Finally, I have hands!

So I've been a member of this forum for over 4 years now and probably haven't visited here in almost just as long - to be honest, I had completely forgot about the 'concept' of lucid dreaming and this website.

So last night I randomly landed back on the site and noticed I had an account. I was reading around the forums, reminiscing about how cool it was to lucid dream and about how I was never able to RC using my hands in the past.

Amazingly, last night as I entered a dream I realized I was dreaming and instantaneously looked at my hands and, to my amazement, I had real, normal hands! I looked again seconds later and I was missing fingers, parts of my hand etc.

I continued the dream having full awareness and had a pretty awesome dream and remember celebrating (in my dream) that I was able to RC looking at my hands, yay!

I've always been able to lucid dream, it's amazingly easy for me. I simply go to sleep and once a dream starts I instantly know I'm dreaming and can manipulate my dreams - I wonder why it's so easy for some and not for others?!

Even when I wake up, if I try going back to sleep I usually re-enter my dream at the exact place it left off within a few minutes. I've even been able to wake up in the middle of a dream, go get a drink, come back and continue in the same dream - it's so odd.

The whole concept of dreaming is odd, it's even weirder that when I know I am dreaming, I can wake myself up to check if it's time to get up for work and if I wake up and it isn't, I can just sleep and dream again.

Dreaming is a truly magical and strange thing.

Congratulations!! Awsome!! i'm still practicing . not yet had a lucid dream. You seem like you're good at it. I envy you. So i'll practice alot to get up to your level!!!

Thanks for sharing

Hey MaverickUK

Please tell me more about you. I am "friending" you so what ever you post on dreamviews (on threads and dream journal) it will pop up on my profile.

I too would like to know how a few can Lucid Dream and other folk (like me) don't.


You wrote in your first post in 2009:

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Newcomer at the ready!

Hi all,I have been interested in lucid dreaming for quite some years now, however after trying for a while i completely gave up and just watched my dreams from 3rd person perspective and gone along with whatever is happening. I was talking to my friend the other day about lucid dreaming, he thought i was obviously talking rubbish fairytales - so i looked up lucid dreaming and it brought me here, to you guys!Anyway i have a few questions that maybe some of the more experienced lucid dreamers can help me out with.

*1) Basically, i think in almost all of my dreams i know that i am dreaming and i try to alter the environment around me but if i try too hard, i wake up - why?

2) If i'm aware i am dreaming, does this mean i'm lucid?

3) Lots of times when i know i'm dreaming i try and look at my hands, but i don't have any hands or i just can't see them - why is this?

*4) I have (many times) had circumstances where i'm in a dream and someone would say, call my mobile phone and in my dream i have a phone in my pocket and as soon as i answer it i wake up and realise my phone is ringing in real life - why?

5) I can hear the outside World sometimes when i'm in a dream. I am asleep, but i can hear the real World at the same time (i.e. if someone is outside going past my window talking etc) - why?

6) When i wake up sometimes i can go back to sleep within say 5 minutes or so and my dream just carrys on where it left off. When i awake i know i have been dreaming and i know aspects of my dream so i usually try and go back to sleep to carry on with the dream but don't seem to be able to have control - why?

7) Whilst lucid, i have the mental power to wake myself up when and as i wish - i assume this is normal? For example if i know i am dreaming and i know i have to wake up at x time the following morning i can wake myself up to check the time and then go back to sleep and carry on dreaming.

I'm sorry for all the questions but i don't see how else i could get my answers other than from you guys.

You could say i'm new to the whole lucid dreaming, but i've been doing it for quite a while without even realising i'm in a lucid dream or what a lucid dream is.Thank you in advance guys, i look forward to speaking to you all!Regards,Nick.

Last edited by MaverickUK; 10-02-2009 at06:46 AM.

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Originally Posted by havago

I too would like to know how a few can Lucid Dream and other folk (like me) don't.

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I have some theories about this after having been around the whole LD phenomenon for a while. Entirely unscientific mind you :).
"Naturals" could have various traits in part or in combination:

+ they are light sleepers (close to wakefulness)
+ their brains have highly active neurotransmitters (like they're permanently on a galantamine/choline "high")
+ they have a higher level of awareness