Lucid Dreaming

I can lucid dream, but I choose not to. The only time I do it is if I've just watched a really scary film or something to help me to not have nightmares. I rarely dream anyways though, just get disjointed on pictures or sketches that make no sense. I dont often dream of a specific sotryline, just some random conversations and parts of events peiced together like a movie that keeps skipping trakcs when you blink.
 
DawnOfXatu said:
kashmaster said:
Why would anyone want to control their dreams. The whole point for me is that a dream is different, unusual and special. I for one wouldn't like to control my dream but go with the flow.
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I use this, not so much for the ability to control myself, but because it is much easier to remember a lucid dream than a regular dream. I myself have trouble remembering dreams, so I use this technique as a way to explore my subconsious. I write a lot, and for interesting outlooks as well as a way to use your wild imagination, this works. I borrowed the idea from Stephen King who sleeps holding marbles in his hands above metal pans. That way he is awoken as soon as he enters REM giving him access to his subconsious.
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Yeah I have Troubles sometimes remembering my dreams X_x. I try to change the situation of bad dreams but it never works. Like yesterday, I had a dream my girlfriend Dump me, I did everything in my power to fix it but it didn't work :(


Also do you see dreams as some sort of warning? I sometimes believe this as I have been going through a rough patch with my girl
 
kashmaster said:
DawnOfXatu said:
kashmaster said:
Why would anyone want to control their dreams. The whole point for me is that a dream is different, unusual and special. I for one wouldn't like to control my dream but go with the flow.
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I use this, not so much for the ability to control myself, but because it is much easier to remember a lucid dream than a regular dream. I myself have trouble remembering dreams, so I use this technique as a way to explore my subconsious. I write a lot, and for interesting outlooks as well as a way to use your wild imagination, this works. I borrowed the idea from Stephen King who sleeps holding marbles in his hands above metal pans. That way he is awoken as soon as he enters REM giving him access to his subconsious.
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Yeah I have Troubles sometimes remembering my dreams X_x. I try to change the situation of bad dreams but it never works. Like yesterday, I had a dream my girlfriend Dump me, I did everything in my power to fix it but it didn't work :(


Also do you see dreams as some sort of warning? I sometimes believe this as I have been going through a rough patch with my girl
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What's this? The official pokebeach relationship topic is the other way. =O
I think dreams can hold meaning, but most don't so don't rely on it too badly.

Something else I noticed about some nightmares I had is that if you stick around long enough, things get 'better'. In the "And it was good" sense.
 
Huh, never heard of this. Nearly impossible for me and I don't have much use. The only dreams I like are the ones I remember anyway.

dmaster out.
 
Well my dreams generally involve something that happened the day before, but not a major event, something minuscule. Can I control my dreams? No, can I predict them? Somewhat.

One thing I can do is wake myself up during a dream. During a nightmare, generally before the climax (ie the scariest part) would occur, my character in the dream generally has my natural thoughts, I can say to myself "It's a dream, you should wake up now." And I open my eyes, simple as that, sometimes its in the morning, so I think it may be natural, but sometimes it is in the middle of the night when I wake up. So it all depends really. I'm not sure if anyone can really gain full control of their dreams, you should enjoy them though. I think to myself, if I were offered complete control, would I take it or not? I tend to be tested in my dreams, there is generally some sort of action I have to overcome, some fighting or a problem. So in a way I feel I'm tested in my dreams, I wouldn't want to take that away. Not to mention, my dreams really give me a lot of ideas for my Fan Fic, if I could control my dreams, I wouldn't have access to the new scenarios!
 
Moneyking63 said:
Well my dreams generally involve something that happened the day before, but not a major event, something minuscule. Can I control my dreams? No, can I predict them? Somewhat.

One thing I can do is wake myself up during a dream. During a nightmare, generally before the climax (ie the scariest part) would occur, my character in the dream generally has my natural thoughts, I can say to myself "It's a dream, you should wake up now." And I open my eyes, simple as that, sometimes its in the morning, so I think it may be natural, but sometimes it is in the middle of the night when I wake up. So it all depends really. I'm not sure if anyone can really gain full control of their dreams, you should enjoy them though. I think to myself, if I were offered complete control, would I take it or not? I tend to be tested in my dreams, there is generally some sort of action I have to overcome, some fighting or a problem. So in a way I feel I'm tested in my dreams, I wouldn't want to take that away. Not to mention, my dreams really give me a lot of ideas for my Fan Fic, if I could control my dreams, I wouldn't have access to the new scenarios!
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My dreams sometimes predict the future, not really as a dream but more like pictures. The next morning I don't know them anymore (I remember only a bit), but a few days later I can feel a 'deja-vu' coming (about a few seconds before the deja-vu). It's really weird, and since I know it's coming I totally concentrate me on my vision and a few seconds later I get to see the same pictuce as in my dreams.

Anyway mostly my dreams are predicting the future, but like 99% isn't true, I kinda make my dreams prefect, but ofcourse the next day that isn't going to happen, but anyway I had a nice dream :)
 
I cant really control my dreams but when I do have one I fell like I'm in it like I dreamt I was being chased by a crocodile (right around the time the crocodile hunter died) and it bit me and i felt it, it hurt! But it was so weird and that happens a lot. And another dream I was flying and i felt the wind on my face and and smelled the crisp air so that was kind of cool too :D
 
This morning I started a dream diary. I woke up at like 7(cause I had to pee) an I wrote the dream down right away. Then tonight I read the dream(which I could not remember at all) and it was the wierdest thing ever. I don't even remember it.
 
How ironic. I couldn't get to sleep all night yesterday. Looks like I'm going to have to use this if I don't want to become an insomniac. :/

dmaster out.
 
Sweet, I'm gonna try this too, once I had this dream where my foot had a bunch of gaping holes to nowhere on the sole, creepy, right, and this girl I used to like, I had a dream where she and my best friend won prom king and queen, and they had to kiss. But, my friend couldn't be there, so I was supposed to take his spot, but then he showed up right before we kissed, and kissed her instead... I was sad...
 
Pokequaza said:
Moneyking63 said:
Well my dreams generally involve something that happened the day before, but not a major event, something minuscule. Can I control my dreams? No, can I predict them? Somewhat.

One thing I can do is wake myself up during a dream. During a nightmare, generally before the climax (ie the scariest part) would occur, my character in the dream generally has my natural thoughts, I can say to myself "It's a dream, you should wake up now." And I open my eyes, simple as that, sometimes its in the morning, so I think it may be natural, but sometimes it is in the middle of the night when I wake up. So it all depends really. I'm not sure if anyone can really gain full control of their dreams, you should enjoy them though. I think to myself, if I were offered complete control, would I take it or not? I tend to be tested in my dreams, there is generally some sort of action I have to overcome, some fighting or a problem. So in a way I feel I'm tested in my dreams, I wouldn't want to take that away. Not to mention, my dreams really give me a lot of ideas for my Fan Fic, if I could control my dreams, I wouldn't have access to the new scenarios!
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My dreams sometimes predict the future, not really as a dream but more like pictures. The next morning I don't know them anymore (I remember only a bit), but a few days later I can feel a 'deja-vu' coming (about a few seconds before the deja-vu). It's really weird, and since I know it's coming I totally concentrate me on my vision and a few seconds later I get to see the same pictuce as in my dreams.

Anyway mostly my dreams are predicting the future, but like 99% isn't true, I kinda make my dreams prefect, but ofcourse the next day that isn't going to happen, but anyway I had a nice dream :)
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That happens to me, in a sense. I'll be going through day and it's almost as if I get a vision (I don't) but I get that deja-vous feeling, like I saw the exact placement of what happened in a dream. It's nothing big like predicting the score of a baseball team. But like seeing a biker ride down the sidewalk from where I'm standing, or hearing someone say something in a certain way. It's really hard to explain, but it's deja-vous. I can only imagine I had seen it before in a dream, I don't know where else it would come from. I know a lot of people don't experience that kind of stuff, so I'm thankful I do. It's really a unique feeling.
 
Moneyking63 said:
Pokequaza said:
My dreams sometimes predict the future, not really as a dream but more like pictures. The next morning I don't know them anymore (I remember only a bit), but a few days later I can feel a 'deja-vu' coming (about a few seconds before the deja-vu). It's really weird, and since I know it's coming I totally concentrate me on my vision and a few seconds later I get to see the same pictuce as in my dreams.

Anyway mostly my dreams are predicting the future, but like 99% isn't true, I kinda make my dreams prefect, but ofcourse the next day that isn't going to happen, but anyway I had a nice dream :)
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That happens to me, in a sense. I'll be going through day and it's almost as if I get a vision (I don't) but I get that deja-vous feeling, like I saw the exact placement of what happened in a dream. It's nothing big like predicting the score of a baseball team. But like seeing a biker ride down the sidewalk from where I'm standing, or hearing someone say something in a certain way. It's really hard to explain, but it's deja-vous. I can only imagine I had seen it before in a dream, I don't know where else it would come from. I know a lot of people don't experience that kind of stuff, so I'm thankful I do. It's really a unique feeling.
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Yes exactly, not very big happenings. But all the things going on are the same as in your dream (or at least were you remember them from), right? Somebody is saying a word you remember and at the same time you're sitting/standing in the same position, same happenings going on on the background etc.
 
pokedude101 said:
I cant really control my dreams but when I do have one I fell like I'm in it like I dreamt I was being chased by a crocodile (right around the time the crocodile hunter died) and it bit me and I felt it, it hurt!
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Can't say I have ever experienced pain in my dreams. (I am invincible in my dreams XD) What I did experience was a feeling of death. It's very hard to describe what that feeling is like besides being very creepy. It's not like I died, but more having the feeling of witnessing someone dying or being at a place where someone died (All in my dreams of course).
 
Noobnerd said:
The settings of my dreams are usually so weird that I can't control them.

Last night I dreamt that a Star Wars plane crashed into the back of some plane I was in, and for some reason the plane I was in didn't just blow up, and the plane behind just kept slamming into the cockpit in and out. I was just standing there witnessing the thing, unharmed. Was it possible to control it? And I somehow lost my DS during the crash, and I ended up being an American guy with pale skin and dark hair called Stuart on the run from some grandmas.

Weird dream to control.
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Wow, it seems NN's dreaming about me again. =P

Tried it and failed at it. =(
 
I've had a whole bunch of lucid dreams, and I have enough experience on them that I get control most of the time, or at least get desirable results. Like one of the previous posters said, Omega 3 is essential for manipulation. Ever since I've taken natural food supplements with Omega 3, my dreams have improved in clarity, now that I think of it. The dreams become so clear that you'd think that you really are conscious. Here are a few do's and don't of dreamland and nightmare kingdom:

Do
  • If you are experiencing a dream that you like, let it take over you; it will most likely lead to more good fragments of your current dream.
  • If you want to wake up, use fighting spirit! Wish your dream away, and say, "It's a dream and I want to wake up!" with all the air from your subconscious lungs and when you do get to that realization, you either wake up in spring-like motion, or if you don't, you can try to manipulate your dream from there. Once control is in effect, your dream won't last too long unless you somehow forget that it's a dream.
  • If you would like to determine whether you are in a dream or not, you can try looking for a light switch. When you find one, flick it. If the lighting within your surroundings doesn't change, you are most definitely dreaming. If the lighting changes however, flick it over and over again, until your brain can't adapt to the proper lighting.

Don't
  • When you're having a nightmare, beware; do not imagine a knife to slit your neck open, or jump off a cliff, or commit suicide of any kind, hoping to wake up at the point of death. It is proven that your brain will think that you are dead. Kids, don't try this at home. Not even your house in dreamland.
  • Don't try arguing with someone in a dream that you actually aren't dreaming; that person would just insist that you aren't dreaming, and you could hope for the worst if the dream goes on.
  • Don't always think in a dream, what you merely think of can happen, unless you think of something good. Just act. It's always better to have "alright" dreams than trying to venture into good dreams and do the opposite in the process.

Beware: If you think you've had your worst nightmare, think again. When you lack melatonin in your body (the peak of melatonin is early in the night, which gradually drops towards the morning starting 11PM, so it's best to sleep early), are suffering from extreme physical and/or mental stress, you are bound to encounter sleep paralysis. You will be in full consciousness and have all sorts of "nightmare entities" on top or around of you. The entities may vary, depending on your culture, knowledge, where you live, and were raised up. Like for example, the Japanese get girls with long black hair in white traditional dresses on top of them. I had shadow figures talking to me which made random chants, and they weren't in unison. Really creepy. You can't move, or talk; only think. Just as you try to scream with the sight of whatever you see, you feel as if you're shouting from the bottom of your lungs, yet you hear nothing and your lips do not move. You will feel helpless for at least a minute, until you eventually wake up, for real. Now, the scientific explanation for sleep paralysis is this: Once you sleep, your brain detaches itself from the rest of your body. Due to stress and other previously mentioned factors, your brain will be separated from the rest of your body, yet your eyes will remain open and keep you awake. Don't worry though, it's a once in a life time experience.[/adviceandanecdotes]
 
What kind? Well, at least you know someone who's also pretty much experienced the same thing. Mine was different though. I got into sleep paralysis for about a minute, lost consciousness, and wake up in sleep paralysis again, and I was like, "Not this again...". It was quite something to remember though.[/badmemories]
 
Omg, I thought I was weird by doing it. Al my friends said that you can't, whoo! Yeah I did the other day I was in a room and I wanted to be scared so I made loads of spiders in the room.
 
These stories wanne make me sleep again x3 in about 3 hours i can go to sleep :p. Let's have a nice dream then... But something I sometimes get is...uh.. (how do you call that).. when your muscles can't move properly, it hurts most of the time and I get it often too when I swim (I swim at a high level so... participating the Dutch championships of swimming), but anyway, you know when the muscles shrink and making (in my case) my leg hardly to move and painfull. (srry i don't know the translation of it ^^')

EDIT: I checked it, it's called 'cramp', looks a lot like Dutch translation, so it was kinda obvious... ._.
 
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