Finally had a working MILD, first time I tried it in ages and ages too. I noticed it was a dream when a volcano sunk into the ground (?) and then I just kind of shouted it out and changed everything around me a bit, but I woke up pretty quickly, probably because I was so excited and didn't do any hand rubbing/other things.
Just a question about WILDs, when I try to do them after waking up in the morning, I can't form a single image of stairs or anything without it pretty much instantly being converted to a dream or so of itself - more like a dream in my mind's eye. I can even interact with the dream, change things, etc, but only to a limit, and it's most definitely barely a shade of a dream. Should I keep kind of ripping up the dreams and reforming the image to get to falling asleep/paralysis or what? Since otherwise I just fall asleep.
Similar thing happens in WILDs that I try to do leading into a nap, the whole image of whatever just either disappears and gets replaced or gets converted to whatever. I usually also somehow almost always fall asleep in them, kind of annoying really.
I gotta go to bed soon, i have been on FP for 9 hours straight now. Goodnight.
well it's time for bed so I'll try something tonight.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;27615830]Your brain's telling you to stop smoking, or at least cut back on it.[/QUOTE]
The problem is that I have never touched a cigar or anything in my entire life. I don't even drink anything stronger than Tea.
Also I remembered another part from dreaming that night which I knew I was getting closer to lucidity. I remember seeing someone drown in lava, but I figured out that this was impossible because the lava would burn him away before he drowned. However I never fully made the connection and thought that this was just something odd and that I was not dreaming.
I keep having really vivid dreams when I nap, and they always seem to have this one prick from my school in them, and he does things that I realize are impossible, but I never seem to make the connection and go lucid :saddowns:
A had a dream a few nights ago. It was my first minor "nightmare" in a VERY long time. Basically, some guy brought me to some secret Russian subway or something, that I could do anything I wanted in. But first, I had to watch this movie. It started normally, but then the scene switched to an old man's face for a few seconds. Then his eyes turned yellow and he started screaming angrily and everything went flying around. And then I woke up.
Last night, I had a really short dream. It involved a bus breaking down in ice or something, but I remember standing there, in freezing rain, snow, and ice, with only a T-shirt, while everyone else was freezing in coats. I said something like, "It's times like these, Will (my friend), when I truly feel like a man"
When I try to enter lucid dreaming from an awake state in my bed, it's fucking hard to tell the difference between reality and dreams.
Like I'm just lying in my bed, feeling itchy and like I got to turn over but resisting it, and then my thoughts get deeper and deeper and start coming to life, so it's like my eyes are open and I'm somewhere else.
But I don't notice slipping into dreams, so my mind seems to just go to sleep, and I'm not fully lucid because I'm not realizing I'm dreaming.
Trippy as funk tho.
Oh shit Im addicted to Wow.
Which means my sleep schedule is about to be raped in the pooper.
I'm not a huge religious/spiritaual kind of person, but this was a bit weird. Ok, to start off a few weeks ago, I have some friends who are brother and sister. Well, their mother died a few weeks ago. It happened on a monday overnight. During the same night, I had this dream. I was in a store with my dad (who had passed away back in 2007) and it was normal, I thought it was real, etc. Then, later on I know hes gone, so I'm asking him questions. I ask him if there is an afterlife, he says yes. I ask him to give me a sign, he says look to the sky. Well anyways, after I wake up in the morning I notice the sky is sunny (the weather had been very cloudy and gray outside). Too this day I don't know what it means, but I think it was really weird, especially since it happened over the night my friends mother died and I never had any dream like that before.
Does anyone have any experience with communicating with their unconscious mind's (or self's) via dream incubation or other methods?
[QUOTE=Eonart;27626436]This is confusing.
Are you talking about yourself in the dream or your subconscious? Because in the dream, it's like its own world, so you will still be you in the dream, so that would be talking to your normal self.
In other words, you can't talk to your unconscious self because you are your unconscious self :v:
And dream incubation can also be called MILD here.[/QUOTE]
Apologies for the confusion. I'm talking of how one can request for themselves to activate or sync some/set of cognitive functions with the conscious environment to appease some requirement. Such requests can manifest via intense emotion (e.g. where one may find themselves stressfully attempting to solve a particular problem but when returning to it after a dream acquire some form insight supplementing/completing the process of solving the problem), but one can apparently establish communication with their unconscious self merely by recognizing their unconscious self as a different entity (not them) and communicating to it as if it were another.
Well, either it was luck or well, i don't know.
Managed to get semi lucid last night by doing a RC in a dream then thought "that's not supposed to happen" however i couldn't change the setting or do anything else no matter how much i willed, but then the strangest noise took place and me and my friend saw 2 lions (1 white the other normal colour) so they charged at us, since it all took place in my college i decided to go down the smallest corridor but to no avail.
They managed to pin me, and it was rather scary at the time having two lions pounce on you and only managing to get one off without help from my friend, after that we managed to get them into 2 rooms next to each other they both had windows so i asked the woman in there if she had seen the lion that was in there, according to her it was under her desk, so she got up and ran out the room.
Then i had a false awakening, and managed to head into another dream where it was like the first one except i forced myself to wake up.
Part of the second dream was a person asking me to read something on their computer screen i looked at it then looked again, it had changed and i knew i was in a dream.
[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]
[QUOTE=livelonger12;27626703]Apologies for the confusion. I'm talking of how one can request for themselves to activate or sync some/set of cognitive functions with the conscious environment to appease some requirement. Such requests can manifest via intense emotion (e.g. where one may find themselves stressfully attempting to solve a particular problem but when returning to it after a dream acquire some form insight supplementing/completing the process of solving the problem), but one can apparently establish communication with their unconscious self merely by recognizing their unconscious self as a different entity (not them) and communicating to it as if it were another.[/QUOTE]
I can't help but feel this was copied and pasted from somewhere, but you are correct. Eon wasn't completely right, but I'm tired and skimmed his post so I might be wrong.
Anyway, it's simple. Long story short, almost all entities you converse with will be your subconscious, but once you can isolate one as your 'sub', as I call it, you can converse more directly with your subconscious.
[editline]24th January 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=TJCTakSUn;27627497][/QUOTE]
No. None of this is correct, and I hope you don't follow your own directions, otherwise you're fucking up your own sleep patterns. I need to sleep but will elaborate in the morning. Brb 10 hours.
[editline]24th January 2011[/editline]
That was directed at tacsun
It was in the thread earlier, something about banana smoothie but would a real banana milkshake be good?
cause i fucking love banana milkshake.
I had what felt like a particularly profound dream fragment the other night, just wondering what you guys might make of it.
At this point in my dream, I had just been a dog, running along in a formation of 3 by 3, and I had been in the front rank, running up a pebbled path with a huge expanse of fields and countryside to my right. Something suddenly distracted me from this path, and I, as myself, wandered through a gap in the fence and into a herd of sheep. There was one sheep that was fake and made of wood. It toppled over on its side and things fell out, though I don't remember what. I began walking with the flock, and seemed to have some sort of influence over where they were going, although I wasn't actually leading them. We went across the field and rejoined the path, which then went through an open-ended barn of corrugated metal. The whole of the inside was a glowing, crimson red, and there were enclosures for animals on both sides. I was speaking to and reassuring a talking lamb that was walking alongside me, but knew in my heart of hearts that these sheep were being led to slaughter, and felt bad for lying to the lamb. As we got to the centre of the barn, a huge tawny paw shot out from some iron bars to the right. I looked in, and there was a lion with a shaved mane and muzzled with rope lying inside. It looked at me with infinitely sad eyes.
The dream went back into nonsense after that - I was owning the car from Back to the Future and someone stole it, then I was the Doctor in and underwater tunnel system... Considering my dreams are usually pretty action-packed and random, this dream fragment seemed rather profound. Thoughts anyone?
They stole the DeLorean?
Hunt them down and
MAKE.
THEM.
PAY.
Yes. perfectly normal.
Most of my hypnotic jerks are when Im just barely getting tired and think about sleeping.
[QUOTE=Jessbinx;27630737]I had what felt like a particularly profound dream fragment the other night, just wondering what you guys might make of it.
At this point in my dream, I had just been a dog, running along in a formation of 3 by 3, and I had been in the front rank, running up a pebbled path with a huge expanse of fields and countryside to my right. Something suddenly distracted me from this path, and I, as myself, wandered through a gap in the fence and into a herd of sheep. There was one sheep that was fake and made of wood. It toppled over on its side and things fell out, though I don't remember what. I began walking with the flock, and seemed to have some sort of influence over where they were going, although I wasn't actually leading them. We went across the field and rejoined the path, which then went through an open-ended barn of corrugated metal. The whole of the inside was a glowing, crimson red, and there were enclosures for animals on both sides. I was speaking to and reassuring a talking lamb that was walking alongside me, but knew in my heart of hearts that these sheep were being led to slaughter, and felt bad for lying to the lamb. As we got to the centre of the barn, a huge tawny paw shot out from some iron bars to the right. I looked in, and there was a lion with a shaved mane and muzzled with rope lying inside. It looked at me with infinitely sad eyes.
The dream went back into nonsense after that - I was owning the car from Back to the Future and someone stole it, then I was the Doctor in and underwater tunnel system... Considering my dreams are usually pretty action-packed and random, this dream fragment seemed rather profound. Thoughts anyone?[/QUOTE]
I just tried something really interesting, and I'm not sure if it helped or not.
I was doing a WBTB, checked this thread, read your post, and then hit REM sleep. Which means I basically experienced exactly the way you did, and I've never tried that before. It was unusual.
Unfortunately, it didn't help with interpretation. I doubt this has a hidden meaning, or if it does I can't find it, but it could just mean you don't like animal abuse. You're not a vegetarian, are you?
Gonna watch Inception.
Could it effect me like a RILD?
the same way when i got RILD when i read the first megathread, without even trying?
I had a lucid dream last night that was like that old tv series The Colony.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;27635271]I just tried something really interesting, and I'm not sure if it helped or not.
I was doing a WBTB, checked this thread, read your post, and then hit REM sleep. Which means I basically experienced exactly the way you did, and I've never tried that before. It was unusual.
Unfortunately, it didn't help with interpretation. I doubt this has a hidden meaning, or if it does I can't find it, but it could just mean you don't like animal abuse. You're not a vegetarian, are you?[/QUOTE]
That sounds really interesting. And no, I'm not a vegetarian, and I'm not really more preoccupied with animal rights with anyone else, though I do like animals a lot. Ah well, will just have to put it down to another random twist of my mind. Thankyou for trying.
I wonder what tonight will hold for me?
Is it still possible for me to do this when the last time I had a dream was a year ago? (I always just lay down for about 5 minutes and then it's suddenly morning. :geno: )
Also, I can't keep a dream journal since mornings are kind of hectic and I have an hour to get ready to bike to school.
I love how we probe the depths of space and sea for excitement and mystery, when this thread is dedicated to the mystery and excitement of the human mind, which is literally right behind our noses, making some thing as normal as sleeping into fantastic fun.
I really have to get in the hang of this stuff.
I dreamed about something relating to the change in schedule for the new semester, and me getting lost along the way to my Japanese class. For some reason this scared me a lot.
Last night,
Imagine [b]Biggie Smalls[/b] in [b]Vietnam[/b], and the houses were made of blocks. Me and Biggie were taking cover behind a block, when he pulls out a cheese stick and starts eating it while firing. He drops it on the ground and says, "where my fuckin cheese stick" and then a giant fucking cheese stick lands on him. I woke up laughing.
Speaking of dreams, most of my dreams have some minecraft elements in them simply because I bleed that game. A lot include my high school as well.
[QUOTE=Chezhead;27643088]Speaking of dreams, most of my dreams have some minecraft elements in them simply because I bleed that game. A lot include my high school as well.[/QUOTE]
Sometimes I begin to process things in my head as blocks. It seems easier for me, because I'm a visual learner.
[QUOTE=triFeral;27643132]Sometimes I begin to process things in my head as blocks. It seems easier for me, because I'm a visual learner, but it feels like I'm autistic sometimes.[/QUOTE]
Are you calling minecraft players autistic?
I kid. I sometimes do that when thinking of fantastic architecture and such. Sorta like going from really low-res pictures with huge pixels, and eventually working in the details.
Whenever somebody in a dream of mine mentions WoW, I instantly burst into hysterical laughter (in dream).
Help.
[editline]24th January 2011[/editline]
Hey man I can quit whenever I want to.
I just dont wanna.
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