Lucid Dreaming

Anyone have any experience with it?

I have almost master this teqniuqe and I enjoy it very much.

To me I have almost endless limatations.

(true story) I can do what I know. I know choclate surup, skin, and showers. Therefore I conjured up a chick taking a shower while drizling choclate surup upon herself!

I turned the sky purple once. That's about it.

>>41

Care to share some tips to mastery?

>>1
I have extremely vivid dreams and so does my mother. In fact, sometimes my father does also. My mom has said that sometimes she dreams she's telling people things and it seems so real she can't tell whether she actually has talked to that person or if it was just a dream. I have also been getting that a lot lately.
My mom has a theory though. My parents and I are all on anti-depressants, and I have been getting the dreams more and more the past few years since I started taking them. My mom thinks that it's possibly related to the dreams, as the medication continues to stimulate the mind even when we're sleeping, causing us to have much more vivid, and often quite disturbing dreams.
I had a nervous breakdown in school when I was twelve which lead to me being diagnosed as suffering from depression and anxiety, as well as autism and, as with a lot of sufferers of autism, OCD. I often dream that I am back in school, in various scary situations. It's very unpleasant.

>> I often dream that I am back in school, in various scary situations.
Makes sense. In dreams you don't pay attention to logic or "Wait, how did I get here again?" You just experience things. And fear is a very powerful memory and experience.

>>39
lol, that seems totally normal. Makes me wonder what women dream about though. Shopping, makeup and clothes?

>>36
My dreams seem very much like my life or what I've seen. I never dream about working at the bank like my sister does, because--wouldn't ya know it--that's where she works.

I define my existence by my memories and what I can see to be true day after day. If something happens once and I perceive it wrong or make incorrect assumptions, it's my fault. When I understand things wrong or get the wrong idea my perception of  reality may change temporarily but it's confirmed later on through repeated experience.

In other words, what I can prove by repeating it or checking with other people means it's true. That's my reality, that's what I know to exist. Anything temporary like a dream doesn't really mean anything. Sort of like being an actor and playing a superhero doesn't actually make me a superhero. I exist as plain ol' me.

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>>46
I like female bumps. Maybe I'll dream about them tonight *crosses fingers*

Not much to do with the topic, but I had a round-based dream (a nightmare to be specific) yesterday. It was like a tactical video-game, the dream would progress in rounds. My turn, enemy turn, my turn, etc. Sounds like fun, but really fucked up and creepy. A nightmare.

>>48
Slaughter the enemy in the first turn. That's what I do in my dreams. Last night I dreamt I was some action hero from tv and I thought "Now what would I do in a situation like this" with some guys chasing me. I grabbed some sword and stabbed it into the side of a truck aiming for the gas tank, then I reached to my back pocket, took out a pack of matches, lit one and tossed it at the truck. Boom, no more bad guys.

Take utter control and domination of your dreams. It's almost as enjoyable as the ones when you're in conscious (er, sort of) control of them.

>>49
  That's the whole basis of Lucid Dreaming isn't it?

  I wholeheartedly agree that it should be something learnt as soon as possible. You get the best out of nights that way.

  When I hit that "ping," as I like to call it, I try to go for a typical shonen-anime-like battle, simply ' cause I enjoy the adrenaline rush of fighting with otherworldly weapons and whatnot. Although, I do remember dreaming about having sex with a friend of mine.(I find that odd because I find her absurdly annoying.) The memories of that dream always cracks me up every now and then.

  I do remember two instances where I got "De-Buddha' ed" during lucid dreams though. I'd confront some shady figure who would then " break" me, then, worst off, " it"  would become capable of manipulating my dreams to it's own leisure. (On the first encounter I clearly remember getting turned into Shamal at some point. Jeesus, I get a spiking sensation in my spine whenever I think about that...)

Hmm, I never thought the guy whose dreams I invaded and took control over would post here, too.

>>51
You stay away from my head!!! >=(

It's just too fun... but don't worry, I've moved on to other people. ;)

CARLOS MENSTELIA!!

>>53
Granted you're free to visit anytime. I'd just add another voice in my head. (And I assume it's not like I can stop you.) Just, for the love of Hesus, don't morph my mental body. It's damn freaky!

>>55
Well, I was really looking forward to visiting you some time again and morphing you into david duchovny and raping you... but since you asked nicely, maybe I'll think of something else that would be fun,

So how exactly do you do this anyway?

>>57
I dunno how to get it to work frequently, I get it randomly, but someone said before it has to do with how you fall asleep. What I DO know however is that--while this may be obvious--it has to do with your mindset.

And to answer >>50 at the same time, what I dreamt that night (the action hero thing) isn't the same as lucid dreaming. Having a mindset that I'm invincible and I dominate my world in my dreams doesn't mean I actively took control. I thought about what I'd do, but didn't really feel and do it myself. In dreams where I take control I choose my actions, the same way as I do in real life, I think about them and then carry them out.

I believe it's mainly about the idea of having control, thinking about that, thinking about being aware in a dream, and eventually your mind gives in and lets you try it. Instead of losing control like you normally do, your mind allows you to (loosely put) "consciously" control the direction, much like a daydream.

I should read up on some specific techniques. Unless some Anonymous comes along and saves us lazy bastards the trouble.

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I, for one, would rather hear someone's direct lucid-inducing experiences, especially if it involves WILD.

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I'll add a few more cents if it helps.

I noticed that lucid dreaming occurs (in my case) a lot more often when I sleep in during the morning. More precisely, I wake up, feeling relatively awakened, then I just force myself back to sleep, usually takes me about half-an-hour or so. It dosen't happen when I do this all the time, but I realise it's much more easy for my mind to try and trigger it.

I wonder is this can be applied generally?

>>62
Longer REM cycles towards the end of sleepy-time. So, you have a long REM cycle and have fun dream.

... I'll pretend that I understood that, and walk through this door.

... I hope for your sake, that we won't meet again. (/Keeanu)

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>>65
ARE YOU THREATENING ME??

I like wet dreams... they're always fun

I guess I never have wet dreams because I masturbate so much...

Wet dreams > Masturbating

Lucid dreams > wet dreams

Too bad I can't have any ;_;

>>70
Nah, I'd disagree. Why? You can't exactly do ANYTHING in a lucid dream. For instance, the thing I usually most want to do is turn it into a wet dream. I can't seem to ever pull it off to completion, though. I think wet dreams are just more of a biological thing.

>>71
You can't even get laid in your dreams. How does that feel?

>>1
Oh hell yeah. For some reason, I've had lucid dreams every night for the past week and a half. One of the dreams was about me making out with my good female friend. Is this a sign or something? I think /b/ has fucked up my head, amirite?

>>73

Sweet.  Are these on purpose, or just occurring naturally?

I still can't do it ;_;

>>73
Watch lots and lots of scary movies and then tell us how great lucid dreams are.

Also. I wish I could have lucid dreams of making out.

im mildly narcoleptic, so i have a lot of fucked up sleep related problems, every single dream i have is lucid to some extent or another.

The most mindfucking thing is realising that although in your dream your standing, your real body is still lying down.

I can have sex in my lucid dreams..  without blowing my load in real life.

I have, many times, a good way to do it is set an alarm to go off at like, 3 AM, than every time hit snooze button..
If after about 10 times it doesn't work, give up..
There should also be a lucid dreaming .MP3, basically, after you fall asleep it reminds you that you're dreaming, only use at it 3 AM, not when you go to sleep.