Lucid Dreaming?

PhantomOG

anyone ever read or heard about lucid dreaming? bunch of hoopla or is it really worthwhile? seems like it was bigger late 60's/early 70's. I just happened to run across it while reading another forum (a finance forum of all places!).

Lucid Dreaming

sounds interesting, there is a book on Amazon for $7 that is supposed to be the best on the subject.

Ron-P

I've had some dreams like this, seems like my very sexy neighbor across the street is alwyas in them. I just hope I never yell out her name instead, my wife would be pissed.

Skynut

This has happened to me. Usually it happens in the morning and when I start to control the dream I wake up. It totally sucks because all I want to do is fall back asleep and keep dreaming but it is too late.

It would be totally fun to control a long dream but......I always wake up.

bobman1235

I've had a lucid dream or two. I thinkt he whole "training" to make yourself have them is a bunch of nonsense - you either do or don't.

Every time I've ever started to have one I always wake up - it's kind of blurring the line between dream and reality, and throws me into consciousness.

PhantomOG

Zero wrote:

...every single person I run into that is *openly* curious about lucid/astral dreaming...

"openly"? is there some stigma attached to this idea that I am unaware of? I had never heard of this until reading about it this morning and just thought I'd see if anyone here had heard of it before.

Just from the sounds of it (very hippie sounding to me!), I don't see how it could possibly fit into any common (albeit ignorant) stereotypes usually placed on individuals who reside in the state of Texas.

PhantomOG

sorry, not good at picking up tone on forum postings.

i musta missed the invisible smiley

ClemmonsHoo

Start keeping a dream journal and you will get there. If you just tell yourself when you go to bed that you are going to remember and right down your dreams you will begin to remember them more and more, and they will become more vivid. That will lead to more incidents of lucid dreaming. It really does work.

Demiurge

Just drop a couple of hits of acid and be done with it. Not only will you remember them, you'll have them when you don't want to.

AsSiMiLaTeD

Sean doesn't think much of us Texans...

Early B.

Yeah, I've done it a few times. But to really do it right, you gotta understand the purpose of dreams, how to perform lucid dreams at will, and what you are supposed to do whenever you wake up inside your dreams. There are also more effective and safer ways to achieve the same goal, but to explain it all would get into a bunch of religious philosophy that we cannot discuss on this forum. In fact, that kind of discussion you ain't gonna find in a book or on the Internet.

PhantomOG

Early B. wrote:

Yeah, I've done it a few times. But to really do it right, you gotta understand the purpose of dreams, how to perform lucid dreams at will, and what you are supposed to do whenever you wake up inside your dreams. There are also more effective and safer ways to achieve the same goal, but to explain it all would get into a bunch of religious philosophy that we cannot discuss on this forum. In fact, that kind of discussion you ain't gonna find in a book or on the Internet.

I don't really buy into anything religious about it so maybe that means I wouldn't believe in it at all. I don't remember 99% of my dreams and the 1% that I do remember I'm doing the same crap I do in everyday real life.

The book I was referring to actually discusses it in a more scientific way and somewhat dismisses any religious/ethereal aspects so you are probably right in your statement.

aaharvel

either coming out of REM or going into a panic attack. Take your pick.