I know it's not real, but Limbo is my worst nightmare. In fact, I wouldn't even attempt lucid dreaming for a few days because of an irrational fear of being stuck in Limbo I had. Been watching too much inception.
I only seem to be remembering tiny fragments of my dreams, if I'm lucky. I can't seem to remember a full-blown dream, let alone become lucid. I've been trying for almost a year now and still no luck. Its a little disheartening.
I seem to be getting a lot of hour-long dreams about school. The strangest part is that last night, I dreamed that it was Monday, and I was at school. Of course, today is Monday, and I dreamed this Sunday Night/Monday Morning. In the dream, I skipped class to go read Watchmen (which I am re-reading currently, IRL) and got an In-School-Suspension. Woke up after 3 hours of dream time, and was really convinced that I had ISS. I tried to remember how I got it, but couldn't remember how, then I realized it was a dream :fuckyou:
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;26649593]
They've done studies, believe it or not. Generally people that sleep on their backs have more neutral dreams, whereas people that sleep on their right sides are more likely to have safe, comforting dreams. Those that sleep on their left sides are more likely to have exciting dreams, and are also roughly three times more likely to have a nightmare.[/QUOTE]
What about people who sleep on their stomach? :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Big Ben;26681723]What about people who sleep on their stomach? :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
no love for you
[QUOTE=Big Ben;26681723]What about people who sleep on their stomach? :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
You get a high five from me, fellow stomach sleeper.
I had a dream the other night that I never went to bed, and when I woke up it felt like I had been sleeping for weeks, and it felt like the afternoon. But I looked at the clock and it was time to get ready for school. :frown:
I know this is gonna sound like a retarded question, but is shared dreaming possible? I'm assuming not, considering how ludicrous the idea sounds, but I'm not sure.
Nope, at least until some scientist gets off his lazy ass and figures out the human brain then invents a USB cable that plugs into the back of the neck.
Shared dreaming is impossible until we invent a way to link brains together
[QUOTE=Birdman101;26684127]Nope, at least until some scientist gets off his lazy ass and figures out the human brain then invents a USB cable that plugs into the back of the neck.[/QUOTE]
god damn that'd be latency like playing Halo with a person on the moon :v:
[QUOTE=Birdman101;26684127]Nope, at least until some scientist gets off his lazy ass and figures out the human brain then invents a USB cable that plugs into the back of the neck.[/QUOTE]
USB doesn't transmit anywhere close to enough. Clearly this is a job for USB 3.0. *ahem*
Also, there remains the problem of integrating circuitry into the parts of the brain below the surface.
Believe me, I've thought about this a lot, and I think to some extent you have to allow the brain make up some of its own stuff and just transmit the really important stuff. In fact, it may be easier to just hijack the nerves responsible for transmitting sight, sound, possibly taste/smell, and if it's even possible, touch, and play out pre-made scenarios. They have technologies for simulating all those senses, though, albeit limited to real compounds for smell/taste, and while you can emulate pressure, you can't do texture or heat at the same time without massive hax, not to mention the problem with concavity. I know I'm making no sense, but if you want to see that, google virtual cow butts. No, seriously.
As for shared dreaming via telepathy, I've seen some quite intriguing anecdotal evidence floating around on the internet, but it seems awfully cult-y to me. Besides, internet stories? I'm just not cool with being the kind of guy who reads about stuff on the internet then goes OH MY GOD THAT'S HACKERIFFIC. I'm more likely to be the guy who says "This looks shopped; I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time"
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;26649593]They've done studies, believe it or not. Generally people that sleep on their backs have more neutral dreams, whereas people that sleep on their right sides are more likely to have safe, comforting dreams. Those that sleep on their left sides are more likely to have exciting dreams, and are also roughly three times more likely to have a nightmare.[/QUOTE]
Slept on my right side, had two dreams occurring simultaneously, no other difference.
[QUOTE=Big Ben;26683441]I know this is gonna sound like a retarded question, but is shared dreaming possible? I'm assuming not, considering how ludicrous the idea sounds, but I'm not sure.[/QUOTE]
Have you read the read the book "The Secret". I'm gonna pretend your an average facepuncher and assume you've never read it.
According to it, all our minds are linked somehow and we all have infinite intellect, simply undiscovered. The Secret has really good philosophy behind it related to this, with reasonable explanations behind them.
So theoretically yes. There are certain occurrences where people actually do share dreams, of course, it occurs when both are on the same bed/bunk bed. I've shared one with my bro once unintentionally.
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
Note that these occurrences are never lucid
Had a LD tonight. It was lenghty and vivid(about 5 minutes which is lengthy for me)
[QUOTE=Big Ben;26683441]I know this is gonna sound like a retarded question, but is shared dreaming possible? I'm assuming not, considering how ludicrous the idea sounds, but I'm not sure.[/QUOTE]
Nope. The idea of dreamspace isn't flawed. It's a valid idea and I can understand how some people have considered it as a possibility. The real problems lie in the fact that we don't have telepathy, so it's impossible to share thoughts.
Another problem is that dreams are specific person to person. It's not like Inception, you can't have one person be the Architect, which is another problem. When I have a dream, my brain constructs everything in it, from the background to dream characters to my subconscious' manifestation to my conscious positioning and movement, etc. Nothing is external, it's all ME. When you have a dream, it's the exact same thing. Your brain does all the work.
Our dreams are not compatible. Your brain works for you and mine works for me. They're not capable of using external situations. They can bring external influences into dreams, but the dreams are still constructs of your mind. For dreamsharing to be possible, first we'd need a collective consciousness, and then we'd need the ability for our subconscious and conscious selves to be placed into someone else, and THEN we'd need the ability to not be driven insane or turned to mush after this happened.
So basically no, it's not possible.
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=Oblivious1;26685850]Slept on my right side, had two dreams occurring simultaneously, no other difference.
Have you read the read the book "The Secret". I'm gonna pretend your an average facepuncher and assume you've never read it.
According to it, all our minds are linked somehow and we all have infinite intellect, simply undiscovered. The Secret has really good philosophy behind it related to this, with reasonable explanations behind them.
So theoretically yes. There are certain occurrences where people actually do share dreams, of course, it occurs when both are on the same bed/bunk bed. I've shared one with my bro once unintentionally.
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
Note that these occurrences are never lucid[/QUOTE]
Nope. Wrong. I've read it, and I have problems with it. It's not possible to share dreams, and our minds are not linked. That's hippy mumbo-jumbo. And situations where people share dreams are placebos. You don't remember your dreams fully, so when someone suggests something happened, your brain tests if that can fill in the blanks. If it can, you're likely to think it happened yourself.
It's the same phenomenon as when you have something happen in a dream at the same time it happens in real life. Like when your alarm goes off and at the exact same time in your dream. They didn't happen at exactly the same time but your brain fills in the blanks and makes you think they did.
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=Oblivious1;26685850]Slept on my right side, had two dreams occurring simultaneously, no other difference.
Have you read the read the book "The Secret". I'm gonna pretend your an average facepuncher and assume you've never read it.
According to it, all our minds are linked somehow and we all have infinite intellect, simply undiscovered. The Secret has really good philosophy behind it related to this, with reasonable explanations behind them.
So theoretically yes. There are certain occurrences where people actually do share dreams, of course, it occurs when both are on the same bed/bunk bed. I've shared one with my bro once unintentionally.
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
Note that these occurrences are never lucid[/QUOTE]
Nope. Wrong. I've read it, and I have problems with it. It's not possible to share dreams, and our minds are not linked. That's hippy mumbo-jumbo. And situations where people share dreams are placebos. You don't remember your dreams fully, so when someone suggests something happened, your brain tests if that can fill in the blanks. If it can, you're likely to think it happened yourself.
It's the same phenomenon as when you have something happen in a dream at the same time it happens in real life. Like when your alarm goes off and at the exact same time in your dream. They didn't happen at exactly the same time but your brain fills in the blanks and makes you think they did.
i have not been able to dream / can't remember any dreams for a few months now. I'm not bothered by it, but it would be nice if my imagination would give me something to watch while I sleep...
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
that I can remember
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
that I can remember
Hey
If i wanna get back into dreaming lucidly, what do you guys recommend i try as a rookie?
Alright guys, I had a lucid dream. Second one in my life.
The dream started off relatively mundane. This mundane setting probably helped lead to the realization that the dream I was having was lucid. Two good friends of mine were spending the night at my house. We weren’t doing much, just watching funny videos on youtube. Funny thing about dreams, you don’t have to actually be watching funny videos for them to be funny. I digress.
We went to sleep in the dream, which prompted me to wake up. Looking back it seemed dream-like, but a friend of mine tells me that it’s a natural stage of lucid dreaming, waking up. I had a case of sleep paralysis. I was face down, staring at my arm towards the wall. I could move my fingers a bit, but that was it. I heard something crawl into my bed behind me, real slowly, breathing heavily. Whatever it was, it got up so close I could feel it’s breath on the back of my neck. I, however, had arrived at the conclusion that it was my little brother trying to screw with me, so I gave all my strength into trying to will myself out of the paralysis to slap him in his smug face like an angry sensei with a failed apprentice. I did, too. The problem is, when I spun up and around, there was nothing there.
OH WELL
I promptly went out like a light. I guess this engaged the lucid portion of the dream, where I was slightly more conscious. In the dream, I woke up in my room again. My first reaction is to check the time. Unfortunately, my digital clock is black. Off, no power at all. Strange, I thought, and then I got up to take a bathroom break. I wandered through the dark blue of the house and turned to enter the bathroom, flipping the light on as I entered. Nothing happened. For a second, I thought the power was out, but the AC was running, so it couldn’t be.
I wanted to go downstairs, see if something is going on with the houses electricity. Being unnecessary as I usually am, I attempt to engage the stairs at warp factor five. You know, when you run down the stairs at full speed, thundering like a stampeding elephant? Well I tried that, and much to my brick-shitting surprise, I went down the stairs at an arc, not a straight line. As if the gravity was set lower, I sailed OVER the stairs at an arc, descending slowly and gently despite the mad, swimming motion I made with my feet to try to get them back in contact with the ground. I landed about 5 feet from the end of the staircase, shaken like a soda ready to be handed from a smug prankster into the hands of an unsuspecting innocent. Lights not working? Okay. Gravity not working? Uh.
Now let’s take a break for a moment; I’ve had one other lucid dream in my life, just one. In this dream, I learned that I was dreaming when I was standing next to a table, which lied between me and a window at the far side of my house. I realized because my friend tried to offer me a magic ring. I then stated that I was dreaming, then back flipped into the air and sailed out the window that I mentioned before, and flew and had a great time.
I was standing in the same exact spot when I realized I was dreaming this time, no longer in bright sunlight but in the cool dark embrace of night. I tested my theory by attempting to jump, which usually only brings my weakling self about a half foot into the air. I got at least 3 feet into the air before descending slowly back to Earth, landing silently. At this point I knew I was dreaming. I lifted myself into the air once again. I suppose I was subconsciously still trying to replicate my first lucid dream, so I threw myself at the window.
Since then it seems my conscious mind isn’t the only thing that’s become more fickle and jocular.
I slammed into the window face-first, and I shouted a curse into the glass. Brushing off the embarrassment, I consciously made myself intangible since it doesn’t come standard with flying like it did in my old dream and in source games, and I soared through the window.
I can only tell you guys so much with words, so let me just say this; I usually take things at face value, except when it’s for the purpose of sarcasm or parody, and it was beautiful, out in the cold dead of night. I wasn’t flying, but rather leaping, as if gravity was so weak it was about to give out. With a mere tap of my foot I was screaming down the suburban roads, bathed in the melancholy orange glow of the streetlights, or I was high in the air, staring down at the world, my world, the streetlights becoming like orange stars against the deep blue noir of the night.
At face value; Beautiful.
After a bit of jumping and flying I found myself on top of my house. I tiptoed across the angled roof towards the neighbor’s house, where I heard commotion. Only, it was no longer my neighbor’s house, it was a club of some sort. One story, flat-roofed, and it stood in place of my neighbor’s house. Strange, I thought. I didn’t render this. I watched the people ducking in and out of the bar under the red neon glow. These were all people from my school. I decided to dive into the club.
Thankfully, I didn’t have problems with tangibility this time, and I went right inside from the roof. There was much commotion inside, people laughing and talking and moving about. They were still all my schoolmates, some that I had talked to before, some I simply walked by in the halls sometimes and never spoke to, but regardless, they all greeted me heartily whenever I floated by. I suppose the fact that I was floating should have set me apart from the crowd, but you can’t really argue with dream logic I suppose. After a while of hovering about (in both meanings of the word), I grew antsy. There was much to do. I could go find my girlfriend and bring her flying with me, or I could assassinate Hitler, fight zombies, or explore The Doctor’s TARDIS, anything. Much to do. That’s when she approached me.
It was another schoolmate of mine, Lexi, good friend of mine, too. She approached me from the din of swarming people and greeted me as I prepared to take my upward leave. I lowered myself back into my chair by pulling myself towards the chair. We shared a bit of small talk, asking the other if they were having a good time, or how we were doing. I asked her how her sister was, but that’s just about the most exciting thing. My friend thinks that this is an embodiment of my subconscious, but I’d think my subconscious mind would be a little more eccentric than small talk, especially considering some of the bullshit I’ve dreamt up before. I finally got my shit together and told her I had to leave, and we exchanged farewells, but as I flew to the door, I was blinded by a light. Suddenly, I was lying on my back, in my bed yet again, my eyes being burnt by the light from the ceiling. A silhouette appeared in the beams, and my dad’s voice told me I had to get up, it’s time for school. Blinking like a poor, confused son of a bitch I checked the time. 6:00 A.M. Time for school.
And that's how I lost my opportunity to kill Hitler. :v:
Any thoughts?
I realized last night that whenever there's a computer in my dream, it works near flawlessly, except usually when I get off the computer, there's a total scenery change. But it made for an awesome lucid dream last night.
I was in my bed. It was morning, so I got up, climbed down the ladder from my bed, and went to my computer. I never turn it off so all I had to do was turn on my monitor. I start playing Minecraft. (It worked just like the real life counterpart) I build a small house, then save because I should be eating breakfast right now, and get off my computer.
I am in a tent filled with military personnel and computers. I figure out that I'm dreaming at this point, so I walk up to the nearest person (because usually whoever I ask ends up being the right guy to talk to) and ask for my orders. I am given a pistol and a couple grenades since that's all we can spare since we're losing badly. I go up to the rest of the guys and make them my subordinates and they grab similar weapons from nearby lockers. We exit the tent, and enter a warzone.
The sky is black from smoke, and the sun was halfway through setting, producing a beautiful gradient of orange to black. In front of me is those barbed wire defenses meant to keep wheeled vehicles and people out. There are several tanks scattered about, out of service I figure (and of course, since I figured this in a dream, it would have been so had I checked), so we use them and various shacks as cover, heading towards our objective: an enormous fortress, of which we were told to kill the enemy commander in hopes of ending the war.
I peek out from the frontmost tank, and it's plains all the way up to their doorstep, with various patrols going on. We run in, guns blazing in a spectacular display of dream logic. I gun down two people, then one of the people I brought along was shot in the head. I take his ammo, then resume the offensive. I throw a grenade at a group of enemy soldiers, while the rest of my team garrison a nearby bunker that appeared, providing me with cover fire.
After using all of my ammo and grenades, I'm in the fortress. It's shaped kinda like a Mayan pyramid, but without any carvings and made out of concrete. I look up and see sky, so it's less a building and more 20 foot thick sloped walls. There's a series of ramps leading to the top of the walls. The enemy commander (who turned out to be Hitler) is giving a speech to his men. He recognizes me and starts fleeing. Me, being with no ammo, no grenades, and right at the backs of a 400 strong army, can only do the one thing that comes naturally to me. I ask the guy in front of me for his weapon. He hands it to me without a fight. The rest of the army have turned their heads toward me as best they can, but are still facing forward. I go up to the next couple of guys and ask them for their magazines (obviously the gun kind) and they too do what I ask, unable to argue with my impeccable dream logic.
By this time, Hitler had made it to the topmost ramp, and I couldn't get a shot on him. So I chase after him. There were about 7 ramps at a 30 degree angle, and each ramp was about 20 feet long, so it took me some time to get up there, but it seems Hitler patiently waited like any good videogame objective. In fact, he was in a running pose that most people would have fallen over trying to maintain. I gave him a couple seconds to resume running. He did, and I ran to get close to him, then gunned him down. A helicopter picks me up and I'm given a laptop which has some office like documents displayed.
I'm in an office. The cubicles are twice as wide as I expected, but that's because each one is meant for two people. I am seated next to who I figure is my girlfriend or wife, given how she was talking to me She has slightly reddish hair, a red sweater, and beige pants on. I immediately get up to go away from the scene altering computer, and I run into my boss. He tells me that there's a meeting in about 10 minutes. I pick a random direction, and me and my wife go towards it. We arrive at the meeting room without mishap. A boring meeting later (I don't remember any of the conversation), I'm told that I've been emailed a report that needs to be looked through and paraphrased into its most basic form. I'm also told I need a program that's available on the web to do so.
I go back to my cubicle with my wife, and have a brief chat before I go on the computer. The dowload page for the program was conveniently up, and I download it. I notice there's a Steam window up too, so I open it up and start talking to my best friend. I greet him, and tell him about my experiences in the office and how I had to download something to work on a report. He tells me that he has to do the same thing, but the download won't work for him. I then check my email, which was empty, then I got off the computer.
I am in a fancy restaurant. It's empty, and I have waiter type clothes on me, so I figure I'm just setting it up. So I set it up. I notice that the hanging lamps are physically attracted to me, so I manually guide them to their right positions and freeze them in place. Then I sit in a chair, bored, for about 5 minutes.
I wake up.
[QUOTE=Raxas;26697051]
And that's how I lost my opportunity to kill Hitler. :v:
Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]
Don't worry, I got him! :v:
blockatext.
Anyways, great story (dream?).
Here's a retarded dream I had maybe a month ago.
Sadly I wasn't lucid, at any point. But my recall's getting so much better.
The earliest I remember in the dream was me and my family riding in a car. We pull up to a new house (I assumed we were moving, also dream logic fucking with my brain) and get out. It's this crappy little one story house, nothing like the one I have now. Suddenly, its night, and I'm in my new room. It's exactly like my real room, except its on ground floor and for some reason has a sliding glass door (like the kind you see on porches) right next to my bed. I lay down in my bed. Five minutes pass. Suddenly, the sliding glass door opens from the outside, and a retarded kid jumps into the room, yelling retarded noises (picture someone yelling the vocalization for "AAYAAAHYAUUUGHAAAYAH") and runs out the door again. I bolt out of the door, screaming at the top of my lungs, cursing like a sailor. I chase him for a while, with a determination to tackle him and beat him up. Suddenly, we round a corner and in the middle of a random cul-de-sac there are maybe three or four people huddled around a campfire, just sitting there in camp chairs. All around them were a bunch of cages with dogs and cats in them. They told me they were for sale, and I declined. It was only then that I thought, hey, this might be a dream! I got so excited that the color drained out of my vision, and I woke up.
Pretty cool dream, IMO.
[QUOTE=Oblivious1;26685850]Slept on my right side, had two dreams occurring simultaneously, no other difference.
Have you read the read the book "The Secret". I'm gonna pretend your an average facepuncher and assume you've never read it.
According to it, all our minds are linked somehow and we all have infinite intellect, simply undiscovered. The Secret has really good philosophy behind it related to this, with reasonable explanations behind them.
So theoretically yes. There are certain occurrences where people actually do share dreams, of course, it occurs when both are on the same bed/bunk bed. I've shared one with my bro once unintentionally.
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
Note that these occurrences are never lucid[/QUOTE]
logic>books
I had a dream last night. It started after I got back from school. My parents just got me my very own copy of Gmod (which is strange because IRL you can only get it on Steam). Some classmates from my school followed me home. So I tried to install Garry's mod, but there was a Serial Code I had to enter, I entered it and the computer said "Calculating...Calculating...Calculatin WRONG!"Then a vortex appeared and we were all sucked into the game. We spawned in the map Gm_BigCity. A Pelican drop ship fly's by, only to crash with a Hunter Chopper. I NoClip into the air, only to find Hundreds of Fast Zombies. I order everyone to ready there weapons and follow me. We ran to the Warehouse area near the Water Processing Plant, and we encounter some zombies along the way. Once we got there, we fortified our position and I spawned an ammo crate. Everyone equipped themselves with various weapons. I had an AA-12 shotgun, a FAMAS F1 FELIN, and a super AWP which fired in fully automatic, had infinite ammo, plus a scope aimbot. I also had a rocket propelled chainsaw. We held out for a long time, then a Combine Dropship came, and sent us to a Combine Outpost near by, As it turns out, in the dream, the Combine where the Good Guys. They gave all of us Scavenger Cannons, and took away all of our previous weapons. And we were sent into a war-zone which looked like Gm_Geekroomv2. We then fought the rebels, they had a huge base that was very important. We were briefed that this base was being used to hijack the combine teleporter network. We took cover behind a dead Strider. We advanced, weapons hot. We managed to gun down most of the troops, but then one of my classmates was gunned down but was still alive. He got medevaced and we decsended into the floor. I throw a grenade at a squad of baddies covering the door.
We moved in, and somehow the rebels hijacked a lot of hunters. They sen't most of the hunters at our guys, we managed to overtake the base. We found Dr. Kleiner was activating the PortalJacker (for lack of a better word). He ordered Dog to fight us, my friends were locked out. So I fought Dog, he was powerful, but as he was heavily damaged he picked me up and threw me across the room, the landing broke my legs. As he ran at me, I found an overturned APC near me and fire it's pulse HMG at him and he wen't down. Then the door opened and my friends come in. They give me a syringe and I stuck it into my leg. I started to get my ability to stand upright back, but it hurted really bad. Then we run out side, only to find Kleiner trying to escape in a helicopter. I fired a few rockets from my Scavenger, by some miracle, one exploded in the helicopter's rotor. He went down and a portal appeared in front of us and we were teleported back to my room, and Gmod sucessfully installed.
Then I woke up.
[QUOTE=helpiminabox;26697555]Don't worry, I got him! :v:[/QUOTE]
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Fuuuuuu- I had a lucid dream and I can't remember it >.<
Didn't know I had one till I asked my sub.
I still can't fucking lucid dream goddamit
Hey everyone. It's me again.
This time, I'm here to ask a question about a sleep experience I had recently.
One morning, I half-woke up. Probably was between 4 and 6 AM, it was still dark outside. Deal is, I didn't feel like I was in-between sleeping and waking; I felt like I was both at once. I was completely conscious of my surroundings (or at least I believe I was), my eyes almost completely opened, and I was in full control of my body (again I think), but yet I was still dreaming and just DIDN'T feel like moving. Time seemed to speed by at an overwhelmingly high speed, so much that I thought the school was cancelled (a snowstorm was announced for here that day) and that I'd end up getting up at 1 PM, but I was still wondering why it was still dark. It all came back in it's place when my alarm clock rang at 7:00 AM so I could prepare. My mind was lost for the whole following day, half-dazed and sometimes forcing daydreams.
Anyone have any idea what this could be classed at, or even what exactly happened?
anyone else see colours much more vivid than you've seen in reality? happens all the time with green (the human eye is the most receptive of green so that may be a contributing factor)
So does anyone know the easiest right off the bat way to LD?
HOLY CRAP THAT WAS AN EPIC GAME OF BEAT HAZARD
55 minute song, x2397 multiplier, 40 million points, went from Senior Officer to Elite 5
Renard makes some awesome techno...
And on a not entirely unrelated tangent, I think I might dream of seizures.
0_0
[editline]14th December 2010[/editline]
OH GOD MY EYES
MY HEAD
MY MIND
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[QUOTE=Mikesword221;26705543]So does anyone know the easiest right off the bat way to LD?[/QUOTE]
Depends, how complicated do you want your answer? Your question is much more complicated than it seems.
I'll answer questions tomorrow, I need to sleep. Good questions, though. And a giant wall of text. Bleh.
Unrelated. I just saw Roger Waters perform The Wall. The full album. Dear lord, that was incredible.
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