Dreams are getting rather fuzzy these last two weeks. Looks like sleep patterns aren't getting them back in their place. I KNOW I'm still dreaming, but I only get 5 second fragments, not the comprehensive, huge things I was getting up until a week or two ago.
Any ideas why they've decided to hide from me?
[editline]12th November 2010[/editline]
Zomg! 100th post :D
I tried lucid dreaming and I managed to do it the first night I tried. It was amazing. Seriously, it was freaking AWESOME. I went in and fixed one of my most memorable nightmares. Thing is though, it was really tiring- when I woke up I felt drained, not like I restored any energy. Is this normal?
[QUOTE=Eonart;26019933]Damn, it seems I'm not the only one with memory problems.
For me even trying to stay still to try and remember also brings fragments only.
The curse to the facepunch subconscious bandwagon.[/QUOTE]
heheh... speak for yourself...
I had an amazingly detailed dream about something like a fallout vault, only in the sky...
I wrote down most of the details, and I might whip something up with sketchup later.
[QUOTE=ConvolutedLogic;26019961]I tried lucid dreaming and I managed to do it the first night I tried. It was amazing. Seriously, it was freaking AWESOME. I went in and fixed one of my most memorable nightmares. Thing is though, it was really tiring- when I woke up I felt drained, not like I restored any energy. Is this normal?[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure if I'm right in saying this, but I guess when you lucid dream, your mind is much more active, and thus not as rested in the morning?
Managed to get to SP straight away without sleeping before two nights ago.
I went to bed as usual, and relaxed extremely well. EXTREMELY well. Like every single muscle in my body was fully relaxed, I kept my mind clear, and tried to not move my eyes much, lightly concentrating on the back of my eyelids. The very hardest muscle to relax was my face and my eyelids. Kept twitching, those bitches. But eventually I managed to relax them enough, and then it happened. My body gave me the uncomfrortable "are you awake" test, and I ignored it completely to fool my body into thinking I'm asleep (the feeling was basically my pillow pressing against my head in a very strong way). I felt cold shivers run throughout my body like waves or surges of electricity, from my feet to my head and my heart started beating fast. I also started hearing SP noises. I didn't get into a lucid though, but it was a damn good try. I got too excited because it's an incredibly rare thing to be able to get straight into SP without any sleep beforehand, and failed the WILD.
[QUOTE=Jessbinx;26020105]I'm not sure if I'm right in saying this, but I guess when you lucid dream, your mind is much more active, and thus not as rested in the morning?[/QUOTE]
That's what I was thinking too. I just didn't know if it was possible to pick it up that quickly.
[QUOTE=ConvolutedLogic;26019961]I tried lucid dreaming and I managed to do it the first night I tried. It was amazing. Seriously, it was freaking AWESOME. I went in and fixed one of my most memorable nightmares. Thing is though, it was really tiring- when I woke up I felt drained, not like I restored any energy. Is this normal?[/QUOTE]
I've actually heard a lot of people say the opposite. I'm no somniologist though, so I can't attest to the comparative restfulness of lucid dream sleep and normal dream sleep.
Heh, I dunno, it just felt like it took a bunch of brain power, if that makes any sense.
I have the flu and I haven't got proper sleep for six days. Not because of my flu but because of other unfornate events.
I had one of those dreams this night where you think everything is normal while dreaming, then you wake up thinking "What the fuck was i dreaming?"
I keep having dreams about street racing.
Help me with my lucid dreaming everyone. Every time I have a lucid dream almost immediately after i realize I'm dreaming I wake up. This can ether be just waking up or due to me walking in my dream and waking up to moving my legs in my bed. I've tried the techniques like looking at my hands, and they work but only for a second. How do I control this?
[QUOTE=Sunday_Roast;26025799]I have the flu and I haven't got proper sleep for six days. Not because of my flu but because of other unfornate events.[/QUOTE]
Whenever I get sick with a flu, I dream like crazy.
[QUOTE=tasty-man;26026043]Help me with my lucid dreaming everyone. Every time I have a lucid dream almost immediately after i realize I'm dreaming I wake up. This can ether be just waking up or due to me walking in my dream and waking up to moving my legs in my bed. I've tried the techniques like looking at my hands, and they work but only for a second. How do I control this?[/QUOTE]
You've got to will yourself into staying. As soon as you realize, tell yourself you want to stay in the dream. As for the techniques, I highly recommend touching something. What you need to do is keep your focus on the dream world, and a couple of the best ways of doing that are rubbing your hands together and touching something in your immediate surroundings.
There's one lucid I remember having where as soon as I realized, I touched the floor while thinking "I want to stay in the dream!" Feeling the cool tile floor on my hands really helped keep me focused on the dream world, but I think the really important thing is willing yourself to stay.
[QUOTE=1STrandomman;26026685]You've got to will yourself into staying. As soon as you realize, tell yourself you want to stay in the dream. As for the techniques, I highly recommend touching something. What you need to do is keep your focus on the dream world, and a couple of the best ways of doing that are rubbing your hands together and touching something in your immediate surroundings.
There's one lucid I remember having where as soon as I realized, I touched the floor while thinking "I want to stay in the dream!" Feeling the cool tile floor on my hands really helped keep me focused on the dream world, but I think the really important thing is willing yourself to stay.[/QUOTE]
And do you have to do that constantly or just once?
[QUOTE=tasty-man;26026726]And do you have to do that constantly or just once?[/QUOTE]
Telling yourself you want to stay? I would say until you're comfortable, or at least until you don't feel like you could wake up at any second, and then continue hand rubbing a little bit longer.
[QUOTE=1STrandomman;26026772]Telling yourself you want to stay? I would say until you're comfortable, or at least until you don't feel like you could wake up at any second, and then continue hand rubbing a little bit longer.[/QUOTE]
Any idea how I can lucid dream tonight?
[QUOTE=tasty-man;26026802]Any idea how I can lucid dream tonight?[/QUOTE]
There's no technique absolutely guaraunteed immediate results. In the long term, you're going to want to experiment and find what works for you. As for some recommendations...
I definitely recommend WILD, but it's kind of difficult. Basically lay down in bed, relax, and watch your HI. Try to focus your viewpoint beyond your eyelids. The trick is to watch as passively as possible, but this can be difficult when you realize you're about to enter a dream.
An easier technique would be something along the lines of MILD, but I really don't recommend something along the lines of how MILD has traditionally been described. In my experience, all repeating the mantra does is keep me awake. What I recommend is something more along the lines of dream incubation. Basically, think about something you know will make you realize you're dreaming, and think about that thing as you go to sleep. Do it right, and that thing will show up in your dream, causing you to become lucid. A good example might be a clock, because clocks don't look right in dreams, and trying to read one would cause you to realize you are dreaming, however a clock kind of seems like a difficult thing to incubate (at least for me) because it's not exactly a very exciting object to think about, though I suppose I could think about it in a more exciting context ("isn't it wierd how clocks show up so strange in my dreams?" etc).
[QUOTE=1STrandomman;26026904]There's no technique absolutely guaraunteed immediate results. In the long term, you're going to want to experiment and find what works for you. As for some recommendations...
I definitely recommend WILD, but it's kind of difficult. Basically lay down in bed, relax, and watch your HI. Try to focus your viewpoint beyond your eyelids. The trick is to watch as passively as possible, but this can be difficult when you realize you're about to enter a dream.
An easier technique would be something along the lines of MILD, but I really don't recommend something along the lines of how MILD has traditionally been described. In my experience, all repeating the mantra does is keep me awake. What I recommend is something more along the lines of dream incubation. Basically, think about something you know will make you realize you're dreaming, and think about that thing as you go to sleep. Do it right, and that thing will show up in your dream, causing you to become lucid. A good example might be a clock, because clocks don't look right in dreams, and trying to read one would cause you to realize you are dreaming, however a clock kind of seems like a difficult thing to incubate (at least for me) because it's not exactly a very exciting object to think about, though I suppose I could think about it in a more exciting context ("isn't it wierd how clocks show up so strange in my dreams?" etc).[/QUOTE]
I dunno, when I MILD, I don't repeat it THAT much. Just, y'know, some.
The other thing sounds good too, though.
For whatever reason whenever I realize I'm dreaming, I wake up immediately after, every time, and all the dreams like this are ones when I'm swimming and then realize that I'm breathing underwater and how retarded that is.
[editline]13th November 2010[/editline]
I can also recall a lot of my dreams, pretty easily, but I can never go lucid. I just wake up.
[QUOTE=StupidUsername67;26027193]For whatever reason whenever I realize I'm dreaming, I wake up immediately after, every time, and all the dreams like this are ones when I'm swimming and then realize that I'm breathing underwater and how retarded that is.
[editline]13th November 2010[/editline]
I can also recall a lot of my dreams, pretty easily, but I can never go lucid. I just wake up.[/QUOTE]
Maybe you get really excited when it happens? Google/Look in second post for some "Dream Stabilization" techniques.
If you just wake up, instantly, upon this realization then it could be a problem. For me however, i could feel my body get flushed, things started getting blurry (i was close to waking up right there and then), grab stuff, spin around, yell, etc.
Last night I had TWO completely lucid dreams.
I was in a park, and as pretty much doing whatever I wanted. Then, I jumped over a picnic table, onto some bleachers 20 feet away. When I landed, a little kid chucked an apple at me and at the exact same time I thought: wait a fuckin minute I cant do that! the apple moved in slow-mo and missed me. I stooped over and thought really hard. The I realized OMG IM LUCID YAAAAAY and was about to run off doing whatever the hell I please when I remembered to stabilize. I rubbed my hands together and did the sunglasses trick. the sunglasses didnt work. In a last ditch attempt to stabilize, I said to the kid: hey kid throw me another one. He missed. I said: Throw me one I can catch. He did. I caught the apple and took a huge bite. I could taste it, feel it and see it. The taste was heavenly. I stood up, and did an RC. None of my physical RC's worked (tounge on teeth, breathe through nose, ect.) I thought about it and decided that I was probably dreaming because I could do impossible shit.
Later in that dream I sat down with some chicks I know IRL. They were REALLLLLY flirting with me, and I wasnt sure weather or not to flirt back (thill a little doubtful with the RC's not working.
2nd lucid:
I was sitting in my car across the street from a museum in the city I live in. I think I was spying on someone going in. I got a text that said: "Dude your dreaming, Bro." I didnt see who it was from, But I think it said "K". I didnt even question it this time, even though my RC's didnt work. I spun a cookie or two in my explorer (which handles PERFECTLY in dreams) and drifted exactly into a parking spot. I went inside and it was an all-you-can-eat buffet. I was like YAY and woke up.
Curse you dream recall.
Damn. I keep having fighting dreams, and now I'm starting to fight celebrities. I knew I had a conflict going on but I didn't think it was this important, but now I know it is. Bummer, now I can't keep ignoring it.
After all that complaining about the shortness of my dream fragments, I had a HUGE dream last night. Perhaps just calling it to attention also made sure this complaint was embedded in my subconscious.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;26032707] I caught the apple and took a huge bite. I could taste it, feel it and see it. The taste was heavenly. I stood up, and did an RC. None of my physical RC's worked (tounge on teeth, breathe through nose, ect.) I thought about it and decided that I was probably dreaming because I could do impossible shit.[/QUOTE]
The realism of lucids is pretty amazing at times. Feels like real life, man.
Strange though that the sunglasses failed. Maybe it was already clear enough, or it just doesn't work on you.
i have a quick question:
what does dying in dreams mean? And what is the significance of killing someone in dreams? I know that dying in dream doesn't mean you die in real life, but what does it mean?
I've died from falling (skydiving) and explosions (i was in some kind of war). But in general does dying hold any significance?
Just closure to a dream I guess.
Best (well worst) experience I had dying in a dream was being stabbed through he heart, would've been cool, if I didn't feel it.
[QUOTE=Cpn Crunch21;26039532]i have a quick question:
what does dying in dreams mean? And what is the significance of killing someone in dreams? I know that dying in dream doesn't mean you die in real life, but what does it mean?
I've died from falling (skydiving) and explosions (i was in some kind of war). But in general does dying hold any significance?[/QUOTE]
It doesn't necessarily mean anything. As with all dreams, I guess it's down to interpretation. As a general theme, death can mean a number of things. It can mean an end, and is something you can't control. If you yourself are being killed, perhaps you are experiencing something in your life which is beyond your control and you feel is the wrong direction for you. Equally, if you are killing someone else, you are in a position of power over another and you are taking drastic control of a situation. Either of these could shadow something in your life. Or perhaps it's meaningless. *shrug*
Damnit, in the middle of the most vivid dream i've had in days when a picture falls off my wall, makes a massive fucking racket, and wakes me up.
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