Lucid Dreaming!

[pbakos92]

Hey. I was wondering how many of you guys here have ever heard of lucid dreaming, and if any of you have ever had one! Alot of people think its BS when they hear about it at first but its been scientifically proven and is mentioned in psychology books and science magazines all the time.

So basically its when you're having a dream and something just seems wrong, and you realize you're dreaming. When you realize you're dreaming, however, you don't keep going along with the flow of the dream, you "wake up" in the dream and basically become conscious inside if it. Many people don't understand what this truly means until they have one, but its basically like being totally awake, like you are right now, but instead of being in the "real world" you're in a dream. You can think just the way you are thinking right now, and you know that you're really sleeping and just in a setting created by your own mind.

Once you're in a dream the possibilities are endless. You can fly, kill, steal, visit places... you can do literally anything you want. So how many of you have ever heard of this before?

If you want to read more about it check our these sites:

http://dreamviews.com/
http://lucidipedia.com/

If you want more proof that its real, check here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...7184056AAm3r3f
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1759
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/picko...ddreaming.html

Notice the .edu domains... the leading reasearcher in Lucid Dreaming is Stephen LaBerge, who is partnered with Stanford. Google him to check out his works, its really cool. He even found a way for lucid dreamers to communicate to the people watching them dream through eye twitches and EKGs, which helped lucid dreaming become widely accepted.

[Sky_king]

I'vve had this a couple of times, the first time it sared the hell out of me, the second and third time it was really awesome though. Worth noticing is that when waking up you may get a sleep paralysis, which means you can't move any part of your body. This is because you're awake, but your body is asleep.

Also, if you get this like very often, or every night, it will be harder and harder to separate reality from dreams, so don't go jumping out of windows

[Joko]

I've just started doing training myself to lucid dream *does reality test*, for example by periodically carrying out reality tests *does reality test*. I've also *bought* Steven LaBerge's lucid dreaming cd and *bought* some Hemisync stuff *does reality test*

[Sky_king]

I've just started doing training myself to lucid dream *does reality test*, for example by periodically carrying out reality tests *does reality test*. I've also *bought* Steven LaBerge's lucid dreaming cd and *bought* some Hemisync stuff *does reality test*

Haha, you *bought* them legally I suppose *does reality test* *reality test failed* time to wake up *jumps from window*

[Marcdk]

When i was younger, i could control all my dreams just the way i wanted, it was every night. I've also tried to wake up, and when i tried to move my body, i just couldn't .. (remember i started to cry)

Right now, i usually never dream, or i just don't remember what i dream. I don't know

[Joko]

I've also tried to wake up, and when i tried to move my body, i just couldn't .. (remember i started to cry)

Sounds like a touch of sleep paralysis there, especially with the Lucid dream before hand, that's a known cause.

[Axe08]

I love dreaming. I used to be able to wake up on command when I was younger. If I was having a bad dream i would close my eyes real tight and then open them quick and then I would be awake. It was real cool.
I love waking up and then working on what my dream was about.

What I find so cool about dreams is that mine come with what i like to call previous knowledge. It is like I remember something that happened

[Joko]

Has anyone ever had it where you wake up from a dream, and YOU'RE STILL IN THE DREAM??
Once it happened loads to me in one dream. I had a dream that I was on a hill at night, and the moon suddenly turned red and had a scary face (I was quite young at the time), I woke up all panicky, went to my window and looked out and the moon was like in the dream... Then I woke up again, look at my wall and the face was on the wall... then I actually woke up :lol:

[Wynthar]

Haha. I do this funny thing where when someone calls my cell phone early early in the morning like 5 or 6 AM, I answer the phone, and it's weird cause I'm so out of it, that I don't know what I've been doing, and I don't even remember that I was sleeping. I just answer the phone and start talking. Sometimes they'll ask me if I was sleeping and I'll say No... then I'll be wondering what I WAS doing... and eventually I figure out that I was actually sleeping lol... I just can't remember when I wake up to a phone call! Talk about crazy!

[borntodie]

Done this a few times, it's fun =], I love to dream!

...but yeah the best thing to do is to say outloud to yourself every half hour or hour (just make a routine) "am i dreaming" or something like that, and eventually you'll ask yourself whilst dreaming and realise you're dreaming...

[PlayerH]

I've heard about lucid dreaming but never tried,to lazy for it

[Jepzy]

didnt know this was rare !. ive done that dome that sometime, its really funny.
i once base jumped from the coleseum in rome
luicid dreaming is true, i tried it!

[PlayerH]

Anyone tried and worked?haha

[Joko]

Lucid dreaming? Yeh once I managed to do a reality test in a dream but it got pretty out-of-control. I was making a clock go faster when I heard someone whispering my voice, then more voices joined in. Eventually the voices got louder and louder and I panicked and told myself to wake up, which I did.

-this post was dictated and submitted entirely using Dragon NaturallySpeaking-

[Odyssey]

When i was younger, i could control all my dreams just the way i wanted, it was every night. I've also tried to wake up, and when i tried to move my body, i just couldn't .. (remember i started to cry)

Right now, i usually never dream, or i just don't remember what i dream. I don't know

I don't remember my dreams ever. Fullstop. :/ I wish I could though....

and then one night a while ago I fell asleep thinking about the fact I never dream, and for the first time in 1-3 years, I remembered my dream

I still remember it now, as clear as when I was having it...

very odd!

[Anonyjoe]

Kinda Related:

When I was younger I was convinced all my dreams were real, and that they actually happened.

I used to go into school and tell all my friends about what I had been doing including flying, driving and other weird stuff! LMAO.

[Reinn]

I accidently pressed on "-" so his post is at minus, someone please do "+" lol xD

[Anonyjoe]

I accidently pressed on "-" so his post is at minus, someone please do "+" lol xD

done


I really want to get in a real lucid dream one day. But I reckon it could be quite scary :/