Lucid dreams
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Lucid Dreaming is when you are dreaming, and you suddenly become aware that you're dreaming. Owing to this, you can manipulate your dreams as you wish.
There are communities dedicated to lucid research. Google it.
There are communities dedicated to lucid research. Google it.
Sometimes when I'm dreaming and if I don't like the dream I can just roll my eyes in the back of my head and I will wake up. Does that count?
Start with regular dreams. Instead of essentially bolting upright in bed, going "THAT WAS A GREAT DREAM, WONDER WHAT IT WAS ABOUT" and going about your daily business, take a couple moments to stay still and think about what you just dreamt, remembering as much detail as possible. Then, when you next sleep, think about some of these details as you're drifting off. This should ease your mind into, or at least towards, a lucid state.
If you listen to music to sleep, or even have a clock that ticks, listen for changes in tempo or lyrics (obviously don't trust your clock on that one, it doesn't know the words anyway). They can signify a change in your brainwaves. If they come through in your regular dreams, use it as an opportunity to try and change something. Like the "glitches" in Assasin's Creed, or the interrupts in Mass Effect 2.
As I said, practice makes perfect.
If you listen to music to sleep, or even have a clock that ticks, listen for changes in tempo or lyrics (obviously don't trust your clock on that one, it doesn't know the words anyway). They can signify a change in your brainwaves. If they come through in your regular dreams, use it as an opportunity to try and change something. Like the "glitches" in Assasin's Creed, or the interrupts in Mass Effect 2.
As I said, practice makes perfect.
It can, as it shows conscious control. Try and change the dream instead of ending it, you're probably close enough to a lucid state for it to work.wolfapocalypse said:
Yes, once. It's a sensation that is...odd. Hard to forget.
It was about three years ago, so I was...11. The dream, I forget what it was about. I think I was in the jungle or something. It was a first person dream, a rarity among the few dreams I can remember. So, I was standing there, and suddenly my perspective pans out. Steadily.
So now I can see the back half of myself. Third-person perspective, so to speak. I move my arms, examining them, wondering whats going on. Mainly because as I move them, I'm seeing this from behind. I turn around, staring down my current perspective, which is a few feet behind me at this point. And it just hits me...
"Oh shit. I'm dreaming this."
I walk towards it a bit, moving my arms as if I was looking in a mirror. It only lasts a few seconds, however, because I woke up right after that.
So yeah, they're perspective warping....Weird.
It was about three years ago, so I was...11. The dream, I forget what it was about. I think I was in the jungle or something. It was a first person dream, a rarity among the few dreams I can remember. So, I was standing there, and suddenly my perspective pans out. Steadily.
So now I can see the back half of myself. Third-person perspective, so to speak. I move my arms, examining them, wondering whats going on. Mainly because as I move them, I'm seeing this from behind. I turn around, staring down my current perspective, which is a few feet behind me at this point. And it just hits me...
"Oh shit. I'm dreaming this."
I walk towards it a bit, moving my arms as if I was looking in a mirror. It only lasts a few seconds, however, because I woke up right after that.
So yeah, they're perspective warping....Weird.
When i used to dream (I haven't had a dream i could remember in years), they were all Lucid. I couldn't spawn stuff or control it in that sense, but I could decide where to go and what I wanted to do. Its like role playing, but you're actually there, not just imagining it.
and Antitonic, Ur Gato avatar rocks.
and Antitonic, Ur Gato avatar rocks.
For those who haven't experienced a Lucid Dream, the film Waking Life shows you a great deal about the world and what should happen during a lucid dream. It's done by the same director and in the same style as A Scanner Darkly.
Even if you do lucid dream, watch the film anyway, it will give you new ideas for what is possible.
Even if you do lucid dream, watch the film anyway, it will give you new ideas for what is possible.
One time this happened to me and I freaked out and fell off my bed.Commander Breetai said:
OT: In most of my dreams I can control myself and some of the world around me. Like this one time I was fighting a 6ft guy with a fully grown palm tree near a river in Africa with river people looking on in awe of our fighting prowess.
