Lucid dreaming

[Oatmeel]

Lucid dreaming is when someone is aware he or she is in a dream, and thus can do whatever he or she desires. This has happened to me twice. Once, I went into a dream knowing what it was and decided I would become a bandit and fly away. The other time I was in a van and I asked the guy next to me if I was in a dream or not, and he smiled. Then I woke up. Has anyone else ever experienced this?

 

[Duffeknol]

Yep. As a kid. I had a recurring dream every single night. I flew with my bed over a swamp with crocodiles in it. Eventually I had the dream so many times I KNEW it was a dream, so I just willed my bed to fly higher, away from the crocs. And hey, it worked.

 

[zombiejoe]

I really wish I could Lucid Dream.

I do remember one time I had forced myself awake in the dream, and I woke up in real life.

And sometimes I do know I am in a dream, but have no power of what is happening.

The most power I had was in one dream when a bunch of movie monsters were chasing me and I told them to stop. They did, but only for a short time, and then chased me again.

 

[MikailCaboose]

Nope. My 15-minute window of remembrance doesn't give me any like that...

 

[Siuki]

Lucky. I've been getting close recently, but I can break the dream.

 

[zombiejoe]

My antidepressants give me pretty vivid and disturbing dreams

like...

I wanna know!

D:

I get some pretty crazy dreams too

 

[theComposer]

Not that I'm aware of. I can barely remember my dreams when I wake up. If I have ever had a lucid dream, I don't remember it, and I've never really tried to because I won't recall it afterwards. -.-

 

[Ldude893]

After watching Inception, I tried it. It worked for 10 seconds but I was imagining that I was playing a video game. I knew it was a dream after looking at a digital clock nearby (in dreams, digital clocks are unreadable)

 

[laststandman]

I used to be able to lucid dream at will, or close enough. I had it to a point where I could do it 2-4 times a week.
I stopped because of high school: I was to stressed to lucid dream, and also because when you do it for long enough, the world while you are awake becomes pretty awful. You have less control than you do when you sleep, so being awake is just like a terrible dream.

 

[LastMondaysHangover]

I manage to lucid dream every once in a while. It's pretty sweet when you are really into it. I had a dream once where I was eating dinner and wanted to talk to my grandpa who died 10 years before I was born and all of a sudden he sat down at the table, wearing his army uniform and everything.

We talked for hour or so, he talked about his time in the Pacific and when he visited India. He then got up and left just as my alarm went off. I think I cried for 10 minutes after I woke up

 

[LastMondaysHangover]

After watching Inception, I tried it. It worked for 10 seconds but I was imagining that I was playing a video game. I knew it was a dream after looking at a digital clock nearby (in dreams, digital clocks are unreadable)

So are words and sentences, at least for me anyways

 

[Oatmeel]

After watching Inception, I tried it. It worked for 10 seconds but I was imagining that I was playing a video game. I knew it was a dream after looking at a digital clock nearby (in dreams, digital clocks are unreadable)

So are words and sentences, at least for me anyways

Hands are deformed as well. This is why people look at their hands often to instigate a lucid dream. The skewed image of their hands makes them question if they are in reality.

 

[demoman_chaos]

I do often, but not full control. It usually goes, "Hey this is a dream." Then I try to do something and wake up very shortly after.

 

[SkoopMaster]

Ahh yes I have done this tons of times, but there are times I think it's real and I wake up wondering what just happened.

Best one I had was when I punched a man and everyone became hostile but reassured everyone it was ok. "It's alright everyone I'm dreaming." "Oh alright then."

Never got that to happen again. So sad.

 

[Makon]

I've actually been trying to induce a WILD (Wake-Induced Lucid Dream), but I can't quite seem to cross the threshold. When I am inside a dream, however, I don't ever seem to come to the realization that I am.

 

[Imp Poster]

I have had the reverse. I did not know I was dreaming and thought it everything that happened was real. I dreamed once I had this motorcycle that could go so fast I was breaking the sound barrier in five seconds after take off. Things were going by in a blur. I was on a highway and the whole police department was after me. Somehow I got away and parked my bike in the garage. So when I woke up, I was looking forward to riding the bike again and went straight to the garage..

 

[AvsJoe]

I mastered "lucid dreaming" before I knew what it was. When I was a kid and I was having a bad dream, I summoned what I called the "dream tornado" to whisk me to another dream. I no longer need the tornado; if I don't like the situation I'm in, I'll go elsewhere.