So this kept me up......

[fat american]

Yeah, it's called "lucid dreaming" in the psych circles, and it's cool when it happens; something like the ultimate sandbox game in a way.

The ones I hate are the nightmares where you wake up, see something that suggests that the nightmare actually happened, and then you really wake up. I don't need existential crises before my first cup of coffee, thank you...

-- Steve

When I was a weeee little boy(with Irish accent) I had just played house of the dead earlier in the arcade. I went to sleep and I had a dream that zombies had gotten into my house so I run into my room and hide. The door busts open and there's a zombie that forces me to 'wake up'. A couple seconds after waking up a zombie busts through my door. That happens about, not joking, five or six times before I actually wake with a cold sweat. I was freaking out but it was also totally freaking awesome.

I however, hate nightmares that feel like you're actually awake. You know how you don't know you're dreaming, but you don't feel quite like when you're awake? Well I had a dream where the zombie apocalypse came (this was many years later but I think you can see a trend starting here). It felt very real, and very scary. But, once again, when I woke up I was a little disturbed but I thought it was cool.

I don't know about you guys but I feel pain in my dreams. One time I was in a truck when I slipped on some ice and fell off a bridge. The steering column went into my chest and it hurt to breath. I awoke later with no pain in my chest and I wasn't having an asthma attack either.

 

[Aluathay]

Supposedly there is a way to dream like that all the time, and it's supposed to be the best virtual reality ever.
Also Has anybody ever felt like as you wake up you feel like you fall into your bed? like if you were levitating above it and suddenly just fall into it. I felt it a couple of times and it always scares me

Total Recall anyone....but yes I do that a lot, but I am walking up stairs and then I fall back its scary sometimes but I like the free fall felling of it.

 

[gigastrike]

I only had this opportunity once. I wasted it trying to come up with a fun video game idea. The game sucked and it made me feel bad.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I've had lucid dreams before.Its quite the memorable experience. Supposedly, you can train yourself to better control them.

I occasionally toy with the dream manifestations of people I know, but most of them are pretty boring. I pretty much just run/fly through forests during those sorts of dreams. I know I could do more, but it just feels soooo good to be free like that. I wonder what that says about me...

Toy with dream manifestations? I assumed I was the only one on here who believed in things like that.

I think I've entered a lucid dream before, but I'm not sure. I was aware that it was a dream, and that nothing was real, but any attempts to alter anything failed miserably. It was frustrating.

 

[KaZZaP]

I dream allmost every time I sleep and I do control them. It is still a dream and shit happens but for the most part I am aware of myself and I'm aware that I'm dreaming. I also have a dream bail out technique that if I wanna wake up because my plane is gonna crash or that nuke just went off or w/e I just close my eyes (in my dream) concentrate a bit then pull my eyes open. Opening them again feels like they weigh 10 pounds but once I force them open I'm awake.

 

[spuddyt]

Also, you remember only about 1 in a million dreams, so keeping a dream journal sometimes have been known to help manipulate dreams.

umm actually..... (according to my limited psychological study knowledge -) You dream when in REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, and it has been proven that if you are woken up in this period of sleep, you are vastly more likely to remember having a dream - so its not really 1 in a million, unless you are never interrupted in sleep.

Be that as it may, not everyone is woken up in the REM period.

I was just saying, because I think 1 in a million is too high, even considering the small fraction of time you spend in REM sleep compared to just sleeping in general

 

[dangerousdave_42]

love it when that happens though almost always the dream will slip out of my memory within minutes of getting up leaving me with a vague and weird feeling and all I can remember is that it really did not make any since

 

[rossatdi]

I remember the last time I was in one of those semi-control states. Things were just about to get sexy when the alarm went off. Almost through my clock through the wall. Never had a worse morning commute.

Come to think of it, the only real time I get control of them its generally in a sexy direction anyway. Hmmm... shit.

 

[Sennz0r]

Every time I have a bad dream I realise it's a dream and I force myself to work up. Quite a nifty trick but not as fun as actually controlling your dream. It worked once or twice for me, controlling my dreams, but usually I 'try' too hard and it slips away from me and I wake up angry.

 

[FrankDux]

My dreams are pretty subdued unless I have something to spur them on and make them creative, i actually had a really freaky one after I saw the Uninvited trailer I bet most of you will too:

http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/the-univented/trailer

 

[Jamash]

Is it strange that I have lucid dreams most of the time?

Sometimes I even have embedded lucid dreams. I wake up from one dream into another one (sometimes multiple times), and usually the dream I wake up into, is so normal & realistic that it takes me a while to realise I'm still dreaming.

For instance I may have a crazy lucid dream, then wake up, have breakfast, go to work.
Towards the end of the work day I'll suddenly remember that I haven't worked in this place for 8 years, and some of the people in my dream aren't alive any more, didn't even work there in the first place, or are school acquaintances I haven't know in 20 years.

It's at this point of realisation that I can start to manipulate my dream in more crazy ways, but usually I just try to and struggle to wake myself up (usually with a frustrated groan).

Also I feel really exhausted after these crazy dream sessions, both mentally & physically.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE IN THIS WORLD!! I told this stuff to my mom before and she thought i was crazy..it has to be the greatest thing ever..flying and doing criminal things because you know its a dream..The best experience ever

 

[undyingdh777]

Yes, you can, and it's freaking awesome.

 

[Baonec]

I don't think I've experienced that, but I do have the dreams where you trip or fall down from something and your body convulses, making it seem like you just landed in your bed. I hate them >_< they always freak me out.

I love those dreams though it tends to freak other peole out if someones near you.

 

[_Janny_]

I've had a lot of those lucid dreams and I love them! But keeping a journal hasn't really worked for me... I just try to constantly ask myself if what I'm experiencing is reality or not, you know, look at a clock and see if it moves normally, hold my breath, etc.

I just love it when I get to fly or swim, I remember having a dreams where I was running around like in Mirror's Edge but instead of jumping within normal human possibilities I almost started to fly. To be fair, I watch those ME trailers almost every day so it was bound to happen.

 

[Mezzlegasm]

I hate it when you have an awesome dream, that you are controlling almost. Then you think hey wait a minute...then you wake up and are like "SHIT!"

I do that in almost every dream I have ever had. Its so annoying!
Has anyone ever had one of those dreams where the radio is on and the song that is playing was on TV. It happened to me, Stewie was singing Rocket Man in my dream and Rocket Man was on the radio, it was pretty cool.

Not trying to be racist I'm serious. I was dreaming about fried chicken and I woke up. It was about 2 AM and Chapelle's show was on the stash.

 

[EXPLICITasian]

I do naughty things in those dreams...

 

[Starnerf]

I've had a few lucid experiences, but I was only able to control one of them. Most of the time I'm doing something fun that I never get to do, but once I realize I'm having fun something clicks in my brain and the dream fades away. It's very discouraging.

 

[TMAN10112]

I've had those dreams befor, however they usualy occur 18 secounds befor my alarmclock goes off.