has anyone ever had a lucid dream?

I am extreamly intrested in learning how to lucid dream. {where you are fully concious in your dream.} If anyone knows how to please let me know. I've tried to find info on line but it's all confusing. I need someone who's done it before or knows alot about it. thanks much.

 

I have no idea, but when you find out, let me know

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I have, and do. Somewhere along the line I lost control and they now come of themselves.

Sometimes it's cool, but other times it's terrifying.
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This is how I was taught, believe it or not, by a voo-doo shaman in the caribean:

Every one becomes councious of being in a dream occassionally. You must be ready for the moment.

1) Becoming Aware

Go to sleep with a particular EVENT in mind.

I used the falling elevator scenario.

"I'm in an elevator on the 100th floor, going down, down, down. on the 99th floor going down. Falling, falling. the further I fall the closer to sleep. Down, down, down to the 98th floor."

When you can do this WITHOUT actually paying attention to it, like background music in your mind, you will begin to occasionally enter the dream councious of it. The litany isolates a small part of your awareness.

Concetrating on a single item or word (a la TM) is not the way. Some part of your awareness must be active while you fall asleep.
A "fantasy trip" to a particular place also works. Eventually, you'll learn to find the place at the moment of sleep.

Once you recognize the dream for what it is, you MUST NOT let any single componet of the dream distract you. Watch it all, but stare at nothing. Don't try for control untill you can do this about 50% of the time that you try.

Once you've accomplished a few moments of purposeful lucidity, you'll begin to reconize those lucid moment that come spontaneously to everyone.

2) Control

Don't worry about controlling the experience- yet.

By remaining passive, you eliminate the possibility of DREAMING that you had a lucid dream, instead of having one.

Keep me posted.

 

I've had these to a degree on and off for a while. I've been reading around different places for info but I haven't found anything to help you learn to controll it. I think it's got something to do with how identified you are with your unconsiousness mind, but I still think complete controll is impossible. Lucid dreaming is like being in a vehicle on auto pilot, and all you can controll is the radio, the air conditioning, or whether or not the windows roll up and down.

 

it is an amazing thing..watch the movie 'waking life' and do a search to find out more..it takes lots of time and practice

 

In a lucid dream, I can go anywhere or anywhen I want. I can seek out a particular person, living or dead.

That's what I mean by control.

 

When you sleep your unconsious, to have full controll means consiousness (or being awake). Then that brings me back to my other thread asking how do you know whether or not your dreaming, which is true reality?

If full on lucid dreaming is possible, it'd be like every time you "woke up" or "went to sleep" you merely open your eyes to another world.

 

I have lucid dreams rather often, though the element of "control" isn't very firm. . .I can control some things, but not others. One thing I can control is the time dilation. . .I can spend eternity and a half in a dream now, and have only slept a couple of hours.

 

http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/howtodoit.htm How to do it


http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/WILD.htm WILD technique

http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk/how.htm what it feels like etc

Yes I do it a few times every month, the above pages are me writing about lucidity.

 

That's exactly what it's like.

But know I don't believe in mystiscims of any sort. The value and dred of lucid dreaming lies within one's self- not in the world around us.

 

Whay do you mean by mysticisms?

 

The Unexplainable. The Supernatural. Magic.

 

That happens to me often.
It usually happens if I say something like: " what if this was only a dream?". Of coarse that's mostly coincidence. Try this: set your alarm clock to wake you up REALLY early, to when you're still tired. You'll either a) notice the racket, but to tired to open your eyes, causing you to lucid dream. or B) wake up, opening your eyes,look at the time, and most likely will set it for later hour ,and continue sleeping.
In case B make sure you'll set it too early as well, this will cause you to remember that it's to early (for you just slept). Therefore, making you think something like:
"awwww....not again....WAIT! The thing's lieng! I can just continue sleeping!I shall not open my eyes.", therefore making you aware what's around you, causing a lucid dream.

 

That's not lucid dreaming.

That is a light hypnotic state easily induced in light sleepers.

Reaching the sleep/dream state with aid of an exterior stimulus (i.e., the alarm) is the basis for hypnosis

The stimulus must be internal to achive true lucid dreaming.

In a lucid dream, there is no counciousness of physical presence outside the dream. Not at the begining, not ever.

 

welll....than I guess I had it a few times, eventhough the hypnotic state usually fades and you end up lucid dreaming .

 

i think i have before, and i'm pretty sure i do it on a normal basis...

there are a few times a month when my dream becomes a story, and most of the time when it happens i can remember it clearly, like it happened in real life. for instance, i remember being a front man for a band, i had complete control over who was in the dream, where i was, what i was doing, almost if i was controlling myself inside the dream. and of course when the dream was over i was pissed because the dream seemed like it was the perfect life and then i snapped back into reality... not sure if that's what you guys would call lucid dreaming, but it was pretty damned lucid to me.

 

www.ld4all.com is no doubt the best site on lucid dreaming there is, I have been practicing lucidity for quite some time now and am at the point where I can do it every night.

 

i've been lucid dreaming since i was a little kid. i used to have some horrible nightmares until my grampa taught me how to control my dreams. it was actually pretty easy to learn how to control my dreams as a kid.

 

This is a Coherent Dream. It is very nearly a True lucid dream.
For many years now, ALL my dreams have been coherent.

"i had complete control over who was in the dream, where i was, what i was doing, almost if i was controlling myself inside the dream"

This is right on the edge- you are actively and knowingly participating in the dream.

One other requirement to be a true lucid dream- during the dream, you must be aware that it is a dream.

"when the dream was over i was pissed"

Does this mean you only realize it's a dream after the dream ends? Or was it just a crash reaction?

 

I had a few dreams where I was watching myself and everything else from a place outside of myself. Has anyone else ever experienced this? I didn't know I was dreaming in these dreams but I have experienced alot of lucidity. Try looking at your hands. Or think of things you regularly dream about. When my bf finds money, he usually knows he is dreaming.