Can you control your dreams?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming

also, 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Lucidity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming

also, 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Lucidity

Lord__Darkstorn

Wow.  Out-of-body experience. I had that once. It felt like my Spirt was leaving my body, got scared and woke up, my spirt just dropped back into me and that woke me up. Weird.

Only once, and it was the most incredible experience. I remember looking down at my hands, which were on fire with blue flames (think Hellboy). I entered a 50s style cafe and took a elevator up to the top of this old Japanese temple. I then did matrix style leaps from one temple to another in a thundering rainstorm, the streets flooded below and the temples stretching out until the horizon. I distinctly remember fearing my knees breaking just before landing after my first leap, and the incredible feeling that came along with the realization that it didn't hurt at all.

By far the best dream I've ever had, and I wish I would have another, ASAP.

You can control your dreams, you just have to free your mind.

But you can't control it if the dream is something that has already happened

I should probably try lucid dreaming, it sounds like a blast and true way to "escape from reality" 8 hours a day!Eponique

They are quite interesting experiences but they can have side effects if you mind doesn't click right, even though your lucid you have chances where you mind may think something is real to reflect it back at you. Example is people will tell you that you can't feel pain in a dream, its a complete an utter lie in a lucid dream because if you don't have your mind absolutely focused on it being a dream then your going to get hurt if you do something stupid.

Often people will get lost in what they are trying to do and forget they are in a dream, it happens all to often I'm afraid, even people like me that have had this gift since childhood get caught in the trap when we are trying to do things, I had one a few months back now where I got speared through the leg by a demon bone spike while turning diablo series into my dream, it took three days before I could walk properly in real life again because my mind thought it had actually happened.

My wife doesn't let me do it in all honesty because it scares the hell out of her that I can suffer physical pain in the real world from a dream, luckily we aren't in the same country at the moment but back home with her its another story. However if your lucky to realize its a dream just before the event happens you'll be lucky enough to only feel tiggling or numbness where the event occured when you awaken, typically it'll be right after the event because it overloads you senses essentially shocking you out of sleep much like a nightmare climax event.

I can sometimes. I can decide what I do next

[QUOTE="Eponique"]I should probably try lucid dreaming, it sounds like a blast and true way to "escape from reality" 8 hours a day!Zenkuso

They are quite interesting experiences but they can have side effects if you mind doesn't click right, even though your lucid you have chances where you mind may think something is real to reflect it back at you. Example is people will tell you that you can't feel pain in a dream, its a complete an utter lie in a lucid dream because if you don't have your mind absolutely focused on it being a dream then your going to get hurt if you do something stupid.

Often people will get lost in what they are trying to do and forget they are in a dream, it happens all to often I'm afraid, even people like me that have had this gift since childhood get caught in the trap when we are trying to do things, I had one a few months back now where I got speared through the leg by a demon bone spike while turning diablo series into my dream, it took three days before I could walk properly in real life again because my mind thought it had actually happened.

My wife doesn't let me do it in all honesty because it scares the hell out of her that I can suffer physical pain in the real world from a dream, luckily we aren't in the same country at the moment but back home with her its another story. However if your lucky to realize its a dream just before the event happens you'll be lucky enough to only feel tiggling or numbness where the event occured when you awaken, typically it'll be right after the event because it overloads you senses essentially shocking you out of sleep much like a nightmare climax event.

You're saying that you can actually feel the pain you're experiencing in a dream and didn't just fall out of your bed or something to that effect?

You're saying that you can actually feel the pain you're experiencing in a dream and didn't just fall out of your bed or something to that effect?

vlin1108

Its very rare to be able to stay in a dream when something like that shocks your system, but for the most part your shocked awake by the sensation and more often then not are left in sleep paralysis and if you aren't then your first reaction normally is the try moving that area or touching it. You never have any physical damage, I have had a nose bleed once from a punch to the face though but I don't know if that was from the dream or just a caution I had since I was a little kid to do with a head injury I suffered as a bub.

Honest if you think thats wierd when in a lucid dream you can actually feel pain on you physical body transferred into your dream state, I've had quite a few muscle spasms in my sleep that have made me do some really hilirious things in the dreams when I've least expected it.

Its most noted in hospital patiences that these types of events can happen.