Hmmm, it's probably because you don't have control of your dreams. Look up some tutorials and things and you can learn how. |
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I realize I am dreaming sometimes, (at least from what I can remember) about once to five times or more every two weeks, because they often happen in spells. The problem is, once I do the dream turns on me. I can often hold back my thoughts that I'm in a dream while still being aware of it, sometimes through the whole dream, but sometimes only for a little while. |
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Hmmm, it's probably because you don't have control of your dreams. Look up some tutorials and things and you can learn how. |
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That's strange. I normally have the opposite problem. My dreams are crazy and unpredictable, but calm down once I become lucid. I have to use little tricks to keep them outrageously unpredictable and dream-like. Do you have any ideas why this might be? Does the feeling of lucidity frighten you? Maybe that fear turns the dream into a nightmare? |
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Hello and welcome to DV! |
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"...and we want punks in the palace, 'cos punks got the loveliest dreams..." - A Silver Mt. Zion
It was the best of times. It was the end of times.
Hmmm....I experience something similar when it comes to my dreams. My dreams don't attack, but abort. Usually if I figure out that I'm dreaming, it's like my dreams begin to shut down and wake me up. |
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I think probably the first time it happened it was a fluke, and now it happens because you expect it to. |
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Yeah, I somewhat agree with fort on this one. |
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Whoa. OK I haven't done any research about lucid dreaming so I don't know if this is common, but I felt chills reading that because the same thing happened to me last night. I realized I was dreaming and decided, cool, now I will have some fun. Then the dream attacked me, as you put it. It was really scary because the fact that I knew I was dreaming didn't make it any less painful. This must be common??? |
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Thanks, guys. From now on I'll try to relax. After all, sometimes when I've realized I'm dreaming I've been able to continue without derailing it. I'll try my best to calm down, increase the vividness of the dream and make things happen. I hope this 'expect bad things to happen' thing isn't a permanent habit. |
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Last edited by Awesomeness; 10-13-2010 at 11:45 PM.
It might be completely inappropriate but I laughed manicly at you crouching down and your terminator of a mother beating you down. |
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Didn't this happen in that movie, Inception? Maybe that is sneaking into your expectations. |
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That's right, and that's exactly the explanation I thought of when I read the first post in this thread. The movie rules are "be careful about altering the environment in a dream; it attracts the attention of projections [DCs], who will attack whoever is making the alterations." It seems to be the consensus here on DV that whatever you expect to happen in a dream will. |
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I never saw Inception. Guess it's a coincidence. |
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