Exlon wrote:When I become aware in a dream I stop worrying about people thinking I'm crazy, because I know they're not real, so it's okay to run and attempt to vault a wall. XD
ClaecElric4God wrote:I very rarely become aware that I'm dreaming. But I do remember, when I was a kid I used to have recurring nightmares just about every night (that's pretty weird, now that I think about it). And I distinctly remember getting to a point where I was sick and tired of being chased and scared out of my wits and inevitably caught by all manner of creepy horrible monsters. So one night (I was like 6 or something) something was chasing me and I was like "NO, this is my dream, and you need to stop chasing me, because I don't like it." And I remember how surprised and relieved I was when it worked. I think I even told my family about it when I woke up.
ClaecElric4God wrote:I do remember, when I was a kid I used to have recurring nightmares just about every night (that's pretty weird, now that I think about it).
ClaecElric4God wrote:It's weird that I actually have growth and experience in dreaming throughout my life. It's like..."Level up! You can now use invisibility."
PLCDreamcatcher14 wrote:I absolutely HATE not being able to remember my dreams especially since mine are usually like mini movies complete with a plot, locations that I've never been to, and a cast of usually me, my mom, my dad, and/or our cats and dogs as well fictional characters, celebrities, and sometimes even people I don't know and have never even seen/met..
TheAlbinoMoose wrote:I usually just do whatever in my dreams, and don't question it. I think that's what makes them fun, though. If I knew it wasn't reality, then I couldn't feel it at all. Like, if I am wandering a beautiful foreign place, and I meet someone and talk to them, I'd like to think, in that moment, that it was reality. If I knew it wasn't real, even while it was happening, all the meaning of it would be gone. I think lucid dreaming is replacing the emotional feeling of a dream with physical pleasure - not in a bad way, necessarily, but I prefer dreams where I feel happy, or sad, or scared, or whatever, because I am in a certain situation. Cause at that moment, I am there, and that is happening to me, and though not in reality, at that moment it is my reality. However, if I knew it was a dream, it isn't my reality anymore, but my imagination. I don't know if that makes any sense...
TheAlbinoMoose wrote:PLCDreamcatcher14 wrote:I absolutely HATE not being able to remember my dreams especially since mine are usually like mini movies complete with a plot, locations that I've never been to, and a cast of usually me, my mom, my dad, and/or our cats and dogs as well fictional characters, celebrities, and sometimes even people I don't know and have never even seen/met..
Same here. I have lots of dreams where I meet a fictional character that I love, but instead of freaking out and stuff, I just feel like I've known them forever, and we're friends, which makes sense, considering we already know who they are and stuff xD I've had many conversations with fictional beings (I'm not insane I swear)
Also I LOVE when people who I've never even seen are in my dreams, cause they say that every face you see in your dreams is a face that you've seen in real life, whether you actually noticed it or not. Don't know if that's true or not, but I like to think that maybe my face was in someone's dream, somewhere There's some evidence against it, though, as I've had dreams with really handsome guys (not celebrities or anything, just realistically good-looking) and I always think "naw, I couldn't have forgotten a face like that"
But yeah, I don't usually realize I'm dreaming, but it's happened once or twice. I usually just do whatever in my dreams, and don't question it. I think that's what makes them fun, though. If I knew it wasn't reality, then I couldn't feel it at all. Like, if I am wandering a beautiful foreign place, and I meet someone and talk to them, I'd like to think, in that moment, that it was reality. If I knew it wasn't real, even while it was happening, all the meaning of it would be gone. I think lucid dreaming is replacing the emotional feeling of a dream with physical pleasure - not in a bad way, necessarily, but I prefer dreams where I feel happy, or sad, or scared, or whatever, because I am in a certain situation. Cause at that moment, I am there, and that is happening to me, and though not in reality, at that moment it is my reality. However, if I knew it was a dream, it isn't my reality anymore, but my imagination. I don't know if that makes any sense...
twistedfairytale45 wrote:I think one reason I don't really dream anymore is because I'm usually really stressed when I'm falling asleep because recently I've been trying really hard to wake up at my alarm so I fall asleep, afraid that I won't wake up to my alarm(or sometimes I'm stressed because I know if I don't wake up I won't have time to do last minute homework), and that puts me into a very quick feeling sleep suddenly disturbed by the morning. I get stressed way to easily... and guess what? I'm pretty sure that stress comes from lack of sleep. My friend told me that highschoolers should get 8-10 hours of sleep. I usually only get about 6 or 7 because I got to bed at like 10-11 pm(but because of some issues with my brain it takes like 1-2 hours to fall alseep) and then I wake up at 6 am.
So I'm kinda stuck in this weird cycle of stress and lack of sleep. I get stressed so I can't sleep but I need sleep so that I'm not stressed.... my life is so weird and hard that I sometimes wish I could just live in a plain old world of nothingness with only my imagination. Well maybe I could at night if my life wasn't so stressful XD.
I can get really complicated sometimes. Instead of dreaming tips, does anyone have sleeping tips???? I tried googling ways to fall asleep faster but it was all really weird stuff...
Exlon wrote:twistedfairytale45 wrote:I think one reason I don't really dream anymore is because I'm usually really stressed when I'm falling asleep because recently I've been trying really hard to wake up at my alarm so I fall asleep, afraid that I won't wake up to my alarm(or sometimes I'm stressed because I know if I don't wake up I won't have time to do last minute homework), and that puts me into a very quick feeling sleep suddenly disturbed by the morning. I get stressed way to easily... and guess what? I'm pretty sure that stress comes from lack of sleep. My friend told me that highschoolers should get 8-10 hours of sleep. I usually only get about 6 or 7 because I got to bed at like 10-11 pm(but because of some issues with my brain it takes like 1-2 hours to fall alseep) and then I wake up at 6 am.
So I'm kinda stuck in this weird cycle of stress and lack of sleep. I get stressed so I can't sleep but I need sleep so that I'm not stressed.... my life is so weird and hard that I sometimes wish I could just live in a plain old world of nothingness with only my imagination. Well maybe I could at night if my life wasn't so stressful XD.
I can get really complicated sometimes. Instead of dreaming tips, does anyone have sleeping tips???? I tried googling ways to fall asleep faster but it was all really weird stuff...
Huh, that's funny, because over the past couple of years or something, I'm stressed and tired all the time, and I have a crap-ton of dreams that don't make sense. I'll just wake up and blink blearily and be like "...Yeah, I dunno. That was bizarre."
Scientifically speaking, you always have dreams in your REM sleep, but I get what you mean. I feel like I used to have deeper, more restful sleep that seemed more like blackouts.
Mullet Death wrote:I'm not really sure if lucid dreamng is really a thing or not. There have been times I've been aware that I was dreaming and tried to change the dream's course-- but was I really changing anything about the dream, or did I just THINK I was, and that, too, was part of the dream? The outcomes of any of my supposed attempts to change my dreams, and especially my nightmares, seem to suggest more of the latter if you ask me.
As for the content of my dreams, I've never taken drugs, but I'm assuming that if you took a fatal amount of LSD, you'd see something like a typical dream before death.
Exlon wrote:Mullet Death wrote:I'm not really sure if lucid dreaming is really a thing or not. There have been times I've been aware that I was dreaming and tried to change the dream's course-- but was I really changing anything about the dream, or did I just THINK I was, and that, too, was part of the dream? The outcomes of any of my supposed attempts to change my dreams, and especially my nightmares, seem to suggest more of the latter if you ask me.
As for the content of my dreams, I've never taken drugs, but I'm assuming that if you took a fatal amount of LSD, you'd see something like a typical dream before death.
Lucid dreaming specifically means having awareness in your dream that you are not awake, and as a result, you have more control over yourself and sometimes your surroundings (I've found the latter to be harder though, it takes a certain type of concentration).
Dante wrote:It's almost a kind of faith if you think about it. You can do just about anything, but you have to believe that you can do it. Flying, for instance, is really easy for me in dreams as I've done it so many times, that once I know I'm dreaming it's nothing new. I 'know' I can fly, therefore I can (just like walking, only faster). If I 'knew' I could do other things, I could do those as well. That's why it's sometimes easier to ask others in the dreamworld to do something for you. When someone else says they can do something, we believe them to an extent, so they tend to bring about results. However, you also have those abilities in the dream, you just don't believe it yet. Supposedly, if you ask those other powerful dream characters who they are, however, I've heard they say they're actually you. Go figure. I never imagined they'd be so truthful. I actually had this conversation during a lucid dream a couple of nights ago, with a black panther. As par what other people said, the panther informed me that they were me. They were also willing to transport me to where I wanted to go, although they warned me against it, saying "I wouldn't go there." Really an interesting lucid dream.
Never thirsty! wrote:I've had lucid dreams before they're amazing although question does anyone ever have trouble when you spontaneously realize you're dreaming and then you try to change the dream and the it ends up waking you up but your eyes are still closed but you can feel that you've awakened
PLCDreamcatcher14 wrote:
That TOTALLY makes sense! I often really enjoy my dreams and they feel like a real adventure. I love wandering through these places I've never seen, going through the 'plot' of the story (though I rarely get to see how it ends ), and being able to talk to people I've never met and see how they are connected to me or my character in the dream. lol. Though, sometimes I wonder if some of the people we've seen in dreams that we know we've never met are actually people we will meet one day. My mom said that she had a dream one time where she met this guy and she described everything about him except she could never see his face. Months later she met a guy and eventually they started dating but it wasn't until months later that she realized he very accurately fit the description of the guy from her dream. They're still together now. And I've had like three dreams with the same guy appearing in all of them but I can never see his face but I feel like he's someone I'm supposed to meet one day too. Dreams are fascinating. ^_^
Exlon wrote:That kind of makes sense, like if you realize it's not real, you're just kind of like "Oh." And the value's gone a bit. I feel like lucid dreams for me are kind of like, not that they become completely value-less, but it's kind of like virtual reality at its best. Then, even if I can't control things around me, at least I can actively explore my environment, and that's pretty cool when I know it's not real but it feels so real. I had one where I woke up in my own room at a ski resort, and I got up out of my bed and walked over to the balcony and pushed the glass doors open and I felt the cold breeze on my face and I put my hands on the railing which felt like legit, rough-hewn wood, and I had friends down below who were having a snowball fight and yelling at me to come down and join them (I don't think I knew any of them in real life). I think I yelled back at them that I had to get dressed first. xD
TheAlbinoMoose wrote:That makes it sound a lot more fun! It's a one-player virtual reality! I see what you mean when you say you can explore, and be more AWARE of the things around you - it's probably super exciting beyond anything EVER. Only, it would be more fun if your family/friends were in it, even if you know it's just a dream. Me and my sister always have dreams with each other in them, and we share them with each other, and be like, "yep. I was there. I did that. I remember." It makes for some good memories of things that never happened. Having a lucid dream with real people would be the best
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