Poll: Lucid Dreaming

[Soxafloppin]

No but i want one

 

[shinigamisparda]

Hell yes, every damn night. In my dreams I'm basically God. I control every aspect of everything.

 

[Kimjira19]

Once or twice.

 

[Noone From Nowhere]

I have had them frequently enough to know that falling asleep mid-thought makes them much more likely.
Of course, knowing that I'm dreaming doesn't allow me to force myself awake reliably, though sub-consciously, I might not want to...except if I'm being sexually harassed by naked politicians or burning to death or something.

 

[Archaon6044]

i've had lucid dreams before, and they're some of the most awesoe and fucking terratying experiences of my life, because literally ANYTHING is possible. i once heard that in dreams about falling great distances, if you ever encounter the bottom, you will die in your sleep (some crazy theory like that anyway). the other day i had a lucid dream, and went skydiving, partway down i remembered that conversation, and guess what happened: muggins here lost his parachute and hit the ground. i've never before jolted awake so hard that i've moved the bed across my room, but that caused a good couple of inches of movement

video was terrible, made no sense and had a horrible animation style

 

[Kathinka]

Lucid dreaming isn't something you can learn, you can either do it or you can't

au contrair, there are a lot of techniques to learn it.

 

[Adzma]

Last year for a good few months I was doing all the necessary Lucid Dreaming techniques. One night, everything seemed to pay off as I realised I was dreaming and was like: "Sweet!" and then I woke up immediately afterwards. I got so pissed off I never bothered trying again.

 

[wildpeaks]

Wait, do you really have synesthesia? What kind of synesthesia? Because all the teenage hippie talk about lucid dreaming is one thing, but perception is actually a very interesting subject.

I had lucid dreaming only a very few times, but grapheme synesthesia is for as long as I can remember (and sometimes auditory, but for some reason that's more recent, maybe I wasn't paying attention, maybe I grew accustomed to the idea, I'm not sure).

For example, in this image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stroop_interference.jpg
the last two lines are so "wrong" it hurts :/

I used to think it was just me until some years ago when a collegue at work pointed me to some online links and it felt like "omg, it's exactly that !"

 

[rokkolpo]

yes and i realised that when you know your dreaming a dream is rather short.

so i went ahead and make it an ''M'' rated dream.

 

[Clantau]

About last week I had a dream about exchanging a normal fallout 3 for fallout 3 goty and when I got it I said in my dream "This is a dream, isn't it?" And then the guy nodded so i tried turning him into kirby but the best I could do is a yellow kirby with a sword >_>

 

[wildpeaks]

Hmm... so is this related to memory only?

I honestly don't know, but the fact many people see "a" as red, me included, seems strange.

Do you actually perceive colours overlapping text or do you associate the memory of letters and numbers to colours?

Voyels and numbers are very strongly colorful (it covers the letters and "bleeds out") while the other letters are more like monochrome (ok not really monochrome, but less intense at least, it doesn't influence the letters (or symbols) around them).

Actually, once I was curious to try to see what would happen with non-latin languages like chinese and thai, and even if the colors are much less intense (maybe because I have no clue what words/symbols woulds mean), I can still sense a pattern: without thinking, there is color there, but I think the sound is a factor to the strength of the color (unrelated [well, not that I noticed at least] to music-induced colors).

On the other hand, I am used to try to repress paying too much attention to it because I spend 99% of my awake time looking at text (programming ftw) [so syntax highlighting colors make more sense profesionnally than my natural colors], though I feel very confortable with pages and pages of black & white code because the colors somehow "make sense" while my collegue go crazy over the walls of text.

Now, a person who has a car accident because a guitar riff paints his vision in bright orange, that's just cool.

Haha

Edit:
One boring evening, I went ahead and made a map of the alphabet: http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs005.snc1/4162_76332802437_828317437_1687531_6189987_n.jpg (facebook photo, I hope the link works nontheless) where plain letters represents colors that bleed out and outlined letter means color that are there but don' influence their neighbourgs. I really should add numbers to that one day however as, unlkoe letter, they all strongly bleed out.

 

[wildpeaks]

Okay so if the feeling of rubber makes me want to bite someone, is that Synesthesia or am i just one fucked up individual?

Probably a bit of both :-D

 

[mannaroth]

Yes, I was very deprived of sleep. Good times good times.