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I found this site about a week ago because I got an interesting problem.
I got pretty bad bi-polar. And I take some pretty hard core meds every night.
Recently I have been having a scary experience at night. Its kinda the opposite of LD.
I "wake up" in the middle of the night and do truly bizarre things like, walk down stairs, open a can of beens or whatever and dump
it on the kitchen counter, (only one of the many strange things I have done) then I climb back into bed and go back to sleep.
You can imagine what goes on in the morning when I go downstairs and find food all over my counter and I have no idea how it got there.
So I figure its my body dreaming without the logic side waking up, or something like that. But believe me its kinda scary to imagine yourself
doing something complex like opening a can or whatever without "knowing" you are doing it.

I would really rather not up the meds so I figured I would try and learn more about dreams and see if I fix this problem.
And that is how I found you guys. And I cant tell you how glad I am I did!
Since I have been focusing on dream recall its almost like my brain knows its being watched and has been behaving it's self. :)
I now have 2 to 3 dreams that I can recall every night!
I have not remembered a dream in years! At first I thought the meds might interfere with LDing
But I think it might not be impossible. Anybody else have to take what amounts sleeping tablets with lithium and still be able to LD?

Now a simple question..
In my dreams I'm not really in them, its more like I'm watching a movie. Is this kinda normal.

I just want to thank you guys big time, you don't know how much you have helped by saving me from upping the med again.

that kinda sounds like sleep walking

I feel like that too. Where it seems as if I'm watching dream as a movie and i'm not actually in it. I'm curious about that as well.

Taking medication and stuff can effect your chances of having a lucid dream, but you probably have nothing to worry. Normally the sleeping pills and stuff, makes it so you can't remeber your dreams, at all, and that is what makes it harder to have a lucid dream. If you are remebering 2 or 3 dreams a night, then it probably isn't effecting your dreams.

It is also pretty normal to have dreams like that. Everyone is a little different, but almost everyonw has dreams like that once in a while, and some people do have them all the time.

Yeah, that's probably sleep walking. I don't think being bipolar does anything like that because I've researched all the physical/ mental symptoms a lot because I'm bipolar too.




"Anybody else have to take what amounts sleeping tablets with lithium and still be able to LD?"



Yeah, I'm on Lithium plus 2 - 3 pills of Geodon for sleeping. I haven't tried to remember my dreams in awhile, but I had about 6 - 7 lucid dreams in 45 minutes last night, because I went to sleep without taking my sleeping pills. Horrible dreams, only lasted a minute in dream time and my head felt like I'd just taken 5 sleeping pills IN the dream so it'd fall and it'd be extremely hard to lift it during them.




I kept waking up after every one. I only didn't take my pills after the first one because I wanted to see if I could harness it and have a long lucid dream. I was in one, and flying down toward a lake that looked like it was full of blue colored Lifestream from FF7
(http://www.finalfantasyunion.com/gpics/lifestream.jpg) with another guy, because another guy needed something from it, when my head just fell and that numbing and prickly sensation came back, I tried to lift it up and continue the dream but couldn't. I just woke up. Weird opposite/ reversal thing that being tired should wake me up. After I took my two pills, I slept 19 restful hours. I was kinda locked in the depression exhaustion. Shaky for awhile after I woke up too. I'm type 2 bipolar, which means more depression then manic but I haven't done THAT in awhile.



Normally though, I can lucid dream when I want usually. Just haven't actively tried in awhile. I usually DILD when going for lucids, as starting lucids suck for me because they're so boring.




"Now a simple question..
In my dreams I'm not really in them, its more like I'm watching a movie. Is this kinda normal."



Yeah, I used to do that all the time when I was younger, kinda like you were watching yourself do something in the dream. I don't do that anymore though. Maybe you should stop watching a lot of movies like I used to or something.

Thanks so much for the reply, so good to hear someone can LD on the meds.

Everyone dreams differently. The way you dream is perfectly normal. You should try getting into LD. I think it would be interesting to hear how you do it and what you can do with it from an outside of body point of view. Maybe you could even start getting inside of your body in your dreams with practice.