• Sleep and Dreams Megathread V3
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I can never keep my Sleeping pattern correct for more than 2 weeks :v:
I have had a few times where I can say I know I'm dreaming. Very rare though, and I tend to dream a lot. Most of my dreams are vivid and clear, so maybe I will be able to do this somewhat easily. I am NOT wearing a hat to bed again though. No way in hell
[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;34005311]lucid doesn't mean it's vivid and clear, it just means you know you're dreaming[/QUOTE] Yeah, but a common side effect is a serious increase in vividity once you realize it's a dream [editline]2nd January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Zinayzen;34003949]One of my favorite things to do (and you guys should try this when you run out of ideas/get bored) is to just insert myself into tv shows/movies as a main character. Preferably one totally separate and original. Excellent examples are [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender"]Avatar[/URL] and my personal favorite, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredibles"]The Incredibles[/URL]. I suggest it.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it's a great way to spend em.
I had a dream that if I pushed on the underside of my left index finger, fire would shoot out the tip. I used this power to kill an approaching hoard of monster/zombies :downs:
I had a long-ass dream that contained fake memories of "doing this last year." How common are such "fake memories"? I'd like to know more about them cause they seem to occur a lot in my dreams.
Going in for some surgery tomorrow, with any luck I'll have some vicodin-fueled naps. Vicodin + dreams = whee don't do it though
Well, I just started my second semester today and during my english briefing, I was told one of the topics was identity, more importantly, self-identity. I thought it was a bit kinky at first, especially when the teacher decided to go more in-depth on self-identity, but then I realised. I finally have a use for my dream journals. Of course, the journals' first entry dates about July 2010 and the latest entry is dated about November 2011 and I'm thinking; would it be a good idea to base my identity on my dreams, knowing there's always reason behind everything that occurs in a dream. Good idea or not? [QUOTE=Fiskepudding;34023656]I had a long-ass dream that contained fake memories of "doing this last year." How common are such "fake memories"? I'd like to know more about them cause they seem to occur a lot in my dreams.[/QUOTE] It happens sometimes. I used to get a lot of them. You're totally okay; it's not some disorder or something infectious.
don't do that
Managed to achieve lucidity by means of attempting to WILD inside a dream. Bwong.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;34028244]Going in for some surgery tomorrow, with any luck I'll have some vicodin-fueled naps. Vicodin + dreams = whee don't do it though[/QUOTE] What kinda surgery? When I get my wisdom teeth out Im going to demand codeine.
Ok, so last night I was attempting to wild, and at one point I suddenly felt this weird electric sensation down my spine for a second, and I tensed up was that part of sleep paralysis? I still didn't manage to get into a wild from it, I just eventually gave up and moved and got up.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;34032855]What kinda surgery? When I get my wisdom teeth out Im going to demand codeine.[/QUOTE] holy shit i'm tripping ballls wheeee
I'm reading a thread about VILD and WILD, and it talks to remember the feeling of being lucid.. and then it hit me. I had a lucid dream last night. Dont remember a single detail, but I remember the feeling.
[QUOTE=Rapist;34038595]I'm reading a thread about VILD and WILD, and it talks to remember the feeling of being lucid.. and then it hit me. I had a lucid dream last night. Dont remember a single detail, but I remember the feeling.[/QUOTE] tell me more about this "VILD"
[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;34038818]tell me more about this "VILD"[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.dreamviews.com/wiki/VILD-Visually-Incubated-Lucid-Dream[/url] [editline]4th January 2012[/editline] It's basically a different way to do a WILD
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;34032075]don't do that[/QUOTE] I don't think I've worded it right. By identity, my teacher said it was who I am, how I act around people, and things I do. More notably, how am I like that today, who influenced me and more deeper. Maybe you've got a point though. :v: [editline]4th January 2012[/editline] Why's it only in this thread that I make all these grammar mistakes and typos >.<
I got less than 4 hours of sleep last, but I'm not really feeling tired/falling asleep at all. I think my body acted like it was a long nap :v:
I've been trying both WILD and MILD for a few months now and the success I've had is that I have learnt how to relax my body and mind. I've had no success with the MILD approach: telling myself as I fall asleep that I will realize that the next scene after me lying in my bed is in fact in a dream. However, I feel that I'm on my way to learn how to WILD, as I'm now more able to stay conscious while I fall asleep than before. But all in all I haven't reached lucidity yet, after 2-3 months of trying. Does learning how to have lucid dreams a highly personal learning curve; does it come more easily to some people than for others? Or am I doing something wrong/not using the techniques properly?
[QUOTE=Oblivious1;34039719]I don't think I've worded it right. By identity, my teacher said it was who I am, how I act around people, and things I do. More notably, how am I like that today, who influenced me and more deeper. Maybe you've got a point though. :v: [editline]4th January 2012[/editline] Why's it only in this thread that I make all these grammar mistakes and typos >.<[/QUOTE] Use them as a reference, sure, but don't actively cite them. I just took propofol. Wheeeeee I am Michael jackson [editline]4th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=wootmonster;34041131]I've been trying both WILD and MILD for a few months now and the success I've had is that I have learnt how to relax my body and mind. I've had no success with the MILD approach: telling myself as I fall asleep that I will realize that the next scene after me lying in my bed is in fact in a dream. However, I feel that I'm on my way to learn how to WILD, as I'm now more able to stay conscious while I fall asleep than before. But all in all I haven't reached lucidity yet, after 2-3 months of trying. Has learning how to have lucid dreams a highly personal learning curve; does it come more easily to some people than for others? Or am I doing something wrong/not using the techniques properly?[/QUOTE] some can do it naturally but mostly it just takes a LOT of practice. The most important thing, paradoxically, is to not stress over it. It'll happen when it happens, don't stress over it. If it doesn't work you still get to sleep, so there's nothing to lose [B]KEEP WORKING ON YOUR DREAM JOURNAL [/B]
I haven't remembered my dreams the past two nights, with one exception last night at one point I [i]only[/i] remember the moment that I became lucid, but I was lucid inside complete darkness and there was nothing to do, and I woke up almost instantly.
Had a fun dream last night. I was able to use magic, and made a wormhole to another planet, which was a renaissance-type world. I fell in the middle of a funeral, the funeral of their king. After doing some magic, I was made the new king there because of my supernatural skills and the dream consisted of me doing kingy stuff, with the help of an advisor. At one point I wondered why the planet had no moon like earth, and found the answer in a locked warehouse next to a lake. I pushed aside the guards and went inside, and the moon was [I]in the lake[/I] with a little bit of it on the top, and I was told that it crashed down and only I, the guards and my advisor knew about it now. I stepped on it and it was extremely soft, like wet sand. But it was a moon alright, a small one, but it was filled with craters and was grey etc, mostly covered by water. Probably a radius of 1km. Eventually I had to leave back home, they held a farewell party to the king and then I created the wormhole in the roof and it sucked me in, the speed was insane and I plopped in back in my home city and the dream ended. The wormholes were like long tunnels that had countless colourful bands of light on the walls.
I had...really, really weird dreams. REALLY WEIRD DREAMS. Stupid medicine. >:(
come on Zin elaborate
I dreamed that I had organised a gigantic trek from where I live to somewhere really far away. On scooters.
I've experienced sleep paralysis a few times now, but I've never seen any hallucinations. I'll hear voices and see a strangely colored haze until the dream forms, but never anything else. Is this normal?
I haven't slept on two days. I did fall asleep for an hour tonight, but I woke up taking a shower. I must h ave be en sleep walking. [editline]5th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=wolfos96;34059264]I've experienced sleep paralysis a few times now, but I've never seen any hallucinations. I'll hear voices and see a strangely colored haze until the dream forms, but never anything else. Is this normal?[/QUOTE] I think it's common to hear your own voice in half-sleep
I really don't know if it's just me, but I lucid dream without my own control, nomatter what I do in the dream, pipes and rounded cables always show up at the end of the dream, I usually have an image of a carpet pattern at my feet too. it's fucking creepy and happens way too much. :tinfoil: I'm always so shocked by a lucid dream though, i ALWAYS wake up in a cold sweat after one. On that note I never remember what my subconcious was, but all I know is, it's really goddamn creepy when you wake up and realise, you were talking to you, not some god or higher power, just you.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;34047732]come on Zin elaborate[/QUOTE] It was a really weird mash-up of stuff. Like I had constructed this whole dream-universe where different scenarios manifested themselves as planets and they were all connected with like a subway system. like super mario galaxy but with a subway system instead of ship. But each planet was just weird. Like one was a safari but all the animals were out of angry birds and they were waging war on each other and one planet was basically the muppets vs sesame street in a weird WWII-esque fight (in black and white). Big bird was hitler and kermit was churchill. That was odd. And then other stuff I forgot. Drugs make my dreams weird.
Another long-ass dream with fake memories. This time it included chimney filled with water to prevent trees from growing inside them and yellow dinosaur-comedians. The part with the chimney made perfect sense and logically, the water should have fallen out the hole near the bottom, but it stayed in as if it was normal. I always get surprised at how many weird thing seem normal in dreams o_o
[QUOTE=Limed00d;34059533] I think it's common to hear your own voice in half-sleep[/QUOTE] Actually, I was asking if it's normal to go through sleep paralysis without any visual hallucinations.
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