Sleep and Dreams Megathread - General

After watching Inception, my dream is gonna be strange this time

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;23379345]After watching Inception, my dream is gonna be strange this time[/QUOTE] yeah but how did you watch inception

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;23380500]yeah but how did you watch inception[/QUOTE] Do you even have to ask? :yarr:

I had concious SP for the first time this morning. I wasn't even trying, I was playing out a mantra every so often in my head to try and MILD after I awoke. Suddenly it hit me out of nowhere and I vividly felt that someone was standing right beside me watching me. I wasn't scared as I knew nothing was there. It was pretty cool.

I was trying to get to sleep a few weeks ago, I was lying in bed and all of a sudden I felt like I couldn't breathe and everything was going black like I was going unconscious. It just seemed to go really slowly, then I woke up all of a sudden in a panic, that was pretty strange and scary. I must have just slipped off to sleep.

[QUOTE=Jimmg;23380545]Do you even have to ask? :yarr:[/QUOTE] What? I watched it in the cinema. They have it early here I guess.

I just watched Inception. And oh my jesus christ was that an awesome movie. It was, to an extent, mostly about lucid dreaming. And it gave me about 15 ideas for incredibly complex scenarios.

I'm trying to do WILD right now, only problem is i can't seem to. I'm able to relax my body, I really can't feel anything except tingling all over, nothing else really happens.

You're not giving yourself enough time, most likely. It doesn't happen quickly.

I want to learn how to daydream as well as I lucid dream, any way how?

[QUOTE=PeanutTHENINJA;23418993]I want to learn how to daydream as well as I lucid dream, any way how?[/QUOTE] Depends on what you mean by daydreaming. You mean when you stare off into space and get lost in your thoughts? Technically you can go lucid in those but that's basically the entire point anyway. It's not hard to do, but it's impossible to teach or explain. You'll never be as good at daydreaming as LDing, though.

You guys mean dream incubation?

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Wait, so when I'm done with all this Dream Journal crap I'm going to be paralyzed and have hallucinations? If so; Dream Journals and Reality Checks are the new LSD overdoses.

I had a fucked up dream last night where I ended up asking some guy for directions because I was lost. Anyone know where "3 Cedric repeating" is.

I think I might use the idea of a totem to reality check. It seems like a better idea than putting your tongue on your back teeth.

[QUOTE=Irongasm;23422870]I had a fucked up dream last night where I ended up asking some guy for directions because I was lost. Anyone know where "3 Cedric repeating" is.[/QUOTE] [url=http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=L9n&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=3+cedric+road+newton+ma&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=3+Cedric+Rd,+Newton,+MA+02459&gl=us&ei=pLpBTL7eDsT68Aav683bDw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ8gEwAA] The only 3 Cedric I could find.[/url]

Cool, in my dream i was in a school asking some dough bag for the location and theirs a school in the link you got.

I spent all of last night training my subconscious to make mazes that I would then have to consciously try to solve with no knowledge of their creation. Surprisingly, it worked. This should be...interesting for future studies. I wonder how the subs of people with schizophrenia act when they LD...

I only have lucid dreams when I'm about to fall asleep, my thoughts kind of meld into a dream at the time which I can control what happens, but I eventually fall out of it and I can only control my own actions in the dreams as I fall deeper asleep, its at this point that everything becomes completely fucked. I dream normally, by normally I mean just dreaming randomly after I've fallen deeply asleep, they are strange dreams that I can't control at all and have very little memory of in the morning.

Hrm. I know it's a stupid idea inspired by Inception (I know, whatever) but there's a thing I keep around. My question is in dreams, do your belongings and items and stuff you keep frequently keep correct weight and texture in lucid dreams? I'm figuring I could, in a way, do a much more personal, decisive reality check, especially if it fluctuates patterns or feels.

Meh. Contains random weaboo shit, feel free to hate. [IMG]http://i28.tinypic.com/18ln45.png[/IMG] Also, I was going to censor names and shit but I got bored less than half way through.

[QUOTE=Lol Steve;23489005]Hrm. I know it's a stupid idea inspired by Inception (I know, whatever) but there's a thing I keep around. My question is in dreams, do your belongings and items and stuff you keep frequently keep correct weight and texture in lucid dreams? I'm figuring I could, in a way, do a much more personal, decisive reality check, especially if it fluctuates patterns or feels.[/QUOTE] I, for one, thought Inception was great, and I especially liked the way it talked so much about dreams. And I've been inspired to do some Inception-based dream scenarios of my own. To answer your question, no, but that's the way that they decided to portray reality checks. Explaining what a reality check was wouldn't have really meant quite the same thing, and I like the way Nolan did it. But to answer your question, no.

Had a dream, after a HEAVY night of drinking, but the end was the best. I'm kneeling there in my friend's lounge room spinning a bananna peel in my hand going WHOOWHOOWHOOWHOOWHOOWHOO when some dude comes up and goes "Bananna KNEEL?" I woke up laughing, my friend's mum looked at me weird.

[QUOTE=Lol Steve;23489005]Hrm. I know it's a stupid idea inspired by Inception (I know, whatever) but there's a thing I keep around. My question is in dreams, do your belongings and items and stuff you keep frequently keep correct weight and texture in lucid dreams? I'm figuring I could, in a way, do a much more personal, decisive reality check, especially if it fluctuates patterns or feels.[/QUOTE] I don't know if this is related, but my last dream was about me paintballing (not lucid or anything) and I went to go grab my gun from my bag, then I remembered I left it at home in a cabinet. When I woke up it was in my cabinet exactly as I pictured it (even though I didn't know it was in the cabinet...)

I can't really get past the semi-lucid state. I sometimes recognize that I'm in a dream, but then have to try really, really hard to control it.

I only lucid dream when im kinda tired. If i fall alseep too tired my mind won't work right to make me lucid dream.

I've been able to remember and control my dreams to a certain extent after keeping a journal, but now I have a different problem. Just last night I realized I was dreaming and assumed control. Then I wanted to talk with a friend so I imagined my friend in front of me, spun around, closed my eyes, and when I looked again, nothing was there. I tried multiple times with different things. So FP got any tips I could use next time?

[b]HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SLEEP AND DREAMS![/b] I've been gone from this thread forever! I'm on summer break (7 weeks of lounging around, baby) so I've got plenty of time to get back in to this now. Daaaamn.

Is the C-WILD technique the easiest way to enter lucid dreams for a beginner?