Poll: Lucid Dreaming

[wildpeaks]

Yeah, and I remember thinking "wow it's amazing, it's so detailed and realistic ".

Then again, I often feel like the sky has been photoshopped when I look outside the window, so I'm not the best to judge

 

[Fbuh]

I have one every couple of weeks now. I also get weekily prophetic dreams, that is to say, I dream specific events and they then happen in real life. I also dream in color.

 

[ribonuge]

It's quite an interesting concept, who knows with improvements in technique and technology it might one day be possible to initiate lucid dreams at will, although if you can decide what happens is there much point in living in the real world?

There is technology being used already to initiate them. It uses a series of flashing lights that just permeate through your eyelids while you sleep, letting you know you're dreaming.
http://www.lucidity.com/novadreamer.html

You'll find you are alot happier with the real world when you lucid dream. It can be extremely insightful in relation to waking life. Dreaming is like talking to your consciousness so you don't know what you might discover.

Also there have been reports of people extending time in their dreams, and living for what feels like a week in the dream world, only to wake up and find they've been asleep for 8-9 hours. The possibilities are, as I said, endless.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

I'm pretty sure I pinched or slapped myself and started to freak out when that didn't work. Then too many things start to activate and I end up waking up.

 

[Marmalade]

Ive had many lucid dreams cant really remember them but in one i was in a giant cave when i suddenly realized i was dreaming, but like 2 minutes after my dream was swapped and i was suddenly bending water like in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and i think there was a yellow submarine, and i had forgotten that it was a dream man my dreams are weird...

 

[DemonicVixen]

thousands of times... and i can make myself wake up from some of them if things go bad...

 

[Syl4r]

I had two, the first one i flew around for a bit.
The second one i conquered the earth with a army of cylons. Fun tiems.

 

[Beldaros]

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

 

[ChaosGenesis]

I've realized a few times. The problem is I usually wake up not long after.
I have a reoccurring one where I'm surrounded by money and every time, for some reason, I think that if I stuff my pockets with it that it'll come with me when I wake up.

 

[OrionKurnous]

Just had one today, actually.

 

[wildpeaks]

I also dream in color.

+1, and I can read texts in dreams (which I found out at school at the time I wasn't supposed to be able to bcause reading is done by the other side of the brain than dreaming, or something).

Synesthesia ftw, gotta love seeing text or hearing sounds in colors

 

[Skuffyshootster]

I have a few times. I usually somehow both being the person in my dream and observing the person in my dream when I have Lucid dreams.

It's all very confusing.

That's what all of my dreams are like.

I'm not sure if they're lucid dreams, but I've had dreams that I think are actually real events when I wake up.

Things like a pretty girl liking me, getting a game early, school being out, etc.

 

[Scorp123]

I remember having a nightmare about a zombie apocalypse and saying to myself "Well,thats what happens when you play too much half-life"

 

[wildpeaks]

but I've had dreams that I think are actually real events when I wake up.

Oh yeah, those are really frustrating when you realize it's not real :/

 

[Connosaurus Rex]

I did but I can't remember exactly what I did.

 

[ribonuge]

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

That isn't true. Everybody can do it, look up the experiments. Some just have a natural affinity with dreaming while others don't. Like music sort of. Some have rhythm naturally, others have to work at it.

 

[Outright Villainy]

It happens quite often for dreams I even remember in the first place, but then I'll invariably wake up soon after, like in a few seconds or so. 2 or 3 times ever i've done it properly.
Flying. Is. Awesome.
Must try this out though, it sounds like a lot of fun...

 

[ribonuge]

It happens quite often if i remember a dream but then I'll invariably wake up soon after, like in a few seconds or so. 2 or 3 times ever i've done it properly.
Flying. Is. Awesome.
Must try this out though, it sounds like a lot of fun...

Yeah flying is one of my trademarks too. Except I always fly backwards, like as though a huge invisible hand is pulling me back in the air. It's pretty damn cool.