Lucid Dreaming

I couldn't find this close to the front page so I put It here for peoples experiences on it. A lucid dream, I'm sure most already know about is a dream when you know it's a dream and edit it to your preference. It only happened to me one time and all I did was make the rain stand still. state your experiences with it. what did you do? how did it feel? how were you when you woke up?

 

I had it only happen to me once as well... as soon as I entered the dream I was excited and started jumping up and down... I walk over to this wall and put my left hand near my face and decided to spawn something random and ended up with a staff or walking stick of some-sort, then I felt this eerie feeling and looked at my surroundings and noticed a bunch of people staring at me and I was jolted awake... was pissed as hell lol

 

Yes! iv been waiting for the day for this to happen to me again. For me it has also only happened once and all i did was ran around and enjoyed what my mind had to offer.

 

No, i haven't but i'm actually in the process of learning how to at the moment, im doing reality checks everyday, i have been writing down my dreams again for the past few days and i hope i become lucid very soon

 

I actively lucid dream. I believe inception is about lucid dreaming to some extent. You know how Leo da caprio has that totemn? And when he spins it in the dream world it never falls? So in real life a lucid dreamer sets up a similar system. Draw a symbol on your hand or something, and during the day when things get weird, you make a habit of looking at your hand to check that symbol, so when things get weird in a dream, you automatically check your hand. In the dream world, that symbol will be altered, it'll either disappear, change, or just be different in some way

There are also some other tricks, if you look at a watch, then look a second time, it will never be the same in a dream. And a big no no for some reason is the mirror. I've never seen a mirror in a dream, but it is suppose to be terrifying.


Anyways yes, I've been lucid dreamingly actively for just shy of a month, I write down all of my dreams in the morning and I remember more and more dreams every night. I've diagnosed that we are insane! Hahaha the weird thing tho, is LSD trips seem to have a correlation with dreaming, that world is not entirely fictional... Tho the dream world can be altered to your desires with enough practice...

 

I've been trying to learn to lucid dream for awhile, been writing in my dream journal mostly. though the whole checking your hand thing I don't get how that would work, considering when I remember a dream I never re call seeing my body parts ever lol

I could see lsd being connected with it because of how you control what you see on acid as well.
I think doing dmt would be a big boost in your dreams

 

ive had this happen to me quite abit. ill be in a dream and suddenly realize that i, dreaming, so i find the hottest bitch in my dream and do what i please with em.

 

Whoa i feel this happens to me a lot. I did not know there was a name for it. Everytime i dream... i
feel as if its real so of course i choose my choices..
It feels real to me. I did not know there was a name for it. I thought it was normal. Now i feel crazy.

 

Well i do not know to much about lucid dreaming. I do however, know a lot about astral projection (Which is sometimes referred to as lucid dreaming) i been able to astral project myself for about a year or so now through deep meditation. This deep meditation i do about two hours a day everyday and it allows me to really look deep into my mind and my reality and allows me to face the hectic day to day activities i have to deal with. I feel that some people who lucid dream or astral project try to control the dream or projection to much. I tend to let my subconscious mind go nuts and allow it to manifest my projection. I do however realize that i can see the same people that i never met and other people who are astral projecting themselves at the same time.

 

Now the hand symbol thing is a very very important method. I didn't think much of it at first, but then I started to loose touch of reality, it is a good gate keeper for your mind. Remember in inception when mull thought life was just a dream level, so she tried to kill her self to get back to true reality? It's much like that, you can't tell if your on the surface of reality or in a dream, and it's terrible!

My first full on lucid dream was extremely powerful.. I saw my hand change the symbols, and I en suffered this extreme body high as strong as a psychedelic body high trance, and I completely controlled my dream, with no skips of information, it was as vivid as real life! It's incredible, I'm still unable to create my world, but every so often I can control what happens. Good luck!

 

I really think I should do this. The amounts of dream details & wicked dreams that I probably never notice or remember - I bet you remember some weird shit! Plus I heard it makes your dream recollection better.

As for me, since I understand altering the dream or getting to excited makes the dream shorter or you more likely to wake up, my goal in all my lucid dreams is simply 1) awake in the dream, then 2) Explore in the dream world as calm and normally as possible. Dream length, stability and vividness being the most important.

I don't use my powers too much. Go through a wall I wanna get to the other side of, maybe sometimes spawn a car if I'm in a dream location with nothing/no one around. For some reason I have a lot of normal setting dreams lol. My house/living area, a school, a bar... it's weird... Where are the zombies and shit.

edit: Everyone dreams different. I never do reality checks. When i check my hand, 'lots of times it looks normal. Some nights I'll go to bed totally unaware the entire night of my dreams until the next morning. Other times I'm consciously awake the whole night, and can feel when I dip in and out of dreams, and can also feel when I'm in deep enough sleep (but aware enough), to attempt to 'awake.' Perhaps some people forget it's more a conscious skill rather than the specific details and way-hows. Just practice awareness and stability/control yo.

 

^i can personally promise you'll complete both your goals while trying to do this. Don't worry too much. My first dreams SUCKED, they would be just in simple places around my neighborhood or something, my house, places that weren't exotic.. Interesting, fictional, mind blowing. I though at first, why would I even want to remember this!?

But after awhile, you focus on new things in life, and your dreams change, you can kind of control a dream without being lucid. I bet you've done it before without thinking, you don't really think its a dream, but your aware of your environment, and control and think in your dream, and things happen because of your choices. A lucid dream is a little more intense.. And vivid. It's really another world, and I think it can only be accepted if the person can believe in the power of their mind.

 

I need to study dreams more as I can alter dreams a bit. Once, I even overheard people talking about something and than it really happened to me. I had to ask if they knew anything and of course they said No. Hmmm, was it dejavu dream.... dreams are real and can be altered to subject matter at times...

 

To Black Lotus:

ah nvm. I had 3-5 LD dreams last night. I do it too. It's just I have a different focus than powers right now.
I used to summon characters, control LD characters, spawn objects, make it rain, become a giant, etc. etc.

Btw how long and stable are your LD dreams, and how vivid?
My goal like I said is 15 minutes in an Lucid dream, stable, vivid, good control and most of all memory of it after I wake up.
If I can do that, then hell ya I'll go back to F'ing with the dream more often.

 

My first lucid dream was as vivid as real life! I don't know if this will make sense, but look at your field of vision now, you know how it's really big? To me, at least, in dreams my field of vision seems ... Smaller? Hazy, not as clear..


My lucid dreams are sooo vivid, I can't tell you the difference between them, and real life. It's a very smooth dream too, like in real life, I'll remember all the actions down to the end, where as with most dreams, your memory skips out like a needle on a scratched record.


Interesting that you learned dream manipulation before dream recall! I think this dream world is seriously all up to the dreamer, I was focusing on lucidity and vividness, and that's what I achieved, so I suppose if you work on dream recall, and I work on dream manipulation, well both have this down!

 

^ had some REALLY weird dreams last night. I was @ a "special" Japanese massage parlor. The jpn dude @ the clerk was trying to reel me in on the price (It ended up costing 4,600YEN if you must know). I ended up going in and had pick of ladies, eventually couldn't decide. He he. I was yellin' orders and shit in Japanese bwahahah.

I'd say my dream recall is poor, not non-existant. In my LDs of course I am/was conscious of all the choices, so those are easier to remember. Don't think I LD'd last night, but I did recall a few things!

Have you found writing journals has helped your dream recall? How long did it start to take? Can you remember up to an hour of content each night? O if you can).

I find my memory [in regular dream nights] is similar to this. Sporadic random spots when the needle hits the record right, I come into awareness and remember/experience the dream, but who knows how long I've been dreaming before but remembering nothing but 'black.'

 

Dream journal is the greatest thing, it's kind of a pain to keep around. Every once in awhile I just don't feel like doing it in the morning, and I decide to wait until later in the day to do it, and those are always the worst entries.

Dream recall is very necessary in the fact that to even lucid dream, you need to remember that it happened.. so of course you have some dream recall to even be able to remember that japanese dream. So then there's the in-dream recall, and the memory of the dream that our both important. During the dream, I can't say how long they last.. I have a bad sense of time in reality, but I wouldn't be surprised if mine were around 30-45 minutes. They are very long "episodes"

The Dream journal has helped me remember dreams from before I started the journal, you open your memory portion of your brain. It has also shown me improvements in real life memory, as well as closed eye visuals. Both on and off drugs. If you keep a journal, you'll find it takes just shy of a week to see great results, then you don't really even think about it, and you remember a lot more. On a general scale all of my dreams are more visual, but it isn't uncommon to have a night or two a week without any recall of a dream.

 

For me personally i never really try to control my dreams. I try to keep them in memory without writing. When it comes to lucid dreaming perhaps you all should look into astral projection. You can "Lucid dream" without even really going to sleep. Buddhist monks and other people who practice meditation can do it without sleeping. I have done astral projection a couple times and it is quite different then when i lucid dream. I have no control of the landscape or anything involving the actual plane. I am pretty sure most of you know about astral projection but i thought i just let it be known that you can achieve a lucid dream state without sleeping

 

I´m currently working on my LD-ability.
I have always had really vivid dreams, and I often remember them. But while I dream, I NEVER notice that I´m actually dreaming. It annoys the crap out of me. I can wake up in the morning and I just had a really detailed amazing dream; but things "just happen" in the dreams, I cant control anything.
I´ve started with reality checks now, but I´m not sure if I´m doing it enough? Maybe I have to look at my hands every ten minutes for it to work? But then again I was thinking of what someone else wrote here, that I never recollect seeing any bodyparts of mine in dreams.

Are there any different reality checks I could work on?
I would love to be able to control my dreams, but at the moment I´m not able to do that yet.

 

i had a lucid dream once where i started floating in the air and this gold sparkly light started wrapping around me, i could control how slow or fast i was lifting, and it was a spiritual feeling also. i must of been 6 or so....