Originally posted by moth7

...last nights dream was very scary for me. It was a lucid nightmare. I realised i was dreaming and i tried to wake myself up and i couldn't. It was like i was stuck in there... anyway i wanted to write about it because maybe someone can tell me how to wake myself up next time!??

This has happened to be me a couple of times and I agree with you, it is truly terrifying.

I don't know how to wake up, but I've speculated that one way to try to at least mitigate the horror is to project love outwards. This may be hard. During my last "lucid nightmare," I noted that within myself there was a very "flat affect" and I had trouble conjuring normal human emotions, especially positive ones. But I do remember this quote:

As I looked about me at people turning evil, shrunken, colorless, old, and weird, I suddenly thought, "Well, What did you think it was that needed to be loved?" And just like that, the doors opened and I was in paradise.

-Thaddeus Golas

I don't know if it would work but if you find yourself trapped in a dream like you mentioned, I imagine this attitude might at least be something to hold onto.

every time i have a lucid dream i abandon everything and start to fly. I LOVE the sensation of breeze on my hair and face... it's the greatest feeling existant (well, in the dream realm at least)
Las one I had (last week) I was dancing with some friends and realized that it was a dream. Said good bye to everyone and jumped like Superman and started to fly in the night sky... the part when i was avoiding cables was the best!

I love lucid dreaming, and thanks to God I born with those. The first one I recall was when i was 3?

Guys this is great thanks for sharing your lucid dream experiences... I never knew there were so many people out there who knew about lucid dreams, let alone have the ability to have lucid dreams, I know one person who knows what a lucid dream is but he has never had one and we would talk about how crazy it would be to actually have a lucid dream so this many people having lucid dreams this is a big surprise to me... stars for everyone who shared their lucid dream experiences.

I used to lucid dream quite frequently,
I must admit in the beginning, once I became aware that i was dreaming , id usually go and forfill some sexual fantasy but as time went on I began to be more creative and productive.

Towards the end of my lucid dreaming era (i tend to have lost the ability in recent times) I would frequently fly, be able to perfrm sueprnatural tasks such as telekenisis with ease and even manipulate my reality at will (change a nightmare world into a beatiful one)

these days I am trying to get back into it, slowly building up the muscles again , but i believe once you master it you can spend what feels like days in the lucid world nightly, its literally extends your life experiences so to speak.

I could move things with my mind at one time. I made a file cabinet fly across the room and I blew up a building just by thinking it.

It's an interesting phenomenon, how some people can do something amazing a few times in a dream and then tout perfect dream control and power in a dream.

"I could move things with my mind at one time." Perfect example of this. Again it's nothing new and lots can do it, but you cite it as an example of your "powers?" Actually none of the three things you've posted are terribly difficult. I have done all three actually now that I read them again.

But then you go on to claim perfect dream control. Do you see what's missing? I have done those things and know I don't have perfect dream control. Hundreds of Lucid dreams later if I were to put a number on it I'd say I can do about 5% of the new things I try to do.

All the types I come across that think of dreams this way, seem to be confident in real life, simplify things, problem solvers so to speak. So it's very effective and it's cool that you can do these things in dreams and have this attitude towards it. It is.

Sorry if I'm being a dork about this, but you are oversimplifying it. And that can be incredibly effective, but you are missing part of the picture as a price. And of course you aren't worried about that, and I'm wasting your time - a party pooper. Sorry to be a party pooper!

I just don't want people to think that lucid dreaming is merely some feat. Something cool to do so you can put it in your back pocket. It's something I think should be learned from. Working with varying degrees of limitation. The way some people talk about it is like it's on their list of 100 things to do before they die, and once they do something cool in a dream they check it off the list. Moving on!



[edit on 14-3-2010 by Novise]

[edit on 14-3-2010 by Novise]

Originally posted by Novise

I could move things with my mind at one time. I made a file cabinet fly across the room and I blew up a building just by thinking it.

It's an interesting phenomenon, how some people can do something amazing a few times in a dream and then tout perfect dream control and power in a dream.

"I could move things with my mind at one time." Perfect example of this. Again it's nothing new and lots can do it, but you cite it as an example of your "powers?" Actually none of the three things you've posted are terribly difficult. I have done all three actually now that I read them again.

But then you go on to claim perfect dream control. Do you see what's missing? I have done those things and know I don't have perfect dream control. Hundreds of Lucid dreams later if I were to put a number on it I'd say I can do about 5% of the new things I try to do.

All the types I come across that think of dreams this way, seem to be confident in real life, simplify things, problem solvers so to speak. So it's very effective and it's cool that you can do these things in dreams and have this attitude towards it. It is.

Sorry if I'm being a dork about this, but you are oversimplifying it. And that can be incredibly effective, but you are missing part of the picture as a price. And of course you aren't worried about that, and I'm wasting your time - a party pooper. Sorry to be a party pooper!

I just don't want people to think that lucid dreaming is merely some feat. Something cool to do so you can put it in your back pocket. It's something I think should be learned from. Working with varying degrees of limitation. The way some people talk about it is like it's on their list of 100 things to do before they die, and once they do something cool in a dream they check it off the list. Moving on!



[edit on 14-3-2010 by Novise]

[edit on 14-3-2010 by Novise]

I think lucidity is easier for light hearted, happy people for some reason. If you are confident in your dream, there is no need to be scared of something going wrong in a dream. If you think something will go bad in a dream it will, because it is your mind controlling it. Lucidity reminds me of the matrix, you know it isn't real, so you can do so much more. When it's summer break for me I am planning on doing a dream journal so I can remember dreams, and by writing down dreams, I hope to understand my "dream mind" and be able to hit lucidity even more. Your not a party pooper, It's just a different way of thinking, and it's interesting. I'm trying to figure out what you are saying that I am missing though.

I had one a couple nights ago. It was cool. I reunited with my ex girlfriend...I just remember telling her, I love you so much and I know you do too, but this time I will never lose you. I know one thing, if I love something, let it go, and if does come back to me, it was truly meant to be.

Besides that mushy stuff, I would just fly like a bird. And visit galaxies and stars beyond any reach.

When I get lucid I usually say people around me that my brain is making them up and when they don't belive me, I fly around to prove them

I remember when I was younger my dreams sometimes had demons in them. You could say those were nightmares. In lucid dreams I started having I eventually got to the point that if a demon bothered me in a dream, I could put it inside a force field and set off something I might describe as a nuclear bomb blast within that personal force field. You could say the demon was toasted as punishment for invading my dream.

Most of my lucid dreams do have restrictions. What was unusual was a couple of lucid dreams where my power kept growing until there seemed to be no limit.

Those dreams where you seem to have no restrictions on your power are what seem unusual to me. I believe I was creating and destroying whole star systems and galaxies in that dream. I even went through 7 Earths before I got tired of messing around with everything here. Actually in my dream I believe this is the 7th Earth. I remember in one dream I fixed everyone so that no one ever got sick. Amputees were healed and made whole. Everyone had perfect health. In my dream I caused thousands of people to lose their jobs as doctors and health care professionals. They weren't needed anymore. After I left the Earth after my death after living a normal life time age I noticed the misery everyone was in because nobody knew medicine anymore. There were no doctors. People were suddenly getting sick and hurt again.

All progress on medical science had been halted. There had been no progress in developing prosthetics for amputees. Stem cell research had been cancelled so body parts could not be regrown yet. Then I thought, for 50 years everyone was very happy about not needing health care. For thousands of years, billions suffered more than they had too because they were always 50 years behind where they would have been if I had not interfered.

I was thinking about creating a thread called what would you lucid dream about if given a choice? Then I came here and poof, it was already right at the top. Strange coincidence. Learning to float and then to fly seems to be something I did a few times without realizing I was dreaming. However if you're floating up in the air, sometimes it seems like you should remember it's nothing but a dream but I did not.

[edit on 15-3-2010 by orionthehunter]

I actually went lucid I would say about two hours ago, had to go to the bathroom, was awake for about 20 min laying in bed, could feel myself slipping into sleep I guess you would say. That's the tricky part for me, the only time I have been able to go lucid is right after I wake for a short time, and I have to "catch" my dream type thoughts right before actually falling asleep.

In other words, I think I go lucid ACTUALLY right before I fall asleep. The transition into lucid is perhaps me falling asleep on my command? In order for me to go lucid I just have to concentrate on the surroundings. I have limited control of what I can actually do, probably because I am somewhat knew to this activity.

For instance, this morning when I went lucid, I was in the woods behind my house and began focusing on the creek bed to begin the lucid stage; I began to run down the trail into my backyard, when I heard a child trying to get my attention. I knew the kid had to be a ghost, no reason for a kid to be in the woods behind my house, plus there are always ghosts in my dreams when I'm in the woods, so I ran towards my backyard and thought, I'm always looking for sex so this time I'm gonna try to fly. Didn't work to well, I could fly, just very slowly, then I ran out of juice and fell to the ground, luckily I was only 6 feet or so off the ground, just enough to get over the fence. I read how you could repeatedly jump and eventually you would fly, but that worked to no avail.

I got bored with flying and the setting after 30 seconds or so, so I tried to leave. I read on here, believe it or not last night actually when looking up tips to stay lucid, that you can change the setting by spinning around, well that didn't work either, i fell down feeling dizzy. By this time I was getting curious to whether or not I was really dreaming, started to lose lucidity, so I focused rubbing my hands together, another tip I read to stay lucid, and that worked very well!! I wanted to go in someone's house in my neighborhood so I tried going outside my house by walking through a window, just like in the physical the window flexed a little, so I immediately stopped; weird thing is I blinked and when I opened my eyes there was an open door beside the window, so I went outside.

I began walking towards the familys' front door across the street to explore their house, the door was open so i went in. Not what I expected to look like in their house, lucidity was almost gone by this time, I guess I was forgetting to stay lucid, it was turning into a dream, but the weird thing is when I went to the back of their house, I noticed people were in beds asleep. I panicked thinking it wasn't a dream and i had broke into their house.

Next thing I know I was awake in my bed begin very thankful that I wasn't some unlucky naked sleepwalker in my neighbors house. Best time I had in a couple days happened in that dream. Lucid dreams are great, but bewilders me on how they can seem as real as waking life, to the point where I can't tell which is which until i wake up. Even now it feels more like a memory than a dream. I just wish I knew a way to master dream flying.

Originally posted by Wang Tang
If you could have a Lucid Dream (a dream where you are conscious you are dreaming, and you can do whatever you want in your dream) what would be the first thing you do?

Or if you have had a Lucid Dream where you controlled your dream, what was the first thing you ever did?

When I experienced my first lucid dream I didnt realize thats what it was but over time as I realized I can wake up even though I am sleeping and interact within it I began to do so. When I really started to realize after a few dreams that I was able to interact and acknowledge that I was dreaming the dreams became kind of fun. I always kept an eye out for danger but when I would encounter danger within these lucid dreams I would always prepare myself to wake up like ok I see some danger coming so prepare to wake up then I would go through the dream till I felt in danger and I would wake right up. The danger usually included falling from a high place - or encountering some battle with many more then me usually just me and many I would battle sometimes but when I felt a wound was to harsh I would wake up. They are fun unless you die within them.......



[edit on 3/22/10 by Ophiuchus 13]

Well since I'm male I have attempted to you know....
But I wake up straight away.

So I always fly! It feels amazing! I can actually feel the wind against my skin, and the g force as I fly up, as if I was flying for real.

Once time I was scared to climb out of my window, it felt so damn real, I was worried that maybe it was real, and I was gonna kill myself lol. You could call it an obe.

So to anyone out there, please be sure your dreaming before attempting to fly out your window!!!



[edit on 22-3-2010 by _Phoenix_]

I'm assuming most of the replies are from guys because they hinted at having sex with girls as one thing to do in a lucid dream. Other things that lots of people did were fly, make objects move, and fight demons and enemies.

So I'm wondering, what do girls do in lucid dreams? Do they dream of having sex with guys and flying and making objects move and fighting demons?

For all you guys out there, what do you think girls do in their lucid dreams?

I think they all dream about going to a beach house in Jamaica and having sex with me, but that's just me.