Sleep and Dreams Megathread - General

[QUOTE=Dwragon82997;24126266]Since this thread is about sleep, question. So my sleep schedule has been off lately but I've gotten it back to where I can maybe fall asleep by 12-1 AM. I wake up at 6 for school and get out by 3. So with 5-6 hours of sleep, I'm wiped after school, so I've been taking 1-2 hour naps after school. Is that healthy? Or do I need to have a straight 8-9 hours of sleep or is splitting it up fine?[/QUOTE] The one sleep question I've gotten in 43 pages. Wow. it depends, really. Ideally, you should be getting a minimum of six hours of sleep, preferably 8. Naps are always good, and quite frankly as long as you do, in fact, take a nap, you should be okay. Your best bet, though, is just to fix your sleep schedule. It'll be better for you in the long run.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;24126312]The one sleep question I've gotten in 43 pages. Wow. it depends, really. Ideally, you should be getting a minimum of six hours of sleep, preferably 8. Naps are always good, and quite frankly as long as you do, in fact, take a nap, you should be okay. Your best bet, though, is just to fix your sleep schedule. It'll be better for you in the long run.[/QUOTE] Alright thanks for the quick response man. I guess I'll continue with taking naps until I can fix it this weekend.

[QUOTE=Dwragon82997;24126397]Alright thanks for the quick response man. I guess I'll continue with taking naps until I can fix it this weekend.[/QUOTE] Try to sleep at around 11 each night. If you really can't go to bed earlier, keep getting six hours and eventually you'll adjust.

Hey, I have alot of questions about this because I REALLY, REALLY want to go lucid but I can't. 1) When I relax in bed my eyes sorta creep open like naturally and I can't help it. Is this O.K? 2) If my throat gets dry whilst waiting for the WILD method to kick in can I swallow or does that reset the timer? 3) Was I doing it right it if started hearing a sound sort of like a airplane falling put the pitch kept going lower but never did... like that staircase from mario 64 in reverse... 4) When I was younger I used to realise I was dreaming but not go lucid and also I'd have repeating dreams/nightmares, is that normal? 5) I had a dream recently, could you tell me what it means cause I'm confused/scared. I was walking roud my hometown and saw a 2D cat that had changind colours on it. I then continued to walk and came to a lampost (that wasn't there IRL) with a 'LOST sign of the cat on it' I then went to a little girls house and we tried to catch it but couldn't then we went away. What happened next is either I forgot or it was a spontaneous scene change because lots of things have the 2D changing effect now and it's a different time/day. So anyway there is a town meeting and they decide to send me back in time (WTF?). So I have another scene warp thing and end up in 'ye olde hometown' so I go to my house and they open up a mud treasure chest and give me a scroll. Then I'm back in modern hometown and in the meeting again and the scroll says we need to sacrifice an animal to please the god neptune... So as a town we catch the cat from earlier stab it and summon the god (I don't remember what he looked like other than he was tall and scary) and beg him to return the town to normal. He does. I wake up. 6) What does your sub-concious look like? Is it you or your favourite object? and What does he/her act like? 7) How do I improve dream recall permanently or do I have to keep using a diary? It's all greatly appreciated thanks.

Started improving dream recall and writing them down a few weeks ago. My recall is rapidly improving. Managed to record 3 different dreams this morning and record at least 1 every night :D So I'll start reading into LD inducing methods now, trouble is it takes me ages to get to sleep. I also got this book a while ago, it's very interesting: [url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exploring-World-Dreams-Stephen-LaBerge/dp/034537410X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282044778&sr=8-5[/url]

Guys how did we get this far into the thread pages. Page 3 is terrible, let's bring this back to ONE!

Hold your horses, Jake. I'm writing v2. But it takes time, I'm not good at explaining things. :saddowns: Plus I have a job.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;24162611]Hold your horses, Jake. I'm writing v2. But it takes time, I'm not good at explaining things. :saddowns: Plus I have a job.[/QUOTE] Thread ends at page 125 ya know

I always seem to have a degree of control in my dreams, I can clearly recall thinking certain things, "do this!", but I seem to be incapable of realising I'm dreaming, even though when concious it becomes clear, I can remember certain bits that clearly point out that it was a dream, but I don't act on these in-dream decisions as I think it's real. :frown:

I have no idea why I can't lucid dream anymore. WILD or MILD doesn't work for tits and this has happened before. Though, the last time this happened I had a week long lucid dream, and as cool as that was the after effect was really bad.. I need to break this thing, advice? [editline]03:18AM[/editline] Happened about two months ago. And yes I try every night [editline]03:39AM[/editline] Come on guys at least offer SOME sort of discussion

[B]FIRST LUCID DREAM FUCK YES! [/B] Ive been trying for about a week.. I failed my WBTB WILD attempt last night, but instead I managed to have DILD in the early hours of this morning. I dreamed I was back in school, in a science classroom I didn't recognize with my old classmates. Normal stuff was happening (my dreams are usually very realistic, often I find it hard to determine whether something was a dream or a memory) until this crazy asian guy I used to know suddenly hooked up with this other guy I know at the front of class, on the teacher's desk. Suddenly the asian guy stops and says "Oh wait I'm a guy" and laughs. Straight away I was like [I]"What the fuck? No fucking way this is reality"[/I]. I do the nose-pinch RC, and fail. I remember being really excited and yelling out that I was dreaming, and then suddenly waking up... In someone else's bed. I knew straight away this was a false awakening since there was a lamp sitting on a table next to my bed, which I don't have. I did another RC and failed again, and decided to see how realistic this dream was. I picked up the lamp and felt its texture and its weight, since I heard this anchors you in a dream, I can now see why.. it felt so real. I looked at my hands and I realized that I could not determine how many fingers there were on my right hand. I guess I must have got too excited at this because I had the sudden feeling that the dream was ending. I heard tinnitus noise getting louder in my ears and a pressure growing in my head, as well as tunnel vision forming. The whole dream started collapsing: gravity suddenly lessened leaving me squirming above the bed, and the room had seemed to have disappeared, I could only see the bed and the lamp. I grabbed hold of the lamp to try and stay in the dream and the symptoms reached a climax and then receded, with me still in the dream-room. My lucidity must have lessened, because the next thing I remember is running around in my backyard thinking that I would attempt to fly. I looked for objects to launch myself off but then thought I should start smaller in case I hurt myself (lol). I rounded a corner in my backyard and saw my dog standing stiff legged, facing away from me. [B]And she was pissing EVERYWHERE[/B]. I remember seeing a slow-motion view of hundreds of drops of piss flying through the air, like it was some kind of movie. The last thing I remember was looking down at the dog from the air as everything faded to black.[I][B] I woke up needing to piss like you wouldn't fucking believe[/B]. [/I] [B]TL;DR: Got lucid after less than week of trying, was insane. Don't give up people![/B]

I have excellent dream recalls, I can almost remember everytime, even until morning. But I can't Lucid Dream, fuck. Trying MILD.

Guys.. I looked through my dream journal and flipped to the pages that were my week long dream. I had an emotional break down as I read this and I want to share this with you guys. I really do, because I figured out what my problem was. This is straight out of my dream journal so spelling may be a bit bad but bare with me : [quote=Dream Journal]Today I had a lucid dream that lasted exactly seven days. I kept track of the time by asking the locals the date. The days seemed to go extremely slow. Day 1 : I appeared to be in an amusement park with a girl I've never seen before in my life. She had blond hair, white skin, and yellow flowery dress and pink shoes. She asked me if I wanted to go on the roller coaster with her. I had not yet realized I was dreaming, so I agreed to it and proceeded to the rollercoaster. A swarm of bees passed by my face. One of them actually stung me and it hurt. I pulled the stinger out and took a pill to prevent allergies. Now I was in the roller coaster, seated with this girl. The ride began. Something felt off though. Why did I just get into a rollercoaster that is floating in the air and has no security on it. I freaked out for a second until I realized I'm dreaming. So began the abuse. I was excited that I got a lucid dream after so long of trying so I went and enjoyed myself. I flew to my friends house, saw my dead dog. The day ended. it was night time now and I flew into a cementary. I knew my mind was going to trick something up so I tried to get out of there. I couldn't fly anymore. I was stuck in the cementary. I imagined myself holding a gun, unsuccessful. No gun appeared. Now there were things popping out of the ground. Not zombies, to my surprise, cats instead. Seemed normal, until suddenly I turned around and was pushed to the ground. A woman, pale skinned, and black hair, was looking at me. Her eyes were pulsating red, and they weren't normal eyes. A nightmare. I stood up, and proceeded to do what I trained myself to do in the situation. I took her by the arm, dragged her to me, and gave her a big hug. She turned into a cat. A talking cat. I asked her, "what are you?". The cat, in the same voice of the girl I was with earlier responded : "I am your fear of -" Suddenly she returned back to her girl state and started screaming. I gave her another hug and said "finish what you were telling me" She said again "I am your fear of the darkness" Really? I'm still afraid of the dark I thought. I turned her back to what she was originally and told her "I trust you now." Her eyes weren't pulsating red any more, but were crystal blue. I walked out of the cementary with her, holding hands. It was becoming day time. I told her "You know this is a dream right?" She became silent. She looked at the sky and told me : "You'll need to get over this." I replied confused, asking what she meant. She pointed to the sky and the sun came up. She was gone. Now I'm stuck at the gate of a cementary and it's the start of a new day. Day 2 : I was able to fly again. I decided to visit my house. I walked up to the unfamiliarity of the white walls and elevator. Eh, I'm on the third floor, I thought to myself. I walked up the stairs and overheard people saying something. They were mumbling, but what was clear was the words "He's coming up" and I was being followed up the stairs. I thought I'd roll with it and let em up. I opened the door to my apartment to find, weird enough, Ellen Page at my door. "Did you invite those people up" she asked to me. I played along. "No. I didn't." She then looked worried and pulled me in and locked the doors. She pushed me on a chair and started biting her nails. "People have been outside all day in a yellow van. They've been trying to peak through the windows." She said. Oh yeah? Let's take care of that - I said as I was grabbing what looked like a knife. A knife? Psh. I formed it into a gun. Specifically a Beretta 92FS. Her face got pale. "How did you -" suddenly the door smashed open. People started rolling in and I was now in a fight scene. She dropped to the floor, limp, but not from a shot. Now these people were shooting at me but missing terribly. I took the gun and tried to shoot but I couldn't. I tried pulling the trigger and I just couldn't. I threw it at them, and jumped at them with the knife that reappeared in my hand. I slashed them all. There was no blood at all and I had taken a hit to the arm. It hurt like a mother fucker. She then began to stand up. She took a bandage and treated the shot. It was nothing major and feeling went away, but every time I looked at it the blood around the bandage formed some symbols. This symbol in particular -Drawing here- and I have seen this symbol before. The night came again and my house was torn up. She then stabbed my neck with a syringe and said, "Enjoy" and I was knocked out. Day 2 Dream 1 : I was in another dream. Ellen was there again and it seemed like we were a couple, going places, enjoying ourselves. It was raining and I felt the cold drops on me. I looked at her. Didn't you just stab me? How did we get he-. I said to her then stopped myself. She looked at me and shook her head. She then walked away. I realized I was in a dream, again. That means that the dream I was in never ended and I am still dreaming. I got excited until some thugs popped out of the alley way we were by (We were in a car at the time before she walked away) I got out and looked at them. "Do you want the same treatment as your friends?" I created a gun in my hands. This one worked. I shot them. There were 6 in total, 3 were dead before I ran out of ammo. Okay. I said to myself. Formed another clip and got to it but the gun didn't work anymore. I then took a beating from these people. Pain, pain worse than the bullet. Now to my surprise the pale skinned girl stabbed them with knives straight through the skull. She looked at me and said "I told you." I got excited again. She helped me up and then when I turned around I was shot in the spine. I lost feeling to everything. I was now limp and immobal on the street, wet by rain. She looked at me and disappeared. Faded. I told myself, It's time to wake up David, this isn't going to get better. I jumped up and was awake, back in the apartment. Everything was the same. The bodies still there, Ellen gone though. The sun was rising again.. This is getting exhausting I said before I suddenly dropped through the floor. Day 3 : I fell through all 3 floors of the apartment. I looked around. I was at school. "Great, the last place I want to be right now." I got up, looked around me. I had a mixed class of everyone I use to go to school with, and some unfamiliar faces. One of them, the pale girl. I confronted her. She made a scene and everyone even the teacher stopped what they were doing and looked at me. "what were you about to do to her" the teacher asked me. "Listen I don't have time for this bullshit I could be doing a lot better things." I replied. She looked confused. "how dare you" she reached for something. "How dare you talk to me like like that." I was getting really tired of this violence so I just walked out of the school. It was REALLY bright outside. The sun was green, with clouds of pink surrounding it. The school began to collapse around me. I thought it was about time I began enjoying myself and started to fly around, see what else changed. Night time arrived during my flight. I got tired of flying and just dropped to the ground and sat down. I wanted a drink, I took a rock and imagine it being a cup with water. Worked, so I drank the water. The water tasted like gatorade, which was pretty cool so I just kept chugging. What I didn't do was look around as to where I landed. It was a road, with cars passing by as soon as I realized it was a road. I looked at a billboard. "Is it over yet?" The billboard read. That was really weird for me when I looked at it. I kept staring. Look around, and then it changed again "Remember what you tried doing." Now I knew who was speaking to me. My subconscious. I looked at the billboard and asked it "Show yourself, I know who you are." The pale girl returned and was behind me. She tapped my shoulder, and didn't say a thing. I asked "I know who you are and what you represent. Do you want me to do anything for the good of both of us?" She looked, speechless. I asked the question again. She looked the side and said "If you would be willing to cooperate I can help you get over some things" and she pushed me forward and looked at me. A car was coming, and I was on the road stuck. I couldn't get up. She pet my head, cheek, and gave me a feeling of comfort. She then said "If you would be willing to cooperate we could both benefit from this." I closed my eyes. No car? No, just sun. And the day ended. Day 4 : The road disappeared, I was on grass now. The sun light seemed to morph what I was standing on. I was still dreaming and it was incredible. A whole four days. I finally got to speak to my subconscious, and I need to meet with it again. I flew up and to my apartment. The streets were familiar, I was in the vicinity of my apartment. I thought "let's change some of this" and began to destroy the surroundings. My arms began to fade and I started losing sight. Bad move, I rubbed my hands together and began repeating "I want to remain in this dream" Now I couldn't move. I was back in my house, in my bed looking up. This wasn't a dream. I was stuck, it was sleep paralysis. Day 4 Sleep Paralysis : It was horrid. Monsters, everything. Looking at me. But then, something happened. They walked away, and the pale girl was now walking at me and sat on my chest. I felt the pressure. She just stared at me, and instead of trying to wiggle my toes I closed my eyes. I was still dreaming and the girl was still there with the scenary I left behind her, destroyed. She said something, moved her lips, but I couldn't hear what she was saying. I returned to my feeling. I wasn't sure what exactly happened but the sun started rising again. I guess a day ended? Day 5 : I knew if I tried to alter something drastically I would go back to what happened. I decided I was just going to summon my subconscious instead of waiting for it to come to me. I imaged the pale girl behind me, but it wasn't her this time. It was me, as a little kid. I looked at myself. "Are you what I really think you are" I asked. My younger self answered "Yes." in the same voice as mine. I asked it why it kept changing itself. He answered "I'm trying to help you." Fair enough, I had some questions. "Is there anything you want me to do, in real life, to benefit us?" He answered. -Cutting this part out- I promised I would do this. I asked another question. "Why do you become nightmares when it's uncalled for?" He turned into Ellen Page and she replied in a mixed voice of mine and hers. "We're extremely afraid of spontaneous things. You can handle 'called for'" she had done air quotes when she said that and began speaking in Ellen's voice "but you don't seem to react quick enough to the unexpected." She smiled when she said this and grabbed my hand and started walking me to a cliff. I felt like she was going to push me off. "See, you knew that was coming. You seem to forget who you're dealing with." She peaked over the edge and made a face of fear. "That would kill you, and it isn't time for that yet." I looked down too, it was floored with shards of rock, long, jagedy rock. "So why did you bring me here?" I asked her. She replied "I thought it would ease the mood, your body is really tense right now." The day ended and me and my subconscious were staring into the sea, looking at the now blue sun rise. "Beutiful" my subconscious said. Day 6 : I spent this entire day speaking with my subconscious. She/he/it was very insightful. "I know what you've been doing" she said looking at me. "I think it's best you keep your conscious to deal with what [I]I[/I] throw at it rather then what you do." The piece of cliff I was resting my feet on now disappeared and my legs started dangling. I didn't care. "You see." She pointed at my legs. "That would have freaked you out if you didn't know you were dreaming." She remained to be Ellen Page now. (Outside note : I use to have a "friendship" type crush about her) "But tell me, why don't you want me to enjoy the feeling of knowing I can do whatever I want?" I looked at her. She giggled. "What you fail to realize is" she put her hand on my shoulder "sometimes it's not always the best decision to be going around here. My job is to fix what you can't alone. When your girlfriend left you who do you think made you feel better? Your friends were distant and you knew it. Whenever you're on a bus and that guy steals your seat that JUST came into the bus while you've been waiting for hours and it ticks you off. Who do you think listens to you? I'm the greatest asset you have" the sun dropped into the water "and more importantly the best friend you can ever have in your life. The same respect I have for your decisions in your realm you should have in mine. I'm fine with the occasional drop in. I actually enjoy it. You're me, and I'm you, and even you alone can conquer it all. You have more a harsh time than I do, dealing with influence, and although you may not thing it, you are a very brave person. You are somebody people would envy if you just showed them what you were capable of." I started crying here. I really choked up and just sobbed. This was something I needed to hear. I asked her "Do you hear me when I speak to you, even if you can't talk back?" She replied "Yes, and your words are the best things I ever hear. The things you hear from other people don't make sense to me sometimes. But everyone is different, and you are different David, we all are." She stood up and pulled me up. "I'll give you some time to enjoy yourself. As much as you don't like being locked out of your own dreams you have to understand I do it to help us." A tissue appeared in her hand and she wiped my eyes. I blew my nose and looked at her, smiling, saying okay. "Good" she said and with a kiss to my cheek, she disappeared. The day was over. Day 7 : I walked away from the cliff back into the city. It was normal. It looked EXACTLY like what New York looked like. Not a blueprint off. Everyone smiled at me. They said hello, I had nice conversations with them. I felt on top of the world. My subconscious said it would give me some time to enjoy myself and I really was enjoying myself. The sights of the sky were breath taking. My grandpa and dog who passed away were there, walking on the street. I stopped them and played with my doggy. My grandpa told me he was proud of me. As much as I knew it was a dream I played it out as much as I could as it was real. But differently. I did good around the town. I still flew. The pilots in the sky waved me hello. My family was happy. Everything was nice. I had a festival dedicated to me, with everyone I loved and cared about there to greet me. Everything was nice. But the end of my dream was approaching soon, but I hadn't known it yet. I walked through the streets a the walls were closing in on me, and I was in an alley. Robbers were behind me and I had a gun to my head. I was shot through both my knees and elbows. I could only move my back and head and was kneeling looking at the barrel of a gun. The robbers were masked. In a woman voice one robber said "You know what happens when I pull this trigger? You pick up a pen" and then I was shot and killed. I felt everything I did flash before my eyes. The last thing I saw on my death was backwards letters, UOY EVOL I (It spelled out I LOVE YOU) and I woke up, gasping for air. I rushed to my dream journal and wrote this. [/quote] [editline]05:44AM[/editline] There is no fucking way I'm making a TL;DR because I think a lot of you would enjoy and learn something from my experience

Well, that's interesting if true, if not told through fractioned English. How long ago was the last time you read that? I mean I'd say that would be enough for you to want to stop. However, possibly now since your conscience knows why you can't (Your subconscious) it could possibly cave or subvert it and allow you to. If you still really want to. Then again I have little to no experience, so blech.

[QUOTE=Lol Steve;24177037]Well, that's interesting if true, if not told through fractioned English. How long ago was the last time you read that? I mean I'd say that would be enough for you to want to stop. However, possibly now since your conscience knows why you can't (Your subconscious) it could possibly cave or subvert it and allow you to. If you still really want to. Then again I have little to no experience, so blech.[/QUOTE] I had this dream about two months ago, estimated. I hadn't read the journal until now, I usually wait until I finish my journals before I read them, but I had to find some patterns to my lucidity for this occasion. I also have no idea what you mean by the first sentance. I'm off to bed anyway, good night and wish me luck

when your doing wild, how long until the effects kick in, because ive laid still for 45 minutes and nothing happens

Holy shit, solid_jake. That sounds freaking intense. This sort of thing is the actual reason I'm pursuing lucid dreaming. Sure, flying sounds amazing and I will definitely do it, but there are some questions that I want the answers to. It always seems like my subconscious and I are at odds with each other, like I'm constantly undermining myself. I want to know why. How long have you been LD'ing, solid_jake?[B] EDIT: [/B]Wait, so did you sort out your promise to your subconscious? The thing you omitted from your journal? If you haven't, maybe thats whats stopping you.. This is just baseless speculation though. Have you tried asking the people over at [URL="http://www.dreamviews.com/forum.php"][U]Dreamviews[/U][/URL]? I'm sure they'll know what to do if anyone does.

Has anyone ever dreamt that they were dreaming? I've had it triple over before.

[QUOTE=sonicrjk;24179130]Has anyone ever dreamt that they were dreaming? I've had it triple over before.[/QUOTE] Yeah the other day. The dream within a dream was about me exploring some spooky house then I woke up and I was in my own bed but I was experiencing sleep paralysis, I was terrified. Funny thing is, this is the first time I experienced it and it was in a dream. inb4: "We need to go deeper"

[QUOTE=PyroCF;24179245]inb4: "We need to go deeper"[/QUOTE] :arghfist::mad: [IMG]http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2010/7/27/16/xzibit-presents-inception-25010-1280261153-25.jpg[/IMG]

I had another awesome dream where I was walking towards my Junior high school and I turned right towards someones house and there was a bunch of dead fish and I walked through his house and sat down and after a while I went into his backyard and it was a forest with crystals growing out of the ground and in the distance in front of me there was a volcano and to the left there was a snowy mountain.

I just had a dream where I was trying to fall asleep and lucid dream. v:v:v It involved sleep-intruding bagels and wizards using the hulk for a scoreboard.

[QUOTE=Matto;24179097] How long have you been LD'ing, solid_jake?[B] EDIT: [/B]Wait, so did you sort out your promise to your subconscious? The thing you omitted from your journal? If you haven't, maybe thats whats stopping you.. This is just baseless speculation though. Have you tried asking the people over at [URL="http://www.dreamviews.com/forum.php"][U]Dreamviews[/U][/URL]? I'm sure they'll know what to do if anyone does.[/QUOTE] A good amount of time, maybe 4-5 months and yes I did sort out what it told me. I had no luck today either in getting LD

[QUOTE=Zackin5;24184254]I just had a dream where I was trying to fall asleep and lucid dream. v:v:v It involved sleep-intruding bagels and wizards using the hulk for a scoreboard.[/QUOTE] I laughed.

[QUOTE=Death Giver;24177093]when your doing wild, how long until the effects kick in, because ive laid still for 45 minutes and nothing happens[/QUOTE] Long overdue answer : It depends on how tired you are and how persistant you are to doing it. Experienced lucid dreamers can go into SP in 20 minutes while others can take up to and hour and a half. It all really comes down to the dedication and circumstances you're in

Jesus christ solid_jake you should make a movie out of that. I would watch it.

I remember back on my trip to America, I had a dream in which I was crying. Hard. And for what felt like[I] hours[/I], as if some reoccurring thought triggered my emotions. I woke up and my head hurt like FUCK. I went, disoriented, to the bathroom and I looked at my feet and it felt like with every heart beat, my vision tunneled two steps back. The shit was weird.

I was trying to do WILD, but when i "Counted down the stairs" i got so tired, and i decided to not to give a shit. So i stopped counting stairs and all that and just tried to fall asleep. However... when i was sleeping, i realized i was sleeping, and there i had it. a lucid dream. [B]HOWEVER![/B] I was fucking tired in the dream too. i was like, "I could try to make these people disappear!" but then i was like "bleh..." and just walked on a road wondering what should i do. I just Couldnt be arsed in my dream. I mean, I had complete control, and i realized what i did all the time. Night felt like it passed in 30 seconds and i woke up. Not super fun experience, but really cool. when i realized i was dreaming... it was like someone flipped the graphics quality from low to max. so realistic... I regretted it later. heh. i tried WILD for about 5 minutes and got bored ^^ [editline]07:00PM[/editline] [QUOTE=solid_jake;24176596]Guys.. I looked through my dream journal and flipped to the pages that were my week long dream. I had an emotional break down as I read this and I want to share this with you guys. I really do, because I figured out what my problem was. This is straight out of my dream journal so spelling may be a bit bad but bare with me : [insert amazing sleep journal here] [editline]05:44AM[/editline] There is no fucking way I'm making a TL;DR because I think a lot of you would enjoy and learn something from my experience[/QUOTE] Dude... that was beautiful. Did it really feel like complete 7 days?? Amazing... so much detail. I want to dream like you, because when im awake... im bored.

Went to a trip to england in this summer with my parents. Took an empty notebook and a few pens to keep a journal of my dreams. Figured since there was gonna be lots of travel and I would be out of my basic rhythm for a while so I should give it a try. What works for me usually is tell myself while falling asleep things like "This is just a dream" "I'm about to fall asleep" "I realize this is a dream" Since the thoughts should sink in and when I'm almost asleep and/or dreaming I would hear those thoughts and remember the dreams if not have lucid ones. So I kept a journal, wrote down some crazy dreams (Zombie apocalypse being one of them :V) And finally I got a lucid dream going, wasn't anything epic, but still, did the hand RC, couldn't count how much fingers I had, stabilized the dream a little by telling myself "STABILIZE" and shit :P and just walked around, but everything was a bit blurry and I guess it wasn't a full extent lucid dream. I tried to fly and succeeded but I flew like some rickety-ass plane which was barely holding in the air. Was fun. Too bad lately I haven't felt like updating my journal so at best I could just have a cool dream :V Anyhoo, that's my experience :v:

[QUOTE=Str4fe;24188928] Dude... that was beautiful. Did it really feel like complete 7 days?? Amazing... so much detail. I want to dream like you, because when im awake... im bored.[/QUOTE] The days went slower. This was also the most detailed dream recall I've ever had. I'm gonna take a nap a little bit later.