OK! So I used to have an account here I believe but i've forgotten what username I used, and it was around 3 or 4 years ago so I've made a new account for what just happened.
So my cousin has been having this habbit of falling asleep on my couch.
In the past I have told him about Lucid Dreaming and he had said he'd had 1 or 2 lucid dreams in the past I believe. I myself have not been having lucid dreams at all for about 2 years despite my efforts.
Tonight, My cousin fell asleep on my couch again! He started talking in his sleep, so I asked him if he was dreaming, and he said "No!".
Well I wanted to make sure so I asked him "What are you looking at?"
He said "Quiet Man! Can't you see i'm trying to cook!?
SO!
I said to him "Well actually I want you to stay VERY CALM"
"You're actually DREAMING right now, did you know that?"
Still talking in his sleep he said "No I told you i'm not dreaming, I'm driving!"
I said back, "You're driving now?"
and he said "Yup".
So I tried to keep him talking while i looked around my house for anything I could record this event with, knowing that I had a sleep talker telling me what he was dreaming and responding to my questions outloud!"
So I questioned "What are you driving?"
and he said "A White Van"
so I said "And who's in the Van with you?"
and he replied "Well, You, Me, and the Girl"
so I asked "Who's the Girl?"
and he said "I don't know but shes really HOT!"
heh so being 24 I tried to get him to touch her breasts and I told him she told me she really wanted him to.
He said back to me "No way Myles! I dont need videogame boobs like you do"
AH HA HA HA
So I figured seeing as how we'd been playing this game called Burnout for Xbox, that he was probably dreaming he was playing the game, which I had been doing while he was sleeping 5 feet away until he had started talking in his sleep.
So I decided I'd have a go at turning up the graphics a bit and said,
"Doesn't everything look real!?"
and he scoffed at me "OF COURSE IT LOOKS REAL! IT IS REAL!!"
I knew then that I had him.
So I said "Can we talk for a minute? I really want to talk to you for just a few minutes, can you pull over?"
and he said "Ok, Hold on let me pull over"
To make sure I had him I restated that I wanted to talk back and forth for a FEW MINUTES.
When he replied "Ok, lets talk!" I took it as ok If I keep him talking this will be really awesome"
I was still running in my mind at how i should be videotaping this but I didn't even have a good microphone or anything ready to be used at that moment.
So I said to him "I really need to know what is your favorite car?"
and he said "My favorite car? Hmmm I guess that would have to be a Lincoln Contenental"
I said "Perfect! Cause I just bought you one and I wanted to make sure I guessed the right kind of car!, It's right around the corner at the car dealership"
He said "No you didn't"
and I said "Quick there it is pull into the driveway"
"It's around the other side of the building under a blanket, there it is, Are you ready!?"
and he gasped "Noooo Waaaaaay"
and i said "Ok im going to pull the blanket off"
"THERE! Is it the right color!?"
and he goes "Yea, ITS BLACK!"
So I said "Here's the keys, it's yours now, go for a spin"
He said "I can't, you cant afford a Lincoln"
Heh, so I told him I'd just sold the videogame i'm making in real life, and
I bought it for him for his Birthday"
I had forgotten that due to his religion, he had never had his birthday celebrated. He didn't get presents a card or anything ever.
I realized this when he said "I don't get Birthday presents"
So I thought PEERRRRFFEECCTTT.
You know what I said to him next?
I said "I know man, that's why I got you this Black Lincoln Continental for your Birthday this year, to make up for all the times nobody gave you anything"
"Get in and go for a drive"
He started humming and hawwing
so i added "Good you finally got in the car.. oh well atleast you got it started, now where are you going to go?"
He said "I don't know man, I don't know whether to go Left or Right"
I said "It doesn't matter just go for a cruise."
and he said "Okay"
So then I asked him "Is this fun or what?"
and he said "Yeah THIS IS FUN! AHAHA MAN IM FLOORING IT"
I said "Do you remember me giving you the car?"
and he said "Yeah i'm driving it, of course I remember it YOU JUST GAVE IT TO ME LIKE A MINUTE AGO"
so I said "Are you going to remember this for the rest of your life?"
and he said "Of course im going to remember this"
I added "For the rest of your life?"
and he said "Deffinately."
I was trying to make it so he would remember the dream as clearly as possible when he woke up so I said "Okay, well I want you to look around and remember all this even back what we did a few minutes ago and put it in the part of your brain that will make it a really clear memory for a long time"
and he said "Okay Myles" in a sarcastic but obliging tone.
So then I had to talk him into not crashing the car which was the objective in the videogame we'd just been playing before he fell asleep, I told him that in real life car accident hurt people, and he said "Ah Ive been in lots of car accidents"
So to change the topic,
I asked him "So you seem to be driving professionally and carefully enough that you can hold a conversation safely, If you could have anything happen next, what would it be?"
He replied "Well I'd like to pick up my girlfriend hitch-hiking, but thats not going to happen"
so I said "NOoo Way! Look there she is right there!"
He said "Shut up man! I'm trying to pull over to pick her up"
At this point I told him I'd get in the back seat of the car, and that she could ride "Shot Gun" AKA Front Passenger.
So then I realised that if his girlfriend had just gotten in the car, that he would probably want to talk to her, or that she may be talking to him and I didn't want him to get mad at me for interrupting anything, so I waited a few seconds.
Unfortunately but also fortunately, at this moment a neighbor knocked on the back door of my house.
I told the girl Jackie that she could come in but only if she was really quiet and played along. I told Ben (My Cousin) that the whole time Jackie had been hiding in the back seat.
HA! he said "Good, I hope she's got some weed!"
So figuring that dream drugs might not kill brain cells I told him she did have pot and I would twist one up.
Now Jackie is in real life watching me talk to my cousin who is dreaming.
She said a few words playing along that she was in the car, and Ben said Hi to her and I began asking him about what he saw, so as to proove to her that he was infact in a dream and that I was talking to him and manipulating the dream for him.
At this point Ben asked "Hey man are you going to roll that weed?"
and I answered "Yeah I just finished rolling it, here take it and light it up!"
At this point he actually physically leaned forward and reached out his hand to grab it, so in real life I reached forward to his hand to give him an imaginary joint.
He seemed to go into double vision and started swatting at my hand.
As I type this I realized that perhaps he was seeing 1 hand in the dream,
but 'sensing' my real hand which confused him?
As he fained to get the joint between his fingers he woke up opening his eyes and he looked at me and said "Nooo waaay dudeee"
I said "DO YOU REMEMBER THE LINCOLN!?"
and he very confusedly said "Yeah I remember the Contental, the girl, the dealership, everything."
HE ACTUALLY REMEMBERED THE WHOLE DREAM AS IF IT HAD JUST HAPPENED.
He said "Holy S#!t, I fell asleep on your couch, I gotta go home" and gave me 2 cigarettes for giving him the car and the girls.
Man, I've had lucid dreams, and I've heard of dream signaling with eye movements, but I had since hearing about the eye signal thing wanted to try and get a dreamer talking in their sleep just like I have just successfully done with my cousin! IT WORKS!
He was definitely talking to me about the dream out-loud, telling what he was doing / seeing, obeying my guiding suggestions, and remembered the whole thing when he woke up.
AMAZING.
I told him that i'll try it again next time he falls asleep and starts sleep talking again, and he said that would be fine.
I've wanted to try this exact scenario for around 2 or 3 years and just by chance it all fell into place this evening.
Damn, Now I wish I talked in MY sleep!
As an end note:
At the beginning I tried explaining lucid dreaming to him, that he was in a dream and could and should become lucid, but he wasn't having any of that lucid dream 'nonsense'. I even tried to get him to look at his hand and see 6 fingers to which he replied "I don't have 6 fingers, and if I did I'D BE MESSED UP." So that is how I decided to instead try and talk him through a dream that I thought he would really enjoy.
Please REPLY!!
And thank you for reading!
- MiLO83
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