Same dream / take two

[Howie]

I had an odd experiance last night. I have had dreams in the past that I was dreaming that I was lucid. Wich I know that sounds odd in itself. And dreams where I have talked of being lucid, but both being non-lucid dreams. But last night I had a reaccuring dream. But the odd thing is, the dream was that of one of my lucid dreams that I have had previously. The the first time nothing spectacular. But it was lucid. I was in my front yard when WWII planes were flying over. I realize at that point I was in a dream. I began to fly around as the planes then dissapeared. Last night I had the same dream. It was just a dream. Had I not written down my lucid experiance of the dream to compare the two, I am not sure if I would have thought I really had a lucid before or I was just manifesting it out of the latest dream. Anyone else have an experiance similar to this?

[nina]

im confused

[l3xicon]

Ur experience sounds really crazy! I do have reacurring dreams, but none like that. I do know that if the brain finds interest in something that keeps in good memory check it comes 2 revisit dream wise. Not that i know 2 much...but i am majoring in pysch...just started though...but yeah, it could've just been a simple glinch in the memory phase. If the dream really didn't have that much signifigance 2 u & it happened 2 reappear anyhow then i'm totally lost...not that i'm found right now anyways

[Yume]

So basically you had a lucid dream one night and then you had the same dream yet you were not lucid right? I have never had this happen to me. I don't think that my subconcious would want to replay a dream that I was lucid in. It doesn't have the time for that. My dreams are almost always different save a few occasions.

[Kaniaz]

Originally posted by Aquanina im confused

[Howie]

Originally posted by Aquanina im confused & Kaniaz. Basically it was a reaccuring dream. The first time the dream was lucid. The second time the dream was not.

[SantaDreamsToo]

how can you not understand that thats interesting, Iv never had this happen although I have been LDing and walked up onto one of my past dreams (it was like I was walking onto a set or something)

[Clairity]

Howetzer, that is pretty freaky. I can't say I've ever experienced having the same dream twice (lucid or not).

[Howie]

Originally posted by SantaDreamsToo+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SantaDreamsToo)</div> how can you not understand that thats interesting, Iv never had this happen although I have been LDing and walked up onto one of my past dreams (it was like I was walking onto a set or something)[/b] Thank you. I did not think it was that hard to understand. But I am not that good at explaining myself. I find your experiance much more intrigueing. Like Clairity said: <!--QuoteBegin-Clairity Howetzer, that is pretty freaky. I can't say I've ever experienced having the same dream twice (lucid or not). I think had it been the other way around for me where I was conscious the second time it would have been obviosly quite differant. I am not sure how I would have reacted. How did you Santa?

[SantaDreamsToo]

I was happy, I walked up on a alter that I had seen ghosts and bigfoot at in the non LD, but because I was lucid I heard the howling of the ghosts and stuff and just laughed because I wasnt afraid like I was in the non LD and walked calmly away. It was a great feeling to overcome a nightmaire like that

[Howie]

Originally posted by SantaDreamsToo I was happy, I walked up on a alter that I had seen ghosts and bigfoot at in the non LD, but because I was lucid I heard the howling of the ghosts and stuff and just laughed because I wasnt afraid like I was in the non LD and walked calmly away. It was a great feeling to overcome a nightmaire like that That is great. And I would bet you will never have to overcome that nightmare agian. I can almost count on one hand the amount of nightmares I have had since I have learned to lucid dream. Although I am not lucid in many of them it has seemed to effect my subconscious at some level. And any nightmares that I do have I try to address in my next lucid dream. I like your saying, I wake up a little more every time I dream.[/b]

[Aneas]

I wrote a post similair to this one a while back. I dreamed the same dream environment back to back in one night but I took a different path of events in the same dream at a certain point. The outcome was the same but I experienced it from a different perspective. Does this make sense?

[Tornado Joe]

Ok, just so I got this straight: Dream 1: WWII planes flying, you become lucid and fly along. Dream 2: same as Dream1, you do not become lucid. Now, you say the weird part is not the recurring dream itself, but the fact that you didn't become lucid the second time? Well, the same part of dreaming that lets you believe pigs can fly is probably the same part that made you think the planes flying in your front yard were normal - HOWEVER When was it that you realized you had dreamed this before? with you. Once outside (in waking life) you were able to make the connection by looking from a different perspective - the outside in. (making any sense?) The question really is..... which is outside and which is in? Pretty strange stuff you advanced LDers can do -- you lucky bastards!

[YULAW]

Originally posted by Aquinina+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Aquinina)</div> Im confused Originally posted by Kaniaz+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Kaniaz) Im confused<!--QuoteBegin-Dashival @ Im confused<!--QuoteBegin-ShadowNightWing Im really confused! [/b] [/b][/quote]

[Yume]

That would be something pretty neat to investigate. I wonder if I ever had that happened to me in a dream I didn't remember.

[Howie]

Originally posted by Tornadoe Joe When was it that you realized you had dreamed this before? Was it after you woke up? If so this would indicate that the mind must treat previous lucid experiences within another lucid experience the same as waking life experiences - difficult to bring them into dreamland with you. Once outside (in waking life) you were able to make the connection by looking from a different perspective - the outside in. (making any sense?) I realized that this was a lucid dream I had when I woke up. I thought it was a lucid dream before, when I checked my journal, it was. But the obvious differance was in the second dream I had no control because I was not conscious. But the dream played out just as it had when I was lucid and in control. And instant replay if you will. But from a non-lucid perspective. That is paculiar that you mention realization and waking life. The reason is because last night I had another odd experiance. Pushing the envoploe of what is real and what is a dream to the limits. As I have been praticing the art of awareness and read several books that pertains to that, my lucid dreams have become reality. Relaity in the sense that there is no dream like scenario about them. My experiance last night. (Although I was sick) I woke up (or so I thought) I had to go to the bathroom. I looked at the clock. It was 1:30 A.M. As I stood up I realized it was raining outside. I thought to myself Great!!. For it has been very dry and we could use the rain. I went to the window and watched it rain for about what seemed to be one minute. I shut the window. I went to the bathroom and then I went back into my room and went back to sleep.........It doesn't sound like a dream does it? Well This morning, not thinking that it was a dream I checked on my weather station to see how much rain we had recieved. It registered none. Odd, I thought. I looked outside. It was dry as a bone. I was then and still am confused. a lot of my lucid dreams play along with realism. But never have I not been able to distinguish one from the other. The only thing I had to prove to me I had a dream was fact. Nothing else. No clock dialtion, no sense of a dream. But the feeling of it consciously happening like a lucid or like a real life event was there.

[Tornado Joe]

Well This morning, not thinking that it was a dream I checked on my weather station to see how much rain we had recieved. It registered none. Odd, I thought. I looked outside. It was dry as a bone. [/b] Well, I'm certainly not trying to discredit your findings - I know we live not too far apart and I do know that we have had very scattered small storm cells in our area the last couple of days. So, it might be slightly possible that you got up right around the time one of them small bursts came through your area, stopped just after you went back to bed, and dried up by the time you got up. In cases like this, even good ol' Dick Goddard wouldn't count these sprinkles as cumulative rain. Still, if your gut tells you it was a lucid dream, I'd certainly believe that. I think that's one of the great things about lucid dreams, it's like experiencing life 24 hours a day. If you can manage to have dreams that aren't extrodinary and abnormal, waking life and dreaming would be one! How F**ing cool is THAT!!

[Howie]

Originally posted by Tornadoe Joe Well, I'm certainly not trying to discredit your findings - I know we live not too far apart and I do know that we have had very scattered small storm cells in our area the last couple of days. So, it might be slightly possible that you got up right around the time one of them small bursts came through your area, stopped just after you went back to bed, and dried up by the time you got up. In cases like this, even good ol' Dick Goddard wouldn't count these sprinkles as cumulative rain. The thing is that I have one of those fancy dancy digital Oregon Scientific weather stations. It records the date on the computor as it happens and keeps record of it. So even if there were 0.08" of rain, it would record 0.08" in last 24 hours. (Dick Goddard doesn't know shit.! He should work for an animal shelter!)

[Tornado Joe]

....He should work for an animal shelter![/b] LOL - He pretty much does!

[Raihab]

wow, that's odd... lol.. wouldn't expect that to happen. Don't get why it's so confusing though, he basically had dreamt the lucid dream in a natural unlucid dream... or to put it in other words he had a recurring dream about a lucid dream... not sure if I said that right though... lol.