The Lucid Dream // Dreaming Thread

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I've been experimenting with lucid dreaming for a while now, with mild success. I don't usually become fully lucid in a dream if I try to do it the first time I fall asleep. I breathe, focussing on my breathing. I repeat to myself "I am dreaming", and then I see the patterns and colours which become a pattern and a picture. Problem is that before I fully fall into the dream, I have a mini panic attack and wake up. If I wake up in the middle of the night after 4 or 5 hours asleep, then try to have a lucid dream, I'm much more successful.

It's fun to do, makes a normally mundane task a lot more fun when you know there's an exciting world to escape to.
 
The "put paper and pen on the nightcloset, and write what you dreamed about when you wake up" is a very effective method.

Tried that and after a few days i had a Lucid dream.

The one i remember the best, is when the dream became lucid (aka i realized it was just a dream, but was still stuck in the dreamworld), i decided to jump through the first shopwindow i saw, just for the fook of it :D

After i did that i woke up tough.
 
ilikewaffles11
What exactly is a lucid dream? Isn't it a dream you can control?
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It's a dream where the dreamer has full control over what happens in the dream. We have dreams every single night, but we are not aware of it so it's an ordinary dream but sometimes it might feel like we never dreamt at all. To have a lucid dream, close your eyes, and picture your dream location. Make sure that you don't fall asleep too quickly and don't roll over or the lucid dream will be wasted.
 
I don't know i'm afraid to try it. People are tellimg me they get sleep paralysis, or paralyzed and what not when they have one, but i just want one!!
 
Sttrobe
I don't know i'm afraid to try it. People are tellimg me they get sleep paralysis, or paralyzed and what not when they have one, but i just want one!!
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Thats called sleep paralysis, basically when you lie there for ages, not moving atall, dont scratch any itches or anything, and your body will go to sleep when your mind is still awake. You will start to see hypogognia or something which are like those images you see when you start to get sleepy. From there on you can enter a lucid dream but I've forgotten how to. No need to get freaked out it's no way permanent and is normal, you just normally don't feel it because your mind has gone asleep too.
 
Gdog96
Thats called sleep paralysis, basically when you lie there for ages, not moving atall, dont scratch any itches or anything, and your body will go to sleep when your mind is still awake. You will start to see hypogognia or something which are like those images you see when you start to get sleepy. From there on you can enter a lucid dream but I've forgotten how to. No need to get freaked out it's no way permanent and is normal, you just normally don't feel it because your mind has gone asleep too.
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To enter a lucid dream then all you do is picture your dream scene from there. Works for me every single time, well most of the time to be more exact.
 
Sttrobe
How do you do it!!!!
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In primary school I was a natural daydreamer but somehow I always managed to pay attention. Therefore I am very good at picturing scenes for dreams and once you get in the state that your body falls asleep but your mind is still awake then you have to picture your dream scene really quickly otherwise it will be wasted :crazy: .
 
Okay! But I mean, I want to have one tonight, do I just keep saying to myself

"I'm going to have a Lucid Dream, I'm going to have a Lucid Dream." I tried but failed horridly.
 
Sttrobe
Okay! But I mean, I want to have one tonight, do I just keep saying to myself

"I'm going to have a Lucid Dream, I'm going to have a Lucid Dream." I tried but failed horridly.
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The important thing when trying to have lucid dreams is remembering not to force it to happen. Otherwise it won't happen. Also, you must keep your brain awake but let your body sleep. To do that you must not move at all and the rest of the body will shutdown automatically. Picture your dream scene at this moment and then it should work for you.
 
Sttrobe
So like just keep thinking, and thinking and thinking. but don't move a centimetre?
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When you are entering the lucid dream then you must moving whenever possible, but once you're firmly in the lucid dream then you can move around a little bit.
 
Sttrobe
What do you mean by that?
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It's just how I found out how to enter a lucid dream without messing it up. When you want to enter a lucid dream when you go to bed at night, close your eyes and then don't move. If you move then your body will become active again and you will find it hard to enter a lucid dream.
 
Here's one from when I was younger, around 11-13 years old I think. It was around the time I was getting into Top Gear.

James May's birthday was coming up and I needed to get him a present, and I knew he loved spam. I was stood there in the shop looking for some spam, and I found it. I picked up the tin, and also Spam in it's original form, a big yellow melon shaped fruit (that's right, in my dream I thought they made it from a fruit)
I stood there for a while debating which one to get, in the end I bought the spam fruit. But I never got to see his face light up when I gave it to him :(.

The end.
 
Pagey279
Here's one from when I was younger, around 11-13 years old I think. It was around the time I was getting into Top Gear.

James May's birthday was coming up and I needed to get him a present, and I knew he loved spam. I was stood there in the shop looking for some spam, and I found it. I picked up the tin, and also Spam in it's original form, a big yellow melon shaped fruit (that's right, in my dream I thought they made it from a fruit)
I stood there for a while debating which one to get, in the end I bought the spam fruit. But I never got to see his face light up when I gave it to him :(.

The end.
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Don't worry, if you still want to give James May spam then you can give him the other type of spam :crazy: .
 
I was dreaming that I was drinking a whole bunch of liquor and stuff, but my Dad said that I was saying "Marshmallows" over and over again as I tossed and turned lol.
 
Bopop4
I was dreaming that I was drinking a whole bunch of liquor and stuff, but my Dad said that I was saying "Marshmallows" over and over again as I tossed and turned lol.
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He should have put a marshmallow in your mouth to make you stop saying it :lol: .
 
Sttrobe: Just remember, some people are gifted and can have lucid dreams almost straight after they try, but some people it takes a while to get one, what I'm saying is don't give up because you don't get one in the first week, it doesnt mean you can't do it ever, it just might take practice and determination.
 
Gdog96
Sttrobe: Just remember, some people are gifted and can have lucid dreams almost straight after they try, but some people it takes a while to get one, what I'm saying is don't give up because you don't get one in the first week, it doesnt mean you can't do it ever, it just might take practice and determination.
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People who have a very good imagination will find it easier to picture their dream scene in great detail and that's why they can find it easy to fall into a lucid dream. I have a great imagination and that explains why i find it easy.
 
R1600Turbo
Seeing as you posted this today and you are now at 3,057, did you really miss the mark or have you posted way too much today? :crazy:
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No, it's because I am an insane typist (100+ wpm) which is why I have so many posts in such a small amount of time.
 

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