Hi Face! Sorry for the delayed comment to your workbook, the end of the month is busiest for me around here. |
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Last edited by FriendlyFace; 04-29-2013 at 02:10 PM.
Hi Face! Sorry for the delayed comment to your workbook, the end of the month is busiest for me around here. |
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No problem, I'm in no hurry |
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Hah! Pee dreams. Did you have to go in real life, just wondering? I find it really interesting how outside senses affect our dreams, lucid or otherwise. |
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I don't think I had to go in real life, at least not badly since the feeling went away after I was out in the parking lot. I sometimes have to pee in a dream when I have to pee in real life. Other times I'll be able to pee in a dream and the feeling will go away. It's not infrequent that I'll have dreams where I'm looking for a toilet but unable to find one, or I'll find one but it'll be out in the open or something. I messed up my bladder in college with too many dissociatives and it's still not completely better, which is probably the reason for those dreams. I generally feel a lot more secure if I know there's a bathroom nearby. |
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Hiiii |
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Thanks paigeyemps! I became lucid twice last night. The first time I was on an athletic field at my old school. The field was covered in dandelions. I was doing flips and stuff and at one point I thought to myself "I wonder if I could do this in real life?" which made me realize that I was dreaming. I jumped up and started flying around, one fist outstretched like superman. At one point I lost focus and woke up, but I was able to dive right back in. I realized that I was losing focus when I got to parts of the campus that I didn't remember properly, or tried to leave the campus. It was pretty cool to observe the process actually, everything would go all black and white or fuzzy and I'd be like AH gotta concentrate! I was sitting on a roof trying to think of someplace else I could fly to that I remember, but thinking about other places made me lose focus completely and the dream ended. |
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Last edited by FriendlyFace; 05-09-2013 at 02:13 PM.
Lucid again last night. This time it was a nightmare (first one I've had in years). I was lost in a house that kept making weird noises and sending people who looked like friends/relatives to try and kill me. I became lucid but was unable to control anything... tried to put my hand through a wall to see if maybe I could just walk out of the house through the walls but it wouldn't go. I tried to fly through the ceiling but I just hit my head. The only way I was able to wake up was by jumping from a high balcony. Every time I become lucid it's got nothing to do with my reality checks, I just realize "hey this stuff doesn't happen." I don't think I've managed to do a single reality check in my dreams for months. |
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Congratulations! Wowwww so many lucids |
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Thanks for that link, those look some nifty techniques - the hard part is remembering to do that kind of stuff while I'm asleep! I was lucid AGAIN last night, I must be on some kind of roll. I was in a train station when I became lucid, and spent a good chunk of time trying to fly, but just ended up sliding long distances on the floor. Then someone came up to me and I don't remember what they said, but they explained something to me and I became much more lucid and was able to fly. After that the dream only lasted maybe ten seconds. It seems the more lucid I am the more focus it takes to stay in the dream. I assume that's normal yeah? The more "awake" you are the harder it is to stay asleep? |
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I think it may be that, just backwards: like, you are approaching the time that you would naturally wake up anyway, which results in more awareness in the lucid. But that's why it's handy that you were able to DEILD ( = "dive back" into the dream that one time you mentioned). Still, if it happens close to when you naturally wake up, then the price can be a shortened experience. |
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Well I did something like that today, my roommate had to get up early (well, at like 11) and he tends to make a lot of noise so by the time he left the apartment I was completely awake and aware. After he left I ended up in a dream and in the dream I was lying in bed still trying to fall asleep while my roommate made noise. I think I WILDed within the dream, because as I was trying to fall asleep this new world began unfolding, and although I wasn't aware that I was dreaming, my dream self was aware that this new world wasn't the world I had fallen asleep in and realized that he was dreaming. I remember thinking like "are these just thoughts or am I actually going to this place?" as it was appearing before me. It's actually one of the cooler things that has happened to me in a dream, because I was able to watch the whole dream come from scratch, just straight up blackness turned into a nice sort of Spanish seeming town as I walked around. I spent most of the time trying to walk on the walls, which I've never even thought of before and now doesn't really seem that cool. I wasn't so good at it. I had a lot more control over the world itself than I've ever had before, for example as it was being created I was able to sort of guide what it would look like, and once it was complete (like no blackness in my vision) I could decide what would be behind a door before I opened it. |
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So recently I've been noticing that in the mornings as I'm trying to fall asleep, I have these "dreams" that are a lot more coherent and detailed than the stuff I get in hypnagogia, but I'm not actually "there" the way I am in a normal dream. Like it's a scene playing out in front of me and I have no part in it. I was just wondering if that's maybe a step in the right direction for WILDing? Like if I could insert myself into those scenes I'm sure I would know I was dreaming. |
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Last edited by FriendlyFace; 05-25-2013 at 04:32 PM.
That could be a step in the right direction for your wild yes. Being outside the experience would suggest that on some level you know that you are in a dream. Stepping into those dreams sounds like a good idea. If you have awareness on any level combined with a solid dream, that is a good sign. |
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I agree with Chimp about it being a step in the right direction. Some of us like to call those dreamlets, the type of dreams where it's just kind of starting, but it's much more stable and sensible that the imagery we get in hypnagogia, but at the same time it's not a full-on dream yet. When that happens to me (and I luckily manage to be aware in that phase), I like to imagine myself in the dream. And by that I mean I try to interact with the dream. At first I'd have no body, like I'm just an observer. But then I try to think I'm just in first person mode, and then I visualize my dream body reaching out to touch objects, or move my limbs a little. I try to imagine how it feels when I am reaching out and coming into contact with the dream objects, and most importantly, I try to look down at my dream body. It helps me reinforce the thought that my dream body is really there, I just havent seen it yet. So once I establish my dream body is there, I do a reality check and have fun |
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Thanks for the advice, I have managed I think to get more into the "I can do whatever I want" mentality. I always used to just go about my dream business as usual, but I'm trying to get a bit more crazy lately. The other night I decided to jump into a tornado. It seems mostly to be scary stuff that I just want to see what it's like. |
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If you were lucid then yes, Congrats! Sometimes early lucids can be a bit dark. Often people first get lucid during a nightmare. Whatever the reason, that will pass with more lucidity. |
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Yes that sounds like a WILD (perhaps DEILD) to me! Great job! |
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Not so much luck lately, on the WILDS or being lucid in general. This morning I was lucid for the first time in quite a while, probably since the last time I posted in this thread. I became lucid 3 times though, which is a personal record. First time I was kneeling on a skateboard and using my hands to push myself around town, mostly on the freeway. A lot of stuff happened that I won't describe here, but I kept seeing this frumpy brown haired girl everywhere and at one point I saw her while I was in some store and realized that it was a bit odd that she was all over the place, and became lucid. The dream shattered immediately after that. |
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Anything you want to share is fine with us! |
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Heyyy been a while since I've been on here, but I'm just wondering if it's common to have lucid dreams that coincide with nightmares. In the past few nights I've I think three lucid dreams, two of which were nightmares that were very difficult to escape, even though I knew I was dreaming. Nightmares are very rare for me. I have had maybe seven in the past eleven years. The last three have all occurred in the last six months and I have been lucid for all three of them. I am pretty sure I know what is causing the nightmares. I'm just wondering if it is more common to be lucid in a nightmare than in a normal dream. |
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Great question. I'd tend to say yes. I don't tend to have very many nightmares these days, but on the occasions when I do, I very frequently become lucid. |
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Gahhh most awful night last night. Smoked some weed that I swear almost gave me a panic attack (I used to smoke 24/7, but the stuff just agitates my anxiety now. don't ask me why I say "sure, I'll have a bit"). Came home, tried to go to sleep, and after a number of strange, unrelated visions, was convinced that I was in a world that was a sort of demons vs. angels thing in a war between good and evil, which I was involved in for a while. Later I was sitting in a library refusing to fight when some soldier came in and started yelling at me to join the cause for good. I was going to ask him what the point was, but then I thought about it for a second and realized that if I didn't fight the demons would win. To me the meaning of this dream is rather obvious, since I spend most of my time in waking life not caring about this exact same war in my head. I'm putting it here so I don't forget about it. Not only was it a meaningful dream, it was also really awesome and fun and one of the coolest (albeit scariest) worlds that I have experienced. |
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