Sleep and Dreams Megathread v2 - General

I really need to try getting back into Lucid Dreaming. I used to remember dreams better but then I got lazy with my dream recall.

[QUOTE=Eonart;27627429]Talk to your sub. Or Zin.[/QUOTE] "Zin"? [editline]25th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Zinayzen;27627640]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. [/QUOTE] I thought there was just one entity, unless there's multiple variations (personalities) of a single entity (i.e. each state of mind attains a distinct vector for each processor in each area of problem solving (e.g. a different way for processing auditory information but when under a different persona, one may experience auditory data differently due to a different instruction set being loaded)? [editline]25th January 2011[/editline] Does anyone have any experience with communicating with their unconscious mind? Do you use the terms "I" or "you" when inputting a query to it? Or do you communicate via some other means? And can it be plausible that one can overwhelm their unconscious thereby resulting in their unconscious mind ignoring the requests of their conscious mind?

I havent had a dream I remember in... months I think. Any way to increase chances of a dream you remember? (and not something only one person tried, something that actually might work)

[QUOTE=livelonger12;27644893]Does anyone have any experience with communicating with their unconscious mind? Do you use the terms "I" or "you" when inputting a query to it? Or do you communicate via some other means? And can it be plausible that one can overwhelm their unconscious thereby resulting in their unconscious mind ignoring the requests of their conscious mind?[/QUOTE] Time for you to be enlightened. Your subconscious is like a person you unconsciously constipate all your true emotions on. This person also knows about all your skills and memories. Sometimes, this person can influence your actions. In reality, it is you, but you can talk to it like a separate person. If I told you to scribble randomly, you're not actually scribbling it randomly, but it is actually your subconscious doing it, and not randomly. 1 easy way you can talk to it is by Ideometer responses, which is by holding a pendulum like item, like maybe a watch, and then imagine it move side to side. It then moves because your hand is moving subconsciously, this is when you can talk to it. To test if it is your subconscious and not you, you decide which direction is yes and which is no, then ask very simple maths question, like is 1 + 2 = 4? If it answers correctly, congrats, ask away. This stuff does take practice. Some people find this method ridiculously hard, while I find it easy and quick.

[QUOTE=livelonger12;27644893]"Zin"? [editline]25th January 2011[/editline] I thought there was just one entity, unless there's multiple variations (personalities) of a single entity (i.e. each state of mind attains a distinct vector for each processor in each area of problem solving (e.g. a different way for processing auditory information but when under a different persona, one may experience auditory data differently due to a different instruction set being loaded)? [editline]25th January 2011[/editline] Does anyone have any experience with communicating with their unconscious mind? Do you use the terms "I" or "you" when inputting a query to it? Or do you communicate via some other means? And can it be plausible that one can overwhelm their unconscious thereby resulting in their unconscious mind ignoring the requests of their conscious mind?[/QUOTE] That would be me. It's hard to explain. Your subconscious IS technically everything in a dream (or everyone, rather), but that doesn't mean that having a conversation with anyone in a dream will let you peer into your subconscious (because your brain is capable of creating multiple entities with different personalities, etc) What I refer to as a "sub" is basically your subconscious purely defined as one entity. This is easy to accomplish with the whole close eyes and turn around trick. Generally it will find one form that you're happy with and then always appear in that form (with exceptions, but those are generally odd and differ from person to person). No, that can't happen...but it's hard to understand what you mean. Technically you can't say "unconscious", because you're sleeping. If you mean SUBconscious, then no. You can't overwhelm it. The opposite can happen and your brain can force you to wake up, but that's difficult and hard anyway. Are you a robot or something?

I had a dream where I was critiquing Gmod pictures except I was actually walking around inside the picture. Also, loads of friends were there in the picture too, joining in with the commenting on the picture. Was weird as fuck. If I recall properly, the picture was of Male_07 in a suit in bed with a woman with a load of dead black citizens around the bed. Oh God please don't read into my Freudian subconscious on that one.

[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;27647567]Oh God please don't read into my Freudian subconscious on that one.[/QUOTE] NEC-CRO-PHIL-LI-AC :downs:

Holy shit I just had a semi-lucid dream. I fell asleep after randomly waking up at 2am and reading Facepunch on my phone. I started out in my apartment alone and took a look outside to see that it was foggy as shit. I took out my phone to ask my Dad where he was and noticed something odd. It had fucking hundreds of icons on it and tapping one of them brought up a kind of Fallout 3 style map which showed the locations of me, three people outside, and SLEEPING me. Realizing that this must be a dream, I pinched my nose for a reality check and had it fail. (I forgot to rub my hands though. V:v:V) I went outside to see who these three people were. It was a Latino family consisting of Grandma, Mom, and a girl who appeared to be in middle school. (She was also swimming in a lake my apartment has. This is odd because there is only a foot of water a most in it and it's probably 80% duck shit I looked at my phone again and tried to make a "Cheat" app on my iPhone. I failed and eventually just gave up. When I looked up it was pitch black and the same latino family was running past me before getting trapped at the gate for the pool. I approached them to ask what was wrong and heard something heavy land behind me. It was a police officer (douchebag style sunglasses and really thick pornstar muchstache) on an ATV. "So I finally found you rats!" "Who the hell are you?" "Well I can tell you who these people are. COCKROACHES! Scurrying into my.... For some reason he stopped speaking and pulled out a shotgun. He told me that if I didn't tell him the "truth" (I somehow knew quite well that this family wasn't illegal.) then I would die with them. At this point the dream suddenly changes setting and I lose lucidity. It was kind of a waste though. My thoughts were too foggy to actually do anything. So I was pretty much just riding along with a somewhat of a sense of disbelief.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;27647508] What I refer to as a "sub" is basically your subconscious purely defined as one entity. This is easy to accomplish with the whole close eyes and turn around trick. Generally it will find one form that you're happy with and then always appear in that form (with exceptions, but those are generally odd and differ from person to person). [/QUOTE] My sub uses my form. And acts really bro-like. Yeah thats right Im totally bros with myself.

I wish I could do all this. I've been trying ages to get into SP then drift into lucid but I just fail getting into SP. Like I'll hear my ears begin to buzz, my eyes move uncontrollably and heart rate shoot up but nothing comes of it. Any ideas?

I vaguely remember having a dream about being hit by a nuke. It was kind of like getting hit in the head by a football (or as you call it incorrectly a soccer ball) crossed with getting thrown underwater. [editline]25th January 2011[/editline] ok so my alarm hasn't been waking me properly in the mornings for wild and such somebody suggest something

I had a dream where I am singing along the girl I like, we are like sitting together on the grass. What the hell does it means? O_o I felt my life was complete in the dream...

[QUOTE=AnemoneS2;27655195]I had a dream where I am singing along the girl I like, we are like sitting together on the grass. What the hell does it means? O_o I felt my life was complete in the dream...[/QUOTE] Seems obvious enough to me... Also, livelonger12 needs to use clearer language. After all, this isn't an essay.

[QUOTE=teh_1337_r0XX0r;27657983]Seems obvious enough to me... Also, livelonger12 needs to use clearer language. After all, this isn't an essay.[/QUOTE] I concur. And you're right, he's being too formal. It's not like he impresses me, I'm barely ever formal on this website. But people listen to me, so whatever.

I fell asleep in class today and had a dream that bec noir (homestuck) Was skateboarding. I woke up, thought about it, and said: "That's one for the journal." Then laughed.

I had a normally discordant dream last night, but it had one lucid segment. I was with three other people who insisted on referring to me as Jaller Wade, third-in-command of the "Ninth Migharin Legion." We were in an ice-and-snow choked castle, waiting for someone. Our leader, who I was apparently related to, says, "You think that Lung scumbag bailed on us?" Just as he said that, [url=http://www.gamasutra.com/db_area/images/feature/4156/character_hunter.jpg]this guy[/url] walked into view, escorted by a couple of slouchy bodyguards who looked like they were wearing jumpsuits and full head-concealing helmets made of their own flesh. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZenmglXcF4M&feature=related[/media] From 7:04 to 7:26, this plays. Our leader says, "Ah, so you must be Master Shaper...Retruthran, am I correct?" From then on, the dream descends back into discordance. Anybody got any ideas where this might've come from?

Any alternatives to eating a banana before sleeping? I'm not a fan of them, at all. Really dislike the taste.

On Sunday I'll hit 100 days on my journal! For this I've been wanting to type up some stuff about what I've experienced, but I want to know what people would like to read. I don't think I'm as qualified to give advice, but if feel free to ask me to write anything if this interests you.

I've been eating bananas all the time right before I go to sleep and never realized that it helped with lucid dreaming. Also, I just watched Inception. HHHNNNGGGG- :psyboom:

You know, I think I would dream more if I got more than 2 hours of sleep a night. Anyone agree?

[QUOTE=teh_1337_r0XX0r;27666753]You know, I think I would dream more if I got more than 2 hours of sleep a night. Anyone agree?[/QUOTE] May be dumb on your part, but worth saying that yeah, if you have short sleep spans, then your dream recall goes out the window. In the week, the most sleep a night I get is about 6 hours maximum. It absolutely demolishes a usually pretty clear and comprehensive dream recall (that which I generally experience at the weekends). So if any readers are wondering why their dream recall is sucking no matter what they've tried, try reviewing your sleep patterns. The more sleep, the more chance to have those REM periods and actually recall them.

I had some fucked up dream like I was riding a bike in my backyard, like it’s normal in a fucked up kind of way and it scared the shit out of me for some reason. Here’s where shit goes down. I woke up but I was so tired, I had one eye open which could see everything in front of me, but my body was still under sleep paralysis (so I couldn’t move although I was aware one eye was open), and then my other eye still closed which was still dreaming, and in my dream I was really tired and passing out, and I felt that in real life too. And in my dream I was standing outside in my back yard, about to fall over and pass out, but with my awake eye, I could see my bed in front of me and I was trying to make my dreaming body fall into my bed instead of falling onto the cold hard ground in my back yard. All I remember was my body falling over, and that I felt really tingly in my body. I think I passed out after that. Scary shit.

[QUOTE=Jessbinx;27670594]May be dumb on your part, but worth saying that yeah, if you have short sleep spans, then your dream recall goes out the window. In the week, the most sleep a night I get is about 6 hours maximum. It absolutely demolishes a usually pretty clear and comprehensive dream recall (that which I generally experience at the weekends). So if any readers are wondering why their dream recall is sucking no matter what they've tried, try reviewing your sleep patterns. The more sleep, the more chance to have those REM periods and actually recall them.[/QUOTE] Which is exactly why I hate WoW. IT WONT LET ME SLEEP UNTIL 2 AM.

I had a dream where a girl I don't even like was walking around and holding hands with a guy in my class (they don't know each other) and no matter what I couldn't catch up with them . Now I can't stop thinking about her :confused: Anyone have any idea what the fuck happened? I've been trying to lucid dream for a while, but this is pretty much the closest I've got in any way..

I had my first lucid dream. I don't remember much but I remember hearing Joans waltz in the background and I realised that I was listening to my MP3 player but remembered that I should have the earplugs in so I waited until the song ended (which it did) and it moved onto another song. So I then summoned my subconscious (And stupidly) asked it my greatest fear. I woke up at 3pm sweating like fuck and heart beating fast but I forgot what my fear was.

I've always wandered, couldn't you just ask your subconscious to describe your greatest fear instead of asking it to show you.

[QUOTE=plecy;27677783]I've always wandered, couldn't you just ask your subconscious to describe your greatest fear instead of asking it to show you.[/QUOTE] I've never actually gotten onto a good lucid dream, can someone tell me their experience with subconscious fears?

[QUOTE=Chezhead;27678432]I've never actually gotten onto a good lucid dream, can someone tell me their experience with subconscious fears?[/QUOTE] I'm glad I forgot most of it. Oh shit I just remembered I will have to sleep again at some point in my life.

So I got another lucid dream started up this morning, second time within 5 days! But I focussed the dream like it said somewhere, and it kind of did it, then went back to a bit of a film-grainy version of the super clear focus - it was vivid and beautiful either way, but that still bugged me. I then rubbed my hands and went to go somewhere else or something, for which I closed my eyes, and I woke up when I opened them, unfortunately! So how to better stay in the dream? I've already got thinking that I want to remain in the dream and direct hand rubbing planned, anything else?

I fucking love the feeling you get when you return to a place that was in a previous dream, with all of the same people. I almost had a second world forming, with different people and everything, when I forgot all of it. I can never return to that ever again...