Sometimes, I have a lucid dream. But the thing is, whenever that happens, I've realized I can only control just one tiny aspect or detail of that dream... I've actually studied myself for, like a month about this a long time ago...
It's kinda like this. Say, I have a dream where I'm walking down a street, and then people jump out of buildings, but they dont fall, they fly. But if I see someone I don't like (for example, last year's English teacher), I can just make her fall to her death. But anyone else can keep flying, and I can't seem to control it.
It's kinda weird, but now that I think about it, it's kinda fun.
"if the nuremberg trials were applied to us foreign policy, every us president since 1945 would have been hanged." noam chomsky.
...and this is me hanging on / i'd burn our initials in the sun if it would shine / anxiety chokes me like razor wire / if hate's in your heart man, you'll take what you're given / wake up / i'm not the only one / it's never goodbye / go ahead and play dead / if everyone's a casualty, then take your time, there ain't no trouble / these wounds they will not heal / ambition can be a tricky thing / what the hell do i know about rape anyway? / this is not what i hoped for / ain't it so weird how it makes you a weapon / who will be there to tell me how stupid i am? / those living for death will die by their own hand / and it's me that I am spying on / pick up the pieces and live with the stars / hurry up and wait / things have never been so swell / they're always the ones who slowly drift / be great / ...and this is my world.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
"It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about"
Absent Minded Guitarist wrote:I'm hoping to have one someday. I realized that I was having one last night but at the moment of my realization, I woke up
That's extremely common. When one realizes they are dreaming, or that something in the dream can't be real, it triggers the dreamer's conscious state, since the person is linking something with his conscious reality.
I've had a couple of lucid dreams, those things friggin' rule.
I once dreamed that I went through a whole day, and went to sleep; when I woke up I thought it was tomorrow... looking back at that, it sounds kinda incoherent. *shrugs*
"When looking up there, I just felt whole, like I belonged. Like one day I too would shine my most brilliant. Sitting there also made me think about sitting through services at my little country church back home. About that never-changing congregation of the same sixty-seven people and everyone has known you since before you were born. Now, out here in the real world, everything just seemed more vivid than when I used to sit in that little pew. That pew that was now so, so far away from where I was. I feared I had somehow left God behind there, too. I feared he was somehow just sitting there, saving my seat on the fifth pew from the front row, just waiting on me to come back. I left so quickly, I worried that he may not have noticed I was gone. And, now, I’m just too far away to find. So he’s just sitting there, patiently waiting on me to come back. I closed my eyes and prayed a moment. I hoped more than anything that he could still hear me." -an excerpt from my novella, A Sea of Fallen Leaves.
anyone notice how it can jump from location to location and situation to situation with out it seeming weird? and i agree with Joe, time isn't a factor for me. I can wake myself up which is a useful tool for bad dreams.
Lately i've been having really really real feeling dreams, to the point where i will wonder whether it happened or i dreamed it
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good
"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911
"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good
I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.
"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
i thought this was pretty normal. i used to be able to control a lot of deams.. now i dont have dreams anymore, or at least not ones that i can remember. i think it's the lack of sleep.
anyway.... i used to pretty much always know i was dreaming and could control them all the time at least to some extent. My imagination/fear would control a lot of it, and make things happen that i didnt want to, and i'd have to fight back.. it was really fun. i miss them.
This thread title reminds me of the AFI song 'No Poetic Device'
!-¤M.a.r.i.s.s.a¤-! Guy: Her locker's down the hall, I've counted 17 from mine.
Girl: Does he see me? Does he even know that I'm close by?
Guy: We're in the hallway, always at half past nine.
Girl: Would he ever get to know me? Would he take the time?
[glow=brown]...Back in school they never taught us what we needed to know like how to deal with despair or someone breaking your heart...[/glow]
sometimes i have lucid dreams where i start flying...in the middle of an ordinary dream, i'll just think to myself "hey i'm dreaming...i can fly in my dreams!!" and i start flying. i guess it's cuz i wish i could fly..lol
I love, I love how you let me fall Under, under but not too far
I dreamt that there was going to be a beastie boys concert and since my uncle had "connections" we were all gonna meet them. Which is weird since my uncle works for the post office.
Anyway, I woke up thinking "Dude! When's the concert?!"
-Sarah Goodbye you liar, Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything Then you think you will inspire Take apart your head (and I wish I could inspire) Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
if you want to induce lucid dreaming that you can try to control, i've heard that the best way to do it is wake yourself up earlier in the morning than you would usually wake up, sit around awake for about 45 mins, and go back to sleep. apparently you're body hasn't woken up enough to get out of the lucid dreaming phase of the sleep cycle but will still be in shallow (or whatever the technical name is) sleep so that you'll actually remember your dream entirely and can even control it if you "practice."
and when i woke up i was making out with my pillow 
