Lucid Dreaming Anyone??

[evilpixy]

Hope this is in the right place...:o


Did anyone notice this side effect (I guess you'd call it..) after
getting into researching the hidden meaning of media messages/double checking headlines for trigger (Orange/23/3/33, etc) code numbers, colors & names (M.M. initials, sun risings/Walker/Douglas) ....

For the first time in my life, when I have a scary dream (or even normal one), when the dream person tells me to do something...I always say, "Nope, this ain't real, I'm gunna wake up now" or something like that...
No more insomnia, no more cold sweats from nightmares. Very awesome!

Has this happened to you & I wish I could not just wake up, but also control the dream to something more interesting..Maybe even astral project to visit places?

[shodan]

I've had 2 or 3 Lucid dreams earlier this year since 'waking up', a couple lasting only seconds but one very profound one that seemed to be about an hour or so, but there's no way of telling.
At one point in the dream I was walking up a sloped corridor, indoors, in amongst other people, and everytime I got so far up the slope I would 'faint' as it I'd left my body, then return to it and start from the bottom again.....

One of the very brief ones was I was standing on a beach not of this world, throwing stones into the sea with a family friend that really had nothing to do with my life - and I hadn't seen him for years - stood behind me watching, I could feel the waves splashing on me and hear everything, this only lasted seconds. A few weeks later I found out the guy watching was found dead in his home. Round about the same time I was seeing eyes when I closed my eyes, fantastically detailed eyes that were made of a shade of green I have never seen before nor since.

[mariag]

has for me been filled of lucid dreaming or whatever I should call it. As I concider myself being highly spiritualy conected and clairvoyant I see these "dreams" as codes and visions of what was and what is going to happen.
I don´t heistate that much over this as I know what they are.:p

[clipwip]

Lots. I used to try to do techniques listed in a book to induce lucidity in dreams back around 1993-4 and the best I ever got was 1 brief moment of lucidity which woke me up instantly. After not having any more success, I stopped trying.

For the last 4 or 5 years I've been lucid dreaming more and more frequently, and now I am lucid the majority of the time. I have done absolutely nothing to induce these. They just started happening for some reason. Not only have I been lucid more, but the dreams are becoming more and more intense and bizarre. Most of them are WAY beyond the pale of anything I've experienced while awake, including tripping balls and other extreme experiences.

The hardest thing now is to REMEMBER them since my waking consciousness can't really process these experiences. I've also been gaining a lot more control of my reactions in the dreams, but what my mind is projecting for me is completely beyond my control. I'm trying to document them, but it is very hard to discipline myself to do that since I'm usually woken up by my puppy who is up like a bolt of lightning needing to go out and go to the bathroom and be fed. I'm a bit lazy in general and usually I don't even care enough to write them down which might be surprising to some, but it's really become so common that I just figure, "well I'll be back there again tonight, so what's the point." Plus, I don't understand these dreams and haven't found any correlation to waking life yet, so I'm not sure what use they are, if any.

[on the road]

I dont tend to remember my dreams much but a while back I was thinking in bed ,as you do, about whatever and I drifted into a dream, I was watching shit happen in my dream like it wasnt my thouights anymore but a programme.I thought wow I've fully nodded off and now I'm dreaming ! I then woke up .Is that one ? or is it the start of one? would like to get further into this lucid dreaming lark.

[boosh]

i have had a few lucid dreams but have been unable to have full control over them. i was freaked out at first but now im ok with them. not sure i like the idea of astral projection though :D

[on the road]

i have had a few lucid dreams but have been unable to have full control over them. i was freaked out at first but now im ok with them. not sure i like the idea of astral projection though :D

lol I think you'll make a fine astral projectionist :)

[optimus pigpot]

lol I think you'll make a fine astral projectionist :)

ME AGWEE!!!!!!!!

More quality words.... Shave, block pave, widget, midget, fidget and haircut..........

[boosh]

lol I think you'll make a fine astral projectionist :)

are you flirting with me on the road? lol ;)

[synergy777]

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=3936448&page=1

Living in Dreamworld
Researcher Stephen LaBerge Brings Lucid Dreaming to the Masses

By DAVID WRIGHT and MELIA PATRIA
Nov. 30, 2007

Share Somewhere in between the Cinderella school of dreaming and the darker dreamscape of "The Matrix" lies Stephen LaBerge, an expert in a technique called lucid dreaming.

He believes that what happens to people in their dreams is as real an experience as what happens in real life.

By becoming aware that they're dreaming while they're asleep, lucid dreamers say they can learn to consciously control and manipulate the dreamscape, allowing them to live out their wildest fantasies in a virtual reality with no earthly boundaries.

A renowned lucid dreaming expert, LaBerge spent more than a decade researching the science of lucid dreaming at Stanford University. In his most groundbreaking experiment, he showed that lucid dreamers can consciously signal from the dream world while in REM sleep.


The author of several books on the topic, LaBerge developed a plethora of techniques to help people gain lucidity, including the NovaDreamer, a special sleep mask.

LaBerge believes that, with proper training, people can actually control their dreams, provided they learn how to recognize that they're dreaming while still asleep.

In a way, he is teaching people how to live their dreams.

"All you have to say is, 'This is a dream. Anything is possible.' If there's somewhere I wanna go, I'm there," LaBerge said.


Dreams as Adventure Sports
In lucid dreams, one can fly like a superhero, master martial arts with no fear of injury, or have a tryst with a total stranger.

"[It's] the place where you can do anything without external consequences. So it's a place you can safely explore how to live, what to do, what you might want to do," LaBerge said.

more at the link.

thanks to edit.

[nextristan]

i often recognize that im in a dream and wake up, however only once was I able to consciously control my dream.

i was surprised at how exhausting it was to manifest something using my imagination. took a lot of concentration, i'd love the opportunity to practice more, but there's only so many opportunities;) and it seems mainly based on luck.

i have heard that there's tests that can be done to get control of a dream, but even remembering this in a dream state is rare.
the one i've heard of, and also the one that worked for me the one time, is switching on and off a light switch in a room. if nothing happens, its probably a dream.

i had read that in a book in the fourth grade, decade later it comes up in a dream, just kinda saw the light switch and tried it, and it all clicked at once, and consciousness kicked in, without waking me up.

i manifested chairs and people and vegetation all in this neat room. but like i said, mucho exhausting, and i woke up after what seemed like several minutes of playing around.

also im something of a sleep-walker(?), often sitting up while i sleep and flipping over(feet at the pillow), on some occasions walking around and hassling others sleeping in the same room by mixing up beds while in that groggy half-dream state, this has been reported by many people, camp councellors, girlfriends, family, and whatnot as a kid mostly, along with stranger anomalies....:eek:

[clipwip]

Yeah, I got LaBerge's book "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" in like 1999 and was super-psyched to learn how to do it. I had no success at it and it seemed like an impossible regimen.

I really don't know why, but for some reason I have them constantly now. I should read up on the finer techniques b/c right now I have absolutely no control over the environment and limited control over my responses. Sometimes things are easy to do, like flying, and sometimes impossible. It's a fascinating subject and I think the biggest thing for me now is to start REMEMBERING. That's by far the hardest thing to do for me.

The concept of it being as real as waking life is profound b/c I often use my dreams for sex and violence which I thought until recently was harmless and just as real as a video game (which also brings up some similar issues of reality).

Tom Waits has a song with the lyrics, "you're innocent when you dream." I'm beginning to question that.