Lucid Dreaming

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SUP3RNOVA

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Okay okay so Inception got the best of me, and got me back into reading about lucid dreaming.

It's interesting because I was really fascinated by it a few years ago and tried keeping a dream journal and focused on becoming aware I'm dreaming. It actually did work...I was able to recall dreams in detail every night after having them at a bare minimum, and I was able to go lucid twice. Once lasted about 10 seconds before I woke up, and the other lasted a couple minutes. I eventually stopped because I didn't feel like logging all my dreams or spending all the time on trying to keep aware.

The way I came aware was through looking at clocks. In reality I'd check a clock, look away, check back and make sure the time was the same...did this all throughout the day (got kind of annoying). In both lucid dreams I looked at the clock, looked back, and the time was fast forwarded to a random time.

Anybody else ever experiment with this? Pretty cool stuff.
 


Huge fan of lucid dreaming and have had a dozen or so. My latest one (about 3 weeks ago) was the longest and most intense. My reality check was just me realizing the situation I was in was impossible, and proceeded to jump off the building. Then shit got crazy. This was also my first time flying... absolutely awesome.

I definitely recommend lucid dreaming... it ain't easy but you can improve your chances by simply wanting to have a lucid dream.
 
rotwyla98 said:
Huge fan of lucid dreaming and have had a dozen or so. My latest one (about 3 weeks ago) was the longest and most intense. My reality check was just me realizing the situation I was in was impossible, and proceeded to jump off the building. Then shit got crazy. This was also my first time flying... absolutely awesome.

I definitely recommend lucid dreaming... it ain't easy but you can improve your chances by simply wanting to have a lucid dream.
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I've actually flown before while lucid dreaming that was the best shit ever. It's only happened once, the closest I've gotten since is this weird low gravity jump, where I could jump and stay in the air for a good 5 seconds.
 
i had one where i could jump like 500 feet in the air, it actually felt like i was doing it... was nuts
 
i always get the ones which feels like 20 white whimmin r sucking my cock while im in the air :)
 
Falian said:
the closest I've gotten since is this weird low gravity jump, where I could jump and stay in the air for a good 5 seconds.
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That's weird, I've been having this exact same thing happen. It felt like the harder I concentrated, the longer I could stay hovering just above the ground.
 
gimmedat said:
That's weird, I've been having this exact same thing happen. It felt like the harder I concentrated, the longer I could stay hovering just above the ground.
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Yea, i've had that exact experience like twice in the past few years. I could live in that dream and be content for a longgg time.
 
I'm a lucid dreamer. When I was younger I couldn't control when it ended except during night terrors. Now I can control everything and choose when I want to leave. One thing I always do is stretch the laws of physics when I run. I jump and land over superhuman distances.

I honestly couldn't imagine what a dream is like if I couldn't remember it or control it... Also, I DO NOT dream in black and white.

Side note: When I was a child I used to hurry off to bed just to dream. Imagine that, a kid who wanted to go to bed.
 
Yeah after watching Inception I also started researching lucid dreaming again.

Unfortunately I'm a lazy fuck.
 
Yeah I want to try it again. Anyone ever try something like this to induce lucid dreams:
The Lucid Dream Machine

it looks dorky as hell, but if you're sleeping alone it might be worth a try.
I think it's really cool that it's not possible to read during dreams. So if you ever aren't sure if you're dreaming, just try to read something.
 
Soupyone said:
I honestly couldn't imagine what a dream is like if I couldn't remember it or control it... Also, I DO NOT dream in black and white.
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exact same here, been lucid dreaming all my life without ever trying to.
dream like that probably 2-3 times a week, always in colour, always super real, feelings, sensations sights sounds etc. tend to become aware at random times into the dream then just have to choose where i want it to go. Havent had a flying dream in years though but i can still remember the exact feeling if i concentrate. may have to try that again soon as it was fun.
the absolute best ones are a bit weird though as hours after waking up i'm still sort of in the dream, its hard to explain but i know it was a dream but the line between awake and asleep is so thin on those mornings that reality is a bit surreal lol

only had one really bad one where i fell off a building, didnt hit the ground as i woke myself up but i can vividly remember the sheer terror of the fall and felt freaked out for a few days

edit: just re read the thread and what i wrote sounds arrogant or something. how do you guys that have tried lucid dreaming normally dream? just struck me i take it totally for granted that i can control most of my dreams.
do your normal dream just happen with no direction or what??? totally weirded out by that thought
 
heres another one. if i've got a tricky problem i'm working on and cant get a solution i will think about it before sleeping and occasionally dream about it, sometimes i get some brilliant answers and ideas. bloody brilliant when it works although most of the time the solution seems great at first then i realize its crackpot and wont work but at least it works somtimes
 
Same as Soupyone on the child nightmares. Got to the point where I could view the events as a spectator instead of being toe to toe with the monsters.

Questions for those that have lucid dreams.

Do your dream effects carry over to the following day? Like if you spent a night running through the jungle do you wake up exhausted? Unlimited energy in the dream but sometimes the next day I physically feel like it really happened.

Do you dream in color? How about olfactory senses, and do you remember what you smelled?

If you fall off of a cliff or such what exactly do you experience on impact?

Recall afterwards, fuzzy or do you remember a lot of detail?

Years later do you ever find yourself remembering an event and second guessing for a moment whether it was real or a dream?

How do you transition into the lucid part? By this I mean what do you feel when it happens not how you do it. Is it a smooth slide into the experience or something much more . . . err dramatic?
 
My most clear lucid dream...

Wasn't in high school at the time, but in the dream I was. I was sitting in home room and I looked up at the clock. Looked away, and then looked back again...the time went from around 7am to 5pm. That's when I just kind of "snapped" into the dream. I got really excited at how real it felt and remembered reading that getting excited can wake you up (my first lucid dream was only about 10 seconds because once I realized I was dreaming, I got excited and woke up), and remembered that dream spinning should solve that.

So I ran out into the hallway and just started spinning and closed my eyes. When I opened them I was up in my room...everything was really "gray"...maybe it was black and white I can't remember. I looked out my window and thought "well, I should be able to fly"...jumped out and started flying...felt AMAZING. I was soaring over my block when I saw a boat parked in someones lawn. I started to fly down to it and saw that I could walk into it, but it looked like a dark doorway and I didn't know where it led. Eventually I was almost attracted to the black space, felt myself slipping away, and when I was sucked into the space I woke up.
 
For like a week I was fucking around with L Dopa... had some of the craziest dreams of my life in that week. If you're really into lucid dreaming, take a few of those things before bed. lol
 
saltcube dvd (dl via torrent) + ZMA supplement = Awesome lucid dreams
 
Uptime said:
Same as Soupyone on the child nightmares. Got to the point where I could view the events as a spectator instead of being toe to toe with the monsters.

Questions for those that have lucid dreams.

Do your dream effects carry over to the following day? Like if you spent a night running through the jungle do you wake up exhausted? Unlimited energy in the dream but sometimes the next day I physically feel like it really happened.sometimes, yes, tend not to run around in them too much anymore, more like stroll around places i've been and liked or places i want to go but not been (thats a lot harder though). after a good one the next day can be a bit spacy

Do you dream in color? How about olfactory senses, and do you remember what you smelled? always colour, smell occasionally but not so i'd notice most of the time

If you fall off of a cliff or such what exactly do you experience on impact? as said above never landed but the fall is fucking terrifying though

Recall afterwards, fuzzy or do you remember a lot of detail?recall everything perfectly

Years later do you ever find yourself remembering an event and second guessing for a moment whether it was real or a dream? usually not an issue but i can remember some dreams from 20 yrs ago

How do you transition into the lucid part? By this I mean what do you feel when it happens not how you do it. Is it a smooth slide into the experience or something much more . . . err dramatic?
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its weird but i just kind of realise its a dream and think cool where to now or what do i want to do and who do i want in the dream.

flying really is awesome, got really into it in my student days and after about 6 months flying most nights kind of just stopped doing it. couple of really cool things to do if you can fly in your dreams.

1 go really high and i mean really high, that gets scary
2 when that high dive straight down really fast, thats fucking scary but cool as you get awesome ground rush
3 flying out in the country rocks
4 and probably the coolest is real fast at street level through a city.

weird bit is i always had to take a couple of steps and a jump to start a flight, could never just zoom off

qu's for those that dont lucid dream
do you dream in colour? do you remember all, some or none of your dreams, can you control your dreams at all? have you never flown in a dream?

all very weird as i totally take it for granted
 
another crazy phenomenon to look at are SYNCHRONICITIES

I have zero explanations for these kind of things but i do experience them often.


Here are a few examples:
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The French writer Émile Deschamps claims in his memoirs that in 1805, he was treated to some plum pudding by a stranger named Monsieur de Fontgibu. Ten years later, the writer encountered plum pudding on the menu of a Paris restaurant and wanted to order some, but the waiter told him that the last dish had already been served to another customer, who turned out to be de Fontgibu. Many years later, in 1832, Deschamps was at a dinner and once again ordered plum pudding. He recalled the earlier incident and told his friends that only de Fontgibu was missing to make the setting complete—and in the same instant, the now senile de Fontgibu entered the room.[10]
In his book Synchronicity (1952), Jung tells the following story as an example of a synchronistic event: "A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned round and saw a flying insect knocking against the window-pane from the outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab one finds in our latitudes, a scarabaeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (Cetonia aurata), which, contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt the urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment. I must admit that nothing like it ever happened to me before or since." [11]
The wardrobe department for The Wizard of Oz unknowingly purchased a coat for character Professor Marvel from a second-hand store, which was later verified to have originally been owned by L. Frank Baum, the author of the novel on which the film was based.[12]
The comic strip character Dennis The Menace featuring a young boy in a red and black striped shirt debuted on March 12, 1951 in 16 newspapers in the United States. Three days later in the UK a character called Dennis The Menace, wearing a red and black striped jumper made his debut in children's comic The Beano. Both creators have denied any causal connection.
Fourteen years prior to the sinking of the Titanic, the writer Morgan Robertson wrote the novel Futility, the central event of which is the sinking by a collision with an iceberg of the transatlantic Titan, described in the novel as allegedly unsinkable. Some of the circumstances in the novel match the actual disaster to an uncanny degree, including the number of passengers, the insufficient number of lifeboats, the name and size of the ship, the exact site of the incident, and the speed of the ship at the time of the collision. The correspondences have been noticed and the novel republished in the year following the actual disaster under the name The Wreck of the Titan.[13]
Jung wrote, after describing some examples, "When coincidences pile up in this way, one cannot help being impressed by them—for the greater the number of terms in such a series, or the more unusual its character, the more improbable it becomes."
 
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