[Lewis_Smith95]

I occasionally Lucid Dream, but if you want something REALLY cool to look at, check out Astral Projection.

[x.Hana.x]

(Original post by 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

Do you know, I managed to do it my second time of trying- id read how hard jt actually was but I think the reason I managed was I got a sufficient six hourse sleep beforhand. Bjt it lasted only about twenty seconds- I was so aware of my sleeping self and yet syet so awarr of my conscience standing up in my dream, and the colors were unbelievably bright I lpanicked and awoke...all I know was that it was an amzing tinglinf feeling lol...ill try again sumtime when I got enouf sleep, cuz I need some nightmare bashing :-P

[diving_queen]

(Original post by 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.

I've had this dream! I had it on repeat for about a week. It was insanely vivid to the point in 'real time' I was utterly convinced I could breathe underwater without needing equipment...semi drowned myself.

But it was cool while it lasted!

OP, My experiences are no where near as controllable as shaunadamjones'...but my dreams are insanely vivid, memorable and detailed. Incredibly detailed.

Some dreams I can remember from years ago. I also remember as a child having 'semi-dreams'. I was kind of half asleep. They interspersed with reality and one particular night when I was 11 I woke up paralyzed. Couldn't move from the neck down. Screamed out for help to my parents and they told me to shut up :P (I had crazy dreams from an early age..they got fed up of them!).

I can remember 'picking options' in dreams...making decisions etc. But can't make cars etc appear. That sounds awesome.

[mel_1991]

Me! I frequently remember mine and I'm sometimes aware I am dreaming.

[Guitarded]

(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).

What do you use? I usually check my hand/count my fingers (since your hand always looks weird in a dream), but I just can't get into the habit of remembering to do it regularly

[pinkangelgirl]

(Original post by 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

I 100% didnt know there was such thing as lucid dreaming until someone on TSR mentioned it once.

I almost always remember my dreams and always know when im dreaming and often control them. I can even bring myself to almost orgasm in a dream, except i normaly wake up just at climax.

i got scared recently though when i heard one is more likely to suffer a heart attack if they can lucid dream

[Ascendansy]

What's the time perception like in your lucid dreams? I personally don't remember my dreams now unless I see something that directly pertains to my dream, Déjà vu.

(Original post by Dorito)
I always dream that I've woken up, then all of a sudden I wake up for real, it's really weird. It's like it takes me 2 attempts to come out of a dream!

A dream within a dream, heh.

[SleepySheep]

(Original post by Dorito)
I always dream that I've woken up, then all of a sudden I wake up for real, it's really weird. It's like it takes me 2 attempts to come out of a dream!

I hate it I'll be dreaming that I'm being chased or my hair's falling out or something but then I'll wake up and be like 'phew! it's over'. Then it'll just start happening again. 2x the trauma.

[secretmessages]

I lucid dream via WILDs, naturally too. Last summer I started having hypnagogic hallucinations every time before I fell asleep (and even during the day too, probably because I was just so tired), and since then they've 'evolved' into lucid dreams, though sometimes I still have trouble controlling them and just wake up (or fail to fall asleep) instead.

[HypErTwisT]

(Original post by Drunk Punx)
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.

Ive done it once *properly*, there were other times when ive realised i was in a dream but woke up. Wierdly the spinning thing actually worked, but i think in the process of spinning i forgot i was in a dream lol, i didnt wake up though.

[Persipan]

I lucid dream quite often and can usually do it if I particularly want to. I do find it quite hard work, though - it's like knowing that I could change literally anything at all to make it how I want gives me too much control, and I end up obsessing over every little detail... (Make the sky pink. Now make that building taller. And give it more windows. Now fly over the river. Now fly underwater. And make it so there are some fish. And so on...)

[Anonymous]

First time I had a lucid dream was when I got back from Amsterdam, it recreated Amsterdam in my mind. Places and people I know.

I was amazed by how realistic people were, because they were having conversations about things I don't know that much about like cars or something, and continued having these in depth conversations in the background without me even really paying attention to what they were saying. People I knew would say original things that suited their personalities perfectly. They'd crack jokes which were genuinely original and funny, which blew my mind as I knew it had come from my mind. I eventually actually woke up laughing, waking up my girlfriend and telling her all about it.

Some places were playing the absolutely most beautiful music, some songs I really liked and it was cranked up to the fullest volume that when I woke up my ears were still ringing. I was listening to this music and then felt really sad because I knew I could never hear it again unless I actually tried memorising it and reproducing it in real life. You truly can get a lot of creative influence from these sorts of things.

Other dreams have been a recreation of my uni but set in the future. You'd just be in some random place with people studying, then you realise you are in a dream so you can have sex with anyone you want. You just pull the most attractive girl towards you and proposition her for sex to which they oblige. But then you don't counter on everyone else actually stopping what they're doing and paying attention to you, looking out of windows whilst you try and get it on with someone in the courtyard. You just tell them to mind their own business.

Sometimes I have felt a bit guilty "cheating" on my girlfriend with these attractive virtual dream girls, but then the feeling soon passes. I have been able to experiment, one time I had a threesome with one girl. I was having sex with someone in the third person and the 1st person at the same time.

Later on I realised just using lucid dreams to carry out your wildest fantasies is not exploring their full potential. The way lucid dream have been marketed towards us is very influenced by our western materialist perspective, ignoring it's eastern or shamanic traditions. I try and chill out a little bit more now in lucid dreams instead of trying to have sex with everybody like what most people do.

I've can repeatedly go to certain place, have dreams in large vast skyrim like places, really beautiful, really serene and detailed environments. I have this house on the edge of a vast forest next to a large river. Thousands of pines as far as the eye can see. There's a stone bridge below and a road leading to a town. You can feel the wind on your face, villagers walking by minding their own business. Sometimes bandits come by and you have to fight them off. My house has a patio where I've spent time chilling and viewing the landscape, looking up at the sky and the stars. Sometimes I just get a piece of paper and write, or do uni work but then I have to memorise it for when I wake up. You have to go up some stairs to get into the garden, but it's built over this crypt which I've always been to timid to go down and explore. Inside the house it's quite similar to my house from home. Inside are these little portals to different dimensions.

I find it difficult to fly. I used to just stand there and try and will myself to levitate but that never worked. Jumping is a little hard, but sometimes I've managed big jumps into the air as if I'm on the moon or something.

The night before I last I didn't even fall asleep properly before entering a lucid dream. I was just concentrating on my girlfriend's breathing then suddenly I entered some strange trance. I was in the bathroom in my dream house. I went to look for my shaver, but it was completely broken. I sat down and looked in the mirror. I then became completely lucid as I realised my reflection wasn't reflecting me properly. My reflection started grinning and failing to keep up with me, it looked a bit like I was hallucinating. I then stared really hard and began zooming in into my reflection deep into my own eyes. I saw there was something through there, so I tried getting to there through the bathroom cabinet. I felt like I was going further and further into the rabbit hole and that I was exploring my deep sub concious.

Sometimes it feels like I've spent so long in a lucid dream that I worry that it'll never end and that I'll end up living in a lucid dream forever. I usually end trying to wake myself up because I spook myself a little.

[Miss_Rachel]

This happens to me quite often. Its rare I get a new lucid dream, but I always become lucid part way through. The best one was when I was younger and could fly if I jumped in a certain way. So I spent hours flying around with Sooty and Sweep.
Now I lucid dream when I have a dream repeat, cos I remember having the dream before, so I can change it, from a nightmare into a nice dream, or just to see what would happen if I chose a different option. Its pretty cool.

[360kal]

(Original post by x.Hana.x)
Do you know, I managed to do it my second time of trying- id read how hard jt actually was but I think the reason I managed was I got a sufficient six hourse sleep beforhand. Bjt it lasted only about twenty seconds- I was so aware of my sleeping self and yet syet so awarr of my conscience standing up in my dream, and the colors were unbelievably bright I lpanicked and awoke...all I know was that it was an amzing tinglinf feeling lol...ill try again sumtime when I got enouf sleep, cuz I need some nightmare bashing :-P

so sleeping early is the secret? lol

[XxelliexX]

I used to fly... hehe
And yeah I lucid dream all the time... I quite often get the feeling that something strange is going on and I realise that I'm just dreaming... normally it's followed by intense relief because things that have been happening in the dream aren't very nice

[Andicate]

I've been trying for ageeeess and I eventually gave up. BUT out of no where, very recently (a week ago) I had a lucid dream ... but it was very confusing... it wasn't what I thought it would be like...

It only lasted for 5 seconds due to my excitement, but I can remember that I was still a bit sleepy... like... I felt sleepy so I couldn't think properly. I wanted to do so much but then I was like "ooh... lucid dream" and woke up..

[elinorus]

(Original post by shaunadamjones)
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

Yeah me too, I do reality tests. I usually realise I'm dreaming when I read something and it's all funny on the page. Or I hold my nose and I can still breathe. I also do that spinning thing to keep me in the dream once I've realised, and that usually works for me.

[Ruthie!]

I have had a few lucid dreams.. One of my most recent I remember I was for some reason upside down in a toilet cubicle, and I saw my own feet, then I was like.. Wait a minute, I'm dreaming! Wandered around for a bit but woke up shortly after.

My most vivid was when I was a kid.. Parents still together so about 6 I reckon.
I was an ant, and we were being marched to our deaths basically (a water slide!) and I "woke up". It was like I knew I was having a nightmare but couldn't wake myself up properly. I said to the other ants, this isn't real, slid down the water slide (didn't die obviously) and walked around until I found a guard and I told him that this was just a dream and I wanted to wake up now.

[American Vampire]

(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)

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.

Have you read about Richard Feynmann's experiences with dreams at MIT? He used some sort of anchoring technique, and he used to do really weird things in his dreams.

[elinorus]

(Original post by Guitarded)
What do you use? I usually check my hand/count my fingers (since your hand always looks weird in a dream), but I just can't get into the habit of remembering to do it regularly

Hey, I do the thing where you pinch your nose and then try to breathe through it. Then when I'm breathing normally it makes me realise I must be dreaming, but yeah the same thing as you I just can't get into the habit of doing it through the day.