Ever realize you're dreaming?

Have you ever noticed you're dreaming and tried to control it?
Or you hear a phone or door bell ring, someone knocking on a door in your dream and you try to tell yourself to wake up to answer but just cant?

Am I going nuts or is it just a natural sleeping phenomenon?

Sometimes I notice, but I can't do anything about it.

Happens pretty frequently to me

Sometimes. It's a cool feeling.

Or you hear a phone or door bell ring, someone knocking on a door in your dream and you try to tell yourself to wake up to answer but just cant?_R34LiTY_

i'm not sure if you're lucid dreaming or having sleep paralysis..

no but I have laid on the couch asleep but I was dreaming that I was laying on the couch and completely normal things were going on so I actuall believed that I was awake

no but I have laid on the couch asleep but I was dreaming that I was laying on the couch and completely normal things were going on so I actuall believed that I was awake

Serraph105

It happened once a while back, and as soon as I found out I was dreaming, I tried all sorts of stuff like flying and lifting cars, it was fun.

no but I have laid on the couch asleep but I was dreaming that I was laying on the couch and completely normal things were going on so I actuall believed that I was awake

I remember I once realized I was dreaming while in my sleep... It was pretty awesome, because I then felt like God and I started controlling everything in a careless manner.

i've had that happen quite often, i always found it fun.

Sounds like sleep paralysis, happens to me quite often

Happens to me a lot...

Most of time when I realize it's a dream, I instantly wake up. But one time when I dreamt I was Spiderman webswinging through high skyscrapers and once I realized it was a dream, my webbing stopped and I fell >___>

Sounds like sleep paralysis, happens to me quite often

Treytone

Sleep paralysis eh?

Could be true because sometimes when it involves the phone ringing that I notice, I'll check the caller ID and sometime there are recently missed calls, but sometimes not.

Then again I sometimes realize I'm dreaming while I'm flying, or running from someone. Dreams are crazy....

no its pretty scary. i dreamt that my parents die all the time and its not till i wake up that i found out it isn't real

but i have been able to control a few in the past

There are instances where I realized I was dreaming. I was never able to change anything in my dream except to let it take its course until this past year. Instead of just reacting to the dreams I had I was able to tell myself that I was dreaming and I can actually "do" something in my dream to change it. I used to have nightmare involving being chased by a bunch of people, instead of running away, one time I "will" myself into fighting them and totally trashed them. Another dream I had was about me being captured and interrogated by a bunch of cops, except I knew they were bad cops (don't ask me how I knew... it was a dream). I was being held in one of those interrogation room handcuffed to a chair with 5 or 6 cops. I "will" myself busting out of the handcuffs and forceibly took a gun off of one of the cops and, here's the best part, shot all of them right in the head.

Ever since then I haven't had one single nightmare, and I have since felt completely in control of my life and my circumstances. It was as if I fought off my fear and have overcame it.

I've never had a lucid dream before. I've always kind of wanted to though. It sounds interesting.t3hrubikscube

[QUOTE="t3hrubikscube"]I've never had a lucid dream before. I've always kind of wanted to though. It sounds interesting.lonewolf604

I think I've had a lucid dream before but it's never as awesome as some other people's dreams I hear about.

I sometimes have these recurring dreams where my teeth are falling out.

They felt SO real, and every single time I've woken up and realized it was just a dream.

But then I've started NOTICING that it was a dream while I was still in the dream. This was cool. Because if I found myself having that dream, I'd just wake myself up.

But then it got to dreams within dreams. Like, I'd have a dream that my teeth were falling out. I'd realize that it was only a dream. So I'd wake myself up. After waking up, I'd check my teeth and they were STILL falling out. At this point, I'd start freaking out, because holy ****, MY TEETH ARE ACTUALLY FALLING OUT. Then I'd wake up AGAIN, find out that I actually WAS in a dream. When I woke up from my dream, I had actually just awaken into ANOTHER dream. I was literally having DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS.

And this is a disturbing prospect. This is like those little wooden eggs that open up, and each time you open up an egg you find a smaller egg inside it. Can my dreams be like that? Can I have so many dreams-within-dreams that I can fall into a dream from which I never escape? If I can wake up from a dream only to find that I'm still in another dream, what prevents me from ending up in a neverending hell, in which I spend an eternity waking up from an endless succession of dreams only to find that I am still dreaming? Isn't that the epitome of the nightmare that never ends?

I wish I could stop dreaming altogether, I never wake up feeling refreshed after dreaming, only drained.

All my dreams are **** crazy and insanely fun, especially when I realize I'm dreaming. Then it's like I'm in god-mode, with level editor tools at my disposal.

Happened to me a couple times, though not in a while. Once I dreamt I was at work and I told my boss to "**** off", and I got fired ... lucky it was a dream

Happens to me quite often. Usually it's because I'm dreaming of a place I know well but it's different in my dream; I pick up on it right away. The problem is that once I realise I'm dreaming it makes me aware of my real surroundings and I wake up.

I had a couple before. not many but once a while if i get luckily.

Sciatince develop a way for us waking without actually waking up to be able to control our dreams. They put these two blinking goggles on, and they activate right when our brains starting to wake us up, and this trigger your mind to wake a lot more then the body dose, and make you consistance right during your dream.

wala, now you can do what the hell you want. Your imagination is the limit.

BTW. i remember my dream last night actually. I don't know every detail. But there this candle that's in this bowl, and if i light it, its levitates in the air, and can hold me in the air as it take me to places in short distance. When the flames are put out. The bowl stay in the air momentarily before dropping

I have dreams of me platforming across planets; and from my knowledge of astrology I adapt to the different natures of each environment of each planet. So i'll be on Mars cold and trying to survive in the brutal winds, then I'll be on Jupiter spinning in the big red spot.

All the time, most of the time, i can force myself to wake up, but usually, i'd just treat the lucid dream as some sort of playground to do anything i want to. When i mean anything, it's usually ;).

Anything else, it's usually mathematical symbols rushing through my head and i get severe headaches afterwards.

Yeah, once in a while that will happen.

I sometimes realise that I'm dreaming, and I'm able to wake myself up. But I'm not able to control anything else really.

Yes, I have realized that I was dreaming before.

Last year, I fell asleep on the couch during a summer afternoon. I was having this weird dream that I can't describe. But while I was dreaming, I was also hearing a noise. When I woke up, it was the noise of a lawnmower outside. It was kind of cool to hear the sound of a lawnmower running while in REM sleep.:D

All the time. Best part about waking up in the morning next to a bathroom break.

lol yeah sometimes something cools sbout to happen and then even if it's the middle of the night with no noise, it will all the sudden come to me that this has got to be a dream because I couldn't rememnber anything except going to sleep from a certain point

I've read about lucid dreams and some of my mates have had them and I've always wanted one. The closest I've got was a dream where I realised I was dreaming and I was like "Oh awesome, a lucid dream! I should be able to fly or something now" and nothing happened. I reckon I dreamt I knew I was dreaming o_Otofu-lion91