I've been sick for the last few days and I've gotten two lucid dreams (I don't really strive to have them). I don't know if it's the combination of ibuprofen and melatonin or just the fact that I'm sick. They're pretty short lived, but they were still fun.
The second one I was being followed by two old men that looked the same, when I started to run they tried to capture me with their wooden canes, then I realised I was dreaming and said, "Nope, I'm in control motherfucker!" and started bending the canes and making earthquakes.
I was sick a few months ago and took your usual over-the-counter medicine to help get over it, then took a nap. While I was asleep, I seemed a lot more aware and able to think clearly, and within a few in-dream minutes, I unintentionally achieved lucidity.
I'm not sure if it's the medicine or the sickness either, but it does seem to have a connection.
Is it normal to have multiple lucid dreams in one night? I had 3 last night but they were very short. I wasn't even trying to lucid dream.
[QUOTE=DeandreT;36920271]Had the weirdest dream about 10 minutes ago. It felt lucid and sometimes not, but I think that was just my mind fucking with me or something.
It kind of started out in the middle of me being an exorcist and I was trying to remove a demon from someones body when I realized that demons don't exist and I gained control of the dream. But while I gained control of the dream I felt I still had to remove the demon from their body. So I put my hand on their head and they started back to their original colors and being human again.
This is where I assume I got too excited or something went wrong. The person that I exorcised starts smiling and turning gray again. I start being afraid and lose control of the dream. This really confuses me since I felt I still knew how to gain control of the dream back while I wasn't actually controlling it.
Either way I lost control and the demon started chasing me around for a while, but somehow I gained control again and the first thing I did was yell "wake up" at the top of my lungs. Eventually I woke up but I had troubles opening my eyelids or moving my body. I was able to get up after a while of struggling and run over to my computer and post this here.
Was hoping someone could help me explain what the fuck I just witnessed. I'm not even religious so I don't know why these roles were in place.[/QUOTE]
You were a random dream and accidentally went lucid but still without having control over the dream itself.
Kind of like the first time I ever lucid dreamed: I knew I was dreaming and I could do anything I could ever want, and the first thing that popped into my head was to watch Death itself playing Arkanoid.
At that point I decided that lucid dreaming was stupid and woke up.
Eh, I wasn't exactly lucid.
I've had several dreams recently, but don't remember the exact order of them; though i'll try to place them more or less in some kind of chronological order.
[quote]Dream #1: I recall escaping from some house, pursued by what looked like the Shadowlord from Nier, and found myself in an industrial part of a city of red-brick buildings. Things happened, don't know what, but near the end of the dream I found myself in the small cupboard-like corridor between two doors, with an architectural decor strangely similar to that of TF Industries. I was anxious about opening the door in front of me, so I tarried, and then the bottom of the rear door swung open.
Somebody, I assume probably the Shadowlord, placed a bunch of bananas into the room, and I instinctively knew "FUCK, he's gonna set the monkeys on me", prompting me to go through the door and find myself in this strange cell-like room. The second I tried to close that door, it fucking glitched out, rotating on an awkward angle (anyone else have dreams where doors just refuse to work properly?), meaning I couldn't close or lock it, so I went towards a vent and crawled in. After a couple of bends, I looked down to observe monkeys running into the cell, and a few seconds later I woke up.[/quote]
[quote]Dream #2: Not much I remember about this one, other that it involved an urban district of some sort, like a secluded marketplace-like zone. A female friend from college, who imma call "Mish", was there too, and then alarms sounded; bad things were approaching. I helped Mish into a safe spot until the danger passed, and then the scene reset somewhat. The situation seemed to loop for a while, until during one of the passes, I decided to not use the safe spot, and instead head down into this subway area similar to London Underground. The dream ended shortly thereafter; I think that Mish's presence musta been indicative of how I miss Mish. Kinda miss my other college pals too; I really should get back into contact with them.[/quote]
Just had a dream about a [URL="http://stalker.wikia.com/wiki/Controller"]Controller[/URL] from STALKER attacking my brother, my mother and myself in my old childhood home which I haven't seen in years. Took place during a snowstorm. We managed to escape in a vehicle, though.
Also, for some reason there was a freaky ~seven-foot tall mannequin with a painted on-face in the hallway that scared the shit out of me. Probably a reference to Slenderman.
I had a lucid dream of me staying at some sort of skiing resort, like in Aspen. I didn't actually go skiing, but I stole some guys motorcycle. Oh my God that was the best fun I've ever had. He kind of let me take his motorcycle, and I just drove around in it all along this dirt track. It was really fun because I learnt how to drive it as I went along, I learnt how to change the gears and break and take corners really well. It was insane because it was so vivid, and I felt the power of the motorcycle.
One part of the dream I was shooting down this tarmac windy road and I was taking the corners really fast and I almost crashed. I think I was so shit-scared of crashing, I used the power of my mind to sort of jedi-levitate the motorcycle back straight onto the road.
[editline]25th July 2012[/editline]
Are lucid dreams always going to be little fragments of dreams that I'm fully aware in? Like I had one little dream about the motorcycle driving, then after that I just ended up regaining my conscious state in another scene and time (I can't remember what scenario it was). But always my lucid dreams are broken up into little fragments and - like in Inception - I never end up being aware of how I got to this place, but I just carry on the dream.
For example, I could have been driving the motorcycle, then all of a sudden, I'm doing something completely different - like hiking along the route of a mountain. To my dreaming brain, that's completely normal, but there's always a little part of me that is thinking "Uhh, hang on a sec, I know I'm dreaming, but how did I get here?" but my dream-self just carries on hiking.
how come every time I start to have a lucid dream I wake up within like a minute no matter what I do to stabilize it?
[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;36932027]how come every time I start to have a lucid dream I wake up within like a minute no matter what I do to stabilize it?[/QUOTE]
You think too much.
i guess
i try really hard to stay calm and just let what happens happens, but it never seems to last more than a little bit
Had shitload of dreams last night, but I'm having trouble remembering them
I do know for sure that I had a dream where Mr. Burns' plant was coming under attack by angry people so we were doing emergency evacuation procedures to get to his Japan plant where everyone loved him, it was cooler than I can explain but I woke before we teleported or whatever the hell we were doing
probably getting too excited
just let it stabilize first yo
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;36903476]
happens because running is a super complex motion and your brain needs input to make tiny adjustments. it doesn't have input because you're not actually running, so it happens in slow motion so your brain can piece it together as you go. same reason why it's really hard to throw a punch.
the more you know[/QUOTE]
Bullshit, I've had super high speed sword fights in my dreams before. Realistic feeling too. And running fast in a dream isn't that hard. I've done it in many lucid dreams.
You are severely underestimating the power of the human brain.
I have moved really quick too. And had no real problem with that.
Not sure if i tried hitting something or running in lucid, but the few times i was lucid dreaming i could do anything except prevent waking up. Succeeded in stabilizing once tho and it was cool, too bad my dream memory is bad and i forget what i did in my dream. Only feeling that it was great experience stays.
Oh, any anyone complaining about waking up too soon needs to learn how to re-enter their dreams.
This has probably already been said but all you have to do is not move or open your eyes when you feel yourself wake up, when you go back into the dream state you can enter another lucid dream. You can do this many times within a couple hours. I've had up to 8 lucid dreams in one morning because I did this.
[QUOTE=SilverBullet;36952347]Oh, any anyone complaining about waking up too soon needs to learn how to re-enter their dreams.
This has probably already been said but all you have to do is not move or open your eyes when you feel yourself wake up, when you go back into the dream state you can enter another lucid dream. You can do this many times within a couple hours. I've had up to 8 lucid dreams in one morning because I did this.[/QUOTE]
I can usually get up for a while and still go back to where i left. It's fun to have many short naps in the morning since time feels like it's extremely slow, and you usually recall dreams better.
Why is it hard for me to actually think during a dream?
It always feels like I'm just watching a movie, while my body moves without my discretion, and other stuff happens around me.
[QUOTE=SilverBullet;36952180]Bullshit, I've had super high speed sword fights in my dreams before. Realistic feeling too. And running fast in a dream isn't that hard. I've done it in many lucid dreams.
You are severely underestimating the power of the human brain.[/QUOTE]
My mistake, I didn't clarify. This usually holds true when you're not lucid. Lucidity tends to break most rules. WHen you're NOT lucid, good luck.
[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;36937657]i guess
i try really hard to stay calm and just let what happens happens, but it never seems to last more than a little bit[/QUOTE]
Maybe you're focusing too hard on trying to be calm and it essentially backfires on you.
Try to be in a state of "oh." when you get a lucid dream, you have to adopt a passive mindset.
And just do things. Don't think about "I need to focus or I'll wake up", because like I've said before, in dreams what you think, is. So just the slightest thoughts about waking up will make you do so (sometimes false awakening but still)
[editline]27th July 2012[/editline]
Even thinking right now about the way your lucids end too soon, it'll get embedded in your subconscious and you [I]expect it to happen no matter what you do[/I] every time you get a lucid, so it happens.
I just had a couple strange dreams.
In the first one, uh. It started off with a Dark Souls-esque character creation screen. I made a mage, as I usually do. Then, for some strange reason, there was a thing that let me influence the "atmosphere" of the game. So of course, I made it ~grimdark~ and really decrepit. I ended up dying in the tutorial level for some reason. My sister mocked me for it. Later, I was riding a horse for some reason. My sister was with me. We were at my elementary school. We talked about some stuff I can't remember. Later, back at home, my sister invited me into a room. She looked guilty about something. She was in the middle of a sentence, about to tell me she killed my grandmother, or something. I smacked her in the face. I woke up. Well, it was a false awakening. I decided to walk around a bit. My mom was sleeping. About a minute later, I saw my dad and he said some stuff. Then I woke up. At 5 AM.
In the second dream, uh. Well, I can't really remember it that well.
Anyway, it was sort of sci-fi. It had flying cars and the generic futuristic city setting. I had to deliver a package to someone. Of course, since I was dreaming, I didn't know who I was delivering it to, or their address. It was a dream though, so I knew where they were, anyway. On the way there, I meet this one girl with glasses who's ended up having to sit beside me in every class I've been in for the past 3 years. She decides to come with me for some reason. At the destination, I end up meeting the rest of my family. I get caught up into a tournament or something. I don't know exactly what was happening, but uh. Basically, there was two teams in each match. Each team had to redirect beams of light towards a gigantic crystalline core on their side of the field to power their laser guns or something. The arena was like a maze. There was about a dozen light sources on it. There was a hud floating in midair in front of everyone's face. Why? I don't really know. My team, who I can't remember anything about, lost to a group of three scantily-clad little girls you would see on Hyperdimension Neptunia or something. Yeah.
I had a dream where I was in this kind of dirty hostel with a few friends. The door to the room we were staying in would always open after I closed it so I finally looked through the crack to see an eye. Freaking out I ran outside and heard the door burst open. A bunch of men grabbed me and took me to some new place to meet someone; turned out to be a bed ridden asian man who claimed to be the leader of a crime organization.
He wanted me to be his successor for some reason and he made all the guys who dragged me in call me X-sama (X being my last name) and bow. Then he wandered over to a window and started to talk to me about the organization but I wasn't paying much attention as this beautiful blonde Czech girl walked in, completely naked, and came over to my side.
I surmised she was some kind of servant since no one was too surprised to see her, so I drew an arm around her waist and held her close as we listened to the leader. She looped an arm around my back as well and didn't mind at all when I played with her breasts or tried to flirt with her in Czech. More girls were coming in and I was like 'this is all to be mine? Awesome'.
When I had to kiss her goodbye as the leader wanted me to follow him out of his room, I woke up.
Had my first LD today in the morning. Woke up 6.45 to get ready for work. Walked ca 400 m to my grandmothers to get something to eat and leave for work with dad. Dad wasn't ready yet so I had time to eat and have a cup of Coffee.
I had been up late day before so I was sleepy still. But I had time till work so I tried to take a nap. Lied on my side and closed my eyes.
Now I remember seeing the room the bed and everything after closing my eyes. It could have been some time after closing eyes, or maybe immediately after that, don't remember. Still, somehow next thing I remember was being back at my home outside. I looked into the sky. Sky was really trippy.
Everything was really vivid and clear. And I discovered that I could control myself. It wasn't spontaneous like your average dream which just happens. I could fuck around. Then I don't remember much after that but I tried flying. And it worked. I just started tearing my house to pieces. I threw the roof on the grass. I don't remember why I did that. But it was really awesome.
I remember waking up when someone slammed the door shut back in reality near where I was actually sleeping.
I have tried different LD techniques before. WILD's and WBTB mostly. I usually just drift asleep and wake up in the morning. But I suspect coffee today changed this though I could be completely wrong.
Could drinking coffee before LDing change anything for the better?
Also, does it matter in what position I'm sleeping in? I just can't fall asleep when I'm on my back. And I get the idea that most techniques are meant to be used when sleeping on your back.
Oh OH Oh I remembered something. I did a reality check. It was later in the dream though. But it worked. I think I had already realized I was lucid. But I did it anyway just to try it. I believe it was the pinch your nose and breath thing.
Oh I remember something again. I tried to force myself awake. I think I tried to kill myself or scare myself awake (like in Inception) because I was afraid I would sleep through my work, didn't work though.
[QUOTE=valiant1k;36964130]Had my first LD today in the morning. Woke up 6.45 to get ready for work. Walked ca 400 m to my grandmothers to get something to eat and leave for work with dad. Dad wasn't ready yet so I had time to eat and have a cup of Coffee.
I had been up late day before so I was sleepy still. But I had time till work so I tried to take a nap. Lied on my side and closed my eyes.
Now I remember seeing the room the bed and everything after closing my eyes. It could have been some time after closing eyes, or maybe immediately after that, don't remember. Still, somehow next thing I remember was being back at my home outside. I looked into the sky. Sky was really trippy.
Everything was really vivid and clear. And I discovered that I could control myself. It wasn't spontaneous like your average dream which just happens. I could fuck around. Then I don't remember much after that but I tried flying. And it worked. I just started tearing my house to pieces. I threw the roof on the grass. I don't remember why I did that. But it was really awesome.
I remember waking up when someone slammed the door shut back in reality near where I was actually sleeping.
I have tried different LD techniques before. WILD's and WBTB mostly. I usually just drift asleep and wake up in the morning. But I suspect coffee today changed this though I could be completely wrong.
Could drinking coffee before LDing change anything for the better?
Also, does it matter in what position I'm sleeping in? I just can't fall asleep when I'm on my back. And I get the idea that most techniques are meant to be used when sleeping on your back.
Oh OH Oh I remembered something. I did a reality check. It was later in the dream though. But it worked. I think I had already realized I was lucid. But I did it anyway just to try it. I believe it was the pinch your nose and breath thing.
Oh I remember something again. [B]I tried to force myself awake. I think I tried to kill myself or scare myself awake (like in Inception) because I was afraid I would sleep through my work, didn't work though.[/B][/QUOTE]
UH. There are easier ways too. Like closing your eyes and yelling "wake up" should work fine i guess.
[QUOTE=valiant1k;36964130]Had my first LD today in the morning. Woke up 6.45 to get ready for work. Walked ca 400 m to my grandmothers to get something to eat and leave for work with dad. Dad wasn't ready yet so I had time to eat and have a cup of Coffee.
I had been up late day before so I was sleepy still. But I had time till work so I tried to take a nap. Lied on my side and closed my eyes.
Now I remember seeing the room the bed and everything after closing my eyes. It could have been some time after closing eyes, or maybe immediately after that, don't remember. Still, somehow next thing I remember was being back at my home outside. I looked into the sky. Sky was really trippy.
Everything was really vivid and clear. And I discovered that I could control myself. It wasn't spontaneous like your average dream which just happens. I could fuck around. Then I don't remember much after that but I tried flying. And it worked. I just started tearing my house to pieces. I threw the roof on the grass. I don't remember why I did that. But it was really awesome.
I remember waking up when someone slammed the door shut back in reality near where I was actually sleeping.
I have tried different LD techniques before. WILD's and WBTB mostly. I usually just drift asleep and wake up in the morning. But I suspect coffee today changed this though I could be completely wrong.
Could drinking coffee before LDing change anything for the better?
Also, does it matter in what position I'm sleeping in? I just can't fall asleep when I'm on my back. And I get the idea that most techniques are meant to be used when sleeping on your back.
Oh OH Oh I remembered something. I did a reality check. It was later in the dream though. But it worked. I think I had already realized I was lucid. But I did it anyway just to try it. I believe it was the pinch your nose and breath thing.
Oh I remember something again. I tried to force myself awake. I think I tried to kill myself or scare myself awake (like in Inception) because I was afraid I would sleep through my work, didn't work though.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/caffeine-induced-lucid-dream-121988/[/url]
[quote]-Drinking caffeine prior to bed but ensuring you'll fall asleep before the caffeine is absorbed into the body is one technique to induce lucid dreaming.
-If someone is having withdrawl symptoms from caffeine, the affect of a lucid dream after employing the CILD is even greater.
-Careful, if you fail you'll have successfully robbed yourself of hours of precious sleep.
~~~
Wondering why this works... maybe a fail safe method of turning on specific brain activity but since you're already asleep, it produces a lucid dream. I assume if too much caffeine is taken then it'll wake the individual up, working on the same basis that too much lucidity has the same effect.[/quote]
I've seen it mentioned elsewhere too.. it's supposedly a good way to get a "nap" lucid dream.
Anyone try that "Finger Induced Lucid Dream" method, the one where you use minute finger movements to lull yourself into a dream? Tried it last night but I was just too emotionally drained to commit to it, so I just fell asleep normally and had a normal dream (cyan shyguy buddy, farm adventure??)
So last night, I had a dream that me and my family went to this old abandoned mansion, like one you'd see in a stereotypical horror movie from the 40's. We had a truck filled with stuff, and it appeared that we were moving into/out of the mansion. Now, we don't own a truck, but it looked exactly like one that my friend owns, so I didn't suspect anything, we could just be borrowing it. My mother got angry for not sweeping leaves off the truck for some reason, so I went inside the mansion. She and my brother followed me inside.
Bit of backstory that may or may not be relevant. Whenever I have the chance to scavenge things, in video games or not, I take whatever I think might be possibly useful. So, I started scavenging the mansion, and I found a locked terminal, like in Fallout, on the second floor, so I unlocked it. There were five or six selections, all of which were methods for destroying the mansion. I just left it there, but my mother came up and selected the option to drain all the air from the mansion. About ten seconds later, my vision started fading.
Had a dream that I was in the future. And in the future, people had been at war with Valhalla for over 1,000 years after a strange portal had emerged between the two dimensions. Mostly mech combat. Was interesting.
I had pretty creepy dream last night. I was laying down in my bed I assume (it was really dark so I'm not sure) looking at my turned-off TV, when a warning message started scrolling across the screen (kind of like flash flood or earthquake warnings or whatever warning it is). I don't remember exactly what it said, but I think the first words were "run down" and the last ones were "help me". All I remember about everything inbetween was that it was mostly half unintelligible gibberish and half English, but it looked like it was conveying a distress call. A voice that sounded a little like the turrets from Portal read the message. It was repeated three times, and the last time it was said an octave higher than original, I think to emulate screaming. I immediately woke up afterwards.
Not much of a nightmare, but it scared me shitless.
Edit: [URL="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System[/URL] it was this kind of message.
Had a dream that me and my old crush were stuck in North Korea for some reason or another. During our journey of escaping the country, we grew closer together and the dream ended as we crossed the border and kissed for the first time.
Another was about running up a seemingly endless spiral staircase (walls were light brown) together with a bunch of other people, with an unnaturally fast werewolf chasing us up the stairs. Every now and then I'd look down the middle of the staircase and the werewolf would go up at insane speed bursts and eat the slowest member of the bunch and then continue upwards towards the next victim. I think it was like 10 metres below me by the time the dream ended, I was prolly the next to become eaten.
So i had a lucid dream, not my first one.
In my dream i was talking to this annoying guy, maybe he was the bad guy of the dream but i couldnt remember the events before i realized i was lucid, so i told him "listen i know im dreaming so i could smash your face in right here." i saw him look at me pretty terrified and i got some sort of satisfaction from that and i just grinned, stood up and walked a bit.
I decided to fly. So i started to jump as high as i could, but i felt heavy. after a couple of jumps i felt my legs tiring. At this point it really freaked me out a bit, i started to question my sanity, what if i wasn't asleep? Everything just looked and feeled so real.
I just thought that well one way to find out would be.. just waking up.
Its easy to wake up afterall, just need to open your eyes. and i did. And i woke up on my bed.
Was pretty freaky, i usually dont feel that heavy in a dream, i have never tired myself in a dream before.
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