Sleep and Dreams Megathread v2 - General

So my sub wants to talk, but as a courtesy it's waiting for a successful FILD. The problem is that I fail. Every. Single. Time. Does anyone have some advice?

Daww oblivious1, you should change it back. [QUOTE=teh_1337_r0XX0r;26170522]So my sub wants to talk, but as a courtesy it's waiting for a successful FILD. The problem is that I fail. Every. Single. Time. Does anyone have some advice?[/QUOTE] At what point do you fail?

[QUOTE=Beefbars;26165085]:words:[/QUOTE] I strongly dissaprove of your avatar. Marble Hornets ruined the Slenderman myth. I was planning on trying to have some slenderman nightmares a while ago, then I watched MH. ME: FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ITS SO GAWDDAMN CHEESY BBLLLEEECCCHHHH WHAT IS THIS SHIT SERIOUSLY. in other news, I just finished reading "Leviathan". Gonna try to have some insanely steampunk dreams. [editline]20th November 2010[/editline] ...Or maybe hanging out with Freddy and Jason.

[QUOTE=Birdman101;26172161]I strongly dissaprove of your avatar. Marble Hornets ruined the Slenderman myth. I was planning on trying to have some slenderman nightmares a while ago, then I watched MH. ME: FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ITS SO GAWDDAMN CHEESY BBLLLEEECCCHHHH WHAT IS THIS SHIT SERIOUSLY. in other news, I just finished reading "Leviathan". Gonna try to have some insanely steampunk dreams. [editline]20th November 2010[/editline] ...Or maybe hanging out with Freddy and Jason.[/QUOTE] Huh, i'm not particularly informed on the subject, so I always thought that marble hornets started the slender man myth...

[QUOTE=Birdman101;26172161]I strongly dissaprove of your avatar. Marble Hornets ruined the Slenderman myth. I was planning on trying to have some slenderman nightmares a while ago, then I watched MH. ME: FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ITS SO GAWDDAMN CHEESY BBLLLEEECCCHHHH WHAT IS THIS SHIT SERIOUSLY. in other news, I just finished reading "Leviathan". Gonna try to have some insanely steampunk dreams. [editline]20th November 2010[/editline] ...Or maybe hanging out with Freddy and Jason.[/QUOTE] You know he just published the second book in the series, [I]Behemoth[/I]. I just got it today. It's filled with more steampunky goodness.

holy fuck i cant sleep now not after that dream [editline]20th November 2010[/editline] i like how my sub goes from nice and shy to scaring the hell out of me.

DETAILS, MAN. I NEED DETAILs.

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;26174092]holy fuck i cant sleep now not after that dream [editline]20th November 2010[/editline] i like how my sub goes from nice and shy to scaring the hell out of me.[/QUOTE] Your sub is you. OMG! It is though and it is influenced by what you do. What did you do?

I had a weird dream last night. I was running away from some people, I don't know why. They were like medevil, they had bow and arrows. I went to some people who I think were cats(?) and I asked to use their teleporter. They said yes, and I teleported to a place were it was like in space, and I told them to start a sattilite laser(?) so we could threaten them. They said to give them 6 hrs. I went down stairs (apparently back on earth) and went to a coffee shop. Someone I apparently knew, but I had never met before in real life was there. I took two poptarts, but then noticed the price. He than said that he was opening another bar tab, even though this was a coffee shop. I then ate the poptarts without paying. There's more to this, I'll add it later.

WILD officially works for me, now. Anyhow, I got lucid, and in one of the dreams people kept killing me, and I couldn't do anything about it. I'd run, and they'd still kill me. How do I get something to stop doing something in the dream? I tried to will it to stop, but it didn't.

I think in cases like this, it's a question of sort of building up your lucidity and dream awareness. Whilst you're aware you're dreaming, you still let yourself feel vulnerable and still reacted as if the dream characters posed a threat to you. Perhaps you should focus on your knowledge that this is a dream, and try and become aware of how surreal it is. Once you don't feel threatened and know you won't come to harm then the dream should react accordingly, also calming down. Once you're in a position of emotional control, you should find it more easy to begin to then control your dreamscape.

[QUOTE=Oblivious1;26177338]Your sub is you. OMG! It is though and it is influenced by what you do. What did you do?[/QUOTE] I know all that. I didn't really do anything. Zin I'll edit and post it.

I had a truly bizarre dream the other night, one I'd rather forget. It started off as if I was a camera, watching these two girls climbing on an iceberg. It got very foggy, and even though I wasn't really there I felt extremely cold. One of the girls starts running away, while the other one looks like she's struggling to breathe. A minute later, she's encased fully in ice. The other one walks back calmly, says, "Hello, Emma," as if she could be heard, and just stands there. It felt like a long time before she picked up the frozen block and dumped it into the ocean, promising she'd be back "to thaw you." Then I fell from the sky and into the icy water. A little pause. Then I'm locked in a public bathroom. I feel like I'm stuck here for ages, but then a voice says, "Well, why dontcha crawl under the door? That's what they're there for, after all." So I do that. Outside is an indescribable thing that reminded me of Alma Wade. It screeched at me, sprayed blood everywhere, and flew backwards. I blacked out. Next, I'm on a boat with a girl who had the strangest accent I have ever heard. It sounded like a combination of Scottish, Australian, German, French, and Deep South. I couldn't mimic that if I tried. The boat crashes into a brick wall, and suddenly we're running down a stairway to an underground city. We get there, but we have to go through the bathroom from earlier and, for some reason, I now had the key for the doors. We get to the city and everyone in it is dead. The monstrous thing from earlier is there, and it repeats its stunt. I start breathing heavily, and then I woke up. My mind scares me sometimes.

[QUOTE=Jessbinx;26179919]I think in cases like this, it's a question of sort of building up your lucidity and dream awareness. Whilst you're aware you're dreaming, you still let yourself feel vulnerable and still reacted as if the dream characters posed a threat to you. Perhaps you should focus on your knowledge that this is a dream, and try and become aware of how surreal it is. Once you don't feel threatened and know you won't come to harm then the dream should react accordingly, also calming down. Once you're in a position of emotional control, you should find it more easy to begin to then control your dreamscape.[/QUOTE] Thanks jess, I'll try that tonight.

Recently I've been seeing this old guy, around 45-60, in some of my dreams. He has a swastika shaped pupil and every time I see him he just stares at me then walks away. Sometimes he has lines coming out to his face from his right eye that forms a swastika type shape also.

Me, Steve, David, Kylie, and Alle. This dream had a relation in the others, with a girl I used to like, or still do. We were in a Hawaiian lodge in what seemed to be some sort of tropical island. There were two other girls in the lodge, eating and talking, maybe even looking at us. I didn't recognize the girls for anyone who I've ever seen but I went up to them. I introduced myself to them, telling my name and asking what their's were. Asked them if they liked the island and the lodge, how their trip here has been and such. I asked them if they were going to the falls, at this point I had no clue what I was talking about. They said yes, and I asked them if they wanted to go with me, their answer was yes. We all walked to the waterfalls, I was stunned. From what I could see there were three sections of the falls, but the higher sections were covered in mist. The two girls form the lodge rushed into the huge lake at the base of the falls, and then they somehow floated up into the second pool above hte falls. I yelled to them how they did it, and they yelled back something I can't remember. I went into the exact spot in the lake and I also began floating in the mist. There were these huge bursts of mist and water at the top of each of the falls, in which you could fly around. I decided I would go under them as they had huge air gaps beneath them. When I was under it, the water closed in and I only had a small pocket of air for me. I was yelling to myself "It's alright! It'll open up again!" And the dream was over. Disregard names, I write them in to remember them better. Thing is, I woke up to my roommate unclogging the toilet. "It's alright! It'll open up again!"

So, to continue my last post, after that happened, I don't remember some things. Something to do with slides, the history of Massachusetts, the movie Avatar, and some other things. Near the end, I was falling in something towards the ground, about to die. There was another guy there and he was evil or something, because I did something like the ending of kung fu panda (some move I was going to do, and he was like "No, not that!") and then we hit the ground and exploded. It then zoomed out and went into some kind of documentary thing, describing what happened. Then it moved to something else. I was in this house, in a swamp, at night, with my family. But the house was covered in dust. Like the great depression dust storms. Then it ended. The dust was probably because we just finished reading a novel about the dust bowl in english class. The avatar part I know why but I won't tell you. This was an odd dream, but I liked it. I actually had fun in this dream, and I would pay to do it again. Probably my #1 dream evar. [editline]20th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=a mutant hobo;26179026]WILD officially works for me, now. Anyhow, I got lucid, and in one of the dreams people kept killing me, and I couldn't do anything about it. I'd run, and they'd still kill me. How do I get something to stop doing something in the dream? I tried to will it to stop, but it didn't.[/QUOTE] Try asking them politely to stop. I'm serious, it might work.

My parents have told me for the last couple of days that I'm starting to sleeptalk. I set up a recorder last night, and what came out of my mouth surprised me. So I was having a dream that my best friend turned into a complete hipster and I got INCREDIBLY mad at her. At one point in my dream, I basically just looked at her and gave a very long, very biting speech. I caught it on the recording, and here's the basic transcript. [quote]Andrea, look. You need to fucking stop, alright? Despite your pseudo-bohemian appearance and vaguely leftist doctrine of beliefs, you know nothing about art or sex that you couldn't read in any trendy new york underground fashion magazine, you proto-typical non-conformist. You are a vacuous soldier of the thrift store gestapo. You adhere to a set of standards and tastes that appear to be determined by an unseen panel of hipster judges giving your thumbs up and thumbs down to incoming and outgoing trends and styles of music and art. You're -inaudible-. You're diving face forward into an antiquated past, and I'm getting annoyed. -note that at this point, the dream looked like it had a red filter- You spend your time sitting in circles with your friends, pontificating to each other, forever competing for that one moment of self aggrandizing glory in which you hog the intellectual spotlight, holding dominion over the entire shallow, [b]pointless[/b] conversation. When you walk by a group of quote-unquote -note: air quotes- normal people you chuckle to yourself, patting yourself on the back as you scoff. It's the same superiority complex shared by the high school jocks who made your life a living hell, and it makes you a slave to the competitive capitalist dogma you spend every moment of your waking life bitching about! You're hypocritical, annoying, have a delusional sense of self-importance, and you spend every waking moment turning your nose up at those who choose to live within the broad confines of societal standards. Just stop it, you're too smart for this.[/quote] I don't remember the rest of the dream, but my parents heard it and were completely speechless. I have a problem with people who define themselves as hipsters and try to act accordingly.

Here is a character who caused many traumas and bad dreams to children, mostly in Finland. [IMG]http://th07.deviantart.net/fs40/300W/f/2009/043/8/a/The_Groke__Buka_by_nihilplures.jpg[/IMG] I had one dream of the Groke once about 2 years ago. It ended somehow with the Groke getting a full facial treatment with a Franchi SPAS-12.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;26186742]My parents have told me for the last couple of days that I'm starting to sleeptalk. I set up a recorder last night, and what came out of my mouth surprised me. So I was having a dream that my best friend turned into a complete hipster and I got INCREDIBLY mad at her. At one point in my dream, I basically just looked at her and gave a very long, very biting speech. I caught it on the recording, and here's the basic transcript. I don't remember the rest of the dream, but my parents heard it and were completely speechless. I have a problem with people who define themselves as hipsters and try to act accordingly.[/QUOTE] Startlingly impressive oration, I must say

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;26186742]My parents have told me for the last couple of days that I'm starting to sleeptalk. I set up a recorder last night, and what came out of my mouth surprised me. So I was having a dream that my best friend turned into a complete hipster and I got INCREDIBLY mad at her. At one point in my dream, I basically just looked at her and gave a very long, very biting speech. I caught it on the recording, and here's the basic transcript. I don't remember the rest of the dream, but my parents heard it and were completely speechless. I have a problem with people who define themselves as hipsters and try to act accordingly.[/QUOTE] I'm liking the vocabulary.

[QUOTE=Zinayzen;26186742]My parents have told me for the last couple of days that I'm starting to sleeptalk. I set up a recorder last night, and what came out of my mouth surprised me. So I was having a dream that my best friend turned into a complete hipster and I got INCREDIBLY mad at her. At one point in my dream, I basically just looked at her and gave a very long, very biting speech. I caught it on the recording, and here's the basic transcript. I don't remember the rest of the dream, but my parents heard it and were completely speechless. I have a problem with people who define themselves as hipsters and try to act accordingly.[/QUOTE] This is the greatest speech ever.

I remember I dreamt of a very vivid scene that started out me being on some bridge connecting a rocket to a tower. Out of no where next to me, this guy's arm is ripped off and the area is on high alert. Next thing I know, I'm in a new setting, I was in some car watching the area I was previously on the horizon explode. All of the debris and smoke gets to me and I fall. Now I'm in some tropical area with a very colorful night sky in awe and I woke up. I had this trippy dream when I was 10. Only to realize my dream was in the movie, Contact. You would not believe the epiphany I was having when watching that scene and I never did watch the film until only recently. Heres part of the movie scene [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdcE3VyKv5U[/media] Thought I'd share the experience :D

[QUOTE=1STrandomman;26170809]Daww oblivious1, you should change it back. At what point do you fail?[/QUOTE] I go straight to bed for FILD (haven't gotten the hang of WBTB, or related methods), and I focus on twitching my fingers as I lay there. I always end up falling asleep, but it does seem to make me more lucid in my dreams, though it might just be a placebo what with the lack of SP. God, I was going to respond, like, 12 hours ago, but it just totally slipped my mind.

Ive been feeling..... very distant..... today................. maybe its just that Ive spent nine hours straight playing world of tanks. dear shit. what a waste. I started thinking about that phrase again...... (...so I live long memories................the confidence to come) I think I finally get it. too confusing for the limited communication medium of keyboards and such. Then I started thinking about too many things at once or something and got an amazing rush of adrenaline. not wanting such a marvelous thing to go to waste, I proceeded to use a blunt object to shred a large cardboard box into little pieces. I love my way of handling things. ...I was talking to myself the entire time. If someone was watching, they probably would have called the police. [QUOTE=froztshock;26172601]Huh, i'm not particularly informed on the subject, so I always thought that marble hornets started the slender man myth...[/QUOTE] no. they ruined it. photoshops from somethingaweful started it. [QUOTE=linksysruler;26173280]You know he just published the second book in the series, [I]Behemoth[/I]. I just got it today. It's filled with more steampunky goodness.[/QUOTE] OH SHIT YES WANT NOW WHERE GET MUST FIND READ ASADSADFSAFADSAFDSADSAFDSADF [QUOTE=Fourm Shark;26188513]Had a dream about being stalked by slenderman. Guess i shouldnt watch EMH at night.[/QUOTE] :bitchslap: [b]GOOD NIGHT, ALL. GOING TO LD IF ITS THE LAST THING I DO.[/b]

[quote] I had a long lucid dream that was absolutely horrible. It started with me having to run to school one day. I wasn't going on routes that I've ever seen before. It was a mixture of real road and nonexistent road. I was in shorts and a thin shirt, jogging as I would for track or soccer. I was going down the road, faster than a car behind me. Ahead, there were girls jumping back and forth across the street. Cars were driving past them and they had to jump out of the way a couple times. I ran up to them and had to stop and slip past one girl because she got so in the way. I stopped running because I felt tired, and stood for a moment. I started running again because I would be late if I didn't, but I couldn't get as fast as the cars anymore. I rounded a corner and a car began following me. Two guys were in it and they were apparently going to the school too. We trying to beat each other there. I ran down the road and saw my house I jog down the driveway, and they follow me. I think, “why are they following me? It's faster for them to take the road.” I had planned to go through my backyard which I somehow knew was faster. I go in my garage and open the door. My dogs come up to it and start trying to go outside. I come inside, push them back, shut the door and my dogs are gone. I'm confused because this obviously makes no sense. I look outside and they're sitting in the car that had pulled in. The two guys were gone. I open the door to get a better look and another Buddy (my dog) runs up to the door and sticks his nose through it. I press the door shut and I feel my arms growing weak. It suddenly all makes sense to me. “This is a dream.” I said aloud. The door shut and it flattened out his nose. I stood up and was growing excited. I rub my hands and focus on the dream. I stand in my kitchen, looking towards a wall. I thought, “My sub will be behind me,” as I stood in my kitchen. I turn and nothing is there. I'm confused (the only other time I've summoned my sub it worked). I go outside. The cars are gone and it's really wet as if it rained for hours. I've got a yellow life vest on now. My dad and sister are going up the driveway. I stand right outside the garage and think “My sub is behind me, my sub is behind me.” I concentrate on wanting her there. I turn, but she still isn't showing up. I think to myself that I need to get away from everyone before she'll show herself. I turn to the gate that leads to my backyard. I start to jump over the gate, and realizing the roof is lower than in real life, I'm able to jump all the way to part of the roof. I'm alone but don't feel I have enough room to summon, so I go to my screened in porch. I open the behind it and walk inside my house. I start to try to do it in my living room, but I see a dog sitting on a dog bed in one of the corners of my living room. It's Caline (my other dog), and she's got grey hair all over and she's really thin. She looks almost dead. “Caliiiine!” I yell as I run into the kitchen. I lost some lucidity at this point, and I was somewhat scared by how she looked. She stood up at the noise and ran in the room. Buddy showed up too. They both looked so old. Something made me think that they were at least 30, but as the awareness of the dream faded back I realized that's not a possible age. My mom's voice came from the dining room and asked me to go get duct tape. I told her I would, thinking it an excuse to go upstairs. I run up the stairs excitedly, know nobody is up here. I run down the hallway and into the bonus room. I face one wall like I did in my second lucid dream. It was exactly like how I met my subconsious for the first time. I think “I want to see my sub”. I turn and my eyes are forced shut. I don't have the ability to keep my eyes open. This happened last time, when I met my sub. I turn back around and stare the wall again. I focus on the desire. “I want my sub to be behind me.” I turn, and my eyes shut. I can almost feel the waking world. The dream goes cold, and I fight to stay in it. I rub my hands and focus on the dream as much as I can. I feel the warmth of the friction and as I turn back around I can slowly open my eyes. The dream becomes full again. I force myself to calm down, focus on the dream, and focus on the desire to meet my sub again. “My sub will be behind me.” I looked at the wall and could see the shadow of a girl. I turn slowly and nothing is there. I keep spinning, going back around to the wall. I see the shadow and turn again. She's still not there. As I keep with the spin, I see a tv sitting on top of a stand. It's showing static, which I can begin to hear. The screen fades to black with some static, and shapes start to appear. I begin to be scared. The shapes lighten and it forms a man's arm with a wrench twisting a bolt. The light in the video is gleaming off the wrench and his the object he's working with. The specularity of the objects is perfect to the real world. The video even looks like a video should. I'm partly astounded by the fact that my mind can create a perfect television display, but fear begins to set in as I realize this is wrong. (Outside note- I've never had a problem with scary movies, but the tv on the stand from Saw always bothered me. Maybe it's the idea of isolation, and that you have no way to fight against your threat. You can't harm or get away from what's going to harm you and you know it.) The lights in the room dim some and I hear a deep, dark voice. “Ryan...” it distorts itself into a scary voice that I can't understand, but only serves to frighten me. I knew that it implied that I had to answer a question “What is the force that...” it distorts again, but I think that it said something like “drives your motion?” (The way the logic was “talking” to me, that's the only way I can describe it, I felt that it was talking about what makes me myself and inspires my thoughts, emotions, everything down to my real life movement. I felt I knew what it wanted to hear.) I answer nervously, “My subconscious?” The screen changes to another video, I think of a woman and child, and the voice begins talking again. I'm scared beyond belief now and I feel my throat tensing up. I feel like I'm going to break down and cry from the sorrow and fear that I'm feeling in the room. “Don't cry, Ryan.” The deep voice tells me. It tries to tell me something else, but I can hardly focus past my own emotions. I feel threatened by this presence. It feels like it can hurt me in reality. It begins instructing me on something, but I want to get away. I'm scared and cold. It's the cold you feel when you've gotten soaked in cold water and a freezing wind is on you. I shut my eyes and wish this wasn't happening. I open them again to blackness. I feel warm and comfortable. I'm in my bed. As I sat up, I could only think to calm myself down. I felt as if images of fear and death were dimly flashing before my eyes.[/quote] If anything reads weird please tell me because I'm compiling all my dreams for a book (NaNoWriMo)

NaNoWriMo? Fellow nerdfighter, I assume.

kinda gave up on going lucid, mostly because I couldn't, but also because my Sub didn't seem to want me doing it. But I still want to do it. Any tips? I've read through a good portion of the thread and the second post, can't get anywhere though. There's actually a decent chance I LD'd a whole week in a row, though; for that week alone I couldn't remember any dreams except for one thing: definitely going lucid once; out of that whole week I only had the memory of rubbing my hands together and getting a tingling sensation. Banana's don't seem to be helping much.

[QUOTE=riku2211;26195583]kinda gave up on going lucid, mostly because I couldn't, but also because my Sub didn't seem to want me doing it. But I still want to do it. Any tips? I've read through a good portion of the thread and the second post, can't get anywhere though. There's actually a decent chance I LD'd a whole week in a row, though; for that week alone I couldn't remember any dreams except for one thing: definitely going lucid once; out of that whole week I only had the memory of rubbing my hands together and getting a tingling sensation. Banana's don't seem to be helping much.[/QUOTE] If you really want to go hardcore you should go pick up some vitamin b6. I don't recommend messing around with supplements a lot (too much vitamin b can cause nerve damage, I hear) but people that use it say it makes their dreams super vivid. Not sure if you already keep a dream journal or not; if you don't, do it. There are days when I really couldn't remember much at all about my dreams, and simply picking up my dream journal/pencil got the ball rolling. If you think your sub doesn't want you having lucid dreams, don't try to fight it. Remember, your sub is you. Convince yourself that it's something positive. Not only do you want it, it's within reach. Take my advice with a grain of salt, though. I read up on this stuff a lot, but I've really only had so many lucid dreams. I feel like I'm really close, though...

Whoa, I managed to get a WILD without a nasty sleep paralysis episode, it felt really nice and soothing. I started by having the usual really low rippling sound and raising white noise, and I began sort of sub-consciously waiting for the sleep paralysis like "I wonder what is it gonna be this time", when I heard a sound that resembles some really thick cable being snapped in half, and it all stopped. I was laying on my bed thinking am I awake or not for some ten seconds before I actually realized I could move. My first 'normal' WILD in about two and half years :3: