Lucid Dreaming and Induction Techniques to Achieve Lucidity

[freeny]

I used to have frequent lucid dreams when I was younger. But they have all but disappeared since. The only time I have them now is when it involves sex. Perhaps my conscious knows Im married and gets confused when there is someone other than my wife involved?

 

[scem0]

I'd just like to let everyone know that I had no lucid dreams last night, although I did remember a long detailed dream in which I met two of my favorite podcasters, ate nasty pizza hut deep dish pineapple pizza, and talked to a childhood friend that I haven't thought about for a long time. I'm still working on the whole lucid dream thing though .

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[pimentoLoaf]

Make sure you write down your dreams as soon as you wake, with a dim light and lined paper -- just stream it out rather than make it grammatical.

I did that since 1999 and now I have a fairly good number of screenplays derived from them (and one CGI short I'm still working on).

 

[scem0]

yeah, I am. My first entry in my brand new dream journal is my first lucid dream. Very fitting .

You're more likely to have lucid dreams if you right down your dreams when you wake up.

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[CompUser]

I love dreams, they are really amazing to me. I never really have nightmares, so dreams to me are always enjoyable, unless they are boring and then you want to wake up. Some nights though I have too many dreams and it annoys me, and I have a head ache when I wake up.

I always get in that mentally awake but paralyzed state when even I am in an uncomfortable position, so I'm awake and I want to move but I cannot.

Sometimes, when I am just to fall asleep totally, it feels like I am falling and then all of a sudden I have a muscle spazm. It almost feels like I jumped off a sky scraper and landed. Its a bit scary, but apparently normal i read somewhere.

It usually takes me 1hr+ to fall asleep. Today, the oddest thing happened. I was with my dad, he had to go into Home Depot to buy something, and he must have been gone 10 min at the very most. In 10min I feel asleep and was dreaming about something, I don't remember. It was an obscure dream i remember, not b/w, not faded, but pixilated I remember. I woke up when my dad opened the door and scared the crap out of me.

I have a lot of dreams about the ocean. Probably because in the summer at our beach house the sound of the crashing waves, and the feeling of being in the water when you fall asleep from swimming around all day.

 

[rendezvouscp]

I've always had a high respect for dreams because, from my experience, they're a very real thing. I've had more than enough instances in my life where dreams have come true, or nearly true: I think I'm going to expand on that.

About half my life ago, I had a dream about going out with one of my guy friends around his neighborhood with his family. We were strolling down the street, and it just so happened to be Halloween. We walked past one big hedge, so tall that you couldn't see the next house over. Once we got past it, we saw a big dog (they're brown and black, can't remember what they're called) that was barking at us.

Now, I'd like to give you the dream ending: the dog somehow busted out through the gate and attacked my friend's family and eventually killed his mother.

Now, I'd like to give you what really happened in real life: the beginning of the dream, only this time the dog barked but didn't bust through the gate; we made it to the porch of the house safely.

Now, I have my own take on the whole situation (the death of his mom symbolized my own mothers "to be" death; which, like the dream, was never fulfilled), but I do believe that dreams have a whole lot of basis in reality.

Of course, now I'm regularly dreaming about my school day before it happens: get up, go to all of my classes and do all of the work, and then... actually wake up, go to all of my classes...

Which, of course, makes me ask this question: has anyone had the dreams "series" about a group of four or five people, one being a woman, coming after you wherever you end up in your dreams? You're usually some place, then they show up walking down the street or pulling up in a car, and then you have to run away from them. They usually almost catch you, as you wake up right at the most hopeless time.

I ask because I had these dreams for years; it wasn't until I gained control of my dreams (11 or 12) that I was able to demand (in my dream) those people to leave me alone. After that point in time, when I realized I could do something about them, I've always tried to send them away or make sure that they couldn't harm me.

I haven't had one of those dreams in years.
-Chasen

 

[Scipio Xaos]

Hey, i dont know if anyone still reads this post but I had an idea and I attempt to try it. I'm going to (first achieve lucid dreaming) then I going to walk to my brother in my dream. I'm going to talk to him and see if he remembers what i said to him when we wake up. If it works you can talk to someone in your sleep. If you both can lucid dream then you can dream together. It would be like a computer network, for example. You talk to people over the internet(funny were doing that now) but in your sleep. Wish me luck!

 

[AngryApple]

I'm trying this tonight.

 

[Scipio Xaos]

I'm trying this tonight.

I did as well the past couple days. The hardest thing to do is clear your mind. I managed to lucid dream once already. But the second time my subconscious was the only thing lucid and it knew it too. It took full advantage of my dreams and altered them however it felt. It was still cool but i would have liked to do it myself.

The first time I realized i was dreaming and i was so excited that as soon as i started changing it how i felt to do i realized i was starring at the backs of my eyelids. Lol.

 

[arkitect]

I'm going to (first achieve lucid dreaming) then I going to walk to my brother in my dream.

I did as well the past couple days. The hardest thing to do is clear your mind. I managed to lucid dream once already. But the second time my subconscious was the only thing lucid and it knew it too. It took full advantage of my dreams and altered them however it felt. It was still cool but i would have liked to do it myself.

The first time I realized i was dreaming and i was so excited that as soon as i started changing it how i felt to do i realized i was starring at the backs of my eyelids. Lol.

Yes… but what did your brother say?

 

[Scipio Xaos]

Make sure you write down your dreams as soon as you wake, with a dim light and lined paper -- just stream it out rather than make it grammatical.

I did that since 1999 and now I have a fairly good number of screenplays derived from them (and one CGI short I'm still working on).

I wrote a short story from one of my dreams for a school project. Although it skewed from the essential dream plot it had most of the original elements in it.

 

[Scipio Xaos]

Yes… but what did your brother say?

I've yet to master lucid dreaming. I'm still a beginner. When i get far enough I'll ask him. I cant alter it that well. I have to get it so I start dreaming in my room or my house so I can go to where he is and ask him. I still wake up to fast though.