Sleep and Dreams Megathread - General

Going to bed now, trying the WILD method again. I'll get back at you guys with results.

I never know if I ever get to the paralyzed state, I get sorta numb but I still have complete control of my body, and I try counting and I don't get excited. I might see a few images of randoms thing, and try to focus on them. Then the feeling goes away for a while and then comes back in a few minutes. I feel like I get there and then drift away and again and again. I dunno what I'm doing wrong

I just had a weird expirience. So I'm laying down on my couch, eyes closed, relaxed, mind cleared, and quietly reminding myself to do a reality check in my dream. All of a sudden the black view of the back of my eyelids seems to contract into a small ball. The blackness then seems to expand and envelop me. Then I got this strange electric buzzing feeling which started at my feet and worked it's way up to my lower stomach. I didn't know what would happen next so I opened my eyes and it all stopped. I also seemed to not be able to move. Is this SP or what? I apologize for any bad grammar, I'm on my iPod

Last night I decided to make a concerted effort. So I am now on my wake back to bed break. :) I remembered a really interesting dream. I went lucid. But I'm not sure if I ACTUALLY went lucid or if I was just having a regular dream about lucidity? Is that even possible? Anyway, in my dream I flew through the sky but remember thinking that I wasn't getting the same buzz I hoped for. I had another dream where I mixed paint no doubt alluding to all the art I do..boring. Interestingly I hardly ever remember dreams so this WBTB method clearly works well! The reason I doubt my "lucid" dream so much is that I've used WBTB ONCE. Surely thats too soon? Back to bed soonish.

I'm just going to bed normally tonight. Hope to get some answers on SP tomorrow. Sweet dreams everyone.

While doing wilds I sometimes overexcite myself because im getting twitches in my body and itches, and its really hard to stay still.

I tried doing a WILD/Hypnogagic this night, not so successfully. I did remember a lot more than normal though, and for the first time in my life, i felt/saw the passage between being awake and sleeping. I took two B-vitamins before going to sleep. I got too excited to do WILD, and too "scared" to do hypnogagic. The tickling sensation before the hypnagogic state reminds me too much of hyperventilation, the feeling of too much oxygen (which also is the same as too little) in my blood.

[QUOTE=TEH_TPMASTER;22157364]Sorry, Zin's got me on the job. I'm making a "Sleep and Dreams Megathread Theme Song".[/QUOTE] Darn it! Well, time to sleep and put these ideas to work! :rolleyes:

[QUOTE=Rammaster;22157524]Oh yeah, Zin, remind again on the steps on PILD. I just pissed right now and my stomach is already full of water I think I'm gonna blow. I sleep. Wake up to take a piss. Count to 100 and voila, I'm in the dream?[/QUOTE] Wake up, pee, and then it transitions to C-WILD. Sit up, do a reality check, make sure you're not in a dream. Lay down, count to 100 (slowly, you don't want the counting to keep you awake), and then do it again. And again. And again. Until your RC fails. [QUOTE=Robbobin;22158351]Last night I decided to make a concerted effort. So I am now on my wake back to bed break. :) I remembered a really interesting dream. I went lucid. But I'm not sure if I ACTUALLY went lucid or if I was just having a regular dream about lucidity? Is that even possible? Anyway, in my dream I flew through the sky but remember thinking that I wasn't getting the same buzz I hoped for. I had another dream where I mixed paint no doubt alluding to all the art I do..boring. Interestingly I hardly ever remember dreams so this WBTB method clearly works well! The reason I doubt my "lucid" dream so much is that I've used WBTB ONCE. Surely thats too soon? Back to bed soonish.[/QUOTE] No, that's not possible. You were clearly lucid. No, you might just be really good. I say it takes weeks because most people don't know what they're doing. You somehow figured it out, so yay for you. :buddy:

[QUOTE=pod;22154250]Ohgod I just had a lucid dream with my subconscious. I was in the middle of my elementary's playground and said "hey sub, where [b]is[/b] you?" He then crawled out of the mulch in the ground and said "hi". He looked like me, but had three arms (two on the left and one on the right), and a pair of shades. I asked him a couple of philosophy questions, my preferences, and some other stuff. He also gave me some dating advice. At the end I said "wanna dance?" He said "fuck yeah." We then proceeded to dance to [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwyQ2mRa21s]Livin in the Sunlight, Lovin in the Moonlight[/url]. I didn't know my brain was such a badass.[/QUOTE] Ask him why you like/fear something, I'm interested to see what he's going to tell you( i.e. he might tell you that you fear spiders because you got bitten by one when you were little and you don't remember it ) [editline]06:36AM[/editline] [QUOTE=pod;22154250]We then proceeded to dance to [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwyQ2mRa21s]Livin in the Sunlight, Lovin in the Moonlight[/url].[/QUOTE] Best dream ever.

Time to slightly change PILD yet again to RILD. Roommate initiated lucid dream. I will put their obnoxiousness to good use and make them wake me up in 90 minutes.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;22158806]Wake up, pee, and then it transitions to C-WILD. Sit up, do a reality check, make sure you're not in a dream. Lay down, count to 100 (slowly, you don't want the counting to keep you awake), and then do it again. And again. And again. Until your RC fails. No, that's not possible. You were clearly lucid. No, you might just be really good. I say it takes weeks because most people don't know what they're doing. You somehow figured it out, so yay for you. :buddy:[/QUOTE] I'm extremely shocked :O I almost don't believe myself, still, but I definitely remember thinking it was a dream, to myself. I just didn't feel that I was in absolute control. Annoyingly I don't remember much of the dream besides that so I'm thinking that it wasn't the dream I was having just as I woke up. Anyway, I just woke up from my WBTB nap but I didn't remember anything. It took me ages to fall asleep which is probably why. I won't get chance to use WBTB until Friday but I can't wait :D I remember one dream normally once every couple of weeks but tonight I can remember PARTS of 3. *feels like a dreaming prodigy*

I've read both of the threads over the past two days and have had a fair bit of success recalling my dreams more then usual, completely recalled one I had last night (And damn it was a strange one, I won't go into it but for some reason there was a hell of a lot of focus on me locking doors). Although sleep has gotten a little odd, I'm waking up 5 times a night (I assume after a dream) which is pretty unusual for me. Both nights I've had situations where I had thought I'd gone into an LD. First time I swear I tried to do a RC on my alarm clock (It seemed to change) with my eyes closed because after I thought I looked at it I went "Holy shit, this is a dream" and opened my eyes. The second time, last night, made more sense. I think I was actually looking at my clock (Not my alarm clock, an analog clock. (Should RCs still work on them?)) in a dream, and immediately woken up after it and once again gone "Holy shit, this is a dream." and opened my eyes. I guess I'll see what happens tonight.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;22155802]I doubt it. Your subconscious is still YOU, so however it appears it would look like you in some way, be it form or essence or whatever. You could make it look however you wanted, I guess, but I don't know why you would. Next time I do it I'm making him look like a giraffe.[/QUOTE] It's not your subconscious, it's only going to tell you what you are thinking.. which you could pretty much tell yourself. If you ask it what the answer to a question is, it'll tell you what you are thinking because you are thinking of the answer, you won't find the answers to questions about yourself unless you already know the answer.

I failed again. Started seeing that boundary between awake and asleep, then I woke up going "God damn it, I fell asleep."

Fuck yeah I woke up 30 minutes ago, then went to sleep again, felt intense vibrations, spinning, chills, buzzing and the usual WILD stuff, rose up from my bed and thought "fuck yeah finally" and then woke up because I got too excited, as it was my first one in ages. Next time, I'll try to make it longer.

Y'know how you said light switches don't work in dreams? You lied. I flipped one and blew up my grandmother down the hall.

lol

God dammit, I tried again last night and failed again. This time the sensations weren't as strong as before. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. :argh: I don't even have regular dreams anymore... At least I don't remember them. Whats wrong with me?!

PILD failed for me last night. I think I didn't drink enough water. [editline]06:31AM[/editline] I do remember going into the bathroom in my dream :v:

I hate it when I don't recognize obvious dream signs and then realize them in the morning. For example. Last night I dreamt that my college campus turned into an 80's night on the town-esque city. There were like arcades on every corner, and the woodshop turned into a theater (the opening act was called Technology and the Pickelites. How the fuck do I not recognize that as a dream?) Anyway, so I'm sitting on the Disneyland benches scattered around campus when one of my female friends walks past me. I hear a guy ask her if she's still in love with Dennis or what and then she's like "It's a long story" and walks away, but then I yell "she was but then he moved to Washington so she's alone now :v:". Only NOW do I realize that she's never even had a boyfriend. Who the hell am I confusing her with? I know SOMEONE had a boyfriend that moved to Washington. Although now I think I was confusing it with the last episode of Community. So, to top that all off, I also was in one of my very familiar dream scenarios, where my school campus is bordered by both a country club and a small amusement park on the ocean (not quite as ridiculous, technically I'm sort of on the ocean). Despite the fact that there was a golf course where my chem classes are and despite the fact that there was a hot tub party for invisible people (there were fucking holes in the water in the hot tub where they were sitting, I still didn't realize I was dreaming. And I think it's all because I never looked at my hands. [B]And that, everyone, is why reality checks need to become habits.[/B]

Well I'm back from trying WILD. I started doing the counting stairs thing for a while but I finally gave into exhaustion . I woke up pretty early like around 2 am, went back to sleep and then I had a dream where I suppose I had direct control but the dream was laid out for me. It all started at an empty school with just desks. I was near the middle and my friends were in the back, apparently we were soldiers or some thing in a way because the teacher who claimed we were in North Korea said that we are going to leave to fight. I keep glancing behind me to stare at my best friend who is siting in the same desk with this girl I like. I kept staring at them for a long while, when we went outside and I got closer It turned out to be another girl that I don't recognize. Next thing I know we get on horses and head to fight. Right after getting on the horse I'm instantly put in some dirt bunker and people are saying we are going today. I get a call on my phone from my mom saying don't go today and I said I won't. But for some reason I really wanted to see combat so I decided I would go anyway. Instantly after that, the dream skipped to a part were me and some other guys were walking toward some floating ferry that moved between to sides of this large crevice. I remember when it docked here there were people standing equally apart from each other. I thought to my self that we were fighting these people. I just stood there for a while. Then for some reason roots came out from the ground and surrounded each individual person on the ferry. Some guy came out of nowhere and said that they were his enemies and then the ferry started leaving our side of the gap. I for some reason wanted to jump and get to the ferry in order to fight them but I guess I didn't. Right after that we show up in what looks to be the center of the town with a fountain in the middle. I see some U.S sailors sitting near the fountain and I shout out to them and wave, they wave back. We go inside the building in the middle and it's a library I get stopped by some Scottish sounding lady and then lets me proceed, then that's the end of it. Weird dream, but I must say that this is the most I have ever remembered from a dream. What do I make of this?

Quick question: if I used wake back to her consistently for a while, would my body eventually get used to waking up an hour early and adjust my REM cycle accordingly? Or is WBTB best to be used just every now and then? I'm still so bloody amazed I went lucid after one damn try o_o

I'll be back in an hour and a half. I have an answer for both of you but I don't have time, class in ten minutes. Sorry. :saddowns:

[QUOTE=Robbobin;22159552]I'm extremely shocked :O I almost don't believe myself, still, but I definitely remember thinking it was a dream, to myself. I just didn't feel that I was in absolute control. Annoyingly I don't remember much of the dream besides that so I'm thinking that it wasn't the dream I was having just as I woke up. [/QUOTE] It probably felt like that because it wasn't fully lucid. To make a dream clearer, more realistic and vivid, rub your hands together and look at them. I know what you mean by that, as I've had lucid dreams where I didn't feel fully lucid or wasn't sure of it, and lucid dreams where everything was crystal clear and it felt incredibly realistic. There's a huge difference between the two.

Had some weird semi lucid dream last night. Was walking down a street, just meandering around and then some guy got pinned between a car and a wall, then realised it was a dream when the paramedics tried to help him. By shooting an old woman with arrows :v: Then I found a warehouse in the middle of a minefield that was only for danish people. ...the fuck

This thread was extremely useful, thanks a lot. Never tried lucid dreaming, will try today. But I'm kinda afraid I will scream while dreaming...

I had a dream last night that my friend wouldn't buy Gmod because he saw the gold member forum. :what:

Can you ask your sub-conscious to fully reveal itself into you? So basically you remove your 'mask' and reveal your true self.

[QUOTE=Robbobin;22163251]Quick question: if I used wake back to her consistently for a while, would my body eventually get used to waking up an hour early and adjust my REM cycle accordingly? Or is WBTB best to be used just every now and then?[/QUOTE] There's something called REM Rebound (which I'll get into in v2), but basically it's if you wake yourself up during REM or deep sleep, you'll enter REM even more to compensate for it. If you wanted, I would suggest Cyclic Adjustment. Basically, you...well, read [URL="http://www.dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=66151"]this[/URL]. That'll explain it. It's not really worth it, though. At least, not for me (but I have a weird sleep schedule). [QUOTE]Can you ask your sub-conscious to fully reveal itself into you? So basically you remove your 'mask' and reveal your true self. [/QUOTE] What do you mean?