Have any of you experimented with lucid dreaming?

I've had a lot of people over the past few months talking about lucid dreaming and how they can take control of their dreams, which seems pretty cool. I haven't had the time to dedicate to changing my sleep habits but I really want to try and develop this a bit.

So, have any of you experienced lucid dreams, and do you remember anything interesting that happened during them?

I've done it once. I was outside of my body standing beside my bed watching myself sleep

I did. But I just ended up having sex in them anyway, so it really wasn't worth the extra effort.

Vanilla Sky. :o

How do you guys go about doing this? the dream journal thing?

Yup. I ended up having a battle with a giant spider.

I wish.

Yeah, but it ruins my sleep. I can have someone walk into my room while lucid dreaming and I'll jump right up, so that I'm like half awake in bed dreaming. o.O hard to explain.

From my experience I don't like it, it just comes to me at least every night. It's fun but you get less rest than usual.

How do you guys go about doing this? the dream journal thing?

IronBeaver

I've had alot of lucid dreams, they're very interesting.

i use to be able to do it nightly. I'd pick a topic I wanted to dream about before I got in bed and just kind of went from there. I won the world cup with a last second shot many times :P

It was cool while it lasted. Now I pretty much don't sleep at all :(

whats a lucid dream and how do you know if u have had one?

I only dream once ever six months or so, so no.

A little bit I suppose but it's usually just to end the experience as I tend to have vivid nightmares and I've found that it helps to work around my sleep paralysis problems. The last time was a week or so ago when I was stuck in a familar nightmare zone that often led to disturbing paralytic fear. I noticed that an old friend of mine Machaelle was standing around, so I simply turned to her and instructed her to wake me up (as I need to get fully awake or I'll just fall into an instant REM state). So she simply grabbed me and face me towards her and shouted very loudly in my face until I was jarred heavily enough to fully awake. It's a little shocking, but it better than fear gripping paralysis and all the confusion that it initially brings if I let it normally play out.

I lucid dream every so often, but I constantly wake up after doing such. I think its because I'm starting to wake up, but I"m still in the dream, so I'm gaining more self awareness, but after I do gain that awareness I just finish the process of waking up.

I had one last night actually, it was pretty cool. I used tohave lucid dreamsall the time but haven't had one in awhile.

I tried it a few times. Never had the discipline to keep a dream journal so I stopped trying.

The meds I'm currently taking have a side effect of lucid dreaming. I haven't had a dream yet for two/three years where I am not in control. I'm almost always aware of what's happening, I have full control. And to be honest it isn't all that great. It gets to the point where most of my dreams feel incredibly real. Being punched, shot, knifed to death, etc. have happened in my nightmares. I wake up in cold sweats and lose sleep from not wanting to go back to bed.

I can say though, that once in a while a good dream will come up and its one of the best feelings ever when being in control. The strangest part though, is that most of the stuff I dream of happen to occur in the near future. I'll wake up once in a dream before waking up for real, and suddenly realize that what I dreamt has just happened in the real world. I can't explain it, its just really bizarre. :?

The best part is controlling gravity. I've dreamt of being on my street and just deciding to run and jump and suddenly float, as if I were Superman himself. I could literally go as high as I wanted to, land on any building, go through all the clouds.. its a real awesome feeling. Then you wake up and wish it were true. :P

I've never had one... but am going to try and get involved in Vajrayana dream yoga.

Hardly, I only did it once, but once I realized I was in a dream I got sucked back into reality within about 3 seconds.

I never knew this existed, nor do I know if I've ever had a lucid dream :|

how does one go about doing this? i could have some serious adventures with the dreams i get!

I'm not really sure lucid is the right term for me. I am aware I'm dreaming, but I'm still in a mental state where my brain is no where near actual consciousness.

I like my dreams to be a surprise and I've never really been bothered as I can't go to sleep unless I'm completely drained, but I do find it interesting to read about these kinds of things.Crunchy_Nuts

[QUOTE="Crunchy_Nuts"]I like my dreams to be a surprise and I've never really been bothered as I can't go to sleep unless I'm completely drained, but I do find it interesting to read about these kinds of things.metalkitten

Yeah I remember doing it once, I woke up in a dream only to go the bathroom and come back and see death waiting for me with a crazy mirror only waiting to wake up in reality. Crazy S***CoolSkAGuy

[QUOTE="CoolSkAGuy"]Yeah I remember doing it once, I woke up in a dream only to go the bathroom and come back and see death waiting for me with a crazy mirror only waiting to wake up in reality. Crazy S***X360PS3AMD05

I'm not sure if I was in control, but I did have a dream start where I had just left off from being awake, laying in my bed. My fan was still on and I could hear/feel the air being blown toward me and a dark figure appeared to be standing in my doorway watching me (which was scarier than s*** because my room was very dark to begin with). For some reason, when I tried to get up, I couldn't. I started to try and shout curse words at it (get the f*** out of here, etc). That creeped me the f*** out.

I used to be able to do it, but not anymore.

I only ever dream of falling through a weird surreal world of blackness, colourful lights and random imagery.