How many of you can/have been able to lucid dream?

It is a hobby I picked up a few summers ago, and It is absolutely my favorite thing to do in the whole world. I have always loved dreaming, and this just makes it all the better.

I had to stop, unfortunately, because it was becoming very hard for me to mentally separate what really happened, and what I dreamt.

Anyone else have a similar situation? Can you do it at all?

just discussion on it, I've never had a discussion about it before because no one in real life can relate, at least not anyone that I know.

One thing that still amazes me is how real everything felt.

I may pick it back up again, I do miss it =[

 

I can but I can't tell when it will occur.
It generally ends up with me having to wake myself because I end up losing control of certain aspects of the experience.

 

In sixth grade I was able to feel up the hottest girl at my school for what felt like an hour in my best dream ever, I would like slightly wake up and somehow was able to snooze off and go right back into it. It wasn't wet but I don't know if my dick will ever be that hard again.

 

Bwahaha I'm glad you've had such a...fulfilling dream =P

Lucid dreaming is fun like that...
I remember my first time doing it I went and blew some guy.

Just something to do, I guess =D

 

I did it a lot about 15 years ago. Unfortunately it always made me wake up tired the next day from not getting enough real sleep. I still do it occasionally, like one time last week. Seems to usually be about getting laid.

 

Once, I had a dream that I was living in my Dad's haunted house and there was a little ghost boy running around with a gun shooting people. I was running around trying to avoid him and I noticed some kittens that had been born under the porch. One of them got sick and started to vomit green mixed with blood. I knew it was the evil forces in the house doing it. At that point, I said fuck this, and went to find the little boy. My reasoning was "This is a dream. If he shoots me, I'll wake up." I found him. He shot me. Game over. I sat up in bed and was disturbed for the rest of the night. I can handle anything but animals being hurt, so I guess that was the signal for me to say enough is enough, I want out.
That's the closest I have ever come. I used to try for it, but I was never able to just fall asleep and do it.

 

I can only say that I've been able to enhance or make my lucid dreaming more consistent by taking B6. It's a vitamin in the B complex of vitamins. Studies have shown that taking B6 helps one to have lucid dreams, and conversely, they have also shown that one of the signs of not having enough B6 intake is the inability to remember one's dreams.

Lucid dreaming, otherwise, is a hit or miss proposition for me, and mostly happens only if I've had PLENTY of sleep, or go back to sleep in the morning when I awake. It seems that the basic sleep requirements need to be addressed before the subconscious will engage in lucid dreaming.

Check out this google search on "lucid dreaming and B6", if you don't believe me: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=lucid+dreaming+and+B6&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=VEE02fthf5k

 

When you where shot, could you feel it?

 

Ever since I was young, I have always been able to recall my dreams vividly, and several a night. I am very glad I can, too..it has helped A LOT with the process. (one of the main reasons is I can recognize the signs of being in a dream much easier)

I have also found that it is easiest when I wake up and go back to sleep. I used to set an alarm around 2 A.M, and get up for about 30 minutes and go back to bed, and almost instantly fall into a Lucid dream.


So anyway, what foods is vitamin B6 in? Because I figure I must be getting it enough already.

 

Yes. There is plenty of cautionary advice about not using too high a dose of B6, due to side effects and potential for neurological damage. Read thoroughly the links google recommends before trying B6.

Foods? One link says the following: "I don’t want suppliments, what foods have B6? Bananas, oranges, fish, liver, beans, nuts, eggs, chicken, carrots, spinach, and other healthy foods like that."

Most of the links offer alternatives to going the supplement route. The following link I found helpful:

http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream

 

Nope. It was like pushing a button. I decided it was going to wake me up, so as soon as the bullet hit me, I sat up and I was awake.
Wish I could always do that, heh.

 

I see. I do things like that in dreams, make things happen. It is usually how I test whether I am really in a dream or not..I remember my first,
I noticed I was in a dream (As I often did) But I convinced myself to do something about it. So I made a woman appear, and I asked her my middle name. This was a test...She said 'Marie'. Marie is what I wanted her to say..What I made her say...Marie is not my middle name. So that is what told me I was in a dream, and that clicked that I could now control things.

 

FUCKIN AWESOME


Alot of times I'll have very complex dreams. A couple of years ago I had a dream that I had been talking to my mom on the phone and the conversation was about my lost microbiology book and what I was going to do about it. I mean, those bastards are like a hundred bucks. Then when I woke up I was lying there worrying about it. Then I realized "Wait a sec, . . . It's Friday morning. I went to Microbiology yesterday. I had my book with me cuz I studied with the other kids in the lounge before class. I didn't talk to mom last night. FUCK THAT WAS A DREAM!!!!" I jumped out of bed, ripped open my backpack and there was the fucking book.

Now, I would love for someone to explain that shit to me.

Last night, or this morning I dreamt that I was traveling and this prick tricked me into picking up this little girl that he was supposed to babysit. Well, I was traveling, and I had been drinking earlier in the day (cause when on vacation we drink all day long, right?), and I didn't want to get this kid, but I felt obligated to pick up the little girl. Plus I was going to get paid $15/hr. So I went and got the little girl, a cute little black caribbean islander girl named Elona, about 5 years old. She had these cute little french braids (I guess that's what you call them, I'm a guy. I just thought they were cute.) And her mom gave me all these crazy instructions, made my head spin. Then I lost the kid at an arcade while I was playing a virtual reality game, you know with the mask on. Spent the rest of the dream trying to find the kid in this really weird place. I woke up before I found her. Woke up thinking WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT!?!?

I think when I have these really complex dreams I am half awake, and I think I always have them right before waking and they suck because they are always dreams about bad shit (Losing a $100 book, losing a 5 year old girl, being on a bus where the driver is driving stupid crazy, falling off mountains, etc.) Usually have these dreams when I had been drinking the night before also. That seems to fuel them.

The bus and the mountains dreams were other dreams that I had, but I've said enough already.

Why can't I have normal dreams, you know me with 6 naked 19 year old girls on a private island in the caribbean with a beautiful beach and a whole lot of pot and alcohol.

 

Most of the lucid dreams I have are also about sex. And always so very detailed. And in places I would never consider in real life. On the back of a moving hay wagon, a strangers house, a crowded beach, you get the picture. But It was awesome because I only got what I wanted out of the encounters, and I didn't have to do anything... obligatory.. teehee.. It was very satisfying. And as it was mentioned above, I woke up sometimes too, and was able to drift back to sleep and back into the awesome dream!

 

I think when I have these really complex dreams I am half awake, and I think I always have them right before waking and they suck because they are always dreams about bad shit (Losing a $100 book, losing a 5 year old girl, being on a bus where the driver is driving stupid crazy, falling off mountains, etc.) Usually have these dreams when I had been drinking the night before also. That seems to fuel them. (originaly posted by fawkes)

i think the important part of the imagery is the losing, falling, driving stupid crazy, et cetera. as to what it means, only you can know for sure, but im guessing some part of you is telling yourself that getting really drunk is a bad idea or somthing.

like i said, this is only a guess. but, i hope it helps

 

When I was younger I was plagued with horrifying nightmares that forced me into a childhood of insomnia.

wow that sounded dramatic . Anyways, I developed a system to get me out of those dreams. Once I realized I was dreaming, I would just fall flat on my face. It's like a test to see if it's a dream or not. If I am dreaming, I will fall on my face, and then wake up. Kind of like I'm falling out of the dream, or into reality.

Because in reality I can't physically fall forward. It's just something my body doesn't let me do. I can't even dive head first, I always stop myself. It's only in my dreams.......

 

This could well be part of it. But the other day when I had the dream of losing the little girl, I had been drinking the night before, but not a whole hell of a lot.

 

WHOA, cool. I don't know if I can control my dreams like that. I do think that I sometimes am only half asleep, so maybe. Haven't had weird dream in several nights, but I'll try to remember to do this next time.

How am I, who is chronically forgetful, going to remember to do something, in a dream? LOL

 

it's just something that comes natural to me.. i can feel textures, smell things, taste foods, feel water.. all sorts of things while dreaming.. and i usually know that i am dreaming because i can make myself fly or stop a dream from going bad..

i was eating a giant nugget filled candy while chillin' on the grass outside of a weird walmart last night in my dream.. yummy!

 

It was a necessity for me, which is why I developed the ability, methinks. Mind you, this only occurs in nightmares.

Also, I feel pain in my dreams. If someone is pinching me or hitting me, I feel it, and I wake up sore the next morning.

ah, what a brain-fuck.