Lucid Dreaming

[godfather]

The dream journal is going strong... got a few good days in there and I'm getting into a habit of asking myself 'is this a dream' throughout the day. My early experience with 'the first layer' of lucid dreams have, as expected, resulted in me waking up quite quickly.

I'm just going to continue to chug along with this though

[farbeyonddriven]

nice...my problem with the dream journal was that it *had* to be the first thing I did when I woke up, otherwise the longer I was awake the less I would remember, exponential curve

[godfather]

I slipped up on it today I woke up and remembered my dream, but was too lazy to write it down before dozing off for a few more minutes. When I woke up again it was loooong gone

[fricnjay]

This is pretty interesting. I have never heard any of these terms but have been doing it for years. I have gone as far as being able to continue a dream from night to night. It almost becomes like my own personal sitcom and I want to go to bed to see how its ends. Its not something I can necessarily induce but some of the ideas presented do work for me that I have discovered out of experimentation. If I go to bed thinking about the past nights dream I can enter sleep in that mode and usually continue on the story, things like that. The idea of looking into mirrors and at my hands is an interesting idea to me in order to realize its a dream. I have been awaken abruptly from these dreams in pain before. I remember one dream I was robbing a factory and got shot in the chest with a shot gun by a security guard and woke up thinking it was real. My chest was sore all day. If I knew it was a dream I may have been able to have a bit more control over that.

[lost in melb.]

Sometimes I'll have a dream, wake up, get a drink and then continue it if it's a good one...
Other times, I'll have the radio on and incorporate that in...

[farbeyonddriven]

Interesting...my "bullshit" meter is dreamland is extremely sensitive - literally if one thing out of the realm of ordinary occurrences happens something's triggered and my brain goes pffft, enough of this, and I wake up.

I dont recall ever even seeing a mirror in any of my dreams. I was trying to remember what I dreamt last night earlier on just after I woke up and all I could remember was talking to someone about the junction of the L4/L5 nerve plexuses that winds up combining into the sciatic nerve...that shit's been irritated lately!

[Noilly Pratt]

Originally Posted by farbeyonddriven

Interesting...my "bullshit" meter is dreamland is extremely sensitive - literally if one thing out of the realm of ordinary occurrences happens something's triggered and my brain goes pffft, enough of this, and I wake up.

Same here. But it's good - if a nightmare occurs, I can usually say "OK this is too weird...wake up!" and I do.

[fricnjay]

Speaking of nightmares have any of you had recurring nightmares or pressure dreams?

I used to have a couple of pressure dreams when I was younger. I used to dream I was on a round dirt track with stone walls on both sides of me with people up in the stands kinda like a gladiator or something. Well there round stone that was the same size as the track and it was chasing me round and round until I ran out of energy and killed me. I had that one quit often in grade school and up to Jr High. Then I started having one where I was sitting in a chair in a round room that was just big enough for me to be in it. Then there were like long needles that would poke out of small holes all over the sphere and I would have to push them back in before they killed me. Once I would push one back in another would poke out at a different location. And of course my fingers were bleeding to the bone. Pretty crazy stuff but I have not had any of those in years.

[farbeyonddriven]

damn bro, paranoid? come to think of it I have had times where I've had dreams where there were ongoing themes but each dream was distinctly different, like having to solve puzzles, get out of trouble (arrested, dead, etc)

[fricnjay]

Whats weird to me is I was having these dreams at such an early age. I dont remember having any dreams like that once I was well into high school.

[Noilly Pratt]

The only reocurring dream I can remember is really early on. Maybe at 3 or 4 years old.

It's really late at night and there's hardly any light in the room at all, so things look very black and white and grainy, like when you take a picture and change the ASA settings to very high. The people (or person, it varied sometimes) talk to me and I don't know what they are saying - it sounds like slow-motion speech. I'm frozen to the bed while they loom over me, talking in this slow, grainy-looking way. They look frustrated when I don't understand them, and then they talk louder.

I usually woke up screaming and my Mom or Dad would come in and comfort me, and I remember not being able to tell them - maybe it was before I could talk???

It just went away after a while...never did figure it out.

[Hal-9000]

Most days on my lunchbreak I go out to my car and have 30 minutes.

I bring myself to what I call the 'edge of sleep'.I can still hear things around
me but the visuals start and I know that I'm sleeping.

I think this is my version of lucid dreaming as I recognize instantly (when the imagery starts) that I'm sleeping, yet in control.

I've never been late coming back to work once after doing this....
as I seem to know when the 30 minutes is getting close.

[shorty]

Is anyone getting anywhere with this? I want to try it.

[farbeyonddriven]

I'm too focused on making my pineal glow

[godfather]

Originally Posted by shorty

Is anyone getting anywhere with this? I want to try it.

I had my first full lucid dream 2 nights ago.

I became aware it was lucid when I checked the clock and the numbers made no sense on the second check.

I did the steps, rubbed my hands together and tried to spin fast. Then I removed the people around me in the dream. I started to fly but it was so exciting I woke up almost right after takeoff

Just keep trying!