Sleep and Dreams Megathread v2 - General

I managed tricked my dream logic once. :smug: Actually, it happens pretty often. And, well, psychology is kind of my Hobby, it might have something to do with that. Especially i try to gain full control of my body, and it gets in handy sometimes.

I had a kind of inception-kinda dream. I dreamt I was in a airport terminal waiting, but I suddenly gained lucidity of the situation. Was able to keep myself from waking up, but I could certainly feel my brain working pretty fast to the situation. Anyway, I "wake up" at my school, making me think I had just slept in class. After some minor stuff I don't remember, I wake up in real life. Is it possible my brain made me dream another dream, because it was using to much thinking power on the lucid dream? I just find it weird that I could feel a difference in the two dreams. It felt more insulated in the lucid dream, like it was easy to not wake up, but in the second it felt more "real"

[QUOTE=proch;27355904]I managed tricked my dream logic once. :smug: Actually, it happens pretty often. And, well, psychology is kind of my Hobby, it might have something to do with that. Especially i try to gain full control of my body, and it gets in handy sometimes.[/QUOTE] huh?

just realized the only thing Im ever going to control in my life is my mind fuck life, time to go have a dream and then forget it goddamn i feel like a depressed robot right now :saddowns:

fuck it, my eyes burn sleep time hope you all have better luck than me [editline]11th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Fourm Shark;27364837]There is a psychological term for this.[/QUOTE] like i find myself saying more and more often: ignorance is bliss, denial is agony. i mean ecstasy

[QUOTE=Birdman101;27364927]fuck it, my eyes burn sleep time hope you all have better luck than me [editline]11th January 2011[/editline] like i find myself saying more and more often: ignorance is bliss, denial is agony. i mean ecstasy[/QUOTE] Your change of avatar really threw me then. I was thinking we had a new poster until I checked the username. >.<

People have a hard time taking me seriously when freddy krueger is calling them a faggot.

Couldn't remember much last night. Teacher and a register. Phone. Somebody shouting someones name. In the register one, I knew I was dreaming, except I don't know how to get lucid, do you walk just as you would in real life? Sounds confusing.

[QUOTE=tommofandan;27369604]Couldn't remember much last night. Teacher and a register. Phone. Somebody shouting someones name. In the register one, I knew I was dreaming, except I don't know how to get lucid, do you walk just as you would in real life? Sounds confusing.[/QUOTE] If you could do something then you were lucid. Just try looking at your hands and/or spinning around to stabilise the dream. I've never lucid'd before but that's what everyone else says.

urgh does somebody have a decent wild tutorial which has helped them because I keep falling asleep and shit when I'm not meant to and various errors

IF YOU WANT TO REMEMBER YOUR DREAMS: Eat a whole wheat peanut butter and banana sandwich before bed. Take Melatonin. Take B-6. Have a notepad and pen by your bed. Depending on the time you wake up, go to sleep eight and a half hours before then. Set your alarm for a BEEP. No static, no radio. Set it to eight hours from said sleeping time. When you wake up, hopefully it'll stir you just coming out of your deep sleep, so your dream will get cut off, so you can write it down. After you write it down, go back to sleep for the next thirty minutes. It you have another dream in that time write it down too. When you don't have a dream, scale it back an hour a night. So the next night, if you had no dreams, set your alarm to 7 hours, write if you had a dream, sleep out the next hour and thirty, write any dreams within that period too. Do this until you have a dream you remember, then stay at that alarm time. CONSISTENCY is KEY. Some people it may work on the first try, and remember their dreams, some people it may take weeks. DON'T GIVE UP, this method WILL WORK. Also, do not exceed four hours of alarm time, REM will usually happen after your first four hours of sleep.

[QUOTE=Zaldos;27370841]If you could do something then you were lucid. Just try looking at your hands and/or spinning around to stabilise the dream. I've never lucid'd before but that's what everyone else says.[/QUOTE] Like, how would I move? Like I would in real life? Just move?

[QUOTE=tommofandan;27371168]Like, how would I move? Like I would in real life? Just move?[/QUOTE] No, the first thing you should do to stabilize a dream is rub your hands together. You'll feel the friction. Next pick something up or touch the ground or something and just feel it. If you have to rub your hands together again. Then look around, and focus your eyes, focus on your entire dream. Also, don't get too excited, you'll wake up. Oh and you're lucid if you know you're dreaming. Remember, you're first lucid you probably wont be able to control your dream too much, so just go along for the ride. Think of it as a night time adventure your mind is creating for you.

[QUOTE=TJCTakSUn;27371208]No, the first thing you should do to stabilize a dream is rub your hands together. You'll feel the friction. Next pick something up or touch the ground or something and just feel it. If you have to rub your hands together again. Then look around, and focus your eyes, focus on your entire dream. Also, don't get too excited, you'll wake up.[/QUOTE] I know, but like, if we move in real life, would I tell myself to move in the same way in a dream? Or would I say walk, or some shit

[QUOTE=tommofandan;27371226]I know, but like, if we move in real life, would I tell myself to move in the same way in a dream? Or would I say walk, or some shit[/QUOTE] You just move. Just like in real life.

[QUOTE=BirdsOnMyBack;27321724]What happens when you tell someone in your dream they aren't real?[/QUOTE] Tried this. There was a dinosaur at my yard, I told my dad that the dream wasn't real, but he kept telling me it's real and that we need to run fast now.

[QUOTE=Joppari;27371591]Tried this. There was a dinosaur at my yard, I told my dad that the dream wasn't real, but he kept telling me it's real and that we need to run fast now.[/QUOTE] I lol'd. I'm gonna try and get some dream-remembering done tonight. [editline]12th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=TJCTakSUn;27371128]IF YOU WANT TO REMEMBER YOUR DREAMS: Eat a whole wheat peanut butter and banana sandwich before bed. Take Melatonin. Take B-6. Have a notepad and pen by your bed. Depending on the time you wake up, go to sleep eight and a half hours before then. Set your alarm for a BEEP. No static, no radio. Set it to eight hours from said sleeping time. When you wake up, hopefully it'll stir you just coming out of your deep sleep, so your dream will get cut off, so you can write it down. After you write it down, go back to sleep for the next thirty minutes. It you have another dream in that time write it down too. When you don't have a dream, scale it back an hour a night. So the next night, if you had no dreams, set your alarm to 7 hours, write if you had a dream, sleep out the next hour and thirty, write any dreams within that period too. Do this until you have a dream you remember, then stay at that alarm time. CONSISTENCY is KEY. Some people it may work on the first try, and remember their dreams, some people it may take weeks. DON'T GIVE UP, this method WILL WORK. Also, do not exceed four hours of alarm time, REM will usually happen after your first four hours of sleep.[/QUOTE] Do I need to do all of this?

no. [editline]12th January 2011[/editline] you dont NEED to.

[QUOTE=Birdman101;27372285]no. [editline]12th January 2011[/editline] you dont NEED to.[/QUOTE] I know, but if I want to remember them easier, you can do it, so what I'm saying is do I need to do [i]all[/i] of it?

No, you dont NEED to, any number of these things would help, but I think the best way is to have a journal by your bed. Right when you wake up, scribble down what you do remember, what it felt like, pretty much as much as you can.

[QUOTE=Birdman101;27372541]No, you dont NEED to, any number of these things would help, but I think the best way is to have a journal by your bed. Right when you wake up, scribble down what you do remember, what it felt like, pretty much as much as you can.[/QUOTE] Laptop on a chair next to me? handwritings shit.

So is mine. You dont have to share it, or even re-read it later, it just helps to write it down.

[QUOTE=Birdman101;27372896]So is mine. You dont have to share it, or even re-read it later, it just helps to write it down.[/QUOTE] Okay, thanks.

np mon

I had a dream that I was permabanned from Facepunch. :smith:

[QUOTE=tommofandan;27372381]I know, but if I want to remember them easier, you can do it, so what I'm saying is do I need to do [i]all[/i] of it?[/QUOTE] if you can remember dreams every now and then I wouldn't say it's necessary because you can just try to remember those unless you're really trying for a dream

I had one of the most nerdy/dumb dreams ever. This was years ago; Before the Nintendo DS was out. I was pretty excited, and I ended dreaming that I was in the shop [i]getting[/i] the DS. Not playing it, but buying it. Then I woke up and was all :frown:

I had a dream where I just listened to an orchestra playing music, then I fell asleep and went and did a normal routine day, but the music kept playing and changing an shit. I woke up after spending a while in the dream, and found that I left my walkman playing music on and the earbuds were still in my ears. It's annoying because I still feel the earbuds there despite me having taken them off.

Maaan I haven't been in here for a while. How is everybody been doing?

Doc! Hows it going man? I was beginning to wonder if you were eaten. [editline]13th January 2011[/editline] really though, thread's been goin to shit recently. not surprising.