Sleep and Dreams Megathread - General

I WILL achieve the lucid state.. I know i can. Im going to keep on trying!

I keep feeling like im in a dream as soon as I hit 8:23 every morning. My visions hallucinate, and i feel weightlessness and free will like in a dream. This happens for quite a while at school. Until about an hour after I get home, then I feel ''real'' again. Solutions?

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;23997698]what what [editline]12:21AM[/editline] well you can just shut up [editline]12:30AM[/editline] hey can anyone make an animated avatar for me[/QUOTE] You can't use an animated avatar unless you're a moderator or a gold member, and to be a gold member you need to be registered for over 2 years and have to have over 2000 posts.

[QUOTE=whitespace;24005543]You can't use an animated avatar unless you're a moderator or a gold member, and to be a gold member you need to be registered for over 2 years and have to have over 2000 posts.[/QUOTE] Or use APNG.

I have falling dreams all the time, but I can't seem to lucid dream, Mostly becuase it takes me so freaking long to even get to sleep.

This probably isnt common at all, but does anybody else's dream break if something that you havent experienced yet happens? Like, for example....A giant metal pole shoved through the forehead? [editline]09:32AM[/editline] Hard as hell to see after that.

You know, it would be really cool, the people who can achieve lucidity to write down their experiences, exactly what they go through and such

[QUOTE=kenji;24005862]You know, it would be really cool, the people who can achieve lucidity to write down their experiences, exactly what they go through and such[/QUOTE]I reaaaaally need to do that more. There was a picture I had....Saying shit to achieve it the easiest way, while avoiding all the psychological shit. Its around here somewhere...

Actaully MS Pictures of what you see/experience works too. Probably end up like the stoner ones though :v:

[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;23418834]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.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Zinayzen;23418897]You're not giving yourself enough time, most likely. It doesn't happen quickly.[/QUOTE] So that's what it is, i've had that so many times i've just shrugged it off and thought nothing about it.

I keep having dreams in which I'm being chased, does this mean anything?

How do I turn sleeping 3AM - 12AM into 10:30PM - 7:AM?

Don't sleep that night, stay awake untill late evening then fall asleep, should get you roughly there

Can dreams make shit happen like in Inception?

no.

I've heard rumors that when you are lucid dreaming, and if you look up at the sky, you can see like planets, galaxies and stars. Is that true :o?

Yes, If i remember rightly OP commented on it on a page?

I had a few weird dreams over the past week. One was where I was sitting outside my house and my sister was lying on my stairs, as if she had been knocked out and I seen a group of 3 young boys (13-15yo i guess) with knives coming up the stairs and as I was walking down to my sister (I had a sense that she was in danger) I shouted on my Dad and he came down to shew off the boys while my sister got up and taken into the house. Later (during the same REM sleep/dream sequence) I was in my garden, further up the stairs and this time I seen 3 young girls, younger than the boys, basically trolling my house, making noise and such but I had a weird feeling that.. if I thought about the 3 boys I seen I saw the girls.. and when I saw the girls I knew they were actually the boys.. yet all at the same time I have a very clear and vivid memory of seeing 3 boys and then 3 girls in the 2nd part. The other dreams were lastnight were I basically met a girl, time jumped around for a bit to the point were it felt like I knew her for at least a few weeks, yadda yadda we ended up having sex two times, you know just normal stuff it wasn't like some dirty fantasy or anything and this was intertwined with different little generic segments with her, myself and a few other familiar but unclear faces doing random shit like sitting at trees or by the beach. I also had a dream (I just woke up from this and the one above not only 20 minutes ago) that I could surf but my surfboard was just a towel? And during this dream the girl from above was around too, with the same familiar/blurry face people. It got really silly when I skipped to this really snowy area, like in a street somewere a news reported was screaming at me for something, showing me young girls who had been frozed in the snow for trying to towel surf over cars and vans? I dunno, the last one was silly so it probably has no purpose but the others seem significant.

So I read about Lucid Dreaming about a year ago, but I was never really dedicated to it. Then I stumbled upon this thread 3 days ago (and been lurking ever since) and decided to take it up again. I've been trying to WILD, but the last three times I tried to do it, I failed. Sometimes I'll get pretty numb, other times I'll make no progress and just get agitated. But this morning, I finally did it successfully. And it was [i]awesome[/i] Let me backtrack a little. I woke up this morning at 5AM to do a WBTB, but that failed (I lay on my bed for about an hour and was getting no progress), so I just turned over and went back to sleep normally. I woke up again about an hour-and-a-half later to the sound of my dad opening and closing closet doors. Being dead tired, I figured I would try to WILD. But all I could concentrate on was the sound of my dad moving around in his bedroom. This was basically my thought process over the course of 3-5 seconds: *Woke up* "Oh wow, I'm tired. Might as well try to WILD" "Fffffuuu-- stupid noises" *Only listening to the noises* And that's when it happened. I felt my body sinking into the bed and then a couple of seconds later, my dream-body rolled out of my actual body (I was laying on my side). It felt absolutely incredible. Words can't describe. But as quickly as it happened, I rolled back into my actual body (and that, too, also felt amazing) and I thought that it was all over. I could've sworn I heard my dad come into my room, but I didn't move to see because, frankly, I didn't want to. I was still trying to comprehend what I just felt as well as trying to go back to sleep. And then my eyes flickered open for less than a second, and I thought I saw him leaning over me, trying to 'freak me out' a little. Here's what was going on in my head: "He thinks he's [i]so[/i] clever. I'll just give him a taste of his own medicine." At this point, I tried to turn onto my back, but I couldn't. I assumed that my body was still under sleep paralysis. I wasn't frightened in the slightest, but I felt as though my dad was still looming over me. So then I tried to open my eyes to try to warn him that I was under sleep paralysis, but I couldn't even open my eyes. The only thing that I could do was speed up my breathing a tad, but I just said "screw it" and went back to sleep. And all of this happened in under 10 seconds. I'm thinking that my dad never did come into my room (in fact, I know he didn't) and I either had a false awakening, saw a hypnagogic image of him, or a combination of the two. All in all, this morning has been fantastic so far.

Zinayzen, for a while I've wanted to ask something. I've been SO close to lucidity quite a few times, and I've been trying for the better part of summer. I'm still having trouble with it though, and after a week's vacation I'm entirely out of practice. I barely even remember my dreams again. (Of note I ran out of bananas to have before bed, which may have something to do with it.) Really, I think I'd be fine if I could get started, but therein lies the problem. I just can't begin lucid dreaming, and I have a feeling it's just how I'm going about it. So if you don't mind me asking, how did you get started yourself? You seem experienced to the point of doing it for several years, so whatever you did seems rather effective.

Thats a great question Steve, Actually one more thing to add I hate Banana's WTB replacements.

After reading this thread last night, I actually remembered my dream for the first time..

I keep having a reoccurring dream about Mechwarrior 2 on the PC, and I really don't know what the fuck is going on in my head.

Guys I tried MILD last night and let me say, it was scary, then cool. I lay still until I heard a buzz, then I started to hear a lot of people start to talk it got louder and louder so I god scared and tried to wake up. But I couldn't move. Then I woke up in a concentration camp. Somethings like skags were chasing us and killing people. I panicked and ran around the camp then I saw my friend. I realized that I was dreaming. I pictured escape then me and everyone flew away. Then I woke up. Dumbass ending but hey. I'll try again tonight! Hopefully I don't get any fucking stupid shit like flying away.

[QUOTE=kenji;24008072]Don't sleep that night, stay awake untill late evening then fall asleep, should get you roughly there[/QUOTE] Will do. :/

I went into SP last night, and I sneezed during it and my body lunged forward and the thing I was looking at was straight in my face. Fucking fuck fuck scary shit man I'm talking about the scary kind of SP

Falling asleep with music on is funny, all of a sudden the whole dream turns into a fucking musical where everyone is singing songs that only I listen to. :v:

So is the difference between lying in bed with your eyes closed and imagining things(a daydream) and a lucid dream the fact that the lucid dream feels real? Like you touch something, and you feel it? You can walk and jump and move like real life? Will it feel exactly like real life or will it still be restrained like a normal dream? My daydreams/actual dreams I remember usually feel more like my watching a POV movie. Will a lucid dream feel real? And would dying in a dream, lucid or not, always wake you up? I always remember dreams of me getting shot/eaten/falling off a building, and I wake up the exact moment I die. I'm going to keep trying and training until I lucid dream and can do it every night. So I can essentially live two lives. If lucid dreaming is being awake while in a dream, then are you losing sleep, or not sleeping at all when you lucid dream? [editline]07:21PM[/editline] Why do light switches not work and dreams? And why do your teeth not stop your tongue in dreams? And it seems like a good way to become lucid is to actually make a totem of your own like from Inception. It seems like it would actually work.

I've never tried WILD (I don't want to loose sleep time), but last night I had a dream that I was at my old middle school and someone hit a light switch but it didn't do anything, so I realized I must be dreaming. Only problem is I think I closed my eyes and tried to go somewhere else, but I must have woken up because I remember nothing after that. :saddowns:

Once, I dreamed I was in school. It was my school; I noticed that there was only girls. All of them topless. I just turned my perv face on when I noticed that in the gym, all the girls we're fucking each other with sex toys. Then when a girl bumped into me with her tittes, I awoke.