Lucid Dreams

[Varney Rae]

I am currently training myself to lucid dream. Lucid dreaming is the ability to control your dreams. You have to teach yourself to realize you are dreaming while you are dreaming. Once you have mastered it you can go whereever and do whatever you want to do in your dreams. Is anybody else familiar with lucid dreaming...If so what do you have to say about it.

For anybody who knows nothing about this but is interested...
http://www.dreamviews.com/

[Goodfellow]

I used to never be able to do it.. but the more I read about it and tried different things the more I could do it, now I can get one pretty much every morning. the only thing is.. i can only get it if I wake up then go right back to sleep .. (morning) I can't seem to do it right when I go to sleep.

one trick i read about that i've been trying, that actually helps, is if you are startin to lose it.. spin around in a circle and think about the place you want to be, then stop spinning and try to concentrate and it'll become clear again .. the thing i find really strange about them.. is i'll be like ok around this corner i want to see a really hot girl, and bam she'll be there. how does that work!! one thing i wanna learn how to correct is disfigurement. if i'm lookin at somebody, after a while they will start to disfigure..

the thing i like, is lucid dreams are eerily realistic.. almost like a cartoony version of real life that you can control.

[Goodfellow]

for people starting out: i'd say.. when you wake up in the morn' , go right back to sleep and the entire time try to envision wut u wanna be dreamin about, like try to picture it, then eventually the haziness will turn into the dream and u'll be like .. NICE.. time to fuck around.

[cinist]

i do that naturally when i'm half asleep in the morning and unwilling to wake up completly

[Goodfellow]

Originally Posted by cinist

i do that naturally when i'm half asleep in the morning and unwilling to wake up completly

yeah but do you control it and make it a really cool dream , or do you just go mehhh and realize ur in a dream?

[miss.myra]

Ive had problems with those for the last two to three years and they are extremely scary, they are almost exactly the same and are VERY real. I don't see why you'd want to intentionally do that :/

[Aspectre]

that's pretty interesting
I know what I'm doing when I wake up tomorrow

[Goodfellow]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

Ive had problems with those for the last two to three years and they are extremely scary, they are almost exactly the same and are VERY real. I don't see why you'd want to intentionally do that :/

you may be confused. lucid is the ability to completely control your surroundings and what is in ur dream.. so it can't possibly be scary unless you make it scary and start thinkin of weird things?

[miss.myra]

^ yeah, I'm not confused. You're completely aware you're dreaming, but it doesn't stop your subconscious from putting pretty fucked up elements in them. Anyways, Neoh is the dream expert on here, so you all might want to ask him about this.

[Goodfellow]

if you don't like what's goin on, spin around in circles a bunch of times and think of somethin new u wanna do

[Psycho_Laughs]

i don't see the point of control over your dreams.
they are suppose to be windows into your subcontious.
if you just make them another facet of contiousness, you're never really exposed to what is beneath the surface.
being aware you are dreaming is fine, can actually help understand what is happening and remembering it afterwards.
controling them is just... boring.

[Kenny]

I practice lucid dreaming daily. I get about 2-5 lucid dreams every night. I am in complete control and am learning to control them better as i get more. It took me about a couple weeks to start getting them down.. Dreamviews is the site i went too and read all their tutorials. Now i get lucid dreams almost every night now.

They are the way to find your self. Help you discover whats inside your mind.

[Mr.Wrong]

you hippys and your drugs..

[hardstylin]

i can do this extremly well, and have been able to since i was very young, you should PM varn ive read alot about this and have some pretty crazy stories i could tell you.

[LeeBrat]

hmm, thast interesting, i have heard of this lots before, but never actually tried it...but i think ill look into it...good site too

[Varney Rae]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

^ yeah, I'm not confused. You're completely aware you're dreaming, but it doesn't stop your subconscious from putting pretty fucked up elements in them. Anyways, Neoh is the dream expert on here, so you all might want to ask him about this.

Not quite. You are very much aware of where you are and you CAN control it. If you are in a a scary dream you just go somewhere else.

[Varney Rae]

Originally Posted by Psycho_Laughs

i don't see the point of control over your dreams.
they are suppose to be windows into your subcontious.
if you just make them another facet of contiousness, you're never really exposed to what is beneath the surface.
being aware you are dreaming is fine, can actually help understand what is happening and remembering it afterwards.
controling them is just... boring.

It isnt boring though. How can going wherever you want and doing crazy things you would never be able to do in reality be boring,anything you do because you want to shouldnt be boring:047:

[Kenny]

Originally Posted by varn

It isnt boring though. How can going wherever you want and doing crazy things you would never be able to do in reality be boring,anything you do because you want to shouldnt be boring:047:

Ya i dont see how this can be boring at all? You sleep half your life so why not be consious while you do it? You still get the same rest you would normally.

You are basically in your own matrix. Its your virtual reality that you mold. You learn how to control it as you get better. This is the best thing ever, better than any drug. Its the closest you will get to exploring your mind.

[Goodfellow]

Originally Posted by Psycho_Laughs

i don't see the point of control over your dreams.
they are suppose to be windows into your subcontious.
if you just make them another facet of contiousness, you're never really exposed to what is beneath the surface.
being aware you are dreaming is fine, can actually help understand what is happening and remembering it afterwards.
controling them is just... boring.

ok so tell me all the things you've learned from your "subconscious window" LOL :n:

boring? hell no. you've just probably never done it.

[Technique]

Yeah Lucid Dreaming seems very cool,

My Dad is very big into it, I havent really experimented with it too much myself..but I have a very vivid imagination, im definitely going read up on this and give it a try..

Thanks!

[miss.myra]

Originally Posted by varn

Not quite. You are very much aware of where you are and you CAN control it. If you are in a a scary dream you just go somewhere else.

doesn't always happen that way!

Have you ever actually had one or are you still training yourself to do so?

[Scavello]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

^ yeah, I'm not confused. You're completely aware you're dreaming, but it doesn't stop your subconscious from putting pretty fucked up elements in them. Anyways, Neoh is the dream expert on here, so you all might want to ask him about this.

Nightmares are your minds way of telling you something is wrong. It may not be apparent what is wrong at first, but as they progress they usually give tell tale signs of what it is. It makes it easier if you write it all down as soon as you wake up from it, when its fresh in your mind.

[Varney Rae]

Originally Posted by miss.myra

doesn't always happen that way!

Have you ever actually had one or are you still training yourself to do so?

Training, however I have never talked to somebody who doesnt enjoy lucid dreaming once they've learned to do it. I've never heard of somebody falling into a bad dream and not being able to get out.

[DefJef]

Thanks for the read; this is interesting.. gonna give it a shot.

[acidic_liquid]

Originally Posted by Psycho_Laughs

i don't see the point of control over your dreams.
they are suppose to be windows into your subcontious.
if you just make them another facet of contiousness, you're never really exposed to what is beneath the surface.
being aware you are dreaming is fine, can actually help understand what is happening and remembering it afterwards.
controling them is just... boring.

I don't know much about it, but the site says this...

Dreams contain messages that are lost with lucid dreaming

Finally, many people take an intransigent stance against lucid dreaming based on their belief that our dreams are trying to tell us something, and we lose those messages by trying to alter our dreams. That’s a reasonable position to take, however, that idea is not entirely valid. First of all, most people that endeavour to have lucid dreams only have them occasionally—perhaps a few times a month. Some obviously will have them more often (perhaps several times a week or even in a night) but again for the most part, on average, those who attempt lucid dreaming still have more non-lucid dreams than lucid ones. Perhaps even more valid a point is that becoming proficient at lucid dreaming demands excellent dream recall. Thus, while practicing to become lucid in dreams you are also increasing your ability to remember your dreams, which as a by-product will provide you with more memorable dreams to sift through in search of hidden insight. Therefore one can practice lucid dreaming and still attain enough “regular” dreams so that he or she need not worry about losing something important.