after 4 long weeks of trying to get this to work in my favor and then giving up it finally happened last night i remember reading somewhere that while you're dreaming, there is no recollection of past events that happen in the dream, while you're dreaming anywho i don't necessarily remember these certain parts, but i do however remember something about being on a bus and it stopping and the driver turning around saying "this is the end" or "this is where you get off" or something anyways, this same sequence of dreams happened in a row, kinda like deja vu well after the bus stopped the second time, i remember this little factoid (the past thing) and decided "this must be a dream." and then it felt like i had sort of woken up. immediately i sort of thought "oh man!" and then i remember saying "this is a dream! i am dreaming." and then i guess i got kind of excited. anywho, i then proceeded to test this knowledge out by doing what i'm sure is every other lucid dreamer's first reaction: i decided to float up to the ceiling i'm pretty sure this is was one of those super-amazing feeling moments that only happen every so often. i was conscious of being unconscious, and feeling what it is like to be floating, it was very surreal. throughout my whole "journey" i would suppose to call it, i've had an inherent fear of how exactly one is supposed to get out of a lucid dream. i don't really know why, but it was just intrinsic i suppose. i started to think "well how am i going to wake up?" sort of thinking i'd be stuck this way forever, i guess. then i was in a car with my roommates, my cousin driving, one up front, and the other in the back. i looked at the one in the back and said "i'm dreaming, this is all just a dream." and she said "oh really? how's that going for you?" and i remember answering with "kind of scary" but not really by saying those exact words, just by thinking them i suppose. anyhow, around this point in time this "fear" took over my "lucidity" and i just began dreaming random events again but within a minute or two i woke up, got outta bed, went to put a quilt on my bed and thought, "wait a minute...did i?" and then i smiled. i sort of felt accomplished. sorry this is so long
no other thoughts? damn...i try for 4 weeks to do this to have a story and you guys got nothin' :tongue:
I've had a lot of lucid dreams when i was younger, now i dnot have dreams much cuz i go to sleep too late. But as a kid i always dreamed i was running and i started to fly, and actually feeling like i was flying. Other times i'd feel like i was falling off a building and i'd wake up mid dream and my heart would be pounding, cuz it was so stimulating. Remember its always easier to have dreams if you go to sleep a bit earlier.
I don't think i've had one. I use to be big on trying. I realized I was dreaming one time, but I effin woke up.
interesting thing about the "when" of this dream interesting mainly because dreams normally occur during REM sleep, which is normally the last 1-2ish hours before you actually wake up (i think, this could be very wrong) meaning that you normally have to go through your night before you actually dream anything well, on this night, i had gone to sleep at 9:30 in order to wake myself up at 12:30 to try and do some essay-writing (i'm sure you've all done this before...and i'm sure you've all (just as i have) realized that it doesn't work, ha!) well, the dream obviously occured after about 2 hours of sleeping...or 2 and half, however you look at it interesting...(for the third time)
im jealous man. Ive been tryin to have a lucid dream forever now haha. everyone makes it sound so sweet
That's very interesting. I have always wondered what it would be like to control the events in your dreams to follow a certain path, but, it always follows one stream or another. I have had many dreams where I was presumably myself, but in a different lifetime. Once, I dreamed that I was someone else, and I was following <myself?> through a chain of events, watching, waiting for something...and trying to coach myself in a certain direction, of course this never works. I ended up becoming at odds with myself and ultimately chasing my own self through this world trying to catch up, but somehow staying just two steps behind....interesting...
I've been a huge recent fan of lucid dreaming ever really since my brother introduced me to the concept as well a if y'all are familiar with 'waking life' [for those of you who've seen that watch 'a scanner darkley<same producer.sweeter actors>' and its not just like one method of lucid dreaming...there are so many ways to become lucid and i find it most easy when your body feels like it should right before you fall asleep and you mind loses focus of consciousness but hold onto your last thoughts before you slip,.,., and this method i partially described is refferred to as astral projection. i've done it successfully 2ce and its more of an out of body experience than anything but i avoided even looking back to where my body was b/c i was thinking it might have been shocking enough to wake me back up. so i started walking my Twin bro was sleeping on the couch adjacent to where my idled body lay i went over to him and started fucking with his dream character body told him to get up and follow me into my lucid dream. So everything i percieved was my basement that i fell asleep in very dark and my eyesight was so fucking jilopy that as i would move my eyes back and forth images would appear out of no where as if trying to make this world as realistic as possible so i walk outside, jump down my backyard (which i would never do in a sober/waking state of mind) started flying down it my bro just stared in awe as he was doubting that i really did achieve lucidity so i looked at him and said if i wasn't dreaming why would i do this just as i said that i jumped up onto what seemed to be a propped up 85ยบ angled bed leaning up against a TREE half/ganored off of it straight on to my head purposely to see wtf would happen since i was so aware of my lucid dream sourrounding atmosphere. haha so blahh sry for the terribly boring story just wanted to share how i got lucid and the details of what happened after i Had my first OOBE in the exp date= 1 mth ago
