lucid dreaming
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- Jaline0
Mine occurs more when I have a proper schedule and sleep for a normal amount of time, apparently. Ever since my schedule became erratic with school, I don't get them as often.
- chossy0
oh yeah exador1 I remember sometimes changing the course of a rough dream into a nice dream :) often after I have woken up then drift back into my dream.
The worst times I find is when your mind wakes up way before your body does and you are paralised in your bed and you sort of gargle and moan until your body wakes up it can be and is quite quite upsetting.
I also find it funny when the alarm goes off and you jump out of bed pick up a sock start chewing it and end up turning the light switch on and off thinking it's the alarm until it dawns on you that no it is not the alarm you are clicking on and off.
- I have been through that paralyzing feeling as well.Jaline
- It's no nice eh?. You totally try to scream for help but oh no you are not making much noise.chossy
- yeah that paralyzed shit suckflyingnowhere
- The one time it happened I couldn't tell if I was actually screaming or not.Jaline
- me tooalicetheblue
- 23kon0
I got into that stuff a bit when i was about 16/17.
I was on holiday with a mate in Malta and at the end of a night/early morning a load of us were monged on the beach talking sh*te.
One of the guys we'd met was on about "Astral Projection" - being able to project yourself either into the real world as a 'ghost' or into an etheral world created by yourself.I was quite fascinated by it and bought a few books about it when i got back to the UK.
One of the books explained how to achieve astral projection.
It was all about being able to relax yourself completely and hold yourself between being awake and being alseep.A good bit into the process was imagining a orb of energy above (behind) your head as you lay, you brought this "into" your head then moved it down your body.
As you brought it down you could feel the vibrations of its energy.
the book said this may feel very scary at first but not to fight it as it would only increase in intensity and freak you out more.When I got to that stage, i crapped myself and did panic which made it worse. I can remember screaming for my mum and dad and no sound coming out and not being able to move.
It really was one of the scariest moments i've had - i was "awake" definitely concious, but not able to speak or move.
It's something I wouldnt mind trying again actually.
I was speaking about this the other week to my Grandma.
My Grandad passed away in may last year and she's been having problems sleeping so i'd suggested something like that to be able to relax herself and control her dreams rather than having horrible dreams when she does sleep.----
I rarely have rude dreams :(
Most of them involve me and mates in either a derelict building (old cinemas/officed) or strange complexes inthe countryside and we are trying to escape from something and are gettign chased but u never see what it is.
Last night was a similar one, but we had f*ckin flying speederbikes like starwars - sadly no light sabres but we did have lazer guns.
I was sooooo gutted when my alarm went off in the morning :(The other day i'd had squid while out for dinner.
that night i dreamt i was at the beach and my foot slid under a dead octopus, the suckers had stuck to my feet, when i tried to pull my foot free, instead of pulling and it coming free, the octopus instead just pulled like elastic then instead of giving way, it pinged like elastic back towards me and was then all up my leg and stuck to it.
thank f*ck i woke pronto!- sweet jebus kon....i think i read the exact same book lol...seriously...exador1
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- nah mines wasnt that book23kon
- ********0
I have this sometime, I start thinking about stuff in my dreams and I have to say to myself go back to sleep and stop thinking in your dreams, it all a little bit fucked up.
I want the flying dream, that what I want.
- chossy0
oh nooooo :) poor wee chap hee hee.
- sorry I should not laugh but that fucking hilarious.********
- sorry I should not laugh but that fucking hilarious.
- citizenhope0
I've been able to do it every since I was like 12 when i would have nightmares, and I'd make myself wake up. It was like pulling myself up through a pool made of melted rubber. And then I could breathe.
Now, when i lucid dream, I usually make myself fly, which is awesome, or REDO my dream. If something happened and I don't like the way it happened, I'll rewind it and do something different. To do it, you kinda have to train your brain. Before you go to bed, say, I am going to have a lucid dream, I will be able to do what I want...that kinda helps.
- chossy0
I bet I have a dream about fucking one of you guys from QBN tonight :'( I swear to god I hope it's a chick I'm getting my sexy love on with yo!
- jimzyk0
i had a strange dream a few night ago where i was 99% sure i had given my brother a briefcase with loads of money for some drugs or something like that. a bit blurry npw a few days later.
Then the baddies (drug guys) were coming after me so i woke up and was just about to call my brother on the phone about that briefcase thinggy but then i realised it was a dream.
then i shagged a goat AND an elephant.
that part wasn't a dream..
- 23kon0
exador1
the book started off by telling stories about people who relised they could do it, then it went on to explain how to do it.
the stories
- one was about a guy who tried to do it and couldnt get out of his body, so needing a piss and reckoning he should just give up he gets up to go to the toilet but his hand goes through the door - he turns to see himself lying in bed.
- another story was about twins (girls i think) and one had visited the other in the night - think they lived in seperate continents. then in the morning the twin that was visited phoned the other and said she'd seen her, and her twin replied sayin she'd had a dream about being there.
- 23kon0
check out this young lads vids ..
http://uk.youtube.com/user/Reece…
- 23kon0
any of you's check out that young lads videos?
i cant help think that he's just compiled ideas and suggestions from lots of people and rewritten it.
good though.
been looking at other sites too, im going to try get into it again.step 1 : keep a dream journal
- ********0
"step 1 : keep a dream journal "
indeed. The very act makes you recall your dreams better. You don't realise how many you have until you train yourself to remember them.
- blaw0
Another trick for training yourself in lucid dreaming is recognizing this little tidbit: For most folks, when dreaming they cannot read the same thing twice. The text has changed by the second look.
So you can train while awake by consciously reading things twice in your day-to-day life and noting, "that was the same as the first time, therefore I'm awake." When dreaming you will then note that you are, in fact, asleep and therefore in complete control of your surroundings.
- 23kon0
one of the tips which im starting to do today is to look at the back of your hands and ask yourself "am i dreaming?"
if you condition yourself to ask yourself that every hour or whatever then that will come into your dreams too. The reason you look at your hands is that in your dreams your hands dont look the same. (another guy suggested writing something on your hands - as in dreams text is never correct/readable) so you will realise something is amiss then realise you are dreaming.
- Nice tip. Thanks.blaw
- I can read in my dreams... Not like novels or anything, but signs or other random things.********
- Huebert0
they used to have some free lucid dreaming (among other things) Binaural tone mp3s that you could download, now it seems you have to pay for them. I've got them somewhere on my ipod but i've been lazy with trying them out... anyone used anything like this before?
- 23kon0
i listened to a strange lucid-dreaming-inducing sound on youtube last night. was shit annoying quality lol.
i cant really listen to stuff like that or white noise generators.
the reason i cant is that i make my own music on computer using synths etc and for mixing down i notice anything and everything about the sound.
so with these tone things i cant relax when listening, im constantly analysing the sound, sometimes il hear glitches or loops then they will start to annoy me.
- Mal0
may i suggest
http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/…
- 5timuli0
I used to wake myself up from nightmares by curling up and going to sleep. Worked every time.
- alicetheblue0
23kon as you said ( - as in dreams text is never correct/readable)
I was told this too after I had a dream about shoes that had names written on them. There I saw the name of my ex's girlfriend
– a name which I conveniently couldn't recall