Lucid dreaming is dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. This fascinating state of consciousness allows you to control your dreams and experience anything imaginable, from the sublime to the impossible.
You can read books on it. I have been able to control my dreaming juat a little bit in the past. For instance, if it's really scary, I've been able to tell myself it's just a dream, then I wake up. As far as controlling what happens, I can't do that.
I thought this was about something completly different.
I'll be going now.
-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.
Ahhh! Watch the movie Waking Life now! It's about this!
And yes, I've actually been able to control my dreams before.
I faced death. I went in with my arms swinging. But I heard my own breath and had to face that I'm still living. I'm still flesh. I hold on to awful feelings. I'm not dead... My chest still draws breath. I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.
everytime i try and controll my dreams, i always wake up. Waking Life, has some great stuff, everything that the guy at the Pinball Machine says is absolutely amazing
-Liam
"Sometimes Nothin' Can Be a Real Cool Hand"
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I have been able to control my dreams but only to a certain extent if that makes any sense. Speaking of dreams whats the scariest dream you've ever had? Sorry if this is moving to far away from the original topic.
And really, how do you guys control your own dreams? Dreams happen during REM sleep and are usually about things that you have experienced right before sleep or things that you have been thinking about a lot. I never actually knew of anyone who "controlled" what they dreamt. There are dreams that happen inside dreams, but I don't think you control that.
"I wrote on my palm before I went to have it read to see if she would read that too."- Mitch Hedberg
Very rarely do i ever dream about something that has happened right before sleep or something that im thinking about a lot. I really dont know how i can control them either. The most interesting thing about dreams, or my dreams at least is they dont seem to follow the normal progression of time. For instance i can dream for what seems like hours in the 5 minutes it takes for the snooze button to go off again.
i believe that i have done this before, but im not sure, lol, all i did was sat next to johnny depp and 15 minutes later made orlando walk in the door to talk about Pirates of the Caribbean 2.... and i do remember thinking about it before it happened, it twas a good dream
i used to dream about big scary mean dogs a lot because i was afraid of dogs when i was little. sometimes i'm able to tell myself it's a dream and then wake up...but other times ...well i had nightmares a lot when i was little and i would be screaming and crying in my dream and i thought i was going to die...and i couldn't wake myself up...so scary
-Jillian member of the pokémon league i wanna hold you high and steal your pain away if i don't make it know that i've loved you all along when you are with me i'm free that hazy moon will be ash in the wind real soon
I never remember my dreams. And the ones I do remember are absolutely retarded. (i.e. Raine holding a box of shrimp. And the other night there was a video game things...and you had to collect the cats and run past the giant, really slow, snakes...) I have never had a lucid dream because I have read about them and I know they are a little different then what I have experienced. The closest thing I have come to is when I wake up and then roll over to go back to sleep and I try to remember what I was dreaming. Then I have some control. But my dreams are strange and entertaining so I wouldn't want to mess with them anymore.
-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.
Joe Cool wrote:I guess but why would i remember every other dream i've had on a particular night and not the ones concerning everyday life.
Because they are out of the ordinary probably. Also, you have a tendency to remember best when you naturally wake up as opposed to waking yourself up with an alarm clock.
I never remembered dreams either until my AP Psych teacher gave us a project where we recorded our dreams right when we woke up so they stayed in our minds. Often, I'd find myself up at three in the morning after having a dream and actually remember it because I told myself I would before I went to sleep. I thought it was funny because I had a dream about remembering my dreams.
"I wrote on my palm before I went to have it read to see if she would read that too."- Mitch Hedberg
) I have never had a lucid dream because I have read about them and I know they are a little different then what I have experienced. The closest thing I have come to is when I wake up and then roll over to go back to sleep and I try to remember what I was dreaming. Then I have some control. But my dreams are strange and entertaining so I wouldn't want to mess with them anymore.
