Lucid Dreaming

[Boomer]

Lucid dreaming (lucid from Latin, lux "light") is the conscious perception of one's state while dreaming, resulting in a much clearer experience and sometimes enabling direct control over the content of the dream, a realistic world that is to some degree in the control of the dreamer.[1] The complete experience from start to finish is called a lucid dream. Stephen LaBerge, a popular author and experimenter on the subject, has defined it as "dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming."

I've been praticing this for about 9 months now and have had little results. However, there are still results and my dream recall has gotten amazing. Im able to remember up to 4 dreams a night. Anyone else ever been lucid while dreaming? If so, what happened?

 

[Johnny]

Hmm
Nope....

 

[EmperorKupcake]

I've known about LDing for some time. I've only attempted it on small scale (1-5 days) but it was pretty cool. I never actually got lucid, but close. Its a fascinating concept about how dreams work.

Hm, maybe I'll get back into it sometime. I'll let you guys know the results

 

[Bagel]

all my dreams are lucid..yet i still tend to forget them..i started that long time ago..becasue of it i havnt had a nitemare sicne i was 5

 

[Boomer]

If you write down whatever you remember when you wake up. Your recall gets better. You will start remembering them in detail. Its nuts. When I sleep, I never know if I may get wisped away to an adventure in my head.

 

[Bagel]

if i started logging my dreasm i fear soemone would read the log and send me to a phsyc ward

 

[Boomer]

Calm down bagel...dont kill no one man! LOL

 

[Maulds]

Reminds me of Vanilla Sky

 

[Bagel]

lol not that kind fo crazy..just...crazy

 

[Nightflight]

I love it. Since I gave up drugs, it's like there's this dam that had been building up, and the walls just gave way.
My meory is terrible at the best of times, yet I can clearly remember the dreams I have, all of them, for days.
Sometimes they're nightmares, sometimes I dream of my mom, sometimes I have sleep paralysis, it's different all the time.

I just have this little problem, when I am dozing (often do that during daytime) I have such lucid dreams I wake convinved it's true - often that I am back home, or start telling my husband that we have a pool above our house (I had a dream we were in flats, and the next floor up had a pool that had started leaking)... totally convinced, then he has to re-align me with reality again, at least it no longer scares him.

Oh, there's also that tiny problem I have. I astral travel without wanting to, and it turns out I'm a person who travels with my body, I've been seen often, freaks people out totally. I have no idea how that works but anyhow...

 

[Nightflight]

if i started logging my dreasm i fear soemone would read the log and send me to a phsyc ward

LOL, the wonder of passwords of 30 letters, that would take years for anyone to crack.

 

[GameCrazed]

I used to have dreams like that all the time.

I'd usually try waking myself up, which actually usually worked.

And yes, I remeber Vanilla Sky, too.

 

[icecuban]

i had this dream a few years ago that was totally messed. now, ive had dreams before that i would realize was a dream and would do things like fly, or unreal stuff like that. but this dream was different... it started out on a boston type of street, waiting for a school bus, which was weird since im not in school anymore, and im smoking a butt while waiting with high school chums, at that point, right in the beginning i knew i was dreaming, but i got on the bus and took off into the city. i get off the bus to what looked like a chrome chineese city (could tell by the slanted roofs) , well, not completely chrome, but shiney. i walk into a smoke shop, theres a baseball game on tv and im thinking, holy crap, i think im dead, this is way to normal to be a dream... i would look at my watch and count the seconds, converse in my head as i would while awake, and i thought... i must be dead, im not doing anything special, and i have no sub connection link to my body. it was scared for a brief second, but then i was very happy just knowing that i had myself, and i guess thats all that i needed. im not quite sure how the dream ended, i do remember that it was unlike anything ive ever had before and since, and that i would never forget the feeling. all this made me think that maybe dreams are just a "training type" session before you reach an afterlife without a physical body, so you wont flip out when you feel yourself in all its intangableness.

 

[ouachiski]

Back when I was on a lott of meds for a messed up head I had them all the time. I couldnt controll what was going on around me and I didnt have any super human powers or anything but I was in controll of myself. It makes nightmares even worse when you are able to controll yourself.

 

[Haddaway]

I used to be able to, and I didn't even know about Lucid Dreaming back then. I was just able to. I remember I actually realized I was in the dream and I could do whatever I want.. Let's just say that was the coolest dream ever.

I think I should try, because I would probably be able to do it since I was able before.

 

[alleycat]

I had a dream last night I went to target and my bf's truck was stolen. Decipher that pleez! LOL

 

[elluko]

I can always control my dreams, its pretty helpful. And when my dreams get out of hand I just open my eyes and Im awake.
Is that what LDing is? cuz I didnt fully understand what Boomboom said.

 

[Boomer]

Yeah, some people are naturals and some have to work at it. Unfortunately im one that has to work at it.

Luke, that is deffinately LDing.

 

[elluko]

Cool. LDing is fun, last night I was Indiana Jones.

 

[Homer]

i dream alot and their are times when after i wake up to say go to bathroom that when i go back to bed i can get right back into the same dream, it doesn't always work but it's nice when it does , i think it's has to do with some meds i'm takeing for pain oxy , it seems to make me dream alot.