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- reyes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9TECH SUPPORT! TECH SUPPORT!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Why would I want to? I go to sleep to rest. Not to play ***** fantasy land.
- LocDawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I believe Queensryche told us about this years ago.
- saysaknow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Wet Dreams: How to Induce Them on Yourself"
- green1152, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"The hard part is not waking up after you realize your in a dream."
Very true. I just had one last night. My third or so actual somewhat successful one. It only lasted a few seconds because I thought my eyes were closed in my dream, so I ended up opening my eyes in reality. I was really excited about that.
"1. This sounds like a load of bull *****. Come on, If you have to give yourself reality checks during the day you should have your head examined.
2. Am I the only person in the world that rarely has any dreams (once every couple years or so)?"
1. Reality checks are to make yourself cause a habbit that would be performed in your dream as well, by your subconsious. It's because in most of our dreams, we are not genetically used to technology working. That's why some people look at a digital clock in their dream, then they look back and it says something completely different. That is a cause for lucidity.
2. You're not alone. There are tons of people out there like you. It's not that you don't have dreams, it's that you don't remember them. A good way to remember them is to record any dream you can remember, then read over it every once in a while. This causes you to remember certain aspects in your dream that trigger you to conjugate a full or half story from your dream.
I have been studying lucid dreaming and dream control for a while now.. Here are some other sites related to this:
http://www.dreamviews.com/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreaming:_Induction_Techniques
And I keep a blog of my dreams for other people to read them, and for me to keep a reference.
http://cab-creations.blogspot.com/ - Fantt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Check out the movie, "Waking Life" - it's all about Lucid Dreaming.
Cool stuff.
Do you dream in color with full sound and smell? Many people don't. - mogdor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3interesting, but then the article starts to get a little "out there", talking about time traveling and making things materialize in the real world, etc. Anybody know of any good less wacko lucid dreaming sites?
- exoendo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"2. Am I the only person in the world that rarely has any dreams (once every couple years or so)?"
Everyone dreams every night. You are a rare type of person that has a hard time remembering them. - doomengine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Number 1.3 starts talking about a "hearth attack"... be sure you don't have a bad hearth if you try this.
- Calculon64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The hard part is not waking up after you realize your in a dream.
- Gudlyf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2calculon is right -- that's where I failed many times myself trying to lucid dream. I read a small book on it once that described a pretty easy way to start lucid dreaming. Once you're there, you need to prove to yourself that you're in fact dreaming. This is difficult in that, in the dream, you feel like an idiot trying to do something that'd obviously never happen in a dream. The example given was to jump in the air and try to float. In a dream world, that happens all to easily and is a little more reasonable to convince yourself that jumping suddenly isn't going to look silly to everyone nearby. Once you do find that you're dreaming, the excitement itself is enough to wake you up. A trick that the article mentioned for keeping yourself in the dream world longer was to (in the dream) spin around in circles. Hell, it worked.
Then again, maybe it's why I spent ten years in a psych ward.
;-)
Seriously though, what I said is true. It worked for me for a while. - j0keR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its incredibly hard to produce these yourself. I find that when I dream, I can usually control it wether I realize I'm dreaming or not. For instance if I get bored of wherever I am in the dream, I will simply go somewhere else... depending on how detailed the dream is anyhow.
- phatcactus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I really hate how any time hippies get hold of cool things your brain can do, they turn it into some mystical spiritual journey to the astral plane where you can communicate with the dead and move things with your mind. They take decent science and mix it with just enough pseudo-science to sound like nut jobs. Bah.
- green1152, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Once I get good enough at lucid dreaming, I will attempt to access all of my lost memories in a file cabinet. We'll see how it goes. My brain might just crash like Windows if I try that.
- allthewhile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hardly remember them at all. When I do they're just half dreams, like memories.
- elamr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Castaneda is awesome.
- _skin_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have been experiencing this for quite sometime. I have never heard of this until now. Very interesting that I am not the only one. Phewww.... For a minute there, I thought I was some sort of physic.
- silent1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll add to my statements above that this "FAQ" is a regurgitation of information that's been copied around for years (largely stolen from several of the most popular books on the subject, each of which I own). This FAQ is actually more of an advertisement for a device to help induce lucid dreaming. According to many users' testimonials on impartial web sites, these devices work no better than the tried-and-true mental discipline techniques ... and in most cases, didn't work at all.
- kablaaamo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is actually very very reassuring. I've been having these 'lucid dreams' all my life, and people look at me like I'm crazy when I describe how I can control my dreams. I didn't know other people had them too. Unfortunately, I haven't had many lucid dream in a a good long while; probably because I've been chronically sleep deprived for the last three years. I remember a time when I was around 12 years old that I'd have a dream like this every night, with full colour, sound, smell, and control.
Good fun though, and a good link. Dugg. - superdigg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1you're going to be the best grumpy, but endearing old man ever.
- DNABeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I know so many people who simply aren't lucid even when they're awake.
- Rossye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Carlos Castaneda wrote about dreaming a lot . He said find your hands in your dream and you will make it into the second gate of dreaming. The first was remembering the point at which you fell asleep.
- Legato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm right with you nerdboy, however the past few weeks, I've often gone to bed sleep deprived and had a good 10 hours down, and i maybe remember having 2 or 3 over that period of time... but other than that, i think i remember 4-5 over the entire course of my life :/
- jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"...they are discovering new dimensions and whatnot."
Yeah, yeah. Like the other day, I was walking down the street and BAM, I'm in the freakin eleventeenth dimension. Of course, I couldn't stay lucid once I realized what was happening, because I didn't have the right surfboard for those gnarly brainwaves.
Duuuuuuuuude!
Seriously though, I much prefer the "What-Have-You" Dimension, where New ***** Comes To Light, and Rugs REALLY Tie The Room Together.
Beware the marmots! - Ky01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is about the only way I dream I am always aware that I I'm sleeping. It is kind of fun some times and then other times I just want to rest. Sometimes I wake up when I was right in the meddle of a good part (its Kinda like a movie for me and no I cant pick the setting) so I lay back down before i wake up completely.
- directedition, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dreams are frustrating. It seems that every dream for the last year has been winning the lottery or a full scholarship or something then waking up and realizing it was all a dream and all but shouting "GOD DAMN IT!"
If I can get this lucid stuff down I'm going to dream about nuclear war, poverty, and various Korean horror movies, so I wake up feeling like a million bucks. - metalaaron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i'm thinking office space here. very fun.
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But does it tell me how to get to Tel'aran'rhiod?
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I almost never remember any of my dreams. Although sometimes, somthing I do in during the day can trigger something and I can remember parts of a dream. But I rarely remember the whole thing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wonderful. I can just see it now....
Hundreds of Digg nerds practicing lucid dreaming so they can have fantasy sex with either Jessica Alba or Inara from Serenity - SniperZero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hope my brian has root access or im doomed :p.
I will try this though... Jessica Alba here I come :).
Szer0 - tominator1983, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not to sound like a cynic, Supremedragon... But maybe when you were asleep, you heard rustling in the closet and it half-way awakened you to a subconscious level where your brain simply deduced that noise might be the hamster in the closet and produced a twisted dream on that theme? I can't even count the number of times a similar instance has happened to me while dreaming. Usually in reference to my alarm clock. I might be dreaming that I'm in the middle of an auditorium full of people and suddenly my watch on my dream arm starts beeping. In the dream I might try and try to get the damn watch to stop beeping. Not even smashing it with a hammer makes it stop! Then I go off on some sort of tangent where I find a scientist to tell me what kind of metal my watch is made out of (because it's apparently stronger than titanium). The dream might carry on for a good ten minutes until finally I jerk awake to the beeping of the actual alarm clock on the other side of the room. And just in case you're wondering, I can tell that I laid there dreaming about the watch for ten minutes because my alarm on the other side of the room reads 7:10 AM. It had been beeping for ten minutes.
Some people think that when you are asleep that you can "leave" your body and observe other actual places and events that are transpiring. Many of these silly theories are a direct result of people subconsiously processing external input (sounds, feeling, smells) and injecting them into the dream world. When they wake up, they discover that their dream of their mother cooking pancakes in the other room really was true! Wow! They must be able to see things in the other room while they are asleep! - EbulaJonez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://digg.com/technology/How_to_Make_your_Own_Lucid_Dream_Machine_
This talks about making one of the dream machines to help induce lucid dreams - skytimelapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Working in my sleep...no thank you. I prefer the way I sleep now. It's like a time travel device: I go in the bed at night and suddenly it's day. All I remember is getting in bed and waking up in it."
WHo says you have to work in your sleep?? The whole point of lucid dreaming is you can do whatever you want. At least that is the ultimate goal. Sometimes you can only control yourself like you would in the real world, other times you can fly, or do it with whoever. It all depends on how well the rest of your brain works together (it takes imagination to dream- so if you don't have a practiced imagination, you won't lucid dream very well.
For you guys who think "I just know when I'm awake" your brain actually does a really good job at lying to you when you sleep. You can give yourself reality checks in dreams and still be convinced you're dreaming. It's all about accessing the entirety of your self awareness without waking up. Notice the little details, try to smell, or recall another memory. - Lutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0all you who think this is *****, there are as you might have seen in this forum, many people who dream lucid, I usually don't but have experienced it.
Not to long ago I was in a dream and noticed that the ceiling was where the ceiling should be and vice Versa, I came to the conclusion that this was highly unlikely and that was dreaming lucid and the one thing lucid dreaming is often associated with is flying so I jumped off a bridge and started to fly around, woke up shortly after that though. As someone said, the hard part is not waking up :) - tileeater, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Crystals and magnets have been found to send out orgone energy. But each type of crystal send out their own frequency, various orgone energy types that do various things to our body and mind."
and to think i've been wrapping my head in tin foil expecting that would work. - bmc152006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0now, im going to go to bed, hopefully all this reading about lucid dreams will help me have one.
- bmc152006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i did read most of the article, it did get a little spacey, but im not sceptic about much. i found it very interesting, especially the part about reading at the end.
- jovada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool! Now I know what it is! About once a month I have such a dream that I can control completely. I can do whatever I want, knowing that I'm dreaming. But it's difficult to find a balance between dreaming and waking up, sometimes you feel (while dreaming) that you have to slow down a bit in order not to wake up. Very cool
- versedboi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sounds kewl ... tell me when i can get the ***** they sell on bittorrent :)
- Lutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0eh... ceiling was where the floor should be*
- OsakaWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lucid dreaming is real. This article mixes what is true about lucid dreaming with complete crap. Go to www.lucidity.com for good information about lucid dreams.
- ForbesBingley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For years, no one believed me when I told them that I was 'awake' during my dream and that I had control over what happened...
- Jaan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can still remember my first lucid dream ... I was a little kid, and I had a common "falling" dream, but I woke up in the dream, and to stop myself from falling I grabbed a tree branch, then the tree bent and flung me up in the air and next thing I knew I was flying around checking things out lol.
What I commonly do now that induces some vivid and occasionally lucid dreams is to set my alarm clock a couple of hours before I apsolutely have to get up for work. I do this more for a "super snooze alarm" so if I slept well I can get up, have breakfast and chill out before work, but if I didn't I can go back and sleep some more. However when I do go back to sleep I have the best dreams. - Septimus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The article is okay, but I thought lucid dreams were far more common. Been having them naturally all my life and haven't thought anything of it. Ah well, lucky I guess.
- 0x2a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have had sort of lucid dreams before as a child - where I realized I was dreaming, and I could control the dream, or make myself wake up. I didn't know that there was a name for this or that anyone else had them, so the article was interesting, until it started going off into new age hippie *****.
I didn't do this on purpose though, and in my opinion anyone who takes time to try to induce this on themselves really needs to get to grips with their life (or just spend some money on drugs, a lot less work and more effective) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Taken from the article: "f you find your friends in a dream, you can tell them that they are dreaming. This way can you help your friends gaining Lucidity, and they might cause you to gain Lucidity if they find you. If you have full conscious control over a dream can you also use it to travel in time. You can explore the future. Even shared precognitive dreaming is possible."
Erm what the *****??? If you find your friends in the dream you can help them gain lucidity? Is he saying that we all can meet each other in the same dream? - kolten27, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i love lucid dreams, and i have become exceedingly better at them, they really are great. but as for that crap about like joining and moving real objects, is bull. nice submission tho
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been looking for this information, now all I need to know is how do I access the net from within my lucid dream!
btw, I agree with the office space comment. - simonj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"experiencing 100 years in a 2 hours OOBE" + "read 1 million words per minute" = jej, THAT is where you can work up your exams!!!
actually it's very easy to realize that you are dreaming (planning and physics are never as real), but I still wondering how it can be possible to control the environment or do things you would never did in RL. Or else can you control the world? hah, never mind, just take the red pill ,dude :) -
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