I've always wanted to talk about the way I dream, just people who don't experience them just don't care...
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Lucid Dreaming
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likewise.
i still dont understand at all, not even slightly how other people dream who arent lucid.
tbh this thread is fucking with my head now.
does this mean that most people dont end up doing weird shit in their dreams like having jamaicans stealing their cars :rasta:
fuck man i've worked full days in my sleep (always happens in a new job and its usually when i know i've cracked it) been in films, video games, travelled the world and fucked some of the best looking women in the world sometimes all at once :action-smiley-052:
I've never done anything romantic in my dreams, I usually have some goal in mind that I'm struggling towards. Except the goal doesn't make sense in reality, like chasing down a train on a winding cliff by hopping leaps and bounds until I catch up or breaking someone's leg just because they back-talked me.
My dreams are never even close to reality when it comes to what I can do, honestly... I like my dreams better than reality sometimes. But, no movie stardom, or orgies for me... In my dreams that is.
I used to have lucid night terrors. FUCK ME ROTTEN. No little nightmares about monsters, I would wake up scared of my own bedroom. Try that on for size!
I can also decide when I'm going to have a lucid dream before I force myself asleep, but I don't do this often because it's cognitively taxing. In my dreams time progresses much differently than in reality. Twenty minutes in reality may have been a whole day in my dream state.
I always have a problem when I'm running away from someone or something in my dreams. For some reason I can't run very fast at all. It's like I'm being weighed down.
Does anyone else experience not being able to run very fast?
Does anyone else experience not being able to run very fast?
It used to happen to me when I was going through my first business failure (2008) and felt bogged down in real life. I didn't feel heavy, it was like I wanted to move quickly and I was able to get myself move... Just not quickly.
A little humor, I once had a dream (during that business failure time period) that I was in Chicago and had to get from the Northside to the Southside and couldn't afford a cab (maybe 20 bucks). I was actually ashamed and embarrassed to take the bus in MY DREAM!
I'll never forget that feeling when I woke up. BTW, I ended up losing my car and having to take the bus! (in reality) LMAO
When I was a kid about 12-13 years old I could do that shit. I think that was the last time. I've spent the last 21-22 years of my life stressed out, which isn't conducive to lucid dreaming.
As a lifetime lucid dreamer I no longer find "crazy" dreams as odd as I do ones with subtle nuances. The best way I can describe it is to ask a car enthusiast their favorite car (which I am... Favorite car: Lamborghini Muira), a layman might say that their favorite is some rich exotic like a Murcielago or Bugatti while the enthusiast might favor something that's known for it's small, distinguishing quirk (like the Muira for being the first to usher in Lamborghini's age of mid-engine prowess). That being said, and for the sake of brevity, the dream that stuck me as oddest mightn't (yeah, I said it) seem that odd to the average person:
The oddest dream I ever had was I was sitting in on the World Economic Forum and Bono (the U2 front-man) had the stage while he discussed global habitation issues.
I remember being in the room thinking, "Why the fuck am I here or do I care about this?". Then I pulled myself out of it and realized what happened. I fell asleep with the Internet radio on (as I did every night) and he was talking about it on some Fox News update or something.
I now go to bed playing a documentary EVERY night. I DO NOT SLEEP without something on so I can experience it or learn from it.
The oddest dream I ever had was I was sitting in on the World Economic Forum and Bono (the U2 front-man) had the stage while he discussed global habitation issues.
I remember being in the room thinking, "Why the fuck am I here or do I care about this?". Then I pulled myself out of it and realized what happened. I fell asleep with the Internet radio on (as I did every night) and he was talking about it on some Fox News update or something.
I now go to bed playing a documentary EVERY night. I DO NOT SLEEP without something on so I can experience it or learn from it.
Are there any detriments to lucid dreaming? I took a casual interest in it a while back but I read that too much lucid dreaming deprives the body of which ever part of the sleep cycle that is responsible for feeling rested and refreshed in the morning if you do it too often.
I dunno about other people, but I remember one vivid dream I had (NOT lucid at all) where it's literally kind of like a 3rd party looking on, and it randomly shifts into 1st person. I can't control it, but most of the shit I can "SOMEWHAT INFLUENCE" (think sub-conscience) my decisions (Ex: "fucking do it dude!") but it doesn't mean I'll follow them (using the term I loosely because it's me, but it's not me since I can't make my own decisions).
Dunno if this helps, but yeah.
wow until reading this thread I had no idea i was a crappy dreamer.
so when you guys dream its realistic n shit and you can do cool things? Thats awesome!
I rarely dream but when i do its more cartoonish and unrealistic. Pretty broken up, more along the lines of just active thoughts. I just always figured the movies were exaggerating.
so when you guys dream its realistic n shit and you can do cool things? Thats awesome!
I rarely dream but when i do its more cartoonish and unrealistic. Pretty broken up, more along the lines of just active thoughts. I just always figured the movies were exaggerating.
It's not always like that. When I used to live at my previous apartment, in the mornings around the time that I would normally wake up in the morning (around the time my alarm would go off) I would get these very real dreams just like I was walking downstairs from my apartment and walking to my car to go to work as normal, every step I took, looking around at what's going on etc.. just like usual, and really believed in my mind and even felt that it was real and I was on my way to work but, then all of a sudden I would realize I was really still sleeping, it was very tripped out.
Sometimes, while I was dreaming like that I would feel like wanting to really wake up or move to end it but, it was like I was paralyzed and couldn't do anything except to just lay there in my thoughts/dreams. I used to have these very sick feelings while I was dreaming this way, felt really fucked up.
If I'm able to realize I'm dreaming then I can do whatever I want; fly around, pick up cars, etc.
For the guys who were talking about "flying dreams"...I've had them to and they're totally awesome. I did some research on dream analysis and found the consensus to be flying usually signifies your sense of power and flying high in life.
As a reformed pothead: I've had most of my lucid dreams either when I first started smoking weed (years ago) and when I quit (1 year ago). Apparently smoking tobacco gets in the way of lucid dreaming for anyone looking to experience more of that type of dreaming.
As a reformed pothead: I've had most of my lucid dreams either when I first started smoking weed (years ago) and when I quit (1 year ago). Apparently smoking tobacco gets in the way of lucid dreaming for anyone looking to experience more of that type of dreaming.
I think I've always been a lucid dreamer based on what I've read here. I do dream in color too. Never looked it before. Interesting.
Snap. I always remember my dreams and I always know I'm dreaming. I almost always control them and do what I want as well. I fly at will, throw myself off buildings, fuck anything that moves, breathe underwater...
I didn't even know people dream in Black and White?
It's funny, it wasn't until a year or so ago when I was telling a friend about the night terrors I had as a child, that I realised it wasn't normal to control your dreams, know you're dreaming and remember them all.
