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I want to know how to lucid dream :( But lately for some reason, when i turn off my alarm clock at 12. Then go to sleep for 5 more minutes till my 12:05 alarm, that 5 minutes feels like 30 minutes. I want to truly master lucid dreaming, by controlling it
I remember one of the most horrifying dreams when I was a kid was when I knew I was dreaming and simply couldn't wake up while a vampire bite into my neck, I remember being able to see the room I was sleeping in by trying to open my eyes really hard. [editline]12th July 2012[/editline] Also, I've only had two dreams that I've partially controlled. If the Remee is any good I might just buy that once I hear reviews from people.
Lucid dreaming is fucking scary nightmares all the time for me. But you're actually aware and experiencing it. One time I was so exhausted from fixing a car all day, plopped on my bed. Closed my eyes and put the blanket over my head. In my dream, I woke up in a different dimension, sitting in a classroom in a desk. I lifted the blanket and opened my eyes to a dimly-lit room with a single red lightbulb. There were other desks with other people with blankets over their head and I was the only one looking around. A shadow crept toward me so I hid under the blanket and closed my eyes. I opened my eyes again only to be back in my bed and in the morning hours now. Such a trip and a relief, you don't even feel like you slept, just teleported into another dimension...
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;36748373]Lucid dreaming is fucking scary nightmares all the time for me. But you're actually aware and experiencing it. One time I was so exhausted from fixing a car all day, plopped on my bed. Closed my eyes and put the blanket over my head. In my dream, I woke up in a different dimension, sitting in a classroom in a desk. I lifted the blanket and opened my eyes to a dimly-lit room with a single red lightbulb. There were other desks with other people with blankets over their head and I was the only one looking around. A shadow crept toward me so I hid under the blanket and closed my eyes. I opened my eyes again only to be back in my bed and in the morning hours now. Such a trip and a relief, you don't even feel like you slept, just teleported into another dimension...[/QUOTE] Why does this terrify me so much?
The fact we do this makes lucid dreaming that much easier.
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;36731657]having suffered sleep paralysis in the past, i can safely say [I]it fucking isn't.[/I][/QUOTE] I suffer sleep paralysis so often I just let myself go with it.
After reading this thread I don't want to try to lucid dream anymore. I'll stick to nightmares.
[QUOTE=DeandreT;36753869]After reading this thread I don't want to try to lucid dream anymore. I'll stick to nightmares.[/QUOTE] I read a thing that said dreams are created in a certain part of the brain reserved solely for that function, whereas nightmares come from the same area as memories.
I don't see how it would be scary if you are able to think rationally and know that the hallucinations are obviously not real.
[QUOTE=TonyP;36753987]I don't see how it would be scary if you are able to think rationally and know that the hallucinations are obviously not real.[/QUOTE] Ok, let's say the hallucinations aren't a problem, you still can't move or make a noise, and you have no clue how long that will last as you try to force even an infinitesimal part of your body to stir. Another common sensation is a pressure on the chest, like something's sitting on you.
God damn, when I'm waking up sometimes my dream ends with me on the computer, and when I shut it, I wake up, and then I check for my laptop so I don't knock it off the bed, even though its on my desk. The mind is odd.
One of my sleep paralysis experiences right here. Woke up in the middle of the night, and my room was completely lit up by warm sunlight coming from my open window. The light felt unnatural. Kinda hard to describe, but it wasn't quite like real sunlight. But it was a very pretty sight. But my window was closed when I went to sleep! And it was night, so why was there light? At this point I realized it was a dream, but still couldn't move because of the paralysis. At the very moment of realizing it's a dream, my closet's door opened and a little ghost girl came out and rushed towards me at super speed like in those horror movies, right up to my face a few centimeters away. And it was screaming. I woke up in incredible fear. The visuals were as vivid as real life [editline]13th July 2012[/editline] Still get chills when I think of it, even when it was years ago [editline]13th July 2012[/editline] 99% of the time though, they lead into me getting a lucid dream, and it's why I want to get into the paralysis state. Rarely see scary shit anymore, gotten used to it
I dunno if this is the same but I moved my bed to the other side of my room and in the middle of waking up (I guess) I rolled over to what I thought was my wall but ended up falling the fuck off onto the floor and I couldn't move for a good minute or so. I thought I was fucking paralyzed cause I hit my head or something and I couldn't fucking talk.
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;36742642]ok so if i want to sleepwalk i just have to dig out all the nurrons out of mai brayn?[/QUOTE] it depends on you're nurrons partickles u have to find the ons labled sleep walk
[QUOTE=Bowldy;36756999]it depends on you're nurrons partickles u have to find the ons labled sleep walk[/QUOTE] nonono, you take a usb port and put it thru ur nose and plug in ur computr den u edit da file cald 'brain.ini" n u change "slep-walk' to 1
[QUOTE=TonyP;36753987]I don't see how it would be scary if you are able to think rationally and know that the hallucinations are obviously not real.[/QUOTE] The audio/ visual hallucinations that the mind creates while you are entering sleep or waking from sleep, but still technically asleep (which is where sleep paralysis is usually common) are actually pretty fucking horrifying. You can tell yourself time and time again "this isn't real", but your mind can create the scariest shit, and it won't be low definition bollocks, it will be lifelike, it will sound like it's there, it will look like it's there, so much that you will sometimes even notice that whatever you are seeing is being affected by lighting around you. The fact you are seeing it is usually enough to freak you out, you know it isn't real, but you are seeing, hearing and sometimes feeling it, so how can you be so sure? The mind is extremely powerful, don't underestimate how much it wants you to shit the bed.
Heights? No problem. Spiders? Eh. Deep waters? I'm gonna learn how to swim soon, I'm not worried. Paralysis? Oh jesus holy fuck my only true fear I don't even fear death but paralysis holy shit when I had it happen I pretty much cried; I was so scared. :suicide:
I had it once and i wanted to move my feet but couldn't, then my foot moved instantly and i was fully awake, didn't have hallucinations though, i never want to have those. Since i read about it i never tried lucid dreaming and stopped sleeping on my back, any other tips to avoiding it? This shit makes me sleepless.
[QUOTE=TonyP;36753987]I don't see how it would be scary if you are able to think rationally and know that the hallucinations are obviously not real.[/QUOTE] Because fear is a visceral reaction, not always able to be governed by reason. Ask a person with clown phobia why clowns are scary even though rationally they know that clowns are just performers with makeup.
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;36757160]nonono, you take a usb port and put it thru ur nose and plug in ur computr den u edit da file cald 'brain.ini" n u change "slep-walk' to 1[/QUOTE] This guy knows his shit
Reading this thread at early hours in the morning nope
Sleep paralysis isn't scary. It's a positive thing because you can get right into a lucid dream and communicate with different parts of your mind while you finish up that last few hours of sleep. I usually solve academic related problems during this time.
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;36759374]Because fear is a visceral reaction, not always able to be governed by reason. Ask a person with clown phobia why clowns are scary even though rationally they know that clowns are just performers with makeup.[/QUOTE] I'm almost certain that if I saw some unnatural vision I'd think to myself, in a deadpan, something along the lines of "amazing, it's so lifelike" Especially combined with the inability to move, would be a dead giveaway that it's just a hallucination. I think I might have had some sort of half-awake hallucination the other day where a belt hanging on the wall appeared to be a dark window with no blinds or curtains. I of course have no window there but it looked absolutely real. I don't know if it was a dream or a hallucination though. I get very nervous with dark uncovered windows and panic when I might be visible to strangers with my arms or legs exposed but I wasn't uncomfortable in the least bit. Maybe I'm just too jaded to react emotionally. Maybe i'm the guy who would go to a horror movie and make comments like "pretty good scene but the blood didnt have the right consistency" or "that cg effect didn't match in the lighting" during scenes..
I would experience something like this. I would be in my bed, and I would sense an evil force at the end of my hallway. It would start as a buzzing sound and it would grow in power and sound as it raced/spiraled toward my room. I knew/feel it was coming, and try to wake up before it got there. Then boom, it would hit me, and I would try and move, yell, thrash, anything to try to wake up or try to wake someone else up in the house, to help me. I can't move, as hard as I try. It seemed to me,it felt like it was a evil presence, a demon, it would go inside me and as I tried to scream out, to try and wake someone in the house up, it would take over, and I sounded like a demon screaming, deep guttural and rage filled saying things along the lines of you will feel my power and fear me or something along the lines of that. It felt like it was inside me screaming its rage through me. Then I would feel it leave me, the buzzing sound would lessen, as the force/presence would withdraw, the same way it came. Not a nice thing to experience. Open my eyes to see what's there...... are you nuts? Still I found it really unsettling. I still do.
[QUOTE=TonyP;36760753]Maybe I'm just too jaded to react emotionally. Maybe i'm the guy who would go to a horror movie and make comments like "pretty good scene but the blood didnt have the right consistency" or "that cg effect didn't match in the lighting" during scenes..[/QUOTE] personally i find it more fun to be that guy who goes to a horror movie and proceeds to MST3K the entire thing
[QUOTE=TonyP;36760753]I'm almost certain that if I saw some unnatural vision I'd think to myself, in a deadpan, something along the lines of "amazing, it's so lifelike" Especially combined with the inability to move, would be a dead giveaway that it's just a hallucination. I think I might have had some sort of half-awake hallucination the other day where a belt hanging on the wall appeared to be a dark window with no blinds or curtains. I of course have no window there but it looked absolutely real. I don't know if it was a dream or a hallucination though. I get very nervous with dark uncovered windows and panic when I might be visible to strangers with my arms or legs exposed but I wasn't uncomfortable in the least bit. Maybe I'm just too jaded to react emotionally. Maybe i'm the guy who would go to a horror movie and make comments like "pretty good scene but the blood didnt have the right consistency" or "that cg effect didn't match in the lighting" during scenes..[/QUOTE] If you do have it, please report back, I've seen quite a few people express their desire for sleep paralysis on forums and then come back and say how they are fucked up for life (an exaggeration obviously, although I now can't sleep on my back)
Never had sleep paralysis, but I have had those dreams where you want to run for something, you can barely talk or move.
I remember when i dreamt about playing football and I kicked in real life which woke me up and scared.
If the mind is awake during paralysis, why are there hallucinations?
[QUOTE=Silikone;36771290]If the mind is awake during paralysis, why are there hallucinations?[/QUOTE] The mind is only half awake, in between dreaming and consciousness.
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