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Annoying dream problems
I'm hunting for advice on halting a number of irritating problems that have been occurring frequently in lucid and non lucid dreams. If anyone has any inspiration for dealing with these issues, I'm open to it.
Constipated/Have to poo feeling or Queasy/Overfull/Sick to stomach feeling.
I put both these feelings under the same subtopic but the former has caused me much more grief. I have had many a lucid dream in where I felt as though I had to go to the toilet moments after becoming lucid, and thus decide to wake myself up, only to find nature really isn't calling after all and that I've just wasted a lucid. More recently, I've stopped waking myself up. The feeling persists and I cannot seem to make it go away in-dream, and it draws too much of my attention away from the happenings within the dreamworld.
Empty Realistic Dreams, No dream control, Sky domes
Simply put, the dream will be set in a highly realistic recreation of a common life setting. (My house, my high school, my college campus.) No dream characters will be present, not even animals. The weather is often clear, high noon, with not a single cloud and no wind. In some instances, I have dream control abilities but cannot summon characters. (Generally the only thing I can manage to do is fly). I will attempt to fly away but hit the sky, which is like a dome of a painted backdrop or mural representing the sky.
Other times I cannot fly. I have attempted to walk to the edge of my mental map of the area in hopes that I will encounter something interesting as the dream cannot continue to create the realistic environment, but have yet to succeed. Sometimes I find that the environment (building or arrangement of buildings) simply repeats itself endlessly in all directions. I also cannot seem to wake myself up within this dream, something I have normally no trouble doing.
High School Dreams with false memories
I've had tons of these dreams since the comp (1-2 a night consistently since the competition) that I'm back in high school. Every single one of them has a veritable firewall of false memories telling me that "I'm back in high school because there's some class I forgot to take." or something. Despite my best efforts, I cannot seem to become lucid or reality check within these dreams.
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The first problem sounds like a subconscious habit that needs to be broken, maybe through some old event you associate both lucid dreaming and having to go to the toilet, so subconsciously it happens often. You can break that subconscious habit/belief by breaking it in a creative way in a lucid dream, or perhaps meditate on it and tell yourself that it won't happen again, because, logically there is no reason for this to happen, so why would it?
Not so sure about the second problem on WHY it happens, but if that happens you can just teleport out of there into a new place.
I get that third problem quite often, it is also pretty hard for me to realize that I'm dreaming in such a situation because the worry of: "Oh crap I forgot my school bag" or "I forgot to do my homework" or also "Where is my class at?" overtakes everything in this dream.
Although I would suggest repeating a mantra for it and meditating on it like: "The next time I am in school, I will reality check"
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if you were too believe dream book Constipation could mean
To dream that you have constipation denotes that you are unwilling to part with your old ways. You continue to grasp onto your old ways and fail to let go, forgive, and forget. You may be dwelling on past problems and previous difficulties.
Kind of fits in with the old school dream maybe something on your mind from the past.
Funny been having similar problem last month constantly dreaming about people from the past maybe its in the stars :cheeky:
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The second problem is something I also struggle with. What time of night are you experiencing these types of dreams? These types of dreams only really happen if I WILD and is usually caused by entering the dream "too soon" if that makes sense, like I didn't let the hypnagogia pass all the way. The dome sky problem is a interesting one but probably only confirmed by your subconscious every time you experience it, perpetuating it because you are expecting it each time. Just know that there are hardly any rules in lucid dreaming and there is no reason why that would happen again other than your expectations. Some ways I get out of these dreamscapes is by using a closed door to teleport (all about expectation here, again) or flying high to another place. I think it is mainly your expectations of repetition that are holding you back.
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Retrospectively, I love those sandbox dreams, no one is around , everything is more or less stable ,and its just you , alone. I wish I had a lucidity high enough to think more reasonably, remember my goals, and open a portal to gtfo of there
Oh the highschool part is so familiar, except it was middle school dreams that got me badly
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I'm with you on the third problem. Being in high school or around people I knew in high school is one of my most common dream signs, though for some reason I have almost never been able to recognize it as one while in the dream. I think the problem stems from a traumatic high school experience (for me at least) where I was panicky and stressed at all times. That feeling floods back to me in dreams. I am wondering if there is something we could do about stress in our currently lives to help train our brains to pay attention even during these overwhelming and stressful false memories?