[360kal]

I have literally just discovered about this on youtube that its a big deal. I have trouble remembering my dreams or even knowing that i dreamt. apparently everyone dreams every night but most people just aren't aware of it.

I have only once been able to do the (wake induced lucid dream) go but into the dream after waking up. but always ends not being lucid, just a normal dream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGbUn...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LeZh...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2qhAQ81c3U

[ziziii]

we dream a few dreams every night, i don't remember the average figure though!

i don't think there's anything more interesting i've come across in a long time. i'd love to know more, but i'm not a lucid dreamer so i look forward to hearing from any!

[jardantuan]

I have done before, but it was very limited in terms of what I did. Normally the excitement gets the better of me and I wake up

I think in all I've had about 4 lucid dreams, the longest of which only lasted about 30 seconds. I went through a phase of trying really hard to remember my dreams, which probably helped, but I've not tried nearly as much lately. As soon as you get dream recall down well, lucid dreaming isn't nearly as hard.

I've had a few other dreams in which I know I'm dreaming, but don't actually control it, if you know what I mean. It's almost like a subconscious realisation, in that I don't really care that I'm in a dream, and normally forget quite quickly.

Ahhh, I'm gonna have to try again soon!

[shaunadamjones]

I believe myself to be a lucid dreamer, I've roughly written what i experience and how i developed it and what its like(shown below)

Lucid dreaming – my Experience

Ever since I was a young child I had very bad nightmares, I used to fear going to sleep at nights. I had a general fear about everything and anything. Before I went to sleep id conger up fears, such as there’s something under my bed or lurking in the dark. I’d go to sleep in complete fear. Till the day my father gave me the best advice he could he said “If you wish for something in your dream, you’ll get it”. I was 9 when I received this advice, it sunk in and I used it well.

A few nights passed, and then one night I had a dream, in which I realised it was not reality as we know it. I started to notice things that were not possible in real life, Such as dinosaurs and monsters. I then realised I was in a dream, I awoke immediately, Panicking and scared.

Throughout that day I was thinking of a way to get out of a dream if need be. I came up with a Dorothy style way of getting back “home”, I said to myself if I ever need to escape from a dream, Just blink. I attempted this method while in a dream it didn’t work right away. I attempted this multiple times until one time I decided if I blink 3 times, It would be better so that’s what I did and I woke up. I had developed a new beginning to understanding and manipulating my dreams.
This method worked for a number of years, in which I escaped fears and was no longer scared of sleeping.

I one day decided when I was around 13 that running away from my fears is not always a good thing, I started to work on a different technique in which Id make things appear, disappear and manipulate the current situations I was in within a dream. I looked something’s up on the internet about sleep, one website said “many dreams are a reflection of the previous day and this influences some of the dreams” So with that knowledge I walked around that day closing my eyes and saying to myself I wish I had a car to get away. Two weeks passed with me doing this around 1-5 times a day, around 1 week later I had another dream.

I later found out this was a lucid dream, I was getting chased by a man. I stopped closed my eyes and said “I wish for a car” when I opened my eyes to my surprise there was a car, I woke up suddenly. I started to notice as I had more lucid dreams, I began to stay in them longer. This is when I discovered I could now manipulate my dreams. I wished for a whole lot of different things such as guns, weapons, and the ability to fly and even to become a giant. I have been experimenting with this till almost now in which I am still trying to stay in the dream for longer periods of time. It’s almost like spawning something on GTA.

[WillowSummers]

Lucid dreamer as in one who controls their dreams?

I raise my hand to that one. When I sleep. Which, admittedly, isn't as often as I might like...

[txo]

I wish!

[Drunk Punx]

I like lucid dreaming.

I had one last night that involved me being something that looked like something from the (latest) remake of The Thing.
My "goal" (or rather, my purpose of being where I was) was to chase around smaller versions of me and eat them. I wasn't told that that was my purpose, I just knew. Somehow, I became empowered after eating the smaller versions of myself.
I was in a mansion of some description. Wall to wall bookcases, that sort of ****.
All of a sudden something bigger than me came at me and started to hump my back like the Re-Dead do on Ocarina Of Time.
I broke free, ate a smaller version of me, and woke up.

Surreal.

(Original post by shaunadamjones)
I have been experimenting with this till almost now in which I am still trying to stay in the dream for longer periods of time. It’s almost like spawning something on GTA.

Apparently spinning round in circles in the dream can help you stay in the dream for longer, but part of me thinks it's bull****. Never tried it myself.

[Kazbian]

Yep. I tend not to do WILD though. I use reality checks to become lucid (works brilliantly for me, but I know not so much for others).

[james.h]

Sounds like it, yes. I didn't realise it was something special. Dreams are dreams.

[shaunadamjones]

(Original post by Kazbian)
Yep. I tend not to do WILD though. I use reality checks to become lucid (works brilliantly for me, but I know not so much for others).

This is a technique i use as well, noticing your wearing clothing you don't own and mostly just general realizing common stuff like people changing into other people or things that are impossible in the real world. very much like the film inception

[Venomilys]

active lucid dreamer here! I lucid dream every night, use the WILD method to train yourself.

and just in case you're wondering... no, you can't fulfill your sexual fantasy in a lucid dream. The sexual excitement will break the dream.

[jerseymackem]

I vaguely remember once, ages ago. I think I was swimming, and I realised that I could breathe underwater. I've never been able to do anything like that since though, I usually can't remember a single aspect of my dreams.

[MarshmallowBob]

I tried for a month, and failed. so i gave up. lol

[Frodo Baggins]

Weed often makes me dream.

[SleepySheep]

Sometimes I know I'm dreaming (if that's what a lucid dream is, I couldn't be bothered to click the links) and I can control things around me. I remember once contemplating in a dream whether I should throw myself out of a window because I knew I couldn't die. Often, though, I'll know I'm dreaming but then I'll dream waking up and I'll think I'm actually awake even when bizarre/impossible things carry on happening.

[Superlogon]

im confused, is lucid dreaming being able to remember the dream? because i remember all my dreams (haven't practiced, just do!) or is lucid dreaming about being able to control the dream? can't do that!

[sugar-n-spice]

i did dis alltha time wen i was younger

[pikaboo]

I could only get this to work when I was a child (probably about 7 or so). I would make myself fly in my dreams (this got harder and harder until I had to flap my arms like a chicken and even then I only hovered lol) and could kind of predict what was going to happen next, so I could take steps to prevent anything bad from happening. Occasionally I do kind of 'see the future' in dreams but the dreams themselves are getting less interesting...I would love to fly again!

[getoom]

(Original post by pikaboo)
I could only get this to work when I was a child (probably about 7 or so). I would make myself fly in my dreams (this got harder and harder until I had to flap my arms like a chicken and even then I only hovered lol) and could kind of predict what was going to happen next, so I could take steps to prevent anything bad from happening. Occasionally I do kind of 'see the future' in dreams but the dreams themselves are getting less interesting...I would love to fly again!

i used to fly too but to fly i had to do a riding a bicycle movement with my legs

another thing that happened to me was sometimes i had nightmares but sometimes i knew it was a nightmare so i would always try and find a large building and throw myself of it coz' wen i hit the ground i would wake up.
but one time vampires took over the world and turned the sky red and destroyed loads of building so i couldn't throw myself off (kinda a my dream vs me fing) and then i found one and jumped off and woke up.

[360kal]

(Original post by shaunadamjones)
I believe myself to be a lucid dreamer, I've roughly written what i experience and how i developed it and what its like(shown below)

I have been experimenting with this till almost now in which I am still trying to stay in the dream for longer periods of time. It’s almost like spawning something on GTA.

Haha that sounds cool, your GTA!! do you have the lucid dream with normal sleep patterns or you do the REM thing?