Lucid Dreaming

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.

yup had the weird chasing shit ones a fair few times and beaten the fuck out of a lot of late paying clients

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.

you should try, it the best movie like ones are only semi controlled sometimes mixing more than one plot together. as for women...dude you gotta get on that one.(the trick there is not to wake up in a wet bed!)

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!yup been there, was pretty fucked up in my late teens and early twenties and had a lot of nasty ones around that time, ie the falling bastard and more than a few fights that went real bad also people i love dying, they were the worst watching shit happen but being paralised and unable to stop it.

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.

yup depending on my mood i can decide or not to dream and usually have a good attempt at what i will "awake" into
 


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?

yup when my life was fucked up i could never escape eg my flying could only reach about 10 feet off the ground, frustrating as fuck.
 
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.

do you get many like that?

@deliguy, same same but different mate, until this thread had no idea really that everyone didnt dream like i do
 
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.

No, I always feel fine. To note something Soupy bought up though, I suffer with sleep paralysis as well, although in my case it's always as I'm just nodding off and will be accompanied with a rushing sound (like when you close your eyes really tight) and the feeling of being thrown around and/or violent shaking.

I can then open my eyes, often in terror and I'm unable to move for a while. Sometimes I enjoy it, sometimes I hate it.

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

I've never not dreamt in colour and didn't realise there was another way of dreaming... I have experienced most senses in my dreams, because I often smoke and eat.

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

I experience nothing. I either chose to wake up, or the dream changes. If neither of those happens and I hit the floor, the dream kind of continues like nothing has happened. Remember, in most cases I've thrown myself off something (normally very high) for fun because I'm aware I'm dreaming. I also suffer with vertigo so it's like confronting a fear, which I can enjoy in my dreams.

EDIT: I was set on fire once and that was unpleasant, but the feeling quickly went and I woke up.

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

Alot of detail. Conversations, people, locations...

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

No, although I have had dreams affect me in real life. In that I fell in love in a dream and really like the person in real life for a long period of time afterwards. My ex-girlfriend was actually asked out on the back of 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?

See what I said about shaking above. Although in fairness, I don't "transition". I get in to bed, I go to sleep, I'm dreaming. I don't have various types of dream that I can really differentiate between. It's all one and the same. Dreaming is very rarely uncontrolled (although I always know I'm dreaming) and that's not consciously done, it just is the way it is.

That's the best way to put it, I don't try to sleep in a certain way, I go to sleep and controlling my dream is an accepted by product of the fact I'm dreaming and the fact I'm aware I'm dreaming.

Sometimes, if i become too aware or too controlling though, I do wake up. Although I can wake myself on command and can sometimes go back into the same dream where I left off.

You ARE God

I almost regret my username at times because rather than being the ironic name I hoped it was it seems I'm often trying to sound arrogant! I'm not. :)
 
I was a big fan and still am but not like I used to. What inspired me was Vanilla Sky. Have had several lucid dreams and a dream journal was what helped me :)
 
I was killed in one of my dreams - extremely realistic down to the person that did it (a "friend" who I never really trusted), and the way it was done. Freaked me the fuck out - woke up in a panic, heart racing, sweating etc. Most realistic dream ever, but I always heard if you die in a dream you die in real life, so thankfully that's not true.
 
I was killed in one of my dreams - extremely realistic down to the person that did it (a "friend" who I never really trusted), and the way it was done. Freaked me the fuck out - woke up in a panic, heart racing, sweating etc. Most realistic dream ever, but I always heard if you die in a dream you die in real life, so thankfully that's not true.

No -- if you die in the matrix then you die in real life.
If you die in your dreams you're just clinically insane--you know --in a manner of speaking. But hey you're in good company!
 
I lucid dream a lot, but I also have sleep paralysis a lot... which sucks.

I was killed in one of my dreams - extremely realistic down to the person that did it (a "friend" who I never really trusted), and the way it was done. Freaked me the fuck out - woke up in a panic, heart racing, sweating etc.
I remember dying in a really realistic dream and then being offered to 'reload' to an older part of the dream. But before I could give an answer I woke up in a similar panic.
 
I dreamt me and a friend were parked in his car, a guy came at the window and began harassing us, I felt the fight or flight reaction. A machete was in my hand, I got out of the car-basically jumped over the hood and with 1 swing severed the attackers head. The head rolled on the pave and I picked it up, holding it like a mortal kombat finishing move, then I woke up.

I was reading '[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Men-Tell-Tales-Anthropologist/dp/0385479689"]Amazon.com: Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist (9780385479684): William R. Maples, Michael Browning: Books[/ame]' at the time, pretty sure it had something to do with it.

Side note: My first sex dream was with little mermaid, don't remember all the details but I was VERY excited when I got up- Lol.
 
I lucid dream a lot, but I also have sleep paralysis a lot... which sucks.

I had this problem 5 years ago, which lasted for about one year.
ie. In one of my dreams, I would open my eyes, couldn't move, looking at the ceiling and seeing the shadow figures in the corner of my eye approaching to my bed whispering words I couldn't understand. As they got more closer and closer, their whispers would "sound" louder and louder. I would try to scream, but never could. When I finally woke up, my pulse would be at least 150. It was a terrifying experience each time I had it and it occurred every couple of days or so.
 
If I understand correctly "sleep paralysis" is normal and happens every time you go to sleep. Without it you would constantly be waking yourself up. You are not normally aware of it because . . . . you are asleep. When awaking from a lucid dream it is not uncommon for me to be immobile for several seconds.
 
Side note: My first sex dream was with little mermaid, don't remember all the details but I was VERY excited when I got up- Lol.

I've never had a "wet dream", but I did use to have a ridiculously intense crush on Disney's graphic rendering of Pocahontas.

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I rarely have lucid dreams, but when I do it feels creepy when I wake up from them.

Last night (or this morning) I had a dream I was flying over an Irish castle, although I wasn't in Ireland. Flying dreams mean you're soaring or something. If so, yay!

I constantly have dreams that are set away from home. Either I'm on a journey or trying to get home. It's funny because when I dream about places I know, they never look as they really do in my dreams.

I always dream in color. Anybody dream in black and white?
 
I've only been able to lucid dream about 4 of the times I've tried it but it's pretty intense. My most recent one was I couldn't quite fly in, I would jump and get to about 25ft off the ground and just flap my arms and stay there for a few seconds, then slowly drift down. I remember trying to get something off the roof.
 
I've only been able to lucid dream about 4 of the times I've tried it but it's pretty intense. My most recent one was I couldn't quite fly in, I would jump and get to about 25ft off the ground and just flap my arms and stay there for a few seconds, then slowly drift down. I remember trying to get something off the roof.

I JUST had one where I flew. I flapped as well. I was over Area 51.

That is all.