Anyone else able to do this?

I've gotten pretty good at it lately, still have some work.

so far i've gotten to the point that im not aware that im dreaming but for some reaon i am aware i'm able to control the outcome.

its happening almost every night now.


and every so often i have a completely lucid dream where i know im sleeping so i do stuff like fly and my favorite-i made a dinosaur parade come in front of my house (with cowboys on their back).
however i wanted the t rex to be purple and no matter how hard i tried i couldn't do it

6/3/2011 12:13:14 PM

I'd really like to start working on this, but I don't think I have the dedication right now.

6/3/2011 12:14:28 PM

I never tried to do it, but I do it quite often- I actually didn't realize it wasn't normal until about a year ago

6/3/2011 12:14:40 PM

for me it was an exponential progress.

the first few times were really hard and then it got easier and easier.

^yeah my first several were on accident.... and before i knew it i was able to do it for all of them

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6/3/2011 12:15:07 PM

I do like that i can sit there and see something about to happen in my dream, and all the sudden find myself thinking (in the dream), "wait- this is my dream, and I'm gonna do what I want"

6/3/2011 12:18:36 PM

^ME TOO!!!! hahahaha

6/3/2011 12:18:59 PM

Yes

Flying is done often.

Some notes on my style of flying in the dream -

Dreams involving vehicular flying (1) - had magic green flying scooter unfortunately was not capable of unassisted flight - think green hoverboard with forward grip. Variable altitude (unlike hoverboard) made forward grips accessible whiles standing necessary for stability. That's my story explaining the pussified hoverboard scooter.

Dreams involving personal flying (about 20) - something about personal flying is that moving through the air has the texture of swimming in that I can get it going and fly however high I want and for as long as I want but it's really really hard to get going and takes time. It's much easier to keep flying once you're flying than it is to start flying

If anyone else has had to flying is like swimming experience in the dream, please lemme know thanks!

6/3/2011 12:19:45 PM

I never tried to do this because my dreams are usually pretty awesome anyway.

6/3/2011 12:20:34 PM

i have to move my arms in big swoop motions.

6/3/2011 12:21:03 PM

how do you accomplish this?

6/3/2011 12:21:44 PM

I wanna watch Joie sleep.

6/3/2011 12:22:13 PM

i honestly dont know how to start.
like i said mine started on accident, i know there are tutorials online.

here's one:
http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream

[Edited on June 3, 2011 at 12:23 PM. Reason : ^ ]

6/3/2011 12:22:57 PM

how about a lucid dream where you dream about where you actually are in real life...sleeping on a secluded beach in a sleeping bag out in the open. the only thing is, you're dreaming about raccoons scratching your face. you try desperately to wake yourself up from the dream, but you can't. you try to scream as much as you can, but it comes out as nothing more than grunts and groans. you wake up the next morning to have your friends confirm that you were grunting and groaning, but you don't know if the raccoons were actually fucking with you in your sleep.

6/3/2011 12:24:52 PM

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"If anyone else has had to flying is like swimming experience in the dream, please lemme know"

When I was a kid I had frequently recurring dreams about sort of flying. More hovering I guess. But it was like treading water for me. I was on my back in a V-type position and had to move my arms around in circles to keep myself up.

6/3/2011 12:26:58 PM

Yeah exactly - gotta tread water to keep flying lol but whatever! I'll do it

yeah I guess it works because you just convince yourself to apply the normal physics of swimming and that allows your brain to process it

if it weren't for the awesome things we dream we wouldn't have ever invented anything

6/3/2011 12:33:06 PM

I've done this for years. If you're trying to build on it, the best thing to do is to try to remember your dreams when you wake up whether it involves writing it down or just saying it out loud.

When I dream its not that I can control circumstances or environments, they're random, I can control my actions and I guess for lack of a better word manifest things that I can use to my advantage. Also, I can't control the actions of others in my dreams. I can also wake myself up when I need to. It's not like I get to sleep every night and just materialize a threesome with Jessica Alba and Scarlet Johansen on some beach in Tahiti.

I can actually find myself in my dream and put together the logic to realize when something is implausible and control the dream or end it. I used to be afraid to sleep when I was a kid because I hated having nightmares but now I enjoy them because I can flip them around and make it funny or pwn whatever is that's going against me.

this shit is kind of hard to explain :shrug:

6/3/2011 12:42:47 PM

I alternate between this and dreams that I think are so real I have to wake up...tell myself where I am and that whatever happened in my dream didnt really happen.

Just last night I dreamt I was being arrested and was able to control the dream and all.

I always seem to remember by dreams if not right after I wake up something later in the day will trigger my memory and it'll come back to me.

I dunno how i got to be this way but I have...my next thing is I want to be able to control the colors in the dream.

6/3/2011 1:13:42 PM

Keep it going until you have an OBE

6/3/2011 1:21:51 PM

wat?

i don't believe all this...

6/3/2011 1:26:04 PM

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"so far i've gotten to the point that im not aware that im dreaming but for some reaon i am aware i'm able to control the outcome."

I've gotten to the point that I'm aware that I'm dreaming... but it fucking sucks because I haven't figured a way to wake myself up.


I remember being in a white computer lab with other people and the devil was popping up on different monitors while the room was shrinking around me. It was scary but I knew I was dreaming but I didn't wake up until I died of suffication



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6/3/2011 1:30:07 PM

^ i too have had that

6/3/2011 1:56:42 PM

I've done this before.
But every time I think I'm dreaming and understand the rules my mind tricks me on it. Perhaps its my realist side taking over the dream and convincing my subconscious that what I'm doing can't happen though.

6/3/2011 2:00:14 PM

In before "Lucid Creaming" parody.

6/3/2011 2:03:14 PM

aww dang..I already used my one thread

6/3/2011 2:04:08 PM

I fly by swimming as well. Sometimes I can do sort of an inertial flying by running downhill, jumping, and lowering my arms and holding that position to glide for a while. Works on stairs too. The swimming flying is pretty much just like swimming though. Makes sense.

6/3/2011 2:23:51 PM

The few times I've become lucid, I can't say it felt like swimming or anything. If I thought "go straight up", I went straight up. Mostly I flew in the manner that Superman flies, with ease.

6/3/2011 2:29:19 PM

I've done a lot of reading on it, but never had any success. Every time I realize I'm dreaming I wake up immediately.

6/3/2011 2:30:42 PM

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"I never tried to do this because my dreams are usually pretty awesome anyway"

6/3/2011 2:30:57 PM

i call shenanigans. i think you all are just dreaming that you are in a lucid dream. a dream within a dream if you will.

6/3/2011 2:31:55 PM

My problem is when I wake up and realize all the awesome things that just happened weren't real

6/3/2011 2:32:14 PM

6/3/2011 2:33:52 PM

I guess I thought the dream-space would be all about the visual, but it's more about the feeling. My question is what happens when you start messing with the physics of it?

6/3/2011 4:23:23 PM

Joie has got her heaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad in the clouds, she's not at all what she seems

6/3/2011 4:26:18 PM

Never create a dream from memory, always create from the imagination because building a dream from your memory is the easiest way to lose your grasp on what's real and what is a dream.

6/3/2011 4:27:13 PM

this is how Jared Loughner got started. I'm just saying...

6/3/2011 6:27:22 PM

Look at the photo of aaronburro posing with his man-friend before the whole wikileaks thing "allegedly" went down



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6/3/2011 6:54:25 PM

I brought the airline.

6/3/2011 6:56:58 PM

i was able to do this for a while years ago. there are tricks to help you. Things like reminding/asking yourself if you're awake throughout the day, and touching objects and thinking "this is real." Sounds kind of silly, but doing it seemed to help. The idea is that 1) you get in the habit of asking if you're awake so that you're more likely to do so in your dreams, and 2) it helps you more easily recognize when you're not awake or something isn't real/that you're dreaming.


That being said, I've always wondered if I was truly lucid dreaming (controlling my dreams or at least myself in my dreams), or if I was dreaming that I was lucid dreaming... and does it even matter as long as I wake up thinking as much?

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6/3/2011 7:38:09 PM

These aren't just dreams, these are memories and you said never to use memories!

6/3/2011 7:50:37 PM

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" When I was a kid I had frequently recurring dreams about sort of flying. More hovering I guess. But it was like treading water for me. I was on my back in a V-type position and had to move my arms around in circles to keep myself up. "

When I was a kid, i had recurring dreams where I would be running, and then jump, but instead of landing back down, i’d keep moving into the air and then begin flying. No flapping or treading involved (not sure how that would work since I can’t swim IRL).

6/3/2011 8:28:47 PM

^ I used to dream this quite often as well. Just kind of travel above ground.

6/3/2011 8:32:16 PM

It seems like I rarely dream, or atleast don't remember them. I'm jealous of you guys.

6/3/2011 10:16:46 PM

True inspiration is impossible to fake.

6/3/2011 10:21:15 PM

i can do it too... its like the matrix meets SNL.

6/3/2011 11:04:37 PM

i have weird lucid dreams when i get fevers

6/4/2011 12:06:25 AM

For me there is a fine line between making myself go into lucid sleep and sleep paralysis which is scary as fuck. I always end up thinking that i am dead

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6/4/2011 12:11:08 AM

I recently bought a sleep mask off Amazon. My main reason for buying it was to block out sunlight; a recent change in the position of my bed relative to the window was causing sunlight to shine right in my eyes, which would in turn cause me to wake up sooner than I would have normally.

The mask works great for the purpose of blocking out sunlight, but something else has happened since I began using it: I now have extremely vivid dreams, often bizarre or macabre in nature. There's no doubt in my mind that the sleep mask is what's causing this. I "lost" the mask for a couple of weeks and found it, wore it last night, and had a dream in which I could control my actions (though I still could not control the environment - at one point I found myself walking through a childhood neighborhood, but most of the dream took place in/around a building that I did not recognize), yet I had a strange sense that it was not real.

I'm known for having a good "sense of time"; I can often guess the time within 5-10 minutes, even if I haven't seen a clock in hours. In the dream, I continued to "know the time." I repeatedly mentioned to others in the dream that it was getting too late, and that I had to get up for work in X hours, which presented a real problem for me. I can't confirm that I was correctly tracking the time, though I suspect that I was; the dream seemed to end about two hours before I woke up.

6/20/2011 4:33:57 PM

dream time=real time for you?

6/20/2011 4:56:11 PM

I don't know for sure. I'd have to find some way to test it. It at least seemed as though my temporal awareness was intact, though.

6/20/2011 4:59:29 PM

Kinda wish I could do this.

I can't even really remember my dreams anymore though--a few years ago when I was single, I used to be able to remember them almost every night, and would often write them down. Once in my current relationship I've noticed I almost never remember my dreams when my girlfriend came over or when I slept at her place--once we moved in together, this means that I never really remember them.

6/20/2011 5:17:31 PM