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Lucid dreaming

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vernatheraven · 07/11/2023 18:57

Just read about this on another thread and I think it's fascinating.

I can lucid dream to a point.

I can think about something until I fall asleep and then I dream about it. Or something related to it.

I can control it to a point but sometimes I can't and I'm literally saying to myself in the dream "you just need to let this play out"

I'd love to be able to control it more.

I love dreaming and I dream more or less every night, full colour, sound and smells, touch etc

Has anyone got anything they'd like to share about their own experiences?

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LylaLee · 07/11/2023 18:59

I can always stop it when it's going wrong. I can change the ending to something nice, but I know it was going to be a nightmare, so the fake ending feels fake, but better than a nightmare.

If it's getting too much I can always wake myself up. It's just a dream. Wake up.

Ideaswoman · 07/11/2023 19:00

Draw a symbol on your palm and look at it periodically during the day. Then when you look at it when you're dreaming, it will not be there, and you will then know you are dreaming, and then should be able to control (to a point) from that point. That's one classic technique.

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vernatheraven · 07/11/2023 19:33

Ideaswoman · 07/11/2023 19:00

Draw a symbol on your palm and look at it periodically during the day. Then when you look at it when you're dreaming, it will not be there, and you will then know you are dreaming, and then should be able to control (to a point) from that point. That's one classic technique.

I'm going to do this tonight and every night until I can do this Inception type shit.

Thank you for this I'm really interested to see how it goes

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vernatheraven · 07/11/2023 19:34

LylaLee · 07/11/2023 18:59

I can always stop it when it's going wrong. I can change the ending to something nice, but I know it was going to be a nightmare, so the fake ending feels fake, but better than a nightmare.

If it's getting too much I can always wake myself up. It's just a dream. Wake up.

I can wake up but usually I am saying to myself in the dream, this is a dream. Usually when it is overwhelming I can't change it

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vernatheraven · 07/11/2023 19:35

Ready to go!

Lucid dreaming
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ReadtheReviews · 07/11/2023 19:42

Very interesting thread. I always have done it, sometimes more sometimes less.
Currently I'm very into a certain dead celebrity, have read all the biographies, watched all the interviews and docus etc and my very favourite dreams are where the two of us walk through a university campus having very deep intellectual conversations or having dinner in a turn of the century Paris hotel.
I've input so much information about his personality, details of his expressions etc that I have him perfectly recreated and real. Holodeck style.

CrispsandCheeseSandwich · 07/11/2023 19:48

I'm literally saying to myself in the dream "you just need to let this play out"

I had a dream recently where I parked my car but then couldn't find it, and was worried my dad would be cross. But then, in the dream, I thought to myself "he can't get angry, I parked the car in a dream, how can I possibly be expected to remember where it is??"

EveryKneeShallBow · 07/11/2023 20:02

I dream regularly, very vividly, but very rarely lucidly. I would love to. I almost managed it a couple of times.

I dreamt I was walking, with a lot of other people towards a local town, and realised I was dreaming. I looked around and the details were exceptionally clear. I said to a woman walking near me, isn’t it amazing, I am making this all up out of my head. No you’re not, she said, I’m as real as you are. We began an intense argument with me trying to convince her that she was entirely a construct of my imagination. Finally, she said, I can prove I’m separate from you because I know things that you don’t. I said, brilliant! Go on then, tell me something. She said I grew up in Africa. I said great, what was it like? (I’ve never been to Africa) She described a bunch of generic stuff that I’d say if you asked me to describe Africa. I said that proves nothing, tell me something I couldn’t possibly know. She said OK, fine. How about this … And then she said an African sounding place name… was the real birth place of Christ. And then I woke up.

Cosycover · 07/11/2023 20:23

I've made a few pop songs in my dreams and they are absolute belters.

LylaLee · 07/11/2023 20:34

EveryKneeShallBow · 07/11/2023 20:02

I dream regularly, very vividly, but very rarely lucidly. I would love to. I almost managed it a couple of times.

I dreamt I was walking, with a lot of other people towards a local town, and realised I was dreaming. I looked around and the details were exceptionally clear. I said to a woman walking near me, isn’t it amazing, I am making this all up out of my head. No you’re not, she said, I’m as real as you are. We began an intense argument with me trying to convince her that she was entirely a construct of my imagination. Finally, she said, I can prove I’m separate from you because I know things that you don’t. I said, brilliant! Go on then, tell me something. She said I grew up in Africa. I said great, what was it like? (I’ve never been to Africa) She described a bunch of generic stuff that I’d say if you asked me to describe Africa. I said that proves nothing, tell me something I couldn’t possibly know. She said OK, fine. How about this … And then she said an African sounding place name… was the real birth place of Christ. And then I woke up.

I think you've just started a new religion, mate.

CesareBorgia · 07/11/2023 20:37

I often lucid-dream but I can only control it to a certain event - if I try to conjure up fantasy-level nice things, my brain stubbornly refuses to play ball.

CesareBorgia · 07/11/2023 20:39

Ideaswoman · 07/11/2023 19:00

Draw a symbol on your palm and look at it periodically during the day. Then when you look at it when you're dreaming, it will not be there, and you will then know you are dreaming, and then should be able to control (to a point) from that point. That's one classic technique.

How do you stop yourself from dreaming it's there?

DoktorPeppa · 07/11/2023 20:41

I taught myself to lucid dream a few years ago with reality checks (mine is trying to put my finger through my palm)

Taste is insane when you're lucid. It's the taste you know, but magnified by 100. I've found it unpleasant actually.

Flying and moon jumping is great

And just marvelling at how totally real and detailed everything is. I have no idea how our brains do it.

LylaLee · 07/11/2023 20:43

DoktorPeppa · 07/11/2023 20:41

I taught myself to lucid dream a few years ago with reality checks (mine is trying to put my finger through my palm)

Taste is insane when you're lucid. It's the taste you know, but magnified by 100. I've found it unpleasant actually.

Flying and moon jumping is great

And just marvelling at how totally real and detailed everything is. I have no idea how our brains do it.

I'm lucky enough to have had this since I was about ten.

NegativNancy · 07/11/2023 20:47

I've had many lucid dreams - I dont experience taste or smell but extremely intricate plotlines which, later on in the dream, I can control to an extent. I wish I had written some of them down as they were almost movie-like in epicness. Many are apocalyptic, end of world type thing, as that's what I mostly read. In one dream, we got to the final "scene" and my loyal friend who had been with me the entire way, was revealed to be "infected" which was a plot twist that made me gasp myself awake lol!
Not all good though. Have woken on a few occasions completely paralysed with terror at my dream - cannot call out or move, convinced someone is downstairs or similar.

sageandrosemary · 07/11/2023 20:48

I suffered with nightmares from being a child and taught myself to lucid dream to an extent - I could recognise I was in a dream and then wake myself up.

Fast forward a decade or so, and my dreams got smarter than me - I still realise I'm dreaming and try to wake myself up, except when I 'wake up' in my bed, I'm actually in another dream. I know I'm dreaming and keep trying to wake up in various ways but it's doesn't work and gets very upsetting/frustrating/scary, really. It's been this way for years now.

LNY1986 · 07/11/2023 21:00

I always lucid dream when I drop off watching Forensic Files. Usuallynin the early afternoon if I am really sleepy.

It is literally the only TV show that does to to me.
I think it's the narrator's unique voice (Peter Thomas)

I dream the storyline in the show, but in a slightly different format, it can feel like I've droppee off for an eternity but the episofes are rarely more than 25 minutes long.

I then re-watch the epsiodes when I wake up and think 'ah, that's why that happened in my lucid dream'.

Ideaswoman · 07/11/2023 21:36

Reality check, that's what they're called. I'd forgotten. Symbol looks great @vernatheraven. Google reality check and lucid dreaming and I'm sure you'll find other ideas. I like the idea of trying to stick your finger through your palm. Basically make a habit that you'll invariably end up doing in your dreams too. Looking in the mirror is one I think too. I remember the first time I realized I was dreaming within a dream was so cool, but it's very hard to master and I had limited success and didn't really pursue it any further. Good luck and keep us updated!

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vernatheraven · 23/11/2023 20:27

I have had a dream within a dream I was so excited 😆 but the morning telling my DH who was not impressed at all.

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