If you had a lucid dream...

[belladee]

For those who dont know, lucid dreams are when you are dreaming and realise it so you can do absolutely anything, fly, read minds, smash walls, with no consequence.

So here is a interesting question: if you had a lucid dream, what would you do?

I personally would do some cool Matrix fighting

I have had many lucid dreams. I usually have sex but i have a hard time making a particular person appear, it is usually a faceless person. I have also choose to fly but i felt the bed under me. I have also started in a middle of a dream which was a nightmare and was able to change it.

one of my favorite things to do when lucid dreaming is to eat chocolate and brownies and cookies.. like really eat tons of it with no guilt. that is the best!

 

[Antares]

Your lucky you have a natural gift. I am gonna train myself so I can do it, should be fun!

Oh yeah, if you practice enough, you can do anything. Thats what appeals to me, its like being god!

I also have frequent lucid dreams. It's trippy and cool. You can control how things play out and what you do in the dream. The only negative is that when you are lucid in the dream, the dream starts becoming unstable...my guess is that my brain activity starts matching the waking state....and thus, I actually wake up. But then, I vividly remember what was happening in the dream right before I woke up. But that vivid memory fades quickly. If I want to remember it, I have to force myself to imagine it, again, in my mind...otherwise, the dream will not be saved in my memory (long or short term memory).

I can also get myself to have certain types of dreams if I want to. I do this by mediating on a particular subject, images or person prior to going to sleep. It's remarkably effective.

Now, I may be one of the few people who actually enjoy "nightmares." But they're exciting! I sometimes like inducing myself to have "survival horror" dreams...where I'm facing a sort of apocalypse event or am being hunted by zombies or velociraptors or alien monsters, etc. or being in the middle of a tornado, etc.. It's a lot of fun.

I say that lucid dreaming is the closest thing that we can get to having a Star Trek Holodeck in our lifetime. I love it! I only wish there was a way to stay dreaming longer and not wake up as easily.

 

[Raid]

My lucid dreams are a lot like what Antares described. I get them a few times a year, and probably have a harder time 'in-control' and staying asleep. But the memories are extremely vivid, yet the details and "logic" of what was going on disappears quickly unless I take care to remember it right away.

It seems when I have a lucid dream I'm more often dreaming that I'm in distress of some sort and I get control of the dream and get out of the situation. One such dream was a nightmare where I was getting chased by an Alien around my parents house. In the dream I ran into the basement laundry room and closed the thin unlockable sliding door behind me. I remember the Alien shaking the door violently and feeling very trapped (as there was no way out). All of a sudden in my dream I remember thinking "Oh hell this is just a stupid dream." and I slid open the door and told the alien "Sorry, this wasn't a good spot to hide. I'm going upstairs." I then proceeded up the stairs and woke up once I got to the top.

Also, I really hate that thing where you suddenly get the sensation of falling very suddenly. I get that at least once every night, normally just as I'm about to get to sleep.

I get this too, not every night, but around once a week is a fair estimate. It's a pain because it kind of jolts you back awake.

I once had the opposite of a lucid dream,

Where I thought this other person in my dream was dreaming so I chased him around and tried to wake him up and convince him that this was his dream.

Pretty weird.

Now that's trippy...but how do you know it was you that woke up?