• Sleep and Dreams Megathread V3
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To add to what orkel said, creation is a pretty hard skill. It's much easier to make people appear. Don't try to make them like solidify into existence in front of you, that's hard. Instead, pretend they're behind you. But don't just pretend, KNOW they're behind you. Then turn around. Your brain is more comfortable suddenly finding something behind you than having something magically appear. Also, nightmares into dreams is very hard sometimes, don't use that as a measure of success. Which isn't to say don't try it if it happens, just don't get frustrated when it most likely won't work.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;30460104]To add to what orkel said, creation is a pretty hard skill. It's much easier to make people appear. Don't try to make them like solidify into existence in front of you, that's hard. Instead, pretend they're behind you. But don't just pretend, KNOW they're behind you. Then turn around. Your brain is more comfortable suddenly finding something behind you than having something magically appear. Also, nightmares into dreams is very hard sometimes, don't use that as a measure of success. Which isn't to say don't try it if it happens, just don't get frustrated when it most likely won't work.[/QUOTE] it seems like no matter how I try I can't seem to get LDing down. I feel discouraged. :saddowns: I keep trying though, but I always seem to only get this numb feeling for an hour and that's it.
In the one memorable lucid I've had, I was at a BBQ. I wanted to buy a cookie, but had no money. I thought to myself, "It's my dream, I can have money if I want." I reached into my pocket and pulled out some cash. I walked up to the person selling the cookies, tried to buy one, and they said to me, "That's not real money, you just created it. Get out of here." :saddowns:
[QUOTE=DJswitch;30461288]it seems like no matter how I try I can't seem to get LDing down. I feel discouraged. :saddowns: I keep trying though, but I always seem to only get this numb feeling for an hour and that's it.[/QUOTE] Keep trying, it takes a while.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;30460104]To add to what orkel said, creation is a pretty hard skill. It's much easier to make people appear. Don't try to make them like solidify into existence in front of you, that's hard. Instead, pretend they're behind you. But don't just pretend, KNOW they're behind you. Then turn around. Your brain is more comfortable suddenly finding something behind you than having something magically appear.[/QUOTE] That's a good tip. My old way of summoning was closing my eyes and imagining that something was there, in front of me. Since I had to close my eyes so hard to do it, on some occasions I ended up waking myself up on accident.
There's a problem I keep running into in my LDs, especially when I'm talking to people. I keep massively growing or shrinking uncontrollably like some sort of malfunctioning apache chief. It's a pain and keeping me from having proper conversations. :I
How can anyone explain how cinnamon affects a dream. I went 2 nights in a row with three pinches of it in my warm milk and I haven't noticed a difference.
I've had this dream many and many times, my mother used to have a great friend that lived at the other side of the neighboorhood, her Boyfriend was a biker and i always dreamt to be on the top of my house and him comes with a giant bike like he's a titant and he scares me and i go under a table and then, it stops. I had this over 10 times.
Just had a lucid nap. Easiest way is for me to catch K building a dream fragment while I'm still partly awake then confront him and he lets me stat lucid for all the fragments as long as I don't completely mess them up.
I did have a dream last night but I'm fairly sure it wasn't lucid. I'm guessing I would know, but I remember that it was about some younger kids that were burning down my shed in my back garden - I only remembered it after I saw one of them at school today. I'll try again. Also, how does everybody do their reality checks?
So I'm going to start doing RC's every time somebody mentions them. I'm going to look at my iPod clock along with my PC clock and hold my nose and try to breathe. Orkel has taught me how to get out of sleep paralysis - this is the part that's getting me. I'm worried about it, does it happen every time you have an LD? It sounds pretty scary. Also if the actual dream starts to go wrong then I can get out of it by thinking about my bed. All of this is probably making things worse, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I had a weird lucid dream last night. I could summon perfectly, but when I tried to move I moved in my bed in real life. I knew for a fact that I was asleep.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;30444362]Not down for me. [editline]14th June 2011[/editline] It doesn't really work like that. You can WILD whenever you fall asleep, there's no way to make it happen. Also, you dream every night, you probably don't remember. If you only remember dreams that relate to things that happened to you that day or things that were on your mind all day, all that means is you were really stressed about whatever it was and your brain was like HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT. I'll give the same advice I give everyone. Work on recall first before you attempt to go lucid. At LEAST a month's worth of constantly keeping a journal, and don't stop ever, even if you think your recall is A+. Hell, I STILL keep a journal, and at this point I can fill like 20 pages with one dream. Even then, I still learn more and get better at my recall. Once your recall is getting better, THEN start to try to go lucid. Not much of a point in going lucid if you'll completely forget it even happened, now is there? [editline]14th June 2011[/editline] Also yes, Orkel is right. There are NO shortcuts to this, it just takes time and patience. Also mental stamina, but not as much as the other two.[/QUOTE] Oh yeah, also, I'm not stressed about things from my day; I have to rephrase that: "I only dream rarely on something I've been doing for a while. IE, playing minecraft(Fucking nightmare)."
Had strange dream, takes place in one of dream realities. All I can remember is someone dropping me off at my house, me seeing someone I know, someone cracking a joke about me only using my Wii every two years (that is true...) then trying to find the entrance to my house. Today's rant on the mechanics of dreams: My dream "realities." What I'm now calling dream "realities" are different dream versions of real world places. In one dream reality, my house and m neighbors' houses are much more robust and intricate, and the everything is newer and cleaner than real life. I've only ever seen this one at night. Contrary to this, last night's reality was rugged, dirty. The asphalt was rough and breaking, and everyone walking around was shady. It was dusk, I had no neighbors, my house was alone in a bad neighborhood. Yet another reality has my house alone, but fancy, with little resemblance to my actual home. There's a fancy arch, of European design. There is a park, and dense, wild forest rarely traveled by the sophisticated population. Within are moss-covered rope bridges, and awe-inspiring waterfalls. In the forest it is dark, while outside is moderately sunny. One reality is surprisingly close to reality, with no major differences. It's always incredibly sunny, and instills a feeling of relief, and happiness.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;30460104] Your brain is more comfortable suddenly finding something behind you than having something magically appear.[/QUOTE] Well put. Anyways, last night I had a very happy dream. In it, I was watching a basketball game with my middle school crush who I haven't met in 6 years. I never told her how I felt back then. I sat at about 1 metre from her and she said "don't be so far, come close" with a happy voice and then after I came right next to her she confessed to me, and we sat together watching the basketball game, I could feel her warmth and her head on my shoulder, it made me so sad when I woke up knowing it was all a dream but it was happy when I was in it.
I've been having weird dreams recently, I think it's because I have a cold. First dream - I was in a concentration camp and came to some sort of obstacle while I was trying to get out, I forget what, suddenly I realised I was in a dream (first time this has ever happened) and I kind of just imagined a way to get past it, I just told myself that I could. Then as I was getting out I saw a bunch of aborigines being chained up and taken into the camp, I told myself that they smelled bad and carried on walking out Second dream (same night) - I was being chased by a kid with a knife, I also had a knife, I tried slashing at them but couldn't get them. They cut my hand and I felt it. Very odd. Third Dream - Don't remember the setup. I killed someone that I go to school with, I brutally smashed their face in with a tennis racquet and it was so gruesome. I don't even really talk to that person and it's going to be so weird when I see them tomorrow.
I finally had a dream where I had wings and could fly. Was kinda semi lucid I guess. I remeber my thoughts during my dream like, "oh crap I don't know how to flap my wings!" So i kinda flew like a buzzard, catching wind currents. Also and audio I should listen to when I goto sleep some kind of CD of autosuggestion.
[QUOTE=Slacker101;30488205]I finally had a dream where I had wings and could fly. Was kinda semi lucid I guess. I remeber my thoughts during my dream like, "oh crap I don't know how to flap my wings!" So i kinda flew like a buzzard, catching wind currents. Also and audio I should listen to when I goto sleep some kind of CD of autosuggestion.[/QUOTE] What do you mean you were semi lucid?
[QUOTE=jaykray;30488298]What do you mean you were semi lucid?[/QUOTE] Perhaps able to control themself but aware it's a dreams? Or maybe only lucid for half the dream? I don't know.
[QUOTE=jaykray;30488298]What do you mean you were semi lucid?[/QUOTE] I dunno, I remember trying and succeeding at flying but Im not sure if i had control or not. saying semi-lucid makes me feel as if I've actually accomplished something in the past half a year.
[QUOTE=PotsYouPaint;30488329]Perhaps able to control themself but aware it's a dreams? Or maybe only lucid for half the dream? I don't know.[/QUOTE] Surely being in control and aware that you're dreaming are the requirements for lucidity
The last 2 nights I've had some good dream recall. Feels good.
I went to sleep around 12AM, and woke up at around 1AM. I had to get up and sort my head out after, I had had a dream that I could recall incredibly well. It might sound dumb, but the dream was of me sat in the local park alone. Then, out of nowhere, comes a long a donkey with the 'me gusta' face out of the bushes that just whispers "Soon" and disappears. Then I woke up, not sure if anything else happened but that's all I remember.
[QUOTE=zerosix;30476584]So I'm going to start doing RC's every time somebody mentions them. I'm going to look at my iPod clock along with my PC clock and hold my nose and try to breathe. Orkel has taught me how to get out of sleep paralysis - this is the part that's getting me. I'm worried about it, does it happen every time you have an LD? It sounds pretty scary. Also if the actual dream starts to go wrong then I can get out of it by thinking about my bed. All of this is probably making things worse, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.[/QUOTE] Paralysis rarely happens when you DILD, if at all. I havn't experienced paralysis after a DILD myself. WILDing is from what I'm heard, pretty much guaranteed to bring paralysis (before your dream) but for the most part it's short and some people don't even have it.
Sounds a lot safer then. Just wondering how long it will take for me to start DILDing. I've started a dream journal (using here and notepad on my computer) and I do reality checks whenever they're mentioned (like I just did).
I managed to have a brief moment of lucidity last night! The dream was I was with a group of people (one of them I know IRL), we were moving through an office building, collecting scientific supplies and information or something. Then, out of nowhere, I said to myself, "I am dreaming." with a really serious face, and went lucid. I ran in circles giggling, then tried the nose pinching RC, and it FUCKING WORKED. Then I lost it and went on with the dream. Feels good :buddy: Next up, getting vitamin B and pimping my recall/vividness.
[QUOTE=ZenX2;30497062]I managed to have a brief moment of lucidity last night! The dream was I was with a group of people (one of them I know IRL), we were moving through an office building, collecting scientific supplies and information or something. Then, out of nowhere, I said to myself, "I am dreaming." with a really serious face, and went lucid. I ran in circles giggling, then tried the nose pinching RC, and it FUCKING WORKED. Then I lost it and went on with the dream. Feels good :buddy: Next up, getting vitamin B and pimping my recall/vividness.[/QUOTE] How vivid/realistic was your first lucid? Or the short moment of it.
I remember my first time in lucid, it was completely random and for the first time it felt like I was actually in real life. It didn't last very long but I remembered to do things like look at the sky, time and rub my hands. I still remember it well, even though I didn't write it down. Also do you guys sometimes have it that you wake up in the weekend after a cool dream, you slowly open your eyes and notice you're awake, then quickly close them again and the dream continues where it lefts off? It happens to me sometimes and I wake up like 5 times and I close my eyes and don't move and suddenly I get in the dream again.
[QUOTE=BrQ;30502213]I remember my first time in lucid, it was completely random and for the first time it felt like I was actually in real life. It didn't last very long but I remembered to do things like look at the sky, time and rub my hands. I still remember it well, even though I didn't write it down. Also do you guys sometimes have it that you wake up in the weekend after a cool dream, you slowly open your eyes and notice you're awake, then quickly close them again and the dream continues where it lefts off? It happens to me sometimes and I wake up like 5 times and I close my eyes and don't move and suddenly I get in the dream again.[/QUOTE] Occasionally I'll try to pick up the dream again, but it's got more awake logic so it is nowhere near as good.
I think I need more explanation of this stuff. Like, how does one dream purposely? I happen to rarely dream as I said before.
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