Have you had a Lucid or consense dreaming?Basicly if you have ever been dreaming and said "Wait a sec IM DREAMING!" than you have been Lucid.Any advice on how to become Lucid?Any expirnces?
Carlos Castaneda wrote of his teacher Don Juan teaching to look at your hands in your dreams. Personally, I've never thought to look at my hands, tho' I've had many lucid dreams. I simply realise that it is my dream and I can make choices about it. If I don't like how it's going, I can "wake up" in the dream to my choice. ( like looking at your hands would be a choice.)
What people neeed to realize they dont need to leave it if they dont like how its going the could in a lucid state control the dream.
here ya go i have not become lucid yet...........god I want to..... http://www.dreamviews.com/index.php?sid=
i've done it before. but usually it just happens and i can't always force myself to be aware. certain things trigger it, i guess. i've heard that you should set an alarm to go off ~4hours after you fall asleep, cause that is when rem starts (the sleep stage you dream in). you sleep in a pattern of different brain waves, basically, so you need to wake up as your dream starts. so turn off the alarm and focus on your dream, and what you want to do, then fall back asleep. i think you're not supposed to be awake for more than five minutes. then when you go back to sleep, you slip right back into rem (assuming you keep the awakened interruption brief). then it's supposedly easier to control your dream. i've never tried that, so i can't vouch for it too much. usually, things in my dreams trigger lucidity. sometimes i hold out my hand and make an object from across the room come to me... that's a pretty good indicator that i'm asleep, dreaming and in control. if there is something consistant or frequent in your dreams, focus on that, and make that your trigger. so then the next time you find yourself reading something, focus on it and determine if you can actually see the words. if you can't, you're probably dreaming. the same goes for when you scream but can't make a sound, that horrible feeling can be your trigger, and you can turn that dream into a good one... fly away from the situation and go somewhere wonderful and explore.
i've read a lot on lucid dreaming.... some people can take years and years to finally learn to become lucid in a dream. i've never experienced it, but i've tried my darndest... actually several times i have come close; i will consider doing a preplanned action (such as testing the lights, looking at my hands, looking for the time, etc), but something stronger seems to overpower me in the dream and i ignore the impulse and continue my non-lucid dreaming. it's disappointing when i wake up. i also find this to have an interesting bearing on my awake lucidity, if you will. what is the part of us that refuses to wake up, even when presented with the way? hum. sophia
Lucid dreaming is great. To me it will just happen and can never force it. The best lucid dreams is where your flying, unaided, and you can control where you want to go like flying and leaping over buildings and hovering over citys and towns going where you want. I always wake up feeling overwhelmingly ace after a flying dream for some bizarre reason.
Last night I was having this dream about loads of zombies chasing me and my parents, we blocked ourselves up in a room. Then we started talking, and i said we dont need to be afraid because we're dreaming so we need to wake up or try and stop it. so in the dream i was trying to stop dreaming, but i couldnt so i said to my parents that we all have to stop ourselves dreaming because it is all our dream and its the only way it will stop.
^ i dont remember what happened after that. maybe thats a little confusing but it was hard to explain, is that lucid dreaming?
It's so cool, I fly in about two thirds of my dreams... it makes want to fall asleep and just fly away into the deepest recesses of my mind, never to be seen again.
i've had a few dreams where i suddenly realised that i was dreaming and i basically could control what i was doing in them, rather than watching, very wierd when i have those type of dreams,.........is that got any relevence to what your asking??
I frequently realize that I was dreaming earlier in the night during a dream, but I rarely realize that what I'm experiencing is a dream, at least when I'm asleep.
Check out "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge. I got interested in lucid dreaming a couple months ago. After using techniques and mental exercises in his book I became lucid after a week or so. There was one excercise where you were given 5 or so things a day, like getting a drink of water or writing something dowm, and everytime one of the days signs happened you should ask yourself if you awake or dreaming. The point being that if you don't remember to do something while you're awake you're not likely to remember to do it while you're sleeping. These signs you use during the day should carry into your dreams where you will find yourself getting a drink then wondering whether you're dreaming. Be sure that you give yourself unshakable reasons to either conclusion because you and other dream characters can easily deceive you into thinking something is truly happening when you're actually dreaming. Anyway, extremely helpful book, if you're hoping to achieve lucidity it's packed with advice.
in my experience, you can't cause a lucid dream. just sometimes you're dreaming and then you realize that you're dreaming. even then, control is iffy, but usually once i know i'm dreaming i can at least take some control, if not complete
