To ask about your lucid dreams

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How much control do you have?

I can't control the setting but I know I am dreaming and I can control what happens within the setting to an extent.

What do you end up doing?

I usually eat cake and then fly.

I can control how my dreams end, I used to get really bad night terrors but now I know it's happening and I can stop them turning bad. I quite enjoy doing it.

Practised this for ages few years ago as there are many techniques.. i finally managed it, was like oh my god im dreaming, what do i do.. so naturally i tried to fly so i jumped up and woke myself up, was bit gutted.. it was over so quick... i didnt bother much after that.. also had one experience last year which was more a nightmare with sleep paralysis thrown in.. i just felt stuck in my dream and couldn't wake myself up, that was really freaky

Ending your own dream sounds great.

Sleep paralysis is something that goes hand in hand with lucid dreaming for me personally.
The more I control the dream, the stronger/longer the sleep paralysis for me. It's like a side effect.

Usually I'm running away from something, then I realise I'm dreaming so can fly away. It's quite handy

I only ever managed it once, in my teens, after nights of practicing (I wasn’t very good at controlling it but I was very much aware that it was a dream). I was in a field near my former home and beside me was a famous actress who was asking me about my dream and we entered into conversation before I decided I wanted to fly (and then lost control and woke up)!

Mine were in response to the stress of moving. In one I remember very clearly, I was going up and down a step ladder to get things off shelves to pack. Then I realised I was dreaming and that I didn't need the steps so sort of levitated to collect the things off the shelves. Others were in the same vein but not so memorable.

In another one my husband and I had an argument. We both knew it was a dream and knew we shouldn't have argued. So we sort of replayed and got through the incident without an argument. In the morning I checked with him to see it was a shared dream, but he hadn't had the same nocturnal experience as me.

In subsequent years I've tried to have lucid dreams deliberately, but with no success.

I've had lucid dreams where I've just marvelled at how real the sensations are knowing they are in my own head, for example crunching through frozen mud and feeling an itchy cinema seat against my legs. Very rare but very memorable .

I usually fly or turn it into a filthy sex dream. I can't always control it completely but usually I can do enough.

I phone Jeff Goldblum or go swimming in a pool in a mansion. I hate when its a bad dream and you know youve had it before and what's around what corner so you try to make different choices. Feel sorry for people who don't remember their dreams. It's like a movie for me every night.

Years ago, when I was nursing and working nights, I used to be able to do it a lot but these day it rarely happens.

The only thing I can still occasionally do is - stop myself fully falling asleep so I am in that in between state, not awake and not asleep. I am falling, Alice in Wonderland style, I am aware of slowly tumbling in a euphoric state, just floating gently downwards, I then either fall fully asleep or wake up. But I just love that sensation, when I can get it.

IAintentDead...that sounds lovely, I know the feeling you mean, but to do it on demand would be brilliant!

I don't understand the voting bit?

I know I'm dreaming but I suppose I allow myself to go with the flow of the dream...even though I do think sometimes 'well that's a bit stupid' never occurred to me to try and manipulate them. Although I do hate the dreams that act like a full on counseling session and I wake up feeling an emotional wreck.