetitive dream until I had to face the bastard (chewy gum man) who killed her.
of course i rarely get hurt in my dreams lately because rubber seems to have Alll Mighty defensive properties
Of course! : ) I do it, it's called "Lucid Dreaming." It's an amazing feeling because you can control everything in your dream and even feel the sensation of flying when you choose to fly around your dream.
Some people can do it naturally. But some have to do it through a technique called DILD (Dream Initiated Lucid Dream – basically doing reality checks in real life so they pass into you dreams. Something that always happens in your dreams can make you realise you're dreaming, or just something being out of place in a room) or a range of different techniques to actually induce one, also allowing them to Lucid Dream more frequently, even having chains of them in the same night.
I manage to go into a Lucid Dream via DILD or WILD (Wake Initiated Lucid Dream -- which is one of the most scary forms of entry, involving going into sleep paralysis while awake and experiencing hypnogogic imagery. It's actually an interesting experience because once you start entering your Lucid Dream straight from waking, you can enter the dream in many diferent ways, such as the sensation of sinking through your bed onto your dream bed, or getting pulled at light speed with light surrounding you into the dream, or just simply realising you're not in your bed and in a field of flowers or something. xD)
A good pointer is, when you realise you're dreaming, rub you hands together and it'll increase the lucidity of the dream, then your dream won't start to fade away if the lucidity starts off weak. : )
Also, to answer the "what are good things to eat before bed?" question, bananas and milk are a good to make dreams more vivid (which could ultimately help you realise you're dreaming.) This is because bananas contain B6 and milk contains melatonin.
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Mhm. The dreams where I can fly. God, I love those. Simply fantastic. Also, the basejumping dreams are fantastic.
I remember a dream where I was on the back of Goku and we were flying around, killing things. I was 11 or so.
The thing with my nightmares is I can usually wake myself up before it gets to scary so I've never actually fought back. I dunno how I'd do.
Buuhan, I don't really know a decent way to get you to dream except wake up before you have to and then fall back asleep. It usually works for me.
Also, I've heard that you dream about the last thing you thought of. Dunno if that will help.
Also, to answer the "what are good things to eat before bed?" question, bananas and milk are a good to make dreams more vivid (which could ultimately help you realise you're dreaming.) This is because bananas contain B6 and milk contains melatonin.
I regularly drink milk all day, and even have a drink before bed… I still hardly ever dream. Maybe it's because I don't have a banana with it? XD
I regularly drink milk all day, and even have a drink before bed… I still hardly ever dream. Maybe it's because I don't have a banana with it? XD
It's not the milk that makes you dream. xD (Sorry, should have mentioned that! x.x) It's just helps people sleep a little better. (Especially when drank warm before bed.) Going to bed stressed out and not being able to sleep makes it less likely that you'll remember any dreams upon waking. : )
And it's not that you don't dream, everyone dreams every night, it's just that you don't remember them. xD A solution to the problem of being unable to remember is simply recording the dreams you do remember in a diary, as weird as it sounds. xD
My dreams are always fucked up, my nightmares are always weird as hell but they scare the shit outta me! I'm a definite wuss in my nightmares, I never have any other nightmare but zombie movies…In every single zombie nightmare I have, NO doors work...no cars work it's just running in the street. And I always feel like in the dream that I'm DREAMING in the dream and I feel like I wake up in the dream...but shit I'm still asleep. The zombies aren't even scary in my dreams, they don't eat me or anything, they snap their fingers, bam you're a zombie. But yet I still run like hell hoping to wake up. My nightmares last for AGES! While my dreams last for seconds..
Ah, I've died in my dream before, but it was in the 3rd person kind of death, oh look theres my dead body over there...I'm dead!
Happens to me frequently, i like it. But the worst thing is, i seem to have to wake up within the next 5-15mins of me getting to explore before i gotta wake up. Then i forget them all besides the basics.
Lucid Dreaming > Sleep Paralysis
Sleep Paralysis is scary as fuck when you dont know what the hell is happening. I swear i thought i was dead, i was like "So this how it feels like", floating in blackness like kingdom hearts. Except like when you thought of something like the words would fly by… like "COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL"
Yeah, I sometimes wake up in sleep paralysis after a lucid dream, too. It's not that scary to me anymore, but it only happens when I wake up after gaining lucidity then immediately losing it again.
Holy Christ Chastity, you're like a spring of dream info! Thank you!
^ Thank you and you're welcome! : ) I'm extremely interested in the concept of dreaming and lucidity and I study it in my spare time and generally love to lucid dream. It's great to know that others on this board have an interest in it, too!
If you'd like any more info, feel free to ask and I'll answer with what I know the best I can! : D
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Damnit! This thread reminded me of a great movie I saw last month, but I can't remember its title! Maybe someone here knows of it? It looks really quirky: the movie was shot with real actors and locations, but they were modified afterwards with a computer to make it look like an animated film. In the movie a guy experiences exactly what this thread is about - a dream in which he can control his actions. He tries to wake up and meets these people throughout the film and they talk to him about various stuff. For example, one person gives an advice of how to know whether or not you're still dreaming, which was to check if the lights really turn off when you push the switch.
In topic: I have controlled my actions inside my dreams, but I have only hazy memories of these cases. My subconscious seems to be too strong. 
^I know what you're talking about. xD The film is called "Waking Life."
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^ YES! That's it! Thank you for that. 
No worries! : D The way it was done was amazing and some of the points the characters bought up were interesting, however, overall I found the movie quite boring. xD'
I've had a flirting interest in lucid dreaming for 5-6 years now, but I've only ever done it twice. I would like to do it often, but it just never happens. I tried doing that reality checking thing, but it just never transfers over.
What can I do to increase the frequency of lucid dreams?
I have, and will type up my experiences later. Glad to see I'm not the only one facinated with dreams/sleep here
Haha I can't say I have, but I did have a dream couple nights ago where I left my jacket somewhere and last night, I went back to the same spot and it was just hanging there.
I remember having a nightmare, and trying to control the dream around me. I woke up to my cell phone ringing, and wondered why it wasn't in my hand anymore since I was trying to make a text message.
I've had it a few times. It's usually nothing special though. Most of the time it's that I have a dream, and then I think, "Wait, this can't be right, because today's Saturday" or something along those lines. Then the dream changes direction for a few moments and I wake up soon after.
I haven't had a lucid nightmare though. Usually my nightmares are me getting shot at and somehow I don't get hit, or I survive it without pain or something.
I was trapped in my apartment while my sister's schizo ex was knocking on the door, saying, "I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE." And I was trying to tell my sister - through text so he wouldn't hear me - that she should stay where she was, but my cell didn't recognize the word "stay" and wouldn't let me type it.
And then said sister called, and it woke me up.
It was a while ago, but I think I thought he was actually trying to bust into my apartment in the waking world, but I knew I was still in the dreaming world.
The creepy feeling went away almost instantly though.
