The "was This A Lucid Dream" Thread =)

[Seeker]

Hi everyone. In the thought of keeping things organized, I have created this thread in which new members can ask if they have had a lucid dream. We have gotten quite a few postings of this type, and I welcome them because they almost always indicate that there is now another lucid dreamer in the world. Yay! Please, use this topic to ask the "Was this an LD type of questions. Staff, if you see that someone has made an independent post on this, please merge it into this thread.

[ViSions]

Yay Seeker, nice thread

[Adanac]

I might even some in here to answer a few qusetions.

[FreeOne]

finely an answer to the age old question. thankyou seeker!

[BillyBob]

I think you should go in depth on why you made this topic I say that because I think if I was a noob that was skeptical about LDing and I saw a topic like this I would say to myself: "humph, new people that had LDs have to ask whether or not they had them, LDing is total bullshit" (maybe put something about how there's different levels of lucidity, ranging from totally life-like consciousness, to just-drank-a-gallon-of-whiskey awareness.) Just a thought

[sithmagician]

Wow! I think I may have just had my first lucid experience, although it did not last long because I felt myself become excited..... I am a magician, and am very familiar with hypnotism... I hypnotized myself and focused myself on entering a dream and being aware of it. As my mind started to "drift away" you might say, I found myself in a large open space, all alone and no objects... just openness. I then became aware that I was dreaming, and I thought to myself, I am actually just lieing in my bed, none of this is happening.. And then it was over and I returned to my original state before hypnosis... It was really strange, I have never felt a sensation like this, it was a very good feeling... I think this may be my path to lucid dreaming... Was I beginning to lucid dream? Should I continue this same technique?

[NeAvO]

Yup Sithmagician that was a lucid dream, you were aware you were dreaming after all. Congratulations

[Myopic]

hey guys - i am a writer from southern California who has had a history of vivid dreams and has just heard about lucid dreaming a few weeks ago. This is my first post. I'm a little confused how i can have dream recall if i cant remember my dream immediately when i get up (i have what feels like about 10 dreams on an average 8 hour sleep. i only remember having a lot of dreams, but not what they entailed) - if i don't remember them, they don't exist anymore, right? I've never practiced lucid dreaming in my life - but i have noticed that if i concentrate on dreaming before i go to sleep just a little bit, i'll have pretty vivid dreams. i had this one the other day - i was sleeping on my friend's couch. She had said hi to me in the morning when i had just gotten to sleep and had said some things i don't really remember. i groaned and said "I'll wake up soon". i rested my head on the couch, closed my eyes and immediately started dreaming that i got up and made breakfast with her. I remember being strangely closer to her than normal. i remember when we finished my hair and kissed me, her hair looked like wisps of long, yellow swirls. she did it almost naturally, and i felt surprised but pretty satisfied: I've been attracted to her for some time. I don't remember much from that one, but there was a really prevalent sense of reality that when i woke up, i swore that it had actually happened. the thought of doing something like that had been running through my head for a while - looks like i made it for myself the safest way how (she's pretty heard-headed). It was a pretty heavy, vivid but hazy dream that made it feel like a teenage summer relationship. I guess i should mention this other one I had a while ago - I'll be quick about it. I was walking down this dark dirt road in my hometown (mojave desert) and i was filled with the feeling that i had lost something important - i was just rambling around. i could see the houses along the road from the cars passing by. there was a huge white moon in the sky, looking elusive and distant. I decided i needed to get back home - i hitchhiked from a blue semi truck. i told the driver where i lived. he didn't acknowledge me at all and started driving. I didn't really feel comfortable with him, but slowly fell asleep in the passenger seat. i woke up what seemed like hours later, and there was a beautiful, translucent woman looking at me, about 6 inches from my face. I was still sitting in the passenger's seat and it looked like daylight outside - i was terrified. She gave me a knowing smile and said "don't worry," she looked off to her left, out the window, her eyes started glowing a light green, "I won't rest until it's done" "what?" was on the tip of my tongue, but i violently jerked awake, and looked at the truck driver. He gave me a mortified looked, like i had just did something terrible and i woke up a minute before my alarm clock. lucid? lucid dream in a lucid dream? crazy?

[krookedking]

Well, I don't think your dream was lucid (at no point you knew you were dreaming) but quite interesting: you "fell asleep" in a dream and started dreaming in it...

[bro]

Hmm this thread could be quite helpful, alot of my dreams make me feel like I may have been somewhat concious I was dreaming, yet not completely sure. Thank you for making this, will certainly come in handy

[Lucid Warrior]

Hi guys, I have a question on this sort of thing... Is it natural for a Lucid dream to feel more and more like a normal dream over time? Because when I had my lucid dream, it felt very lucid and powerful at the time, but as time went on I started doubting it and it felt more and more like a normal dream.

[pawstalker]

ok. i had a dream once and i always think of it as being a lucid one. That because i read some stuff on it at the time and was really trying hard; taking intentions and so before sleeping. Here it is: i was walking outside in some city with a lot of nature , could call it suburban. It was night. There were some people around i had talked to, but they scattered, and i was aware of some place must further away where i had to go or that was connected to the place i was at. Where i was there were some streetlights, a ditch, some fencing and some houses in the distance. i was on the road, which was asphalted or just beside it. All by all the dream had the theme/feeling of a roadmovie/chase. Then for some reason i realized i was dreaming. i cant recall why. But there i was, aware of being in a dream. This was different from being aware as in normal live. (maybe i just dreamed i had a lucidD??) Then i looked up and i saw the stars in the sky and i could see alot of them, like when you are really far away from society. And i decided to let them fall and woosh. they all fell in one big movement! (diagonally down to the right) After i saw that i was amazed, soo much i woke up. Anybody has some insight on that? Was it LD or not ? And does anybody know what it means to let all the stars in the heaven fall down at once.. i keep having this bad feeling about it. Or should i repost it then in another thread ? thanks ahead

[Developer]

Yupp, so I had one of these "was This A Lucid Dream-dream" last night! It's really hard to explain the dream, but I'll do my best. So, I was with a friend (don't know who it was) and we (no, actually he) were being chased by this assasine. The dream was both from a 3rd persons eyes and from my own. I saw this guy hire the assasin for some reason. Well, anyways the assasine catches up with us and kills my friend and then sneeks away from the scene. Then the whole scene changes and the dream repetes in a another place. I wasn't that scared that my friend got killed all the time because I knew I was dreaming. I didn't do anything to try to control the dream, instead I tried to find out who that guy was and why he was killing my friend.

[Developer]

This thread is dead .

[pawstalker]

This thread is dead . [/b] think so too ...

[Developer]

Well, anyway, here's the golden rule for a dream to be a lucid: Know that you're dreaming.

[NeAvO]

This thread isn't dead. It's just for people that are confused as to whether they had a lucid dream or not. Just because its a sticky doesn't mean it needs to be posted in every day.

[cyzzl]

Im not sure if this can be classified as a LD or not. I think of it as kind of a semi-LD. anyway this is what happened: I am in my bed and I remember that I took my watch off before I went to sleep that night and looked at my wrist and tadaa! I have my watch on and I realize im dreaming. I watched Waking life right before sleeping, so my wrist was all crazy animated like in the movie giving me further evidence. Anyway I sat there and some reason felt like I shouldnt use my "power" to any great extent so I did small things while sitting in my bed like make inanimate objects appear. (a carton of cigarettes, a deck of cards, etc) The only thing that is making me question the lucidity of this dream is that My mindset was somethin like this: "I can do these things because I am dreaming" but at the same time I think that I believed I was awake, and that doing really crazy stuff like flying or something wouldn't wake me up necessarily, but I would lose my power to realize I was dreaming, or the next time I look at my wrist there will be no watch and I would be awake without waking up. I dont know if this makes sense, it barely makes sense to me. but any input as to the classification of somethin like this is appreciated. I also wanted to add that I manipulated my dream through another character. My brother was in the dream and he said something to me like "hey look what I did to you in the mirror" I looked and I had some bulging muscles. I think this is something I wanted to do but was too scared to try because i thought I was "crossing the line" and manipulating my dream too much.

[NeAvO]

Yup congrats that was a lucid dream

[frostyelf]

There have been a few times while I am falling where it seems like I slowly lose control of my thoughts and they start turning into a dream. I never seem to quite lose conciuosness though. Then I will remember that I am in bed falling asleep and quickly wake completely up. I am not sure wether these are really dreams or not. Unfortunately I can't remember one right now which would probably help me know.

[openwatersurfer]

Ive never had a lucid dream, apart from this, which MIGHT have been one. It was YEAAAARS ago when i was in school, and it was a dream. ib my dream i was in a small lane near my school. I knew i was dreaming, and asked this boy (who always annoyed me back then) to kick me, so i would wake up. He said he wouldnt, because he was "not doing that sort of thing aanyore" i think i eventually woke upp.... Was this a lucid dream?

[NeAvO]

Thats a good question, I get that alot "I've got to get up now, I have work to do" or something along those lines. I wouldn't know if you could class it as a lucid or not. I suppose it is one because you know that you're asleep and dreaming.

[Developer]

Uhm, I have one.. This morning, I had a FA. I started writing in my DJ and then my mom and dad entered the house with some co-workers. I was like, wait a minute, my mom and my dad, together? I was almost sure it was a dream so I did a nose-RC, it failed. Did another one a moment later, failed again. I decided too look at my hands, but before I did I woke up.. Lucid?

[Arachanox]

I had been planning for my first LD to make a Chocolate Cake appear and for me to eat it, because I'm allergic to cake and such (read signature). However, during one dream, things were very fuzzy. I don't think I was anywhere, I was in what I call a Unconcentrated Void, or a white nothingness but you are so unconcentrated on the details that you don't notice that there is no sense of up, down, or anything. Anyway, I remember saying out loud, I'm not sure to my control or not, "I want some chocolate cake!" Bam, it appeared, and I promptly slammed my face into it before the dream disappeared. I don't remember the taste or rather even eating it, but I remember attempting to put my face in it. Was it lucid...? Or just a dream about lucid dreams...? Fake control? I don't know.

[NeAvO]

Developer, Sorry that wasn't a lucid dream, it was close because you knew some thing was wrong but you had no idea you was dreaming. Arach, did you know you was dreaming at anytime? You sound like you just had dream control.