I Lucid Dream at Will - Sleeping Better Than Life

[ppd343]

Alright, I can lucid dream at will and have been able to for awhile now. I can totally control every aspect of my dream, but sometime I will be lucid but can not control the landscape or who I am interacting with.


Is this the astral realm? I am thinking it is. I am almost convinced when we dream it isn't just within ourselves. I have seen things I could never fathom in my dreams, things I could never understand or landscapes I couldn't fathom consciously.


I frankly like dreaming better than living "real" life.


I have been in energy battles, I have been to space, and out of the earths atmosphere when flying. One of the most frightening experience you can have is flying into space, and into the unknown. I can only get to just into space and I get so unbelievably frightened I need to wake up.



There are entities that will attempt to get into energy battles with me, and I I always need to fight them off, but I am always able to, every single time. I just know how to wield energy in my dreams, much like I just know how to fly and walk throw walls or change my appearance.


I can also have sex, and I hate to say I do not choose to do it much because physically it is a "wet" dream. However it isn't a wet dream because I can totally control every aspect of it, that is just the side effect.



Does anyone love lucid dreaming and does anyone think lucid dreaming is something other than just "dreaming"?

[dawnismygoddess]

I had a dream about Heaven once. In my dream it was made known to me that it was indeed Heaven.

There are no buildings in Heaven, no artificial structures, no 90 degree or harsh angles. You can "pop" into other parts of Heaven when your mood changes. It was the best dream ever.

[armoured_amazon]

I frankly like dreaming better than living "real" life.

Me too. :) I don't really understand dreaming, but I know it's important. The answers to lots of things are in our dreams, so it's more than just the brain going over the day etc.

[worlds beyond]

.....I frankly like dreaming better than living "real" life.

Me too sometimes, except when nightmares! :eek:


I have been in energy battles, I have been to space, and out of the earths atmosphere when flying. One of the most frightening experience you can have is flying into space, and into the unknown. I can only get to just into space and I get so unbelievably frightened I need to wake up.

i have these too, quite regular, but i really really enjoy the,.. i absolutely love the feeling of whizzing up above the earth and its atmosphere and looking back at the planet like a bright blue marble beneath.. wow! :)


...and does anyone think lucid dreaming is something other than just "dreaming"?

i' don't think anyone truly knows 100% for sure what's what, is it astral or spirit or psychological or whatever.. :confused:

sometimes I know my dreams (even lucid/powerful ones are simply dreams.. other times, they have a certain and very distinct 'feeling' about them, sometimes with claer messages/spirit beings in them, which leave me convinced they are more than dreams.. I call those ones 'journeys'.


I do feel that sleep life can sometimes be so much more real, and inspirational/interesting, than waking life! :)

[newworldengineer]

I hope it gets to the point where real life's as interesting as the dreaming one :)

I have loads of dreams in unfamilar places that I couldn't possibly have dreamt up or imagined myself, I'm just not that imaginative :p

[logan 5]

ppd343, why do you feel you need to " control " the dream?

Check out the works of Robert Moss..I think he speaks to your question a lot better than I can.




YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

[ppd343]

ppd343, why do you feel you need to " control " the dream?

Check out the works of Robert Moss..I think he speaks to your question a lot better than I can.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtMA7jd-oNM


Because it is fun...

Anyway, some times I can not control anything, I can only observe, or live it. I would say it is 50/50. I just enjoy it very much. I will watch vid..

[kappasweet]

I can lucid dream, but only during short (like 20 minutes or so) midday naps, very rarely at night. It is fun, I can control myself but it is hard to control other things that I see and hear.

[passing]

One day, I hope... thanks for the encouragement!

[whiterain]

I can lucid dream, but only during short (like 20 minutes or so) midday naps, very rarely at night. It is fun, I can control myself but it is hard to control other things that I see and hear.

yep the best thing to do is wake up early and mooch around for a few minutes but dont become too alert. then go back to bed concentrating on the dream and bam it often hits you when you least expect it

[noobcybot]

It seems as hard to wake up to the astral in the in real world as it does to wake up to the real world in the astral.

Any tips 343? Other than dream journals and messing up my sleep patterns

[ppd343]

Yea, I hate to say it but I have had lucid dreams all my life. Not every night but at least twice a month maybe more.


However, I know no one wants to hear "dream journal", but I began having such intense, weird dreams, I had to keep one. I started one and wrote down my dreams..not meticulously mind you, just whenever I felt like it...


Anyway, these dreams are entertaining, like short stories, so it is actually kind of fun.


What happened was eventually you start noticing patterns of your dreams, and "feel" of a dream, you can sense the world eventually. The lucid dreams started happening more frequently and now it is at the point where I am lucid every time I go to sleep. It is like another waking life.



The dreams I can not control the landscape of are some of my favorites because it is like you are living a movie..and you have no clue what will happen next. All you know is that you have super powers, and can do whatever! Some are like watching a movie and not living it. Some you can control EVERYTHING.

[logan 5]

For me, dreams come from a source that is more knowing and wiser than I am. Jung called it the Self. Some may call it the Atman, for me I call it my Higher Self or Divine Intelligence at work. This dream source can be brutally frank about all aspects of my personality, my inner and outer world and my desires that I can either ignore or heed what's it's telling me. It knows me better than I know myself. I've had warnings of future events, answers to questions in my day-to-day world, and I believe WHAT this dream source is showing me, is for my benefit.

Many of these books on " lucid dreaming " teach the reader to try to " control " the dream, like your talking about. Ponder this..

" I prefer the phase conscious dreaming to the widely used term lucid dreaming, for two reasons. First of all, some of the recent enthusiasts for " lucid dreaming " have given the impression that their aim is to practice " dream control " ; to manipulate dreams to serve the agendas of the waking ego. Though Stephen LaBerge has labored to correct this impression in his excellent book Exploring the World Of Lucid Dreaming, the desirability of " controlling your dreams " is still promoted by other advocates of lucid dreaming. The point is that dreams are wiser then our everyday minds and come from a infinitely deeper source. To try to " control " this source, is to interfere with the authentic flow of dreams and to justify this on the grounds that they are " only dreams ", is the ultimate delusion of the control freak who lives in the ego. Fortunately, it is an attempt that can never succeed. One way or another, the dream source WILL remind us that we are not the masters of the universe. If it were truly possiable to put the ego in charge of dreams, the effect would be to divorce us from soul and spirit. "

Conscious Dreaming by Robert Moss.

Instead of trying to " control " what your seeing, just take that data " raw ", and then try to make meaning of it. There are no experts on dreams. You are the final authority on your dreams.

What do I mean when I say " make meaning " of the raw data your seeing. In that video interview I posted, Moss gives the example of Jeff Taylor the creator of monster.com. That company was inspired by a dream! He woke at 4:30 am from a dream in which he built an electronic bulletin board system where people could look for jobs. It was nightime, he wrote on a pad near his bed, " The Monster Board ", he was afraid if he wen't back to sleep he might not be able to decipher or decode what he had written, so he went to a coffee shop and started to sketch out a detailed plan..for what eventually became monster.com.

At age 14 Winston Churchill told a childhood friend that one time he dreamed that one day he would be required to lead the country and " save the captial and the empire. " There is a jillion other examples of how this dream source can guide us.

All we have to do is pay attention to what the dream is telling us, not try to manipulate it.

:)