Poll: Lucid Dreams

[Zaverexus]

My friend and I were having a discussion today after watching part of Inception and came to this question:
Have you ever had a lucid dream*? and if so what did you do?

*For those who don't know, a lucid dream is one in which you realize you are dreaming and are thus able to control the dream.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Quite regularly... seeing as how I wake up to AM on BBC Radio 4 (so I end up having hazy dreams of press conferences and MP bashing).

Best one is best described as follows: flying. is. awesome.

 

[monstersquad]

I also have lucid dreams. They happen with regularity. But it usually involves deliberately sleeping in for me. I also find it helps if you wake up just a little bit to move position, then fall right back to sleep.

My most memorable lucid dreaming experience is running around rooftops in my neighbourhood, Assassin's Creed style, years before the game ever came out.

 

[AngryMongoose]

Yeah, they usually go like this.
"Ah sweet, I'm lucid dreaming. But what if I think scary thoughts? Scary things will come to get me. Oh wait, I'm lucid dreaming, I can fly, lalalalala. And now I can shoot lightning form my hands! I said lightning from my hands! Oh gods, scary things coming to get me; oh wait I've woken up."

Naturally on my first ever lucid dream I decided to fly, coz people told me it was awesome. They were right. I need that power IRL TBH.

 

[bad rider]

Yes, I can't remember what I did though.

Interestingly though I find I generally have lucid dreams when I am awoken by my alarm clock. I assume this is because I'm jolted from the dream and thus I remember controlling it. Whereas If I sleep in, I don't and I assume this is because I have forgotten it towards the end of the sleep process.

 

[Bezz_Ad]

I have, several times actually.
Last time I was flying through a bunch of skyscrapers, I thought that was pretty cool, then I got bored and fell in a pit full of swords and died.

Some other time I decided to star in my own Japanese 80's monster flick. It was pretty silly and fun.

 

[Andaxay]

I've only ever had one, and it was weird in the sense that I lost control of the dream later on but carried on dreaming. I'd woken up in real life after a very nasty nightmare and it left me quite shaken, so I was determined to go to sleep and dream of something better. I started to imagine a scenario and eventually realised I'd fallen asleep and was dreaming about what I'd imagined. That's when stuff started happening beyond my control, and the dream carried on as if it were a normal dream. The first part that I was controlling was fantastic, though, I can remember tiny little details. I haven't been able to trigger one since, though I've been writing my dreams down in an attempt to trigger another one.

 

[Zeekar]

There are people who have never had a lucid dream?

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I don't think I've ever had a lucid dream.

Even on the occasion when I was perfectly aware that I was dreaming, usually because the dream was way to implausible to be reality, I've never been able to actually steer the dream in the direction I want it to go.

 

[Demonicdan]

Most of the time I know I'm having a dream, but I can only occasionally control them occasionally. My dreams are so random anyway I have no idea what's going on normally, so I just role with it.

 

[EHKOS]

Nope, everytime I realize I'm dreaming I lose control of the dream stability and wake up. Plus all I do is have imaginary sex anyways, no loss there.

 

[Korak the Mad]

What do you call it when you know you're dreaming, but are unable to control it?

I say I've had lucid nightmares. Very disturbing.

 

[Simple Bluff]

I very rarely even have dreams to begin with - and when I do, I'm surrounded by fog or clouds or something.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

I don't think I've had one yet. I'd like to experience one though since it seems awesome. Any tips?

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I've had many a dream, where I realise that I'm one but rarely able to control it. Perhaps a result of low self-esteem, can't even get people to do what I want in my imagination.

 

[blipblop]

What do you call it when you know you're dreaming, but are unable to control it?

I say I've had lucid nightmares. Very disturbing.

I think its called sleaping paralysis, had it a fev times.

 

[trollnystan]

I have a lot of lucid dreams, at least insofar as I'm well aware that I'm dreaming. But I'm dreadful at controlling the dreams; to this day I've never had a flying dream =(

 

[Video Gone]

I do, quite regularly in fact. My first ever one involved flying, predictably.
My most recent one was quite an interesting affair, however. It took place in a strange world that seemed to be governed by game mechanics and systems, with everyone in the world fully aware of this. Like a much more extreme version of Scott Pilgrim's universe, actually. This world was amazing. I believe I became lucid shortly after walking down a moonlit bridge that reminds me of the architecture of Ruba Cava from Grim Fandango in retrospect. Becoming lucid in this way made it strangely like being the protagonist of a video game, even though all of the people in this world were fully aware of the systems governing it.
The dream seemed very long, but I won't go too far into that as time works in weird ways in dreams. After I lost lucidity, which very rarely happens to me, I think I just went about my business in this world, aware of the systems but not questioning them, like a character in Scott Pilgrim would. At this point it actually fell into what was, I now see, a shameless ripoff of Scott Pilgrim, with me as the protagonist and, in the place of Ramona, a guy who was much less bitchy and obnoxious than Ramona.
So that was a cool/weird dream.

 

[nothinghere]

I don't even know what its like to dream... let alone control it