Sleep and Dreams Megathread - General

[QUOTE=handler;22216623]Going to kill everyone in my country, then go to jail and practice Lucid Dreaming. Great or Greatest plan?[/QUOTE] As long as you cut out everything before the "and", absolutely fantastic.

[QUOTE=handler;22216623]Going to kill everyone in my country, then go to jail and practice Lucid Dreaming. Great or Greatest plan?[/QUOTE] Maybe you should consider switching the first two. Maybe practice Lucid Dreaming and then kill everyone in your country. (The implication of course being that you will kill everyone in your country in your dreams, not in reality.) Note to any future law enforcement scanning this page for evidence. I do not condone murder or rape, unless it's done for a good reason. Like if you want to have sex with somebody and they won't let you. At that point, there's really no choice. How else are you going to have an orgasm in their body if they won't have sex with you? I mean seriously, what the fuck.* *Shameless imitation of Louis CK. Yes.

Answer me please, considering no-one has the last 4 posts I've posted.

Louis CK = God Anyway, so last night I had a dream I was sitting on a dirt road in the middle of a forest waiting for a ride home. I had a bike, a motorcycle, a friend, and various other things I needed to fit in the car. I was trying to figure it out when it dawned on me: I don't need to fit anything in the car because I'm in a dream. The dream started to fade away like I was waking up, so I tried to relax myself, spin around, and rub my hands together. I still woke up :( I think I'm on the right track though!

Went into sleep paralysis last night, but failed to get lucid thanks to drinking too much caffeine a few hours earlier. Took me ages to finally get to sleep, at around 6 AM. Woke up at 1 PM. [editline]07:05PM[/editline] [QUOTE=tommofandan;22216687]Hehe, I'm starting to get the hang of this, but for no reason, I'm literally remembering glimpses of dreams for no reason, and the most pointless ones too, but I remembered two dreams the whole first time. Anyone got any tips for recall before I try WILD? Cause I'll be pissed if I cannot remember[/QUOTE] Keep a dream journal to improve your recall. A piece of paper and a pen next to your bed. When you wake up, immediately write your dream down, in present style. Meaning, not "I flew in the sky", but instead write "I am flying". Every single detail must be written. Write in an extremely descriptive way. From the feeling of wind gushing by your face, or the smell of whatever place you were dreaming of, the colors, feeling of touch and so on. Use all senses in your writing.

So, a few nights ago I was ill (food poisoning from bad spaghetti) and I had a dream in which I was walking round this huge, futuristic aircraft hangar. I walked through a door into another smaller hangar and threw up on the floor and threw up, walked on a bit and knocked my head on the wing of a plane. When I woke up the next morning (in my bed) I noticed my forehead was bleeding. I went to the bathroom to clear it up and stepped in my sick that was by the bathroom door (right down the hallway). There also happened to be blood on the corner of the wall. So, can you explain this?

[QUOTE=Gum100;22219113]So, a few nights ago I was ill (food poisoning from bad spaghetti) and I had a dream in which I was walking round this huge, futuristic aircraft hangar. I walked through a door into another smaller hangar and threw up on the floor and threw up, walked on a bit and knocked my head on the wing of a plane. When I woke up the next morning (in my bed) I noticed my forehead was bleeding. I went to the bathroom to clear it up and stepped in my sick that was by the bathroom door (right down the hallway). There also happened to be blood on the corner of the wall. So, can you explain this?[/QUOTE] sleepwalking

I gave Lucid Dreaming a go last night - I tried the "MILD" Method - I was lying down for like twenty minutes when I felt a tingling around my limbs, which felt heavy, and I saw dots....I dunno whether I was close or not, but it was my first time, and I didn't remember anything when I woke up in the morning, so I guess I need to work on dream recall regardless. When I got into the tingling stage, I moved my foot, and the tingling/heavy limbs/dots stopped, so maybe it was just because I hadn't moved in awhile.

My friend and I have been talking about those LOONG lasting lucid dreams, and I'm wanting some input: Could you improve something in one of them? Say, you are a drummer. You spend a large chunk of time in the dream drumming. Would it improve your improvisation or rhythm? I also am concerned that I would be incredibly depressed upon waking up from a very long lucid dream.

[QUOTE=Octyl;22226013]My friend and I have been talking about those LOONG lasting lucid dreams, and I'm wanting some input: Could you improve something in one of them? Say, you are a drummer. You spend a large chunk of time in the dream drumming. Would it improve your improvisation or rhythm? I also am concerned that I would be incredibly depressed upon waking up from a very long lucid dream.[/QUOTE] I want a super long lucid dream too, though I want it for a learning experience not for one of those do whatever I want ones.

Actually I changed my mind, I will probably begin recording my dreams again.

[QUOTE=Octyl;22226013]My friend and I have been talking about those LOONG lasting lucid dreams, and I'm wanting some input: Could you improve something in one of them? Say, you are a drummer. You spend a large chunk of time in the dream drumming. Would it improve your improvisation or rhythm? I also am concerned that I would be incredibly depressed upon waking up from a very long lucid dream.[/QUOTE] Long lasting lucid dreams are generally extended by "chain dreaming", which is basically WILDing upon a LD ending. It's really difficult and most people can't do it for a very long time. No, because your muscle memory wouldn't know what the hell was happening. And dreams aren't good environments for trying to learn real life applications, because they don't respond to real life's rules anyway. And yeah, it's very depressing. Try a three month one.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;22230025]Long lasting lucid dreams are generally extended by "chain dreaming", which is basically WILDing upon a LD ending. It's really difficult and most people can't do it for a very long time. No, because your muscle memory wouldn't know what the hell was happening. And dreams aren't good environments for trying to learn real life applications, because they don't respond to real life's rules anyway. And yeah, it's very depressing. Try a three month one.[/QUOTE] How did you achieve that three month long lucid dream anyways?

[QUOTE=Rammaster;22230055]How did you achieve that three month long lucid dream anyways?[/QUOTE] To be honest, I really don't remember. Probably a combination of heavier than normal REM cycles, short 2/3 cycles, chaining, and just a general will to extend it. It's really not difficult once you know how to do it, but learning it's the difficult part.

How did you feel after it?

I was mentally exhausted but physically refreshed from a good night's sleep. It was a very odd feeling. And I was depressed. It's like a chunk of my life was missing but it really wasn't missing, I just dreamt it. But it felt like I lived it and realizing it didn't happen was disorienting. Ever have a dream and wake up and be like "woah wait that wasn't real?" Picture that but like a thousand times worse.

This thread is incredible. So well wrote and detailed. I'm going to try some of the tips now because I'm going to sleep. :3: I found it interesting that your teeth won't stop your tongue in a dream, that's pretty cool.

Had another strong sleep paralysis last night, but woke up in transition stage to lucid for some reason. Close, though. I've been having them more often lately, maybe thanks to being active in this thread so the will to go lucid is stronger than before. I expect another within a few days.

okay I've just woken up after what i think was a lucid dream but i am not entirely sure, i will post the log (lucid?) nromal day at schoool, class has just ended and im going out to break, i then think theres no school on a saturday!i then realise that it is a dream and my head starts fadeing out, I resist it and try to fly away, i fail to do so the first few times, but i eventually got it and flew off in to the distance feeling the air fight against me , i pass through the sky like a hl2 skybox but i am then put into another map where i then fly over various armerican theme parks. then eventually i fly into a huge roller coaster that has oasis engraved on the side of its tunnels, i fly to the top where i meet Arnold swarternigga and the coaster starts however we are not in the coaster but and holding on to the train top it begins as the train flys down the tunnel and flys out of it. Train pieces are falling all around us and there is a big drop slowly approaching us. We end up hopping from train carrage to train as they smash into each other, when we reach the end one of the carrages manages to re adjust itself to a a roller-coaster track. I look around an arnie stares at me. I begin to fade from the dream as i wake up. forgive the spelling errors I literally just woke up a and speed wrote it down

Sounds like it was lucid at start but then you lost control and it became a normal dream.

Ugh, had my first lucid dream this night. I don't remember much of it, but I was really scared and running up staircases in a dark, narrow corridor when I suddenly did a reality check. Suddenly, I was conscious. I imagined myself away from the stairs, and it somewhat worked. I came to a really bright, blue place, but I was still scared and just said "Screw it, I'll wake up right now." I did wake up, but I'm just not quite sure whether this was a lucid dream cut short or a dream about having lucid dreams.

I think i had a lucid dream. It all started out like this, I saw a dream that I was walking down the street in the middle of the night with some classmates, one picked up a gum pack from the ground, I was like "wait wat?", then I woke up, thinked about it for a sec and suddenly warped to a weird city in Iraq or something, then I realized it was a dream and it wasn't so blurry anymore. I saw an MG on the ground, I picked it up and there was this taliban who had an MG also. So we started to fight with US soldiers but I wasn't shooting bullets but water. Then everything went black for a few sec, then the picture came back again. My watergun was gone and that taliban disappeared also. There were some rifles on the ground and a huge motherfucking bazooka or something. I walked past it and woke up. I was lucid, rite?

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;22056201]From other thread. I refuse to go into more detail, I don't like thinking about it. Before that moment, I thought my worst fear was heights and bears.[/QUOTE] Did you end up fighting a bear on top of a giant bear a thousand feet tall?

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;22230638]I was mentally exhausted but physically refreshed from a good night's sleep. It was a very odd feeling. And I was depressed. It's like a chunk of my life was missing but it really wasn't missing, I just dreamt it. But it felt like I lived it and realizing it didn't happen was disorienting. Ever have a dream and wake up and be like "woah wait that wasn't real?" Picture that but like a thousand times worse.[/QUOTE] This actually occurs with normal dreams too, i only had couple of dreams where i was aware of dreaming, but i always had a unsure feeling if im dreaming or not, and when i started to think if this is a dream i started to wake up. There have also been dreams where i do things i wish for but only realize it when starting to wake up. Anyway i once had hell of a long dream, which was something like "A couple weeks around imaginary world" and funny thing that i met people there i have never seen before. Like my schoolmates mother, but i did not remember what she looked like at morning. Then there was 1 friend that somehow had same dream, and quite precisely knew details. It involved some cannibal elephants chasing. We riding a car with friends and wondering why everything is so odd around us. When i woke up i thinked over this dream thoroughtfully so it would stay in my memory and talked with people i met in my dream. And as i already told you, there was 1 friend who saw same dream. But i did not feel that theres something missing in my life, as it was so unreal dream. I dont remember details, i just know it was long and involved many people i know. This happened couple years ago. [editline]03:05PM[/editline] I think this is best thread since thread about sliced bread. Put your (dis)agrees here.

Dammit, I had a dream where I went lucid after a reality check in some theme park but then Doctor Who appeared and told me it wasn't a lucid dream but an alternate reality made by Satan to trap sleeping people and from then on in the dream I lost lucidity.

I had a dream once where I was at a bar drinking. And nothing else. But then I realized my cup was made out of a snake. Then I realized it was a dream. But then I realized that Craig Ferguson had that cup. Then I realized I was Craig Ferguson, and that it wasn't a dream and I was having an acid flashback during an awkward pause with the audience. Then we cut to commercial and I woke up. And then I became Craig Ferguson.

[QUOTE=Gum100;22232000]Dammit, I had a dream where I went lucid after a reality check in some theme park but then Doctor Who appeared and told me it wasn't a lucid dream but an alternate reality made by Satan to trap sleeping people and from then on in the dream I lost lucidity.[/QUOTE] Man, Doctor Who screwed you over.

I'm gonna have another go with the MILD Method when I go to sleep tonight - probably won't be as effective, as this is my second time doing this, and my dream recall is terrible - and I haven't done many reality check practices yet. Anyway, I'll see how I go.

[QUOTE=Gum100;22232000]Dammit, I had a dream where I went lucid after a reality check in some theme park but then Doctor Who appeared and told me it wasn't a lucid dream but an alternate reality made by Satan to trap sleeping people and from then on in the dream I lost lucidity.[/QUOTE] :psyduck: brains are amazing.

[QUOTE=whitespace;22233028]:psyduck: brains are amazing.[/QUOTE] Smart words of smart brain.