Recently i have been studying somthing called lucid dreaming, its basicall a state of mind aquired while asleep and dreaming that allows you to do anything in your dreams.
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I found this very interesting so i decided to start trying it, it is actually very difficult and i havent been scussesful so far. apparently its normal to fail many times before egtting the hang of it..
if you want to know anything else about lucid dreaming post questions here.
As resin said, Drugs make you do this all the time.
But I have done it....had a really weird dream. I was in the x-games, and was choosing my route over the ramps, and tricks....i fell, cause as i would in real life got scared, then I woke up.
Eh, every guy has at least played one and never realized it. Example; Prototype has certain RPG elements. The force unleashed also has many incedents of RPGism.
I've never tried to have a lucid dream before, but I have had one sorta. It was an extremely odd situation. Me and a team of people where cleaning a giant fish's teeth and I saw some guy next to my. I started thinking "It would be awesome if that guy grew an afro and started dancin" and to my surprise it actually happened. It was only partial lucid because I got stabbed with a stingray by some girl that I coulda easily ran from.
Oh, and recurring dreams... Especially the ones that doesn't make sense.
hell i had one like for 5 months, a night mare were a mouse tryed to eat me, till i took control and kicked the friggen thing in the face.
never.. had a nightmare.. again.
Theres a certain drug that is very effective to induces apparent lucid dreams, i forget what its called but it acts as a double negitive... E.G.
if you see a two headed man, your mind makes it seem normal since your basically in sub conscious thinking, but if your drugged your mind is little more alert, unless you take a downer.
bleh i still cant have one... week 2 now... starting to piss me off.
Interesting thing I haven't had a dream I remembered in almost a month, and when ever I have one I remember, It is usually of the future or what I desire before I fall asleep. I haven't had a nightmare ever since I was seven, and all the dreams I do remember I can always interact with it, and control what happens. And the weird thing is is that I can always feel what happens in my dreams and that creeps me out sometimes.
Try to induce yourself with a habbit, like looking at the back of your hand. If you do that enough, you may trigger it while inside dream, making you self aware, making the dream a lucid dream.
I usually have a Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream, which means I go directly from a waking state to the dream state with no lapse of consciousness whatsoever. Very rarely do I ever have normal dreams that turn into lucid ones, which sucks. The kind of dreams I get are the ones that I want to happen, and I want the random, eery kinds.
The scary part of this is, there are trained lucid dreamers that can communicate in the real world while experiencing their dream world! I just gape at just how difficult that is. These aren't the sleepwalkers that spew random nonsense either. The scientist gives the sleeper a question, and the sleeper will reply with an in-depth answer to satisfy it. You can't make successful videos with these, but there are research videos out there, and I think there is one with art sketches of the sleeper's dream with him talking while inside. All of this is very creepy and at the same time fascinating.
I know a secret to having on-demand lucid dreams (of sorts). It's called taking DMT. It is the chemical responsible for dreaming. If taken while conscious, it causes hallucinations and the effect of lucid dreaming.
I have lucid dreams regularly. It is interesting, usually I will realize I'm dreaming because I see how the dream corresponds with what I think to begin with. An example of this is, any time I think, "i hope this happens" that thing will happen, whether or not I am lucid but, recognizing the connection between the thought and the resulting situation allows me to realize I'm dreaming and then be in complete control of that dream.
My lucid dreams started happening regularly about 3 years ago. It was after this dream that I had where I was standing in an antique shop. At this point I was not lucid but, for some reason I believed I was part of everything in the room. So I concentrated on connecting my hands to all of the objects and then lifted my hand. All of the objects in the room then lifted off of the ground.
After that I started having lucid dreams in which I can fly, I can move objects without touching them, make people do whatever I want, change my location instantaneously and a number of other interesting things.
The really strange thing is that whatever I learn I can do in a lucid dream is an ability or skill that carries over to non-lucid dreams that I remember. Thus, in non-lucid dreams, I will move things with my mind, fly and so on.
It is possible that meditating before I sleep is what causes the lucidity in my dreams, as the timing of this meditation and the beginning of the lucid dreams coincide.
as I said , lucid dreams can easily be mistaken, and people who have them without trying, have them very rarely (1 every month) . how long were your lucid dreams?
as for the halo-watever drug, its not full proof and it only gives you a thin grip on your dreams.
You mean, like choosing what happens next in a dream? Yeah, I do that all the time. I didn't know it was a skill or anything, jus thought everything could do that...
Lucid dreaming is a bit more complicated then that. It means that you are inside a dream, and you are fully aware that you are dreaming, giving your mind full control over the dream.
For instance you could materialize stuff out of nowhere, tripple-jump like Mario or anything else, BECAUSE YOU WANT TO. Don't confuse it with normal dreams where you can actually fly, but are not aware that you are dreaming. If it doesn't allow you to do ANYTHING you want, it's not really a lucid dream.
I once had to write down all my dreams for 14 days for psychology class. Normally my dreams are completely black (I rarely remember them when I wake up), so this 'dream journal' was still empty the weekend before we had to turn it in. I then, in one night put my alarm clock every 45 minutes. This allows you to induce very short periods of sleep, and after a while you'll fall asleep faster, sometimes leaving you aware that you're falling asleep. Although knowing that I was dreaming made me wake up 100% of times, and meditating before sleep would have been a better way to induce lucid dreaming. Also, sleeping in periods of less than 45 minutes completely messes your system. I would NOT recommend it, unless you plan on being exhausted or sick.
