Thread: Are my lucid dreaming abilities common?

Originally Posted by Aza

I started having lucid dreams about 5 years ago. Why? I have no idea, they just started out of the blue.

psh, you tell me! You'll most likely find that the majority of people here will be very jealous of you

Originally Posted by Aza

my "tell" for myself that I'm dreaming is biting my lip.

we call those "reality checks" just incase you may get confused when someone uses the term.

Originally Posted by Aza

Two of the "abilities" I have made for myself while dreaming is becoming unnoticable by those around me and rewinding. To become invisible, I make some stupidly elaborate arm gesture. To rewind, I just say "okay okay, go back" or whatever. I use this to correct mistakes I make like accidently sending someone to their doom or whatnot. It's usually very effective.

well... even if they're not the most common, pretty much anything like that that you can imagine yourself doing is possible in a lucid dream, so it's not weird or anything

Originally Posted by Aza

I've had the ability to feel in my dreams. Not to feel pain perse, but to feel textures. I often pick things up in dreams just so I can remember doing it when I wake up.

I feel things too. I had a lucid dream where I was flying over the ocean and could feel the wind and the spray coming off the water and everything. It's cool huh!

Originally Posted by Aza

Another odd thing. I remember reading a report on how reading in dreams was impossible, but I've started to be able to do it.. slightly.

A lot of the reason why this is hard for people is because they read stuff like that and then actually believe that it's impossible. But it's not. I've read in a dream before. They also say that anything that uses electricty doesn't work either, but i've been able to turn on lights. So it's really just whatever you believe, your subconcious will make it so.

anyway, hope that helped.