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To ask about lucid dreams...

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BlueCherryPudding · 25/12/2017 00:18

A friend told me recently that they do this and it's amazing... anyone do it, how and with how much success? What does it feel like?

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GaspingGekko · 25/12/2017 09:44

I haven't done this for years but used to a lot when I was younger. For me it was always dreams in a morning, I would wake up, think oooh that was a fun dream then I could doze back off into the dream but with control over it. So much fun.

Like a pp I did used to get sleep paralysis quite frequently in a morning too, so yeah maybe they're linked. Love the cosy wrapped up feeling of sleep paralysis. Grin

CoteDAzur · 25/12/2017 09:52

My dreams are mostly lucid, and I’m getting better at them as years go by.

The trick is to realise that you’re dreaming (when something unreal happens) and once you know it’s a dream, you can direct it as you wish.

Room101isWhereIUsedtoLive · 25/12/2017 09:55

Having been woken up at five am by my sister getting ready for work (she is a nurse) I then read this thread before going to sleep.
Feeling somewhat inspired, I repeatrd something over and over 'mind awake, body asleep' and I think for the first actual time in my life there were moments in my dream that I controlled and directed, so thank you OP, I will be trying to do this a lot now!

MrKaplan · 25/12/2017 10:55

My trick is reading a book. If I can’t understand the words in the book I know I’m dreaming.
Then I run very fast and I can fly.

Mxyzptlk · 25/12/2017 11:11

Keep a notebook by your bed and write down everything you can remember about your dreams, as soon as you wake up.
That alerts your brain to the fact that you are interested in your dreams.

Check out Charlie Morley
www.charliemorley.com

silkpyjamasallday · 25/12/2017 11:14

I've always had lucid dreams, I don't know any other sort, but only learnt about what it was called as an adult. I haven't had many for the last 15 months as DD is up so much I don't get into a deep enough sleep to dream. It was always a lovely escape from reality.

Giggorata · 25/12/2017 11:35

I nearly always fly, as I love that glorious swooping and soaring sensation. I have flown out as far as space, which was amazing.
Occasionally, I feel I ought to do research.. for example, I have tried asking people in the dream if they know it's a dream, how do they feel about being a character in my dream, or do they think it's their dream. I haven't got very far with it; sometimes they get really angry or very reluctant to have the discussion with me, refusing to look at me or turning away.
Occasionally I have sex Blush once or twice while flying Grin

Peanutbuttercheese · 25/12/2017 11:49

I have lucid dreams they occur when I'm stressed.

Detail is down to a blade of grass and if you do anything in the dream when you wake it feels like it's really happened.

Mil is staying we actually get on however on Christmas Eve daytime she decided to criticise my parenting and then proceeded to inform me why I needed to feel compassion for my Mother as I have little contact with my Mother. My childhood was extremely difficult. Having to justify myself meant I blurted out a couple of awful childhood memories. Last night I was so stressed I started to forget the words in the middle of sentences. Because of what happened to me as a child I was diagnosed with complex PTSD a couple of years ago.

Due to memories being stirred I had an extremely lucid dream last night but of the awful variety.

ragged · 25/12/2017 12:01

I do this, I think, at least I know I am directing the dream. Not sure why people are gushing or think it's marvelous. It's tenuous & you lose control if you try too hard to direct every detail. Most of my dreams are thrillseekers so then I overdo it & make myself wake up b/c it got too scary.

Be3Al2SiO36 · 25/12/2017 12:40

Well thanks to this thread I managed to step into my lucid dream last night. It doesn't normally happen this time of year. But during yesterday I was thinking that one of Bjorks songs on a recent album isn't quite balanced, not for me anyway.

It's a track called Family, which starts and ends brilliantly. The last three minutes are an instrumental piece by The Haxton Cloak and it is sublime. But in the middle is a very scratchy bit with wild violent undertones, which I think fragments the song. For me anyway. So in my dream, The scratchy bit was going on, and I knew (ie my dream was lucid) I had been to Mumsnet and discussed lucid dreams before climbing into bed at 2am. Which may be relevant.

So as I was starting to come round about 6am, I needed to change the middle bit of the song. I looked at the real sky outside my window, which faces north. I could see the glows in the night sky, then I went back into my dream and I called upon Bjork. Who came and she just asked me a couple of questions on how to blend the song, and we did it together with Haxton Cloak to her right, on his keyboard, just silently controlling the music. Bjork and I smiled and then she faded away. I woke a little later, about 18 minutes later, and have that revised song playing in my mind without the scratchy bit. It's not scratchy to others and is Bjorks song, but to me in my dream I set out to change it.

I worry to some extent that my ability to control my dreams is a symptom of something underlying, something worse for later like memory loss or confusion. I never slept much, I doze a lot during the day, especially when the days are longer, just 5 or 10 minutes, three or four times a day.

ragged · 25/12/2017 12:44

(Gosh MNers are good at worrying about anything.)

To be honest, dreaming about Bjork would definitely be my nightmare. Grin Maybe just enjoy today for today?

Be3Al2SiO36 · 25/12/2017 12:54

No worrying here Ragged

Far from it. I love my lucid dreams, I love my life. Nothing mechanical works on me, fitbits and watches for example. I can find water in a drought with copper rods. I love that I am wired differently. I have a rich life.

Happy Christmas Xmas Smile

Mxyzptlk · 25/12/2017 13:25

I'd think it's more likely to stave off memory loss, by creating more connections in your brain.

Mxyzptlk · 25/12/2017 13:29

Due to memories being stirred I had an extremely lucid dream last night but of the awful variety.

You can make peace with awful memories, through your lucid dream, by embracing them and/or asking a dream character if they have a message for you.
Not something I'd want to try without guidance, though.

shouldaknownbetter · 25/12/2017 20:51

I am a very light sleeper to the point where I can wake myself up if I am having a nightmare... BUT I always get sleep paralysis when I do this, and it's horrible and I have to yell WAKE UP WAKE UP repeatedly in my head whilst trying to break the paralysis.

I can lucid dream, but not without getting sleep paralysed which ruins it. Wish I could.

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