Ok, so honestly I didn't even read what the author of this thread had to say. The title is what caught my attention because I have a story that goes along with the sleeping portion rather well. I was visiting my home state of Washington about a month ago, I was stayinng with my mother since she had moved back up there. Anyways now one night my mom, her neighbor and I stayed up late killing off two handles of Sky Vodka(Be aware I was putting the majority of that to my own use). The next morning I woke up sober as a bird and hangover free, as usual; so I went to the gas station for a Lemonade Rockstar ta quench my thirst, returned home and fell back asleep. This is where the story kinda takes a peculiar turn. I have a history of distant sleepwalking, while also being a chronic insomniac, well this time it was more than just a 2 mile walk down to the friends house or anything of the such. From that Point of me returning back to sleep the next event that I was taking place in was being wheeled into the trauma care unit of Washington's Southwest Medical unit after some reconstructive surgery had just taken place on my face. I got up from bed, finished the third of a handle that was left, drove fifty miles from Portland, Oregon to Woodland, Washington(All while still in a deep case of sleep)! Erratically driving and swerving at 90 MPH in and out of traffic, until I decided to cut across the middle lanes and hit the right rear bumper of an opposing SUV. Here's the final fun facts: my BAC(blood alcohol content) was at .39 that alone could have killed me and if I was completely sober and awake I would have no idea how to get from Portland to Woodland in the first place! But the whole reason of me leaving in the first place, revolved around the multitude of text messages sent to my friend about the idea I had of picking him up in Longview, Washington so we could attend Hempfest in Seattle! Well since I didn't quite make it there and did end up in a near death accident, our vehicles went off the road down and rolled repeatedly down an encampment off the right side into a large field. Well I ended up in the field at least, the four people in the opposite vehicle exited their vehicle after it rolling, dusted themselves off and thankfully walked away untouched! I on the other-hand after rolling a few times, was launched through the windshield with enough force to enter, then exit a large area of sticker bushes and other violent vegetation. Once I was through the shrubbery, my final resting place was 50 feet away from any scene of the accident in a large empty field fighting for what was left of my life. I ended up breaking my collar bone, many areas in my face(had reconstructive surgery to build me a new nose). Was covered in all sorts of deep lacerations and bruises and my back had been seriously injured; for the next 2 weeks i could not lean back without me losing all control of my lower lumbar and falling to the floor in a way you would assume a fresh caught tuna to. I'm doing a bit better now, but my collar bone still hurts from day to day. Then again considering how fucking lucky I was to just live in the first place, I'll take a sore collar bone!
[QUOTE=Eonart;25058342]Cool story bro.
On a serious note, has anyone else in this thread been sleep walking?
I don't, and that's for sure.[/QUOTE]
My Uncle claims he sleep walks... he even does it to the point where he is outside of his house before he realizes it.
Sometimes when people wake me to move into another room i don't remember it at all and often forget how i even got there. They claim i do it all on my own.
People also claim i have full conversations with them while i am sleeping, i don't remember any of it.
had a dream last night where a small spider got killed bye a big spider then some weirs as bug things speared the big spider
then i woke up
yes thats the whole dream
Krows, that sounds completely awesome. So..... did you end up with a D.U.I., or did the fact that you weren't conscious get you out of that?
Day 3 now please!
Alright, explain the meaning behind my dream, if you think you can.
[quote]I was in some sort of warehouse. The shelves were stacked with boxes of various things, most notably and in most supply various toys. I was examining a box or boxes of something, when I saw a note. I forget what it said, but that lead me to several different stops around the warehouse, and to different boxes, none of which I can remember the contents from. Then I heard someone calling "Hey!" from behind me, and I turned around. There was a girl, about my age (I think I may have seen her in my school a few times) waving her arm, sitting at a desk that resembled Dr. Breen's. I forget what happened after that, but we ended up sitting high up on shelves in the warehouse. I think it was a man I was talking to, not the girl I saw before, but I still felt as though I were talking to the same person. At some point, I realized I was dreaming and rubbed my hands together repeating "I want to remain in this dream." We talked, but I don't remember about what. After that, the man I was talking to changed form into Brian Griffan from family guy, god knows why. Then the shelf above our heads stretched incredibly high above us, and I saw a tear (cartoonized to fit Brian's form) come to his face. After more stuff which I can't remember, everything started collapsing in chunks around us, being filled in with chunks of an open, grassy field, and Brian started spinning around and singing (The only line I can remember him singing is "The most I can do is pray", with a pause after "do" and, with "is" and "pray" being extended, like "iiiiiissss prrraaaaaayyyyy") and I continuously rubbed my hands and repeated "I want to remain in this dream." Within the course of this dream, I faded in and out of reality, and woke up several times, but just laid still and eventually fell back asleep, continuing where the dream left off.[/quote] I presume the form I was talking to was my sub, and the warehouse was probably my memories or something. Oh, and I'm pretty sure that line I remembered him singing was from a Frank Sinatra song (I like Sinatra's music).
You became lucid and you continued to go along with the dream? Thats like wasting away a good opportunity.
[QUOTE=Oblivious1;25065078]You became lucid and you continued to go along with the dream? Thats like wasting away a good opportunity.[/QUOTE]
Not in my opinion. I was talking to my sub conscious, I wouldn't call that "wasted." Sure, I didn't learn much, and hell, I forgot most everything it told me, but it was still fun. I would gladly throw away an opportunity to play god if it meant I could learn more about myself.
Jesus Christ, still no real OP?
[QUOTE=DaAngryWeasel;25075905]Jesus Christ, still no real OP?[/QUOTE]
No, I'm making the OP and he's taking credit for it
I mean uh
I'm making the OP
Yeah.
[QUOTE=Asaratha;25075786]I remember a bit of a dream i just had. I was on-top of a fridge. And my floor was covered in WORMS. What the hell[/QUOTE]
Not as bad as this
[QUOTE=Dream journal]I don't really remember the beginning but i remember i was in my front room with a spider on my hand, quiet a big one aswell it was white and grey with indian markings that changed everytime i looked at it, this is odd for a couple of reasons ;
1. I have horrible arachnophobia so just seeing a small spider near me freak me out, but this was on my hand.
2. Going with the other reason i would have screamed or had a small muscular spasm which i did not.
Moving on this spider was just sitting there not moving or doing anything at all it's like the entire dream revolved around this damn spider that i hate yet i stare at it and put it on a chair, when i look up from putting the spider on the chair we was in a field and the chair was duplicating spiders unusually i was okay with this and saw it as normal, next thing i know I'm fapping over the spiders and cumming on them. i think i realized that i hate being in public even with my shirt off so i must have snapped and became lucid because everything was fading and i could feel my real body not moving, naturally my movement in my dream slowed because i thought i was in my dream and asleep on the bed.
Trying so hard i try to take my hand off my dick but to no avail it was glued onto it apparently, this could also be due to me feeling my real body so i thought fuck it and woke up. [/QUOTE]
RAH
FUCK YOU, DOUBLE DOORS. WHY THE HELL WON'T YOUR CIRCUITS WORK.
fuck minecraft
[QUOTE=Birdman101;25058921]Krows, that sounds completely awesome. So..... did you end up with a D.U.I., or did the fact that you weren't conscious get you out of that?[/QUOTE]
Damn I wish bro, D.U.I. and reckless driving. Yay 2 years of A.A. for SLEEPING!
My dreams aren't really interesting (I've gotten used to the weirdness it seems). I really want to start lucid dreaming I just don't want to bother to do all the whatever induced lucid dream stuff.
Thats somewhat like saying "I want to live, but i dont want to do this breathing and eating crap"
[QUOTE=Krowz Phoot;25080710]Damn I wish bro, D.U.I. and reckless driving. Yay 2 years of A.A. for SLEEPING![/QUOTE]
meh, could have been a lot worse. I'd take AA over a DUI any time.
Edit:
Wait........ maybe I misinterpreted that sentence. Fuck my turrible reading comprehension.
DURR EDIT:
Oh, I get it now.
Sucks, Bro.
[QUOTE=kenji;25080920]Thats somewhat like saying "I want to live, but i dont want to do this breathing and eating crap"[/QUOTE]
Yeah, good point. Maybe I should just give up. I find MILD and dream journals to be kind of silly, and WILD involves sleep paralysis which I'm just terrified to experience.
It seems silly, for say, first few days, now its just routine and its not a second thought.
And trust me, some of my dreams have given some other people a chuckle
"Then i opened the bathroom door to find my dad, in the toilets dancing with a tophat"
I have had many lucid dreams, however I do not remember them all.
The earlier lucid dream came after I watched Jurassic Park, the first one, the night after I saw it in theaters. I was little then.
I remember the dream quite well, the T-Rex was chasing me, and I quickly realized I was dreaming. It was a nightmare to me back then, being little, so I screamed at myself to wake up and I eventually did.
Another example of a lucid dream was a night before one of my reenactments I was attending. I was dreaming of reenacting and became aware and began to interact with a lot going on around me. I began to control the dream and the situation but it eventually caused me to wake up.
It was strange with that dream because there was some sort of action that made me aware. I very specifically remember shifting from dream state into lucid dream state. It was like my mind was being pulled and I was being sucked through into the dream. Very strange and unique feeling. I am still unsure what action or phrase made me aware I was dreaming.
One of the more interesting lucid dreams I had was actually a double dream of the same thing. I had a dream of some sort of post war or post apocalyptic world. The world did not look that damaged but it was not pretty. I was with my father, and we were traveling somewhere. We ended up getting tricked by three guys who, before they shot me, I woke up. It was a 'warrior' dream at that time because no matter how much I pulled the trigger on my rifle it would not fire. The trigger would pull but I had to pull the trigger multiple times or in strange ways to get it to fire. I ended up failing pretty bad.
I woke up and fell back asleep and oddly, ended up having the same dream again.
However this time upon running into the three men I became lucid and promptly shot them. My 'father' asked me how I knew they were going to stab our backs and I was so lost in the lucid state and excited I had achieved it that I tried to 'teach' him about lucid dreaming in the state, I began showing him how you can alter the world in your dream, and began to alter several aspects, one of which I forced the sun to set and it become night instead of day...then finally realized that it was rather pointless, of course. I must have slipped back into dream state because I do not remember what happened after that portion.
It was very interesting, to say the least.
I have a problem with lucid dreaming... i look at all the techniques listed in solid_jake's tutorial but i never really get that opportunity, allow me to explain.
I am never in control of my faculties enough to run any of those tests because it just feels like a movie from the first person perspective.
If lucid dreaming is having total control of your dreams then i am at the opposite end of the spectrum in that i have NO control over my dreams, and when i say that i mean whatsoever.
I feel in my dreams that i am often being lead around and that i have [del]almost[/del] no decision making powers... anyone else have this problem?
sometimes I have "movie" dreams; I dont control anything, Im not even there.
Other times, I have some control; I remember making choices, just completely oblivious to the fact that Im dreaming.
[QUOTE=s0beit;25082154]I have a problem with lucid dreaming... i look at all the techniques listed in solid_jake's tutorial but i never really get that opportunity, allow me to explain.
I am never in control of my faculties enough to run any of those tests because it just feels like a movie from the first person perspective.
If lucid dreaming is having total control of your dreams then i am at the opposite end of the spectrum in that i have NO control over my dreams, and when i say that i mean whatsoever.
I feel in my dreams that i am often being lead around and that i have [del]almost[/del] no decision making powers... anyone else have this problem?[/QUOTE]
That's why you train your brain to do reality checks often, and notice things that are weird. Eventually you will do a reality check in your dream, just like you would in real life, except it doesn't work the way it's supposed to. Then your brain starts going "hey wait a minute, something isn't right here." and you will regain consciousness while still being asleep. So it pretty much feels like a movie, up until the point where you realize you're dreaming. Then it feels fucking incredible.
Last night I almost LD from meditation. Well I actually did. Imagine this: You try to imagine something, no matter how hard you try, you can see it in your minds eye, but its not fully there. Some elements of it arent completely clear. Thats how this was. I LD from meditation. the only problem is I didnt have complete control and my mind kept trying to wander off. but I kept it in control long enough to have a really awesome experience:
I started out by meditating. My mind kept going everywhere and I was about to give up and go to sleep. But I decided to push through. The interesting thing is I didnt go into 'bliss'. Instead I decided to sit atop a hillside like I have in the past. So I was sitting on a hillside covered in green grass with a light warm breeze blowing through. All I could see was a small section of the hill, because that is all I had imagined. I decided I wanted more, so I thought up a 'blueprint' of what i want. Basically just the shape of what i wanted. I wanted 2 large hills with a depression in between and a lake connected to it. So I sat there and waited and my mind created it. I could see it in moderate detail. I wanted a cabin. My mind created a cabin at the bottom of the basin. I walked closer. (or more or less teleported)I had my mind create more detail in the cabin. I walked around it and walked inside. I couldnt decide how I wanted the layout of the interior to be. So as I walked over to the bed (one room cabin) the layout of the cabin was changing around me. I sat down on the bed and felt the fabric in my hands. I leaned back and smelled the scent of pine wood the cabin was made out of. I looked at the fire place. Walked over to it and put a few logs on it. I was going to light a match to start it, but I thought "Im in a dream, I can do whatever I want" So I thought it on fire. I walked back outside and looked up the hill. I saw two trees. Only one was in focus. So I 'teleported' to it. I tried walking but I thought "This takes too much time." When I got to it I walked around it until I was facing the cabin. I reaced over with my left hand and felt the bark. I could feel the bark. I knew there was another tree, so I turned and looked at it. When I did I noticed it was the same species of this tree. I thought "Well thats kinds boring having them the same species." So I designed a tree in my thoughts and looked away. I looked back and it was the tree I designed. i walked over to it and since it was at an angle, I leaned up against it. I felt the bark with my hands, I leaned my face against it, I felt the bark on my face. After sitting there for a while I thought "It would be nice to have breanne here" (She is a girl I really like right now and am starting to hang out with more and more) She started to appear in the tree playfully swinging her legs. Before she became solid I thought "No, I dont know her well enough. Anything she does here will not be her true actions" So I made her disappear. I went back down to the cabin. i walked inside and sat on the bed. I leaned back and scrunched the white cotton blankets in my hands. I decided it was time to come out of this. I layed down and started to meditate. I slowly brought myself back to reality until I opened my eyes. I did all of this in 40 minutes.
[QUOTE=Dradious;25082577]That's why you train your brain to do reality checks often, and notice things that are weird. Eventually you will do a reality check in your dream, just like you would in real life, except it doesn't work the way it's supposed to. Then your brain starts going "hey wait a minute, something isn't right here." and you will regain consciousness while still being asleep. So it pretty much feels like a movie, up until the point where you realize you're dreaming. Then it feels fucking incredible.[/QUOTE]
Good because i have been doing them lately, the light trick, looking at my hands and finally one that I've made my own, which is wearing something every day and it will become easy, in theory, to differentiate between dreaming and reality when I'm not wearing that item. (Or wearing it, who knows, this item has never been a part of my dreams before)
I often check if they are on, like taking them off every once in a while just to check they are on and if it doesn't work i often check lights, view hands and I've been totally immersing myself in dreaming material.
This thread is gold because i have tried to lucid dream in my past and failed horribly, i even have tried to write down dreams in my past without ever having an alterior motive lol.
I think i have come close to lucid dreaming though, or at least slipping from "day dreaming" into dreaming, when you start imagining scenarios in your head as you slip further into sleep it will become your dream later on, you will begin to almost consciously understand when your mind is getting crazier and crazier, when your day-dream takes on a life of its own, this has happened to me before and nearly happened to me the other day but i woke up because of some real world disturbances. I will be doing this all month and i will report back if anything happens.
Welcome man. Visit often for daily conversations and stuff.
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Well night all.
Tried to LD and failed.... now I'm up for the rest of the night. Perfect time to polish off schoolwork, I guess. :(
I know the feeling, I was in your position too. you just have to go out of your comfort zone and start being awesome. It works. It's hard, believe me, but it works.
Does repeating a clip saying a mantra work same way as repeating it in your head, since it's suppose to be smashed into your short term memory?
Apart from that, I need help, my sleep is slowly returning to normal; no more waking up in the middle of night to write entries and less recall ability. I need to keep that cycle.
[QUOTE=Eonart;25085084]Get out mentally or physically?[/QUOTE]
Both.
[QUOTE=Oblivious1;25086172]Does repeating a clip saying a mantra work same way as repeating it in your head, since it's suppose to be smashed into your short term memory?
Apart from that, I need help, my sleep is slowly returning to normal; no more waking up in the middle of night to write entries and less recall ability. I need to keep that cycle.[/QUOTE]
I seem to be losing that slight ability as well :(
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