Many Questions in Starting Out...

[Sammymudgirl]

1. If I know I am dreaming am I lucid? 2. I dream I am dreaming, so is that like dreaming you are waking up (false awakening)? 3. What if you know you were dreaming because you are dejavuing this dream, that you dreamed it before? 4. Do you guys have the ability to wake up go do something (use bathroom, or get something to drink) and then go back to bed back right where you left off the dream. I think my dreams are all one long dream added to every night. I have had several dreams in succession that all make up part of a larger dream, and before I go to sleep I go into a phase of remembering my dreams from that morning where I left off. But recently my dream recall is abysmal. Alright, I think I had two dreams both vivid, both lucid today, but I have no dream control as yet, except in the area of nightmares, I can pretty much work those out (not fully, and only if I remember I can do it which depend on my life at the time). I don't as yet have the realization that I can effect my dreams most of the time. So does this mean I am not lucid? What I need is a good definition for lucidity and where to go from there. I need to get my recall back up to speed - so the DJ is a necessity. What next? Sammy

[ninja9578]

1. Yes 2. No, thats different and is your sleeping brain doing incorrect logic 3. Recurring dreams are a common tool 4. No, that's not possible Yes, start with a DJ and

[Sammymudgirl]

Ok, so given the fact that I am a noob, and don't know what I am talking about; I have had to rethink my whole dream everything, because you said it was impossible to do what I am in fact doing. I dreamt approx. 6 dreams yesterday during the day one after the other and each were somewhat taking place after the one before it.. And I had gone to the bathroom in between two and still got right back into it. So, now I am confused. Very confused. I am imagining instead of dreaming or something? I think I am dreaming. I am not feeling beligerant or anything, just a bit frustrated. I feel I am not having full 90 minute sleep cycles either. It could be because I have fibromyalgia and my delta waves are broken up by my alpha waves, etc. I dunno. I am just grasping at straws. The dreams weren't lucid this time, so I don't know what to make of them.

[Aelexe]

Depends on how technical you want to get. You can't keep the same dream between periods of sleep naturally, but your mind can certainly attempt to form them for you.

[Robot_Butler]

It can be helpful to think about the last dream you had as you are falling back to sleep. It won't be the same dream, but you could get some of the previous content to continue into the new dream.

[Sammymudgirl]

Yes, this makes more sense to me from my experience. I had those 6 dreams and the first 4 were in the same location with the same people, and the next two dreams were in a new location with references to the old location as being in the "past". The first dream I was in a family and I was one of the daughters, while in the second dream I was visiting the family and I was the guest of the daughter. The dreams aren't the same and they aren't exactly sequential, but the previous dream makes up the "past" of the current dreams. The themes stay the same throughout. in the first four dreams I kept losing weight because I wasn't eating enough because the "parents" were poor, so I was always hungry. In the last dream I was a prominent business woman and I had plenty to eat, but I was in my own house and the previous dreams made up the "past" and there were still concerns for the previous family and plans to visit them type of thing...