Lucid Dreaming o_0

[jdhariwal]

I started school on Monday over at De Anza College and decided to enroll in Development Psychology. Psychology is a crazy ass subject, talking about how the brain works, how we are who we are, and we are influenced when being brought up in society.

My professor is some funny ass white guy, has a Masters in Psych and 3 other subjects. It's like a damn comedy act in there, but we still learn a bunch.

Today, he mentioned lucid dreaming, a term I've heard before but never done research on. He talked about his first dream in high school, how he woke on a sidewalk in New York City,while in his dream. In his dream, there is no apparent lapse in consciousness, so he's pretty much in his dream but he's awake, so he can make decisions as if hes awake. He said that he ran down Broadway though a crowded street, and just jumped in the air and decided to fly,which he did. He said the sensation was as if he was really flying. Later in that dream, he was on a date with his girlfriend at a lakehouse, and though he'd take her for a flight when her on his back. He ran down the dock and jumped, and faceplanted into the floor. In the morning, he realized, flying=free,with her on his back= not free. He broke up with her that next morning.

People who are experienced in Lucid Dreaming, "dreamer yogis", spend 100 years (and it actually feels like 100 years) in a lucid dream, in one night of sleep.

This shit is crazy. Ever since I got out of class, I've been thinking about it and how surreal it sounds to live in another world where you can do what ever you want. Just wanted to see who else has had experience with lucid dreaming?Any crazy stories?

Sorry for the long ass rant. I'm kinda lifted.

[demonspeed]

I lucid dream from time to time but my speciality is astral planning. I get it from my dad i once had a dream about 7 months before that I was in Wa on my first day in HS. I met up with a Guy named Raymond and we became friends. When i woke up, i wrote it in one of my notebooks and thought nothing of it until 7 months later everything happened the way it did in the dream to the T. When i met Raymond, i told him who he was before he introduced himself haha!

Another time is when i saved myself from getting my ass jumped by saying something...same thing, couple months out, didnt think about it and wrote it down, and sure enough it happened BUT i didnt.say the trigger word that caused my ass to get kicked lol! Its weird, its like i can control my future to an extent...just wish if i could find out if imma be successful or not later on in life lol!

[DS562]

fffffuuuuuu as gay as it sounds, im going to start a dream journal

[slydin240sx]

If you could understand and comprehend some of your dreams, it would tell you wonders!

[conrad_s13.5]

ive had 2 lucid dreams in my life,.........and yeah,......shit is ridiculous.

long story short, i shot some trick in the face with a shotgun and she burst into a million coins, and at that very moment i realized,..this shit aint real,. im totally dreaming! Then idk why flying was the first thing i did,.....but it was amazing as shit!.....lol

just a few weeks ago, i was about to get destroyed by the king of the fuckin jungle,...then realized i was dreaming,..and was so excited i woke up,...i was so pissed...lol

been hoping to pull this off again,. so i can bust out one of those machines they use in inception to go into a dream. see if i can go deeper....lol

BWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[murda-c]

I do it a lot at work.

Fall asleep at my desk, wake up in a darkened office, and go fuck around with the people outside.

[soreballz]

I have lucid dreams fairly regularly. Every time that moment comes when i realize I'm dreaming, that dream pretty much turns into a crazy porno. "I'm dreaming, RAD. Fuck ALLLLL the fine girls!" It's pretty cool.

I dream future events pretty often, too. It's never anything important, though. For example, I'll dream that I'm walking down the street with a friend, and a rare car drives by, and we both say, "Oh, cool." Then a few months later, it happens for real, right down to the very last detail. Same friend, same clothes, same conversation, same street, same car of the same color, etc etc.

[1 88 U]

I lucid dream a lot. I used to control the events but it would almost always turn pornographic and predictable so I stopped controlling them and let the events occur at random to surprise me. I'm trying to master continuing dreams from the previous sleep.

The key to lucid dreaming is a sleep journal as people have said.

[Quail]

I used to lucid dream a lot when I was pretty good with keeping a dream journal.

I haven't stayed on top of it, and since, have hardly been lucid dreaming, which sucks. Sometimes I can get into it, but I can feel myself being pulled out and waking up.

If I decide to fly, I can only do it for a short time before waking up. I find, the crazier shit I do, the shorter it lasts.

The only future dreaming I've done, is something that happens a few seconds into the future. For example I dreamt that something fell of my shelf. I woke up, and a few seconds later it fell off (on the other side of the room, so totally random).

[gusisboosted]

there are many great books and resources to lucid dreaming and how to.

if researched well and practiced patiently, lucid dreams an be had at will pretty much.


when i was younger i dwelled a bit into the psychonautsub culture...
while yes alot of the mental and spiritual exploration is done through the use of hallucigens. But the core exploration of the self is done mostly by meditation, and "clean" trips and lucid dreaming.

Remember everybody, the physical plane is a four dimensional grid that we live in.
Our human brains and self can only fully percieve 3 dimensions, ofcourse we feel things from the fourth from time to time, but never really understand it or know why.

point bieng, explore the subjects. Life is too short to not take that personal journey into the self and the universe.... You realize how close we all are to not only each other but everything.....

wanna trip out?
that atom on your forehead, is the same atom that was on jupiters rings a million years ago. That atom on your thumb, well that atom is from a part of our universe 100 million light years away, and somehow ended up in your body. That atom in your hair, that atom once belonged to the most powerful sun ever known. We are all of the same cloth, and origin. Once you figure that out for yourself... i feel like you truly begin to live.

[badbob2121]

I had a dream where i was making love to a beautful woman, and i woke up all sticky... is that a lucid dream?

[1 88 U]

Originally Posted by badbob2121

I had a dream where i was making love to a beautful woman, and i woke up all sticky... is that a lucid dream?

Only if you were fully aware that you could never really get a beautiful women.

[blueshark123]

I never was able to control my dreams but i do dream a lot.

[blingbling]

Originally Posted by 1 88 U

Only if you were fully aware that you could never really get a beautiful women.

Now that was funny.

[badbob2121]

Originally Posted by 1 88 U

Only if you were fully aware that you could never really get a beautiful women.

Is this a challenge?

[fckillerbee]

I never knew what this was until reading this. When I was younger I used to have nightmares until I realized that it was just that...a nightmare. Slowly I started controlling my dreams. Even to the extent that I could imagine what I wanted to dream about. The dreams aren't long...usually 30min to 2 hours in total time. Longest being around 4 hours (in dream land).

Flying was something I learned how to do when I was 10...also my fav thing to do once I realize i'm dreaming. Nightmares started at 6....

One of the favorites was falling asleep wanting to wake up as spiderman. It was pretty fucking cool webslinging around cities for 30 min. It always seems like I will wake up when running out of the dream.

Also will dream what is currently going on. Like if the TV is on, my mind will imagine what is going on...like transformers fight scenes....I remember running through cities with explosions going off left and right....not much memory of anything else.

very cool shit though. Now I want to read more about it.

[Felipe]

dreams... i has them lol

full controll even if they are nightmares
no flying, never cared
have and will continue to predict future with dreams

[jdhariwal]

This is bothering me now. I tried last night, but I couldn't do it. It seems like everyone I talk to has had them, I'm the only one whos never had one. Time to start studying...

[Grocery Cart]

FINALLY A THREAD LIKE THIS!!

I've been practicing this for almost 4 months now and I've done it a few times, nothing too special but it's so awesome. I've got a dream journal on my computer, just a folder with word files. I write them down as soon as I wake up.

[darnit5]

Originally Posted by Grocery Cart

FINALLY A THREAD LIKE THIS!!

I've been practicing this for almost 4 months now and I've done it a few times, nothing too special but it's so awesome. I've got a dream journal on my computer, just a folder with word files. I write them down as soon as I wake up.

Hey what techniques did you do? i tried some of them but it never worked. I heard if you use nicotine patches it helps you induce lucid dreaming?

[240sxDavid]

WTF did I stumble upon?
I never knew this was so BIG,
How do you try and have a lucid dream? Isn't it random?

Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using Tapatalk

[demonspeed]

Lucid dreaming is done by realizing youre dreaming...for me, its mostly colors like if a stop sign was painted any other color except red n white. I took a ride on the astral plane and met my great great great great grandfatherO_o. He didnt talk with his mouth but more like telepathically. He told me he was a slave and he tried to escape or something and they killed him for it...afterwards, he walked into a valley and the sun was setting and i havent heard from him since cool guy...definately got my nose from him lol!

[demonspeed]

Originally Posted by darnit5

Hey what techniques did you do? i tried some of them but it never worked. I heard if you use nicotine patches it helps you induce lucid dreaming?

I usually have weird dreams when im stressed out or when i used to smoke kush but when im high, i cant control my dreams as well

[DS562]

ha when i got sick and took nyquil, my dreams would be fuuuucked up. makes me trip balls in my sleep.

[demonspeed]

Lol yea apparently narcotics and shit that makes you hallucinate will fuck with your dreams HARD! Still trying to figure out what makes you trip out in Nyquil...

[DreamN]

This is all part of my dream world. The 240SX is actually a civic in the real world.

[1 88 U]

This is what works for me. Keep a dream journal right next to your bed. I just make a note on my iPhone. As soon a you wake up go directly to it. Write as much detail as you can remember even if it is just emotion or colors. If you can't remember anything then write that. Each night before you go to bed, review your previous entries right before you sleep. Give it a couple of weeks and you will be Lucid dreaming.

[240sxDavid]

How come it seemes like as soon as I realize I'm dreaming I wake up? Is it because I can't stay calm as soon as I realize it? Does getting startled cause you to wake up?

Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using Tapatalk

[jdhariwal]

If you have interest in lucid dreaming, pick up the book "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" by Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold. LaBerge is actually the man who discovered lucid dreaming with scientific experiments.

For any one who wants to try lucid dreaming, the first step is to take in the knowledge. Go to your local library or pick this book up for $8 from Barnes and Noble. Without feeding your brain this info, your brain will not allow you to wake up in your dream.

[demonspeed]

Originally Posted by 240sxDavid

How come it seemes like as soon as I realize I'm dreaming I wake up? Is it because I can't stay calm as soon as I realize it? Does getting startled cause you to wake up?

Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide using Tapatalk

Yea...you must stay calm and act nonchalant when you realize it. Easiest way is to try to alter your dream...start off small and work your way up. Im to the point where i can pause, fast forward and rewind my dreams. Now somehow with all this happening i tend to slip into the astral plane and fly to places that ive never been to O_O