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- scoy, on 11/02/2007, -19/+181Step 1 - Take a lot of acid
Step 2 - Wait an hour
Step 3 - Enjoy - drpeppper, on 11/02/2007, -5/+116id probably just get on digg
- RatherDashing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+97He lists everything he uses lucid dreaming for except for banging hot broads.
- Revadarth, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51I thought that was normal. I can usually alter my dreams, especially if I'm in a light sleep and about to wake up.
- TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43It's never a good sign when you start getting on the internet in your sleep.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37I like to lucid dream from time to time. In all honesty, I would set my alarm clock to 3am. When my alarm would wake me up, I would fall right back asleep and able to control my dream. For some reason, the hardest thing to do is bang a hot chick. It might be because you get so excited you wake up . . .
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Dupe
I read this is a dream last night. - newtypea, on 11/02/2007, -13/+41I have flown before in my dreams, it really makes you feel free. I wish I could do this at will.
- Democritus2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Take 3mg melatonin. You will lucid dream.
- 15thPD, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26I've only had like 3 or 4 actual sex dreams in my life time. They're all totally random, andwhen I get to the actual sex, I wake up. With blue balls.
- kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22the waking from excitement is very true. i was dreaming i was falling, i try to fly, i did! haha amazing! then i fall again and hit, where the "impact" shook my body awake.
- candiru, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22People like you are rare. I hope you understand how lucky you are.
- robotexplorer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I had a professor who did his PhD on lucid dreaming, he told of his friend and co researcher who at the end of their project basically went insane and disappeared. After a few years they met each other again in NYC, the disappeared researcher had turned into a homeless and when the professor asked him what had happened to him and how he could live as a bum when he was a well respected scholar, he replied ...I'm only a bum for a few hours in a day, but when I fall asleep I can be a god for years.
There’s a problem with lucid dreams in that they disturb the natural function of dreams.
Because you take control of your subconscious it can't do its job...whatever that job may be such as organizing daily events as well as sorting out memories. Dreams have natural healing functions and it’s said that by lucid dreaming you take away the healing that dreams may offer at the end of the day. - secretrk1313, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17the funnyest thing happend to me, i didnt realize i was dreaming even after the fact sharks were danceing arround me while i was on a laptop, then why i went into the control pannel and system it said it was a 42bit computer. after this i LOLed in my dream because i could belive sharkes dancing on their fins arround me but not a 42bit computer :)
- jban4US, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16The ones where you are falling and then jolt awake are very common and often occur right after going to sleep. You are generally in NREM-2 stage of sleep. They are called hypnogogic hallucinations.
- krakelohm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15yea gotta love the feeling of waking up with a hole in the pillow and the cat is lookin at you funny.
- archer104, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I like nightmares because then when you wake up you are relieved and feel appreciative of your reality. The worst thing is having a great dream and then waking up to your suck-ass life.
- pcheaven2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The power of Lucid Dreaming goes way beyond "banging a hot chick" my friends. Imagine being able to teleport yourself to anywhere in the universe, to meet other intelligent races, spend weeks on an alien planet and wake up only a few minutes later. It doesn't matter if you believe you are dreaming these things are happening or believe that while in a dream state you can truely make these things happen, either way it is f'ing amazing.
I have used the power of dreams to go places on Earth I have never been and never read about or seen pictures of, then when I woke went and looked those places up on the computer and they are almost always IDENTICAL to what they where in my dreams. Was I just dreaming it, was I using teleportation or telekenisis or do I just have a really good imagination.....I'm not sure, but it is still amazing what can be accomplished in a dream state.
There are a couple things that I have found that help me to fall into a Lucid Dream state:
1.) Wait until you are really really tired, like falling asleep while walking to bed tired.
2.) As soon as you lay down start thinking the same thing over and over and over again right up until you fall asleep.
3.) If you hit REM sleep really easily then set your alarm for a time well after you hit REM to wake you, then go right back to sleep using the steps above.....you will usually go into a Lucid Dream state this way. - Daiken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12No kidding. I was so into counter-strike at one time that I would regularly dream about playing the game or meeting the people I played with. It was so nutty. I always had a gun and I was always on some rambo style killing spree.
- saranagati, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@kingfoot
the trick for me to return back to the same dream once i wake up is just don't open my eyes. Usually if my alarm clock goes off, or someone wakes me up or whatever, I can usually return to the same dream as long as I don't open my eyes when I wake up. - Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Personally, I can only even remember a dream once a week or so, if that. Maybe it's because I wake up at 5:30? Although, even if I sleep in on Saturdays, i "don't have" any dreams.
Hmm, maybe it's because I use them all up during the day when i'm bored. =P - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Acid and sleep deprivation help trigger my lucid dreaming. Dissociatiaves (and dissociative anaethetics) help induce sleep paralysis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis )
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I had a semi-lucid dream where I could have taken advantage of one of my dream charachters, but for a stupid reason I felt sorry and told her its all a dream and its not gonna happen. I woke up then and realised what i just did and cursed outloud.
- keikun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I usually just draw an X on my hand and use it as a trigger in my dreams to realize that I am really dreaming and then the fun begins.
- uberwaboose, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12People, this guy makes a simple statement, and you digg him down?
- alej744, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Actually no, the thing is only that people that can do it will comment to brag about it, but the ones that can't (like me) usually just stay quiet.
I rarely ever remember my dreams, because I'm an extremely heavy sleeper. - victimofkratina, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9i was reading stories about how people would live for decades inside a nights lucid dream, i think there could be a possiblility of time slowing down in dreams, but the idea of decades is insane, you think they would wakeup completely different people.
- archer104, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Eating a Jack's spicy chicken sandwich from jack-in-the-box usually gives me crazy dreams. Not good or bad just crazy...Oprah crazy...
Try it if you don't believe me. - alen3K, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Watch "Waking Life" - it`s kinda of an HowTo : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/
- Morca007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I've been trying, off and on, for over a year, to have Lucid dreams.
Anyone who does it naturally is really F'ing lucky. - StayLucid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Lucid dreams - great topic! I was considering submitting a lucid dream article myself soon. I'm quite the avid lucid dreamer, as you can probably tell by my nick...
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned www.dreamviews.com. It's an excellent source for everything LD-related, including very active and informative forums. www.ld4all.com is an alternative, though it's a little on the flaky side.
If only everyone could lucid dream at will - what a difference it would make to humankind.... - Kibitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I have lucid dreams frequently. When you manage to get it right, they are very powerful and realistic. However, people still behave as they do in regular dreams. i.e. it's impossible to have a real conversation with someone, and people don't really respond to what you're doing in a normal way. Besides that, you can pretty much do anything.
- ldykillr75, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I really think this is the best way -
http://www.davidwoodard.com/dreamachine.html
A flash version -
http://callmeburroughs.tripod.com/dreamachine/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Also, some vitamin B6 along with that melatonin. I was one of those people that used to say "I don't dream" until I tried that. Then I was one of those people that says "Holy *****, I had this dream last night..."
- chamel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Ughhh I think that falls under anything the mind can imagine.. : )
- Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9You meet other intelligent races? Like Blacks and Asians (Assuming your white)? You must be from Iowa or something.
- victimofkratina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6are these like vitamin supplements you can buy in the store?
- celotil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6My strangest dream was like a lucid dream, but also somewhat out of control as well.
I was sitting up in bed and sitting on the edge of my bed was a good friend of mine that I hadn't seen for a several months. He's still alive, this isn't one of those "saw my dead friend" stories.
Anyway, we had a good long conversation and I remember turning to look out the window and I saw the sky was an odd colour, more sort of reddish-purple than blue, and I said to him, "This is a dream.", and he said to me, "Yes, it is, but you're not asleep."
After he said this he got up, said "I'll see ya later mate.", and he stepped out of my room and closed the door.
What makes the dream strange is that I woke up without having to open my eyes, or move on the bed. I'd been dreaming while sitting up and staring around my room. The only things that were different between dreaming and being awake was the colour of the sky and my friend.
No, I was not taking medication and I wasn't sick either, which is when I normally have lucid dreams.
A more interesting dream that I used to have, and have been slowly having more often these days, is more like a series of dreams, and I'm sure that there's a few other people here who have had these.
You're in a place that can't exist in reality - the physics are not quite right, such as houses that can stand on their arched rooftops without tipping over - and you know it's a dream but you don't wake up so you explore a little, seeing what else is here, in this strange yet wonderful place.
The next time you dream you're in a similar place, just as impossible and just as strange, but when you explore you notice something. Just over there, a little way away from you is something familiar. It's part of the other dream, a piece of land that you'd visited last time you were asleep.
I've got a whole state, somewhere between the size of Queensland and Australia - it tends to shrink and grow depending on what's happening - that's still slowly growing in my mind, getting bigger and more explorable as I dream about different parts of it.
Each time I go to a high point like a hill, or fly in an aircraft, through my dreams I see how the pieces come together, sometimes watching the landscape shift and change depending on where I'm looking and what's next to it - for example, there's a park that was first a field of tall brown grass, changes to a green hill with trees if I walk from the bottom of the hill to the top, changes from a park to a forest if I walk down the hill, and has a major highway running through it if I'm driving, and a steam subway runs through the bottom if I catch the train.
The whole thing is so clear and neatly put together that I tried drawing a map of it a few years ago, but it's a bit difficult to draw a 4 dimensional terrain on a piece of 2D paper. :)
Our reality is constructed on input we receive through our five senses, but when we're asleep our reality is whatever can be created with thought. I also think that time in dreams can run slower or faster than in real life simply because we have no external clock to draw a relationship of time upon.
I've had one dream that was just a dinner, a simple meal with a woman I've only met once and never saw again. That dream seemed to pass so quickly, but I woke up twice from it - it just continued on when I fell back to sleep - and saw that the short dinner had taken nearly eight hours to pass.
Other times I've had dreams where so much had happened that there was no way possible for everything to happen in the six hours I was asleep, but in my dream everything flowed smoothly and progressed in a logical, timely fashion - all two days of the dream. - captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Oh man I do that. Dream about working all day then wake up and have do do it all over again.
- Morca007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Heh, that is exactly how I move in dreams. I always jump about the length of a city block.
- kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11You know a dream is bad when you are sad to wake up from it. I wish all those fuzzy feeling dreams could be put on pause easily. only ONCE have I had a dream continue after waking up. Any other dream is ridiculously new or a complete repeat. many of which are de' ja' vu' moments for me later on, but I don't remember the dream, it just feels like I dreamed it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13Hmm I dont know about anyone else but this is usually how my dreams are. I know im dreaming and i control myself (mostly) sometimes you cant but you still know your dreaming.
- CaptanAwal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I regularly take 2 or 3 3mg melatonin. I actually just took 3. Good night.
- herculez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5WikiBooks (from the folks who brought you Wikipedia) has an entire online book devoted to lucid dreaming:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreaming - StayLucid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It may be a "simple statement", but it is absolutely true. Flying in your dreams is an absolutely amazing experience. This is one of my favourite things to do when lucid. newtypea, just keep practicing, and you'll be able to have dreams of flying (and much more) at will. Good luck.
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I hear the best way to fly is to fall and then be distracted by something.
- charmedguy18, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I think what you are referring to is astral projection. It's common for one to go to the astral plane from a lucid dream. One of my sister's friends did this. But now she won't even talk about it, and she says she doesn't do it anymore. Apparently something really scary happened while doing it once. In any case, I'd still like to try it. But I've not yet.
- AhronZombi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this and out of body eperiances have been a huge spiritual awakening in my life, and i just started doing it for fun. id advise trying this and extreme meditation as well. it will change your world
- happyhappyhappy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7http://www.lucidity.com/
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