[QUOTE=glitcherpwnsall;29746257]Oh fuck! I am scared. I used the ideomotor responce thing the OP spoke about it answered all my questions but it felt like I was... unleashing something. I asked it if I could go lucid and speak to it in a dream and it said yes and now I'm so so scared. I know it is me, but I'm pretty warped as a person and I'm so scared.[/QUOTE]
One time while doing ideomotor, my sub totally possessed my arm and made it do all kinds of crazy shit.
And thats was months since I lost my "meeting my subconscious" jitter :downs:
[quote]I really don't want to go into too much detail but I am pretty ashamed of my past, things I've done, people I've been.
I guess I'm scared of the truth. Wow I sound cliched.[/quote]
Everyone's ashamed of their past in some way. Mainly because people are more likely to remember bad memories rather than good memories.
[editline]11th May 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Mikesword221;29749512]Fuck my ADHD for not allowing me to focus on this. What's the most effective method?[/QUOTE]
I have ADHD too. So a school claims.
Go for DILD or DEILD.
Okay so It's been two or so weeks now since my last LD (which was the first one in months). Been RCing errday and trying WILD from time to time when I go to bed but not much luck. I want to start again, any suggestions?
[QUOTE=ItazukiShi;29716866]When you wake up, try and focus on the dream, the write it in a dream journal
I had a dream last month, well it was a nightmare, I was reading this enjoyable book, and at the end of the book there was this thing written in blood, it said "well done." or "congratulations.", I went on my computer, and then someone touched me, it was a man, he looked like a zombie, and he had slits on his wrist, they were paper cuts(I assumed this, as when I woke up, it would of been believable that he had killed himself giving paper cut, In a dream anything is possible.), he then threw a knife at me and I dodged it, the computer it hit. He then disappeared, I went on my iPod and searched for him, it said I had to make someone else read it, I gave it to my brother, and then I woke up when my other brother got possessed by him. I woke up and wrote all of this down in my dream journal, I'm thing of writing a horror book on this.
[editline]9th May 2011[/editline]
He gave himself papercuts from the book btw.
Any tips for a writer and his first book?[/QUOTE]
That really helped since I can't remember them at ALL.
[QUOTE=Rapist;29756145]That really helped since I can't remember them at ALL.[/QUOTE]
Oh, well that's good. Glad you got the help you were looking for
Well good news, I got bananas and bread today! Will see if it sparks my memory a bit more.
I had a dream night before last.
I was essentially inside of a mix between Spore's cell stage and space stage. Then I used a cheat code to go instantly to Earth. Once I was there, I was in a brick building (my sub loves them, I can't stand them). There was a TV at one end of the room, and and a group of people at the other end. Then I started watching shrimp bumping into each other, while the people were right next to me.
Last night's [b]3[/b] dreams:
First. I was at my dining room table with my laptop, looking at more shrimp. Stuff went down.
Second. Taking a second trip to Dream Canada. I think I went the night before, possibly just before this dream. We happened upon JapanTown, I giant walled city just like rural Japan. Me and the people I was traveling with wandered around, then left. Then it faded away like dust, as if it was never actually there. We continued on, and eventually I faded into the next dream.
Third. I was in a nice house with a large window to my left. Outside it was sunny, there was a pool. A man walked by, something felt off. He was infected. As soon as he passed out of sight, he was walking past me on the inside of the house. Then, I saw a friend of mine. His back was turned from me, he had a small white lump on the center of his neck. He turned, all his teeth were creepy little white spheres, and his eyes were all white. He screamed and attacked me, infected me.
Fourth (may be part of the third). I was in a small theater, with all the seats at an extreme height difference. Mostly I was just trying to navigate towards someone, the people and the design didn't make it easy.
[QUOTE=Rapist;29761239]Well good news, I got bananas and bread today! Will see if it sparks my memory a bit more.[/QUOTE]
Well bad news, I forgot about the bananas and bread.
[QUOTE=Rapist;29775946]Well bad news, I forgot about the bananas and bread.[/QUOTE]
There's always the option of shoving cod liver oil down your throat.
My dreams last night were so strange and abstract that I can barely make sense of them. I think they had something to do with my daily life, and I had one false awakening.
Went lucid last night. I was in english class in the middle of the night. A bunch of my friends were there. I went up to the front of the room and started talking when I realized I was dreaming. I interrupted myself and yelled IM HAVING A LUCID DREAM. All my friends looked at me like I was fucking stupid. HOOHOOHAHAHHAA YOU PROJECTIONS CANT FOOL ME IM FUCKING ASLEEP. I made all of them leave except for one friend, and started showing him around the dream. Then the dream crashed because I forgot to stabilize.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;29777515]Went lucid last night. I was in english class in the middle of the night. A bunch of my friends were there. I went up to the front of the room and started talking when I realized I was dreaming. I interrupted myself and yelled IM HAVING A LUCID DREAM. All my friends looked at me like I was fucking stupid. HOOHOOHAHAHHAA YOU PROJECTIONS CANT FOOL ME IM FUCKING ASLEEP. I made all of them leave except for one friend, and started showing him around the dream. Then the dream crashed because I forgot to stabilize.[/QUOTE]
I watched videos about the Space Core for an hour or so before I went to sleep.
My dream involved space.
Whats your favorite thing about space?
[editline]12th May 2011[/editline]
[sp]mines space[/sp]
School is studying Holocaust.
Dreamt that Hitler was in the middle of the forest (Looked a little like Middle Earth) playing on a 3-piece drum kit. What.
[QUOTE=ChemicalBurn;29783575]School is studying Holocaust.
Dreamt that Hitler was in the middle of the forest (Looked a little like Middle Earth) playing on a 3-piece drum kit. What.[/QUOTE]
Everything in there is somehow related to what you've seen or heard.
Brains just arrangin' everything. I've noticed the trippiest dreams come when you have an extremely varied and busy day and you don't get a lot of sleep if at all. Then when you finally get some shuteye your brains go apeshit.
[QUOTE=Sabrina;29783801]Everything in there is somehow related to what you've seen or heard.
Brains just arrangin' everything. I've noticed the trippiest dreams come when you have an extremely varied and busy day and you don't get a lot of sleep if at all. Then when you finally get some shuteye your brains go apeshit.[/QUOTE]
Makes sense. Talent Show is coming up (Drumming), the Holocaust thing, and I suppose the Middle Earth-looking location is from me playing D&D lately. V:v:V
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;29730923]You DO usually have about six dreams a night, but usually two or three of them are memorable and the rest aren't really anything special (and even then the bigger ones blend together).
Sounds like you're going lucid in every dream, but you're not realizing it. That's the only thing I can think of that would result in waking up after every dream, and the fact that they're crazy and vivid.
Work on reality checks and dream recall.
Also, BRINK BITCHES. See you in a week.[/QUOTE]
as a promised, here's a little dream journal:
The dream itself was episodic. There were three dreams like sequels that all had to do with each other to a degree, but my character kept changing. When i first woke up, I was lying in that desert from the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I think i was Jack Sparrow because in this particular dream people kept calling me "Captain". I got up and dusted myself off, amazed at the amount of sand that came off of me when i stood up. When i started walking around I started to see people walking at me out of this faint mist that was all around. They were all greeting me as "Captain" and they looked like the various civilians from red dead redemption, but in real life. I saw one who stood out from the rest. He was wearing a modern suit and he looked a bit like Joseph Gordon-Levitt. i started walking towards him and everybody else disappeared into dust. when i got to him he looked up with this weird little smirk and said, "we have just lost cabin pressure". At that moment all hell broke loose. The "womp" sound from inception suddenly blared from the sky and i was blinded with pain. i felt myself twisting and falling up into the sky (kind of like apparating from Harry Potter). All of the colors changed and what i felt was almost like if you could inject hardcore dubstep into your heart. I thought to myself, "If i don't explode my mind will surely blow up". And on those exact words i woke up from dream one.
I woke up and this time i was in a Jungle (keep in mind that every location in these dreams was from Pirates of the Caribbean) on a small island with a valley in the middle. When i got up, I had a splitting headache and i felt like something was literally trying to get out of my head. I looked around and saw a "you are here" sign like the ones you see in malls. I saw an x on the map which marked the spot where i could get rid of my headache with "The Cure" as it was labeled on the map. So I started bushwhacking my way through the island which was very difficult and time consuming. Not to mention my headache was only getting worse. when i finally got to the clearing where the x was, there was a chest on what looked like an ant mound. When i went over to it the ground started o shake and MASSIVE mosquitoes started coming out of the holes in the ant hill. they tried to kill me but i dodged all of their attacks and finnally got to the chest. There was a gun inside. Without hesitation i grabbed it and shot myself in the head, at which point i woke up.
The last dream was simple and nice. I woke up on the same island from the previous dream and discovered i had grown giant blue wings. i began to fly around the island and listen to people's conversations, which were almost entirely made up of small talk and no actual content. It was a pleasant break from the last two dreams and i flew around for hours until i got bored. That's when i went limp (by choice) and just free fell back first from the sky and everything fell apart as i was falling. I awoke with a hypnic jerk (when you dream you're falling and you wake up when you hit the ground and spaz out in real life) and just lay there and thought about the dreams i had had.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;29777515]Then the dream crashed because I forgot to stabilize.[/QUOTE]
High five bro.
[editline]13th May 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sabrina;29783801]Everything in there is somehow related to what you've seen or heard.
I've noticed the trippiest dreams come when you have an extremely varied and busy day and you don't get a lot of sleep if at all. Then when you finally get some shuteye your brains go apeshit.[/QUOTE]
Not really.
Trippy dreams just happen. You can also take cinnamon to make it happen.
As for being tired and getting little sleep, maybe there's more REM time due to the lack of sleep and thats why you have lots of dreams. It's not going batshit, it's just more dreams than usual.
Speaking of trippy dreams, last night I dreamt that my dad was and old fiend of Gabe Newell's. They were roommates and they used to go to their dirt race track and race drag cars around.
See, its dreams like these that make me happy I stumbled across this thread and built up my recall.
:cheers: to you Zin.
Once again I need tips to jog my memory, and no a dream journal would not help right now since I haven't remembered a dream in atleast a month.
Last morning was weird. I thought my alarm clock was an element from my dream so my body refused to wake up from it.
[QUOTE=fritter22;29789597]as a promised, here's a little dream journal:
The dream itself was episodic. There were three dreams like sequels that all had to do with each other to a degree, but my character kept changing. When i first woke up, I was lying in that desert from the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I think i was Jack Sparrow because in this particular dream people kept calling me "Captain". I got up and dusted myself off, amazed at the amount of sand that came off of me when i stood up. When i started walking around I started to see people walking at me out of this faint mist that was all around. They were all greeting me as "Captain" and they looked like the various civilians from red dead redemption, but in real life. I saw one who stood out from the rest. He was wearing a modern suit and he looked a bit like Joseph Gordon-Levitt. i started walking towards him and everybody else disappeared into dust. when i got to him he looked up with this weird little smirk and said, "we have just lost cabin pressure". At that moment all hell broke loose. The "womp" sound from inception suddenly blared from the sky and i was blinded with pain. i felt myself twisting and falling up into the sky (kind of like apparating from Harry Potter). All of the colors changed and what i felt was almost like if you could inject hardcore dubstep into your heart. I thought to myself, "If i don't explode my mind will surely blow up". And on those exact words i woke up from dream one.
I woke up and this time i was in a Jungle (keep in mind that every location in these dreams was from Pirates of the Caribbean) on a small island with a valley in the middle. When i got up, I had a splitting headache and i felt like something was literally trying to get out of my head. I looked around and saw a "you are here" sign like the ones you see in malls. I saw an x on the map which marked the spot where i could get rid of my headache with "The Cure" as it was labeled on the map. So I started bushwhacking my way through the island which was very difficult and time consuming. Not to mention my headache was only getting worse. when i finally got to the clearing where the x was, there was a chest on what looked like an ant mound. When i went over to it the ground started o shake and MASSIVE mosquitoes started coming out of the holes in the ant hill. they tried to kill me but i dodged all of their attacks and finnally got to the chest. There was a gun inside. Without hesitation i grabbed it and shot myself in the head, at which point i woke up.
The last dream was simple and nice. I woke up on the same island from the previous dream and discovered i had grown giant blue wings. i began to fly around the island and listen to people's conversations, which were almost entirely made up of small talk and no actual content. It was a pleasant break from the last two dreams and i flew around for hours until i got bored. That's when i went limp (by choice) and just free fell back first from the sky and everything fell apart as i was falling. I awoke with a hypnic jerk (when you dream you're falling and you wake up when you hit the ground and spaz out in real life) and just lay there and thought about the dreams i had had.[/QUOTE]
Another complex dream last night:
I was walking through the town where i live. I noticed that an old movie rental store from my real life, which is now closed, was still there. I walked inside, and the atmosphere was sketchy to say the least. It was a small, dimly lit room and all of the movies seemed to be strange knock-offs of actual movies (looking back it's funny how i knew the movies were strange, but the fact that some random shady vhs rental store had randomly plopped it's ass in the middle of my town overnight didn't cross my mind twice). I picked up some horror movie knock off of Friday the 13th. I don't remember the title but the image on the cover was of Jason Vorhees wearing a helmet (like the ones they make retarded kids wear). That made me lol when i remembered it. When i picked up this particular movie a golden ticket came out. I went to the lady at the cash register and notified her that I had found this ticket and was wondering if anybody had lost something like that. This is where shit got weird. I dont remember the exact dialog but it went somwhere along the lines of her telling me that the ticket was for me because it was my destiny to use the ticket to get into box seats at a Bruno Mars concert (wtf Bruno mars of all people?). The reason i don't really remember this part specifically is because she kept giving me nonsense answers. i mean they made sense, but it was confusing. like i would ask, "how do i get to the concert?", and she would say, "by all means go ahead", but i eventually got an address out of her. We (my friend [who did not look at all like my friend and didn't talk, but who i still recognized as my friend] and I) arrived at the concert 30 minutes early and there were no lines into the stadium. how realistic. as we walked in i was really excited for some reason, like i knew shit was about to go down and i was ready for it. when we got in there we were guided to this big glass room overlooking the stadium and i noticed the crowd had started to fill in. I started to feel angry. and really frustrated like something wasn't going my way at all to the extreme. i don't know how to describe it because it only ever happens to me in dreams. that's when a huge tentacle came out of the ground without warning, rather like the ones in Crysis 2. It knocked the glass room (which was suspended from the ceiling) off of it's bearings and i was now dangling way above the stadium floor with bits of glass stuck in my skin and a gun in my pocket. i guy next to me looked over at me. i looked down and realized the tentacle had been coming from a monster similar to that squid thing in the Lord of the Rings. The guy looked back up at me and chuckled to himself. I asked why he was laughing and he replied, "fuck the police" and then he dropped into the monsters mouth, killing himself. i kind of chuckled at this and felt around the ledge i was holding onto. i felt an old fashioned Luger pistol and grabbed it. I decided to end all of this, so i shot one bullet into the monsters eye, killing it. there was one bullet left so i put the gun in my mouth and pulled the trigger (not sure why) of course, killing myself.
why don't my dreams ever end well?
And things have changed. I have been...... foolish. This is some time after when I was expected to respond, But I dont think I will even now. It was a silly battle I raged with my anti-self. One that is now over. I can exist, doing what I do best. Do not think of me as a pompous fool as I was earlier. My absence has been caused by computer problems.
A recent dream:
I sit on a throne of skulls. The sky scorched. And people I knew approached. And they asked me a favor, Create perfect peace. In response I Ignited the atmosphere. Killing everything, and ensuring peace. Everyone was dead. And I moved across the destroyed land, Stopping occasionally to pick up a skull, which was then added to the collection.
It was a dream of destruction.
A dream of death.
We all get those. Mine are about being a serial killer :ohdear:
I finally managed to get back in the city of blood. Waltz was there with me, so I felt a lot safer. If anything seemed hostile, he punched it and blasted it into a shower of blood. I went around and slowly the buildings of blood transformed into marble, starting from the top. Each time a creature died, the buildings solidified a little. I'm planning to go back next time I fall asleep if I can. I just have a feeling something will happen if I can make all the blood dissappear.
I had a really vivid dream where me and two best friends were playing through a real life HL2. We got pinned down by a chopper and I sacrificed myself to plant a S.L.A.M. on it and finish it off.
Also, I had a cool trenchcoat that had a little screen on the collar where I could see the locations of my friends and it had a 2 way radio in it as well.
A few weeks ago I dreampt I was playing a demo of Half-Life 3.
Dear Got, it was more amazing anyone could ever imagine.
I have some questions if anyone could answer them for me.
In my last lucid dream I closed my eyes to try to construct the next place I was going to but it changed alot of things. Like the woman I was with turned into a cat I was holding, and then I greyed out and woke up. Should I just not close my eyes until I get better at this?
And something I've wondered for a while. If I'm attempting to WILD how still do I have to stay? Can I move my toes or if I swallow or move my tongue or my eyes beneath my eyelids will that ruin my progress?
If you havn't had sex before is it possible to in a dream? I've tried several times but everytime I never actually achieve it. I usually get distracted by something or my stupid dream mind says I should get some privacy first.
Oh and thanks to anyone who bothers to reply.
[editline]15th May 2011[/editline]
I read about rubbing your hands together to stabilise a dream. I'm going to try this. Spinning seems to disorientate me from the dream I'm in.
I'm back, sorry. Spent the weekend partying at a school concert/festival. Best weekend ever.
[QUOTE=lunarwalrus;29827701]I have some questions if anyone could answer them for me.
In my last lucid dream I closed my eyes to try to construct the next place I was going to but it changed alot of things. Like the woman I was with turned into a cat I was holding, and then I greyed out and woke up. Should I just not close my eyes until I get better at this?[/quote]
Closing your eyes is a natural thing to do, but it tends to make dreams weird. You know how in a dream you can look at a clock, look away, and then look back and the clock is different? You basically do that when you close your eyes, except everything can do anything.
There are several tricks for this. One is to try to solidify what's happening around you so big changes don't happen, which works. My suggestion for your personal scenario is to not worry too much about constructing the entire area. Think about the area vaguely (type of place, atmosphere, etc.) and just go for it. Brains are cool things, they know what to do.
To answer your question, just keep trying. It's difficult to do right but once you do you won't forget it.
[quote]Also I immediatly started spinning because my last lucids have lasted very briefly but when I did I lost lucidity for a little bit before I realised what had happened and got it back. Should I only spin when I'm fading out? Also should I keep my eyes closed while spinning, in this case I did.[/quote]
The idea behind spinning is to prolong an LD for a period of time. Generally it's a very small window (ten more minutes or so, dream time) but if done at the appropriate time in a biological sleep cycle (obnoxiously hard to pinpoint), you can mentally bypass the cycles in between REM and continue your dream. I don't recommend trying to do that, it's ridiculously difficult.
Spinning is nice if there are unresolved issues in a dream that would bug you to leave unfinished (OCD), but mostly it doesn't help much. (and yes, eyes should be closed).
[quote]And something I've wondered for a while. If I'm attempting to WILD how still do I have to stay? Can I move my toes or if I swallow or move my tongue or my eyes beneath my eyelids will that ruin my progress?[/quote]
You don't have to stay still at all. I need to somehow make this very very obvious in the next OP because everyone asks this (my fault, not yours). When you WILD, you do absolutely nothing differently. Go to sleep. Whatever routine you have or however you naturally fall asleep, do that. (I shift positions at least three times before I fall asleep). You just stay mentally aware.
[quote]Last, if you havn't had sex before is it possible to in a dream? I've tried several times but everytime I never actually achieve it. I usually get distracted by something or my stupid dream mind says I should get some privacy first.[/quote]
It's possible, but surprisingly difficult. Your brain seems to have this thing where morals are still present, and a lot of the time when sex is presented to me in a dream, my brain is like NO YOU WOULDN'T DO THIS IN REAL LIFE ANYWAY so somehow I never get around to it. (Note that I'm not a virgin, yet this still applies.)
Basically, it's possible, but if I'm totally honest it's not that great. The best part of sex is the emotional connection, tbqh, and you can't replicate that in an LD no matter how hard you try. Basically, sex is cool but if you're lucid there are thousands of other things you could do that would be more enjoyable and entertaining.
Thanks a bunch that really helps me alot. I'll pass on the info to my friends.
I'm going to keep going for sex (durp). I expected you to say that but I've been trying for that goal for a while now so hopefully I'm getting closer each time and once I do manage it I can have that over with so I can do something else without wanting to bang that purple frog over there.
The WILD thing helps me alot, staying perfectly still is so difficult.
[QUOTE=lunarwalrus;29828491]Thanks a bunch that really helps me alot. I'll pass on the info to my friends.
I'm going to keep going for sex (durp). I expected you to say that but I've been trying for that goal for a while now so hopefully I'm getting closer each time and once I do manage it I can have that over with so I can do something else without wanting to bang that purple frog over there.
The WILD thing helps me alot, staying perfectly still is so difficult.[/QUOTE]
Don't try to have sex with a purple frog. Or any animals, for that matter. Sex is difficult enough to simulate with humans, I can't even imagine how confused your brain would be if you tried to fuck an amphibian.
Also, (assuming you're a virgin), it'll feel EXACTLY like jerking off, so honestly it's probably not worth your time anyway.
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