Thread: The bridge

First I would like to say Welcome to Dreamviews [size=18]InTheNati

Very interesting dream I must say. Reoccuring events within the dreamworld is an excellent way to capture Lucidity. You can utilize an event that happens over and over again as a significant RC (reality check) This bridge may be your key. The best thing to do is utilze this brige as your Dream Sign to impose a Reality check, but shear concentration is the Key. Everynight before you sleep you should focuse on this dream totally with no interruptions. Keep in your thoughts that the next time I see this bridge Im going to ask myself if Im dreaming or not and do a Realtiy check. Use this in your waking world also. Since this bridge is a very real bridge in Cincinnati this makes it all the easier. Practice your focuse on it even when you see the bridge in the waking world and ask the same question in your mind. Make this a habit and eventually it will become habitual within the dream state. But If I were you I would try to have this dream everynight to expedite lucidity.. Good Luck..

A fellow Cincinnatian...at last!

Holy Freakin hell that is awesome!!! I live in Cincinnati and I know the exact bridge you are talking about!

Welcome to Dream Views by the way, I'm just a lil excited.

But yeah ShadowNightWing is right...you should do a reality check everytime you see this bridge, that way when you see this bridge in your dream you will do a reality check. Try sticking your finger through your palm, or holding your nose shut and trying to breath, or even just trying to float. Just incubating the thought that the next time you see this bridge you could be dreaming should be enough to make you have a lucid.

Good luck!!! And if you have any questions feel free to PM me or any of the other Dream Guides!

-nina

Thanks for the tips.

I've had the bridge in my mind a lot today, and I keep looking out my office window looking at it today, so I'm hoping I'm prime for the dream. Really hope I can do this.

I've been telling my coworkers about this and they think I've finally lost it. Do you guys get that a lot?

Yup I believe we all experience that to some degree, but you know how we humans are. When theres something we don't understand then it's gotta be crazy..lol

Oh by the way Good Luck on capturing that Lucidity tonight. Stay focused and you will get it for sure..

Originally posted by InTheNati
I've been telling my coworkers about this and they think I've finally lost it. Do you guys get that a lot?

Haha I have gotten very mixed replies from very different people whenever I tried to explain my lucid dreams to them:

"I don't get it"

"Tha'ts interesting."

"You're weird."

"Oh, I have those all the time. I thought everybody did?"

"Yeah I had a dream like that once!"

Sometimes fears get the best of you in dreams, Some have a fear of drowning or falling or whatever it may be. In your dreams it is the one time you can over come them. As everyone said before, you have to start to realize this is my chance to overcome my fears and make them into what you want them to be. Instead of dying think of things that can save you. For instance a boat comes to save you or the shore is close enough to swim too. Start small then learn big.

I had a very hard time falling asleep last night. I think I had so much going through my mind that I could not acheive any state of relaxation ... even using techniques that generally work for me.

Tonight will be better ... it was a much easier night at work. I can usually tell what kind of night I had at work by the number of knots in my shoulder and neck. Seem to be pretty lose and relaxed tonight.

Ravenqueen, it's funny how you talk about fears in dreams. I definitely agree with you to some extent. Prime example: The Wizard of Oz. The Wicked Witch of the West melted off the movie screen and made her way into my nightmares when I was a kid. Definitely was afraid of her and I hear a lot of people with nightmares of those crazy flying monkeys.

However with this dream it is the complete opposite. I'm not afraid of heights at all. I've had my pilot's license since I was 19 and love to climb. I've been on that bridge (driving and walking) and never been afraid of it. Just always curious of why it makes its way into my dream. I love water and have been swimming all my life. It's just when I get into the dream that I start to fear everything. Maybe I am subconciously afraid of all these things and I just don't know it yet. Hope my fear of heights doesn't kick in when I'm flying! I will search for that boat though when I get back into this dream. Thanks for the advice!

That's interesting how you say that you aren't really afraid of the bridge and the water at all in real life, but you are afraid in your dream.

I have had recurring dreams of tornados all my life (though they have sort of stopped since I have gained a greater control of my dreams, my last tornado dream was awhile ago). Anyways...I am always terrified of them in my dream. I used to have a tornado dream at least once a week. But as soon as I recognized this as a dream sign, they stopped appearing all together (damnit). But in reality I am fascinated by tornados and I really really want to see one in real life. A group of DV members and myself were even talking about going on a little storm chasing excursion, though that never happened

But it is funny that you fear something in your dream that you do not in real life.

Originally posted by InTheNati
I've been telling my coworkers about this and they think I've finally lost it. Do you guys get that a lot?

Yes. I like to call it

'The Look'

You know what I mean. You can just hear them thinking you are totally wacked, but they put on a friendly neutral face and just nod.

Welcome to Dreamviews! I've been to Cinn. a few times and love the architecture of some of your buildings!

Originally posted by Seeker
I've been to Cinn. a few times and love the architecture of some of your buildings!

Lol...what you talkin bout Seek...this place is a "shite hole"


/me closes her eyes and pictures the sea

Originally posted by Aquanina
I used to have a tornado dream at least once a week. But as soon as I recognized this as a dream sign, they stopped appearing all together (damnit). But in reality I am fascinated by tornados and I really really want to see one in real life

Ummm, ditto !
Anyway, I guess you should decide whether you're trying to prevent this bridge from appearing in your dreams or not. Using it as a dreamsign is definitely a way to either:
a) prevent it's constant appearance in your dreams - or
B) making you attain lucidity, then having a positive experience incorporating the dream (like maybe jumping off of it and flying away or something) which should cure this in-a-dream fear.

Good luck man.

PS-- A good friend of mine works for the Cinci post - you there too?
Maybe I'll see ya this year at the Browns/Bengal game.

Welcome to DV, IntheNati

I don't think anyone has any "unknown fears" personally. Either you fear something or you don't..... *pauses to think* You know, that's probably wrong. A better way to say it is that everyone is born with fear (fear of hunger, death, lonliness, etc.), but as we grow older we conquer those fears and they no longer bother us. I'm going out on a limb to suggest that maybe the reason we have these kinds of dreams involving us fearing something we are not afraid of IRL is just that there's a subconscious memory of that fear..... it's a work in progress

Anyway, feel free to ask if you have any other questions. And don't stress yourself out about having (or not having) LDs. I find that too much excitement makes it a lot harder for me to get to sleep. Good luck!

-Amé

Yeah, I know what you mean InTheNati. For instance, I've driven cars many times in my life (I'm 17 and I legally can't drive here in my country) and I don't fear it at all, in fact, I even enjoy it. But I keep having this reocurring dream where I drive a car and either crash or I just suck terribly at driving. It's even more, in these dreams, the idea alone of driving makes me afraid, although in real life it's no big deal, I just have this minor preocupation that maybe I'm gonna scratch my dad's car and he's gonna ground me or something... I also thought maybe I have this subconscious fear, but I'm not sure.

I hope you have luck in your attempt to control your dream!

You all have some very interesting views. In fact, I share them with the coworkers who think I am crazy and they think you all are crazy now too! So congrats.

Here's my latest update. The bridge has not popped up in any of my dreams. However I did have a dream that I was trying to ready myself for a lucid dream. Hell, maybe if I'm lucky I will have a lucid dream from the thought of lucid dreaming!

Most of my dreams have been about work because I work constantly and during crazy hours. I'm on vacation in a month so I figure when I'm a little more relaxed it will be much better timing. In the meantime I trying to work with our Tempo editor at my newspaper to do a story on lucid dreaming. If it publishes I will send you all the link.

Cheers,
Nick