Thread: The way I dream

I've been able to lucid dream for as long as I can remember, it often happens as I'm waking up. When I'm waking up and just laying around in bed, I have the high-level lucid dreaming where I'm aware that I'm awake and in bed, but my mind keeps flowing with the dream. I'm both in the dream and watching it at the same time. I do think to myself "should I wake up?" but I decide I don't want to, and just let my mind keep going until it runs out of ideas. Then I wake up. For me it's like watching TV. You can't control it, you could turn if off if you wanted to, but you want to see what happens.

I don't control my dreams purposely. I wouldn't want to, because dreaming to me is like making up stories of what I and other people would do in certain situations. I don't control the people and I don't control the situations or the outcomes, it's just whatever flows out of my subconscious that happens, which is guided by what I know of the people I know. If I was controlling them, then it wouldn't be dreaming as far as I'm concerned.

My dreams are all realistic, meaning that they are possible situations subjected to the laws of nature. My dreams are basically me and other people I know, sometimes other people that I don't quite know or made up, going through some kind of situation. Not everyone even has to look like anything, because in my dream it may not matter. If I care or wonder, my mind will chose or make up someone. The scene is usually realistic or based off something in real life. It also is usually pretty spartan, unless I care and then my mind creates something that makes sense. It's mostly action/movement with some talking. It took me a while to figure out if I dreamed in color, and eventually I figured that there is some color, but it doesn't matter to me while I'm dreaming.

The only nonrealistic part is when people suddenly change or scenes change; it's my mind either changing or refining who it was or where we were. Sometimes that bothers me while I'm dreaming but I usually just go with it. I suppose that would be a "dream sign." The only other "dream sign" I have is when some part of my dream repeats, or I realize I've had this dream before. Then I'm in a lucid state thinking "I've had this dream before" and just let the dream continue until I wake up or go back to non-lucid sleep.

The only time I have a low-level lucid dream is when something scary is happening... and then I wake up at the end of it. I've dreamt about killing someone before, or doing something else that I really really regretted, and I'd be scared and regretting it absolutely terribly as it's going along... then as I wake up, I try to figure out if it really happened or if it was a dream. Sometimes I have difficulty. But I slowly come to the realization it was a dream and feel so relieved and just keep thanking God over and over that it didn't really happen.

Other characteristics of my dreams: I've tripped many times in dreams before... some normal dream will be going along and I'll just accidentally trip at some point. My whole body feels like it's falling and I wake up half way through the fall realizing I'm in my bed not going anywhere, even tho my whole body continues to feel like it's falling through my bed... it's so wrong and strange feeling. When I'm scared and try to talk or scream, it gets stuck in my throat and I can't talk. Otherwise when I'm feeling normal, I will sometimes talk out loud, tho not while I'm lucid dreaming.