Can anyone who is good at having lucid dreams and you know can control them tell me what it's like? How does it feel?
You just sort of get the idea that you're dreaming. Sometimes what you think you want to happen next will occur even if it's just an idea. Of course you can do this on purpose, too. If you want to change the scene what I do is close my eyes (in the dream) and picture where I want to be. Usually it fades in. It takes a while to get the hang of it, but once you practice a lot you should be able to do it easily all the time. I'm lucid almost every night without even trying. It's fun! Taking vitamin B6 and B12 before bed also help to induce vivid, lucid dreams. The only problem I sometimes have is that after I realize I'm dreaming I start to feel my body and usually end up waking up. That sucks...
i tend to avoid this "lucid" label. to me its kind of not of any great real pertinence. my dreams, most of them, do take place in a pretty consistent alternative universe. one that even has a fairly stable geography. and one that doesn't too closely resemble the one i'm awaike in, though parallels and congruencies abound also. for me, my dreams feel just like being awaike, except in a universe where i don't feel pain and don't have to worry very much about anything. one in which there are a few things i can do, can't even often help doing, that of course don't happen in this one, like floating through air or teleporting. but i haven't yet come accross anything i can do in this universe that i absolutely can't at least some of the time do in my dream one. so to me, really, it's just like no different from being awaike, only it's like being awaike in a slightly different universe where some things work a little differently, but that's about all. one that's usually a little closer to how i tend to think things ought to be. although maybe that's kind of a chicken or the egg kind of thing too. as that feeling that carries over from the way experiencing is in them has a kind of feeling of 'rightness' when felt in this world too. =^^= .../\...
There are different strengths, and you shouldn't take it for an extended period of time because a lot of serotonin gets released in your brain or something and your emotions can get fucked up (it's a temporary situation; never happened to me and i take it quite a lot; always take breaks though). I take different amounts. It doesn't take a lot to work. Just take what they say on the back, or double it if you want.
That thought process you described right there, I've actually experienced in dreams quite frequently. There was one dream I recall, when a much older woman I had been speaking to online, who I thought was a male about my age, scared me by showing herself on webcam and telling me her wild sex fantasies of the pair of us. I blocked her, but she was obsessed with me. She somehow discovered where I lived and became intent on killing me. But somewhere, like a thought separate from the dream, I imagined possible ways I could stop her. Right as the woman was about to murder me in some sick way - the dream was very vague on visual details - I became able to summon up a large cyclone of raging water. But she was persistent. It didn't seem she could easily be deterred. I sent wave after wave of angry water energy in her direction, until she finally died. I know this relates very little to the thread, but could this be a form of lucid dreaming? I was always under the impression, it was different. Much different. But I'm certain, almost always I have dreams where I am semi-aware I control aspects of the dream.
That is lucid dreaming! Sometimes I'm completely aware and actually realize I'm dreaming. And other times I just know in the back of my head that this can't be real. Sort of subconsciously? Does that make sense? It's only after I start controlling it that I think, oh yeah, I guess this is a dream... Which I guess is similar to how you felt in your dream. People probably dream lucidly a lot without actually realizing it.
Yes, that does make sense. Thank you. But I honestly thought lucid dreaming entailed so much more. I always imagined the spirit being able to leave the body and travel to distant destinations. Or even some sort of levitation of the body happening while the lucid dreamer was pre-occupied. Unless, my definition is confused with something else entirely?
No, you're right. There's many different ways to lucid dream. I don't know if I've traveled to different universes. But then again, what are dreams? Are they just figments of our imagination or are we traveling in a different world? I don't know. As far as being able to leave your body, I think that's possible too. Some people have achieved astral projection through dreams. Most of my dreams are pretty normal and don't involve spiritual enlightenment. But I'm sure one can achieve that, I just haven't yet.
