• Sleep and Dreams megathread V4
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So about 3 or 4 months ago I had a really, REALLY vivid and strange dream. The sun disappeared. No explosion, no gamma ray bursts, it just one day doesn't rise in the morning. To make matters worse, in this world, the only form of electricity came from wind and solar, so solar was out and wind was starting to go out as winds decreased due to there no longer being differential heating. The first weird thing to happen was a bunch of people started going insane, saying stuff about magical cat creatures flying from the moon to save the worthy. These people were rounded up and secretly sent to butchers since cows, pigs, and chickens were dying from lack of food. It was secret in the beginning, but after a big incidence in Miami where 500+ homeless nutters disappeared simultaneously the truth was revealed. The next weird thing to happen was that no compasses worked. The magnetic field was just spazzing randomly. It made airplane travel impossible, now that along with no light there is also no compasses. Many people died in aircraft accidents. The third strange thing to happen was a mass exodus of all cats to the nearest mountain range. Those that didn't make it by the next day died for seemingly no reason, except for one. Instead of dying, all of its legs broke. It then started to crawl around like a snake, so I had to shoot it. The final strange thing to happen was a bunch of mutilated, half-eaten bodies showing up in alleyways. I was sent in to investigate these incidents. After a while, all that was left was me and a few of my closest friends. We went to some mansion and barricaded ourselves in. One of my friends went insane and jumped off the fifth floor indoor balcony onto the bookshelves below. Eventually, after everyone on Earth except for me was dead, I discovered the reason behind the killings. It was the slithering cat. Once I found that out, it began to chase me. I hid in the local library, specifically the religious section, hoping that any deity out there would protect me. It did not work, and I soon heard the cat slithering up the stairs. It then poked around the corner and looked at me. I got a nice long look at it: legs bent at angles they shouldn't be, fur all manged up, face blown off. And yet, somehow, it was alive. As it got closer, I got more scared. I was backed up into the wall. Once it was about a foot away from me, it stopped. It began to talk. "Hello, my son. Congratulations on surviving this far. I knew from the start you'd be the one. Now take your rightful spot at the right hand of your true father and help me to control the next universe." The cat started to fly in the air, as did I. We eventually stopped in some room that was damp and dreary, a cliched dungeon room. The cat was nowhere to be seen, but I could still hear it. "My time is over, but yours has just begun. Now start, my son, create your universe."
[QUOTE=cardfan212;34669803]Long thing[/QUOTE] That sounds pretty amazing.
Anybody have experience with out-of-body experiences? I kinda want to try it, but I'm not too sure on how.
[QUOTE=cardfan212;34669983]Anybody have experience with out-of-body experiences? I kinda want to try it, but I'm not too sure on how.[/QUOTE] As a note, out-of-body experiences are placebo. What I would do is just go from a lucid
[QUOTE=Fiskepudding;34669920]That sounds pretty amazing.[/QUOTE] Holy shit that really does sound like an amazing dream.
That dream came to me during a time where I was kind of experimenting. I would eat or drink something right before going to sleep to see how it affected my dreams. I found that drinking a can of Diet Cherry Pepsi about 45 minutes before going to bed created the best ones. That one was one of the DCP dreams.
i cant sleep at all why does this happen every few weeks
Had a really long plot-dream last night but I don't remember the details anym.... Just remembered. It was a dream about becoming the best rocket truck racer in the galaxy. We had big trucks and they had rockets installed and we would race at insane speeds around tracks, doing flips and rolls and shit like that while breaking the sound barrier and jumping over giant ditches. I ended up becoming the champion, but then found out that it was actually a visual novel, and there was this guy with dark shoulder length hair, like a butler and he called me with some name I had in the dream which I don't remember anymore and congratulated me (the name had the letter "u", all I can remember). Found out there was a sequel, but I woke up before playing it. [editline]14th February 2012[/editline] Glad my dream recall is good enough to remember already forgotten dreams in relative detail after 12+ hours of waking up without attempting to remember at that time, or writing them down in any way.
Had a dream where I was a cameraman following dorothy from the wizard of oz in a mafia type scenario. Scarecrow being hung, tinman down in a lake, lion's head at the foot of someone's bed... oh god.
How do I stop being so terrified of sleep paralysis I can't even fall asleep when trying to do it anymore because of last time
Just stop giving a fuck. That's what I do with most things. If you think you have it be like "yeah, yeah, scary monsters whatever. Be tits." Something like that. That's how it works, right?
I want sleep paralysis so bad. I've gone for it the last few nights, but whenever I get close (I feel my feet start to get paralyzed, then it moves up) I get all giddy and my breathing pattern gets messed up and I lose it.
In my last sleep paralysis experience, i finally had visual hallucinations. It was a movie trailer for some sort of futuristic crime movie that lacked action. After the trailer was done, my lucid dream started.
If it helps I have been DILD'ing for a while however I have only been able to get sleep paraliss once and that was the first time I ever tried. Dunno What is up with that.
[QUOTE=cardfan212;34669983]Anybody have experience with out-of-body experiences? I kinda want to try it, but I'm not too sure on how.[/QUOTE] they're not really a thing it's pretty much just a placebo, a lot of the time when you have dreams that feel lucid/semi-lucid they start with you at the foot of your bed watching yourself sleep. not sure why, but it's a fairly common occurrence. then they assume they're having an out of body experience so they're like now confined to the world they know is reality instead of being able to take full advantage of being lucid. so in a way it's kind of sad. oh well
WILD is really hard for me to pull off. I do start to see pictures and even little dreams, but at some point, i just forget that its just a dream. On the other hand, i had really cool sleep paralysis thing, whatever it is. I woke up, and opened my drawer. Inside the drawer was HUNDREDS of cigarette cases. I grabbed a few and looked at them like "What... the fuck." Then suddenly the cases in my hand turned into my cellphone which was alarming. The drawer was opened, and there was just my CD's, as they were supposed to be.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;34717838]they're not really a thing it's pretty much just a placebo, a lot of the time when you have dreams that feel lucid/semi-lucid they start with you at the foot of your bed watching yourself sleep. not sure why, but it's a fairly common occurrence. then they assume they're having an out of body experience so they're like now confined to the world they know is reality instead of being able to take full advantage of being lucid. so in a way it's kind of sad. oh well[/QUOTE] My WILDs start with me rising out of my bed/floating off of it, every single time. It's just how it works for me
The only problem I have whenever I can be bothered to lucid dream, is that I am very paranoid. I will think "what if something is behind me" , which in turn places something scary behind me. Heh, once I got scared because I couldn't get out of a dream. Also my brother is silly, he claimed some time ago that if you die in a dream, you die in real life, but you exit the dream right before dying. No, brother, you can die, depending on your faith. Here, have a story. Months ago, I had a dream. I was in some sort of battlefield, it just felt like something from red faction, on mars or some shit. People were fighting, I somehow died. I went up to some sort of afterlife, my dad was there (btw this wasn't lucid), and I might have gone to a phone or something, it was in some sort of box. That's all I remember. I don't write a dream journal anymore. I find it hard to sleep a lot of the time anyway. Mainly because I keep thinking "I can't sleep" or half the time I imagine something behind me, of course I'm pretty much past slenderman now, of course I reminisce of him sometimes. I sometimes think of a creepypasta, basically the room is filled with dead bodies, with an ominous red lighting, and the bodies were mutilated, guts and the lot. And sometimes someone is at my door wanting to kill me, and he sometimes has no face. [editline]16th February 2012[/editline] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCtBlcgpD_c[/media] ah, this should help
What kind of shenanigans do you people do in your lucids?
Try this: There are different chems, of which give you different magic powers. One is fire, the other is frost, etc. You are on a quest, fighting through hordes, to get to the dragon of Hjaitaluu, and kill him.
[QUOTE=C:\;34719690]Try this: There are different chems, of which give you different magic powers. One is fire, the other is frost, etc. You are on a quest, fighting through hordes, to get to the dragon of Hjaitaluu, and kill him.[/QUOTE] Hm, interesting. I'll keep that in mind.
Also try and learn a language in your lucid dreams. I was speaking bad German in one of my non lucid dreams :v:.
I think I'll start off small, like learning the basics (changing settings, summoning, stuff like that) before I get into crazy stuff.
[QUOTE=Orkel;34719221]My WILDs start with me rising out of my bed/floating off of it, every single time. It's just how it works for me[/QUOTE] I personally am a fan of the dream corridor for WILDs, but not many people are. [QUOTE=cardfan212;34719661]What kind of shenanigans do you people do in your lucids?[/QUOTE] i love the neat trick orkel taught me summon a button and press it. your brain will figure out the rest. :v: [editline]16th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=cardfan212;34719874]I think I'll start off small, like learning the basics (changing settings, summoning, stuff like that) before I get into crazy stuff.[/QUOTE] sometimes the small things aren't as easy as the big things. the weather, for example, can be ridiculously hard. Just keep trying, you'll get more experienced as you go along.
Starting my first WILD tonight, will post results later.
that's really wild, man.
Does WILD work best if you are really tired, kinda tired, or not tired?
Can you WILD when you go to sleep for the night (without waking up and falling back asleep)? Also, what causes nightmares? I don't have them, but I've always wondered why (not that I want them or anything).
[QUOTE=wolfos96;34720481]Can you WILD when you go to sleep for the night (without waking up and falling back asleep)? Also, what causes nightmares? I don't have them, but I've always wondered why (not that I want them or anything).[/QUOTE] wild is going from awake to sleeping. waking up and falling back asleep is (appropriately) referred to as WBTB. Wake, back to bed. stress is the most common cause, but generally when your brain feels overwhelmed or annoyed that happens.
[QUOTE=cardfan212;34719661]What kind of shenanigans do you people do in your lucids?[/QUOTE] I spend most of my lucids exploring the dream world and meeting interesting people/characters/whatever from both real life and TV. Sometimes I use the button trick, or blow shit up, or try some original dream goal that came to my mind or that I heard from somewhere else.
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