Natural lucid dreaming is something people loathe for. I myself have to try to lucid dream, but it seems to come quite naturally to me (however I always have to be aware of inducing it to achieve one). |
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Apparently I have lucid dreams and this is not something that I try to do, I didn't even know what it was until I started Googling some things about my own sleep patterns. |
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Natural lucid dreaming is something people loathe for. I myself have to try to lucid dream, but it seems to come quite naturally to me (however I always have to be aware of inducing it to achieve one). |
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A lot of the times I feel like I dream all night and they are always very vivid. If not awoken by an alarm I could sleep and dream all day.The last time I had a dream that was 4-5 layers deep was a couple of months ago and it was a very strange experience. It seemed like the dream was never ending and I felt very weird when I woke up. I have had dreams like the cycle that you described more often than dreams made up of 4-5 layers. Are yours usually nightmares like you described? Do you feel pain and does the emotion you feel carry over when you awaken? Do you ever go back to sleep knowing that you are going back into the same dream? |
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Nah you're not crazy; we are all hallucinating in our dreams anyways. |
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Hm, I don't think anyone was comparing my experience to Inception, my dream experiences are actually quite different. When I dream 4-5 levels deep I do not re-enter the different levels during awakening, I wake up to another dream until I finally wake up in real life, hence why I said it feels never ending. Now the amount of time that I spend dreaming vs. not dreaming definitely feels longer, but I know having had a sleep study that the amount of time that you think you spend dreaming isn't always accurate. I also know that when I dream in that many levels I don't wake up feeling restored, but rather more tired, so whether or not I am actually in REM is a good question. Several recent studies have shown that REM isn't necessarily as restorative as scientists once thought, though, so who knows. |
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They sound like false awakenings, but dreams can't actually be layered over top of one another. I've experienced three false awakenings in a row myself; those types of dreams aren't uncommon as many other people on Dreamviews have had them. |
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We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
Vandermeer
SAT (Sporadic Awareness Technique) Guide
Have questions about lucid dreaming? DM me.
Puffin, pardon my lack of knowledge but I see that in your signature you have 16 wake induced lucid dreams. Is that when you feel yourself falling asleep and immediately know that you are dreaming? Would that be the same thing as waking up after a dream and knowing that if you just shut your eyes again you will fall right back into the dream and can make it pick up right where you left off? |
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The abbreviation for wake induced lucid dream is WILD. WILDing is when you trick your body into thinking you're asleep by staying still and very relaxed for a certain period of time. The person then enters sleep paralysis which is often accompanied by hallucinations, and from there they consciously fade directly into the dream, aware of the whole process and once in the dream, lucid. |
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Last edited by Puffin; 07-27-2010 at 05:37 AM.
We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
Vandermeer
SAT (Sporadic Awareness Technique) Guide
Have questions about lucid dreaming? DM me.
About the layers, well, it's a mindfuck. It is HELLISHLY confusing. I went as deep as 9 layers once. Waking up from each of them was not a pleasant experience, but I had four lucids along the way. 'twas some two years ago.. |
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'The petals dance through the wind,
The crimson blood shimmers on the snow,
The shattered heart weeps of hidden sorrow.
And over a pure white sky,
rises a black moon.'
- Max
Same as you, I didn't know about lucid dreams until I searched on Google:"I control my dreams." From there I learned it was hard to accomplish this, while for me, it's naturally and never knew I had been doing this more than three times a week if not, every day. Then I stumbled upon all these posts and learned the thing about layers. I don't know what layer I've found myself in, I know I'm dreaming, I can say what I want, I can think what I want to think, I can go where I want to, do what I want to. In my lucid dreams I have flown at least 2 different times and still remember the feeling and the amazing experience. Sometimes I open my eyes without falling into another layer and go back to my dream like nothing happened. The thing is—they're a always good dreams, nightmares are so rare but in those cases I can wake up when I feel it's getting too much. When I wake up from those nightmares, my breathing is quick and my heart is beating rapidly. I'm young, no older than 16. I read a lot about moving from layer 4-5 to layer 3, but then realizing it's just another dream, while you thought you had already woken up.But I have control of going from my all-control to being awake and aware. What layer would you consider I've been? I searched them up, but it's a little hard to understand, and since all of you have experienced lucid dreaming I decided to share my experience. |
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This thread is over 4 years old, and none of the original posters are on the forum anymore. Please don't necropost - if you have a question, please start a new thread. |
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