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for most of my life i've been able to wake myself or sometimes restart my dream by just tightly closing my eyes. here is my question, is this lucid dreaming or is this something else? i've had several lucid dreams and two just last week. some replies would be beautiful.:banana: :banana:
I would say it is, because in order to do either of those things, you'd have to know you're dreaming, right? It all depends on that. Do you know you're dreaming? or not. If you do, the dreams are lucid, if you don't, they're not. If you're not sure, then neither am I (or anyone else on these forums, I'm willing to bet).
Either way, it seems you are, or at least could be a natural. If you can wake yourself up or start a dream over, it can't possibly be hard to teach yourself how to actually control your actions otherwise.
Well it depends, if you can just fall into a continuing dream thats not lucid dreaming unless you remain concious. If you go back into the dream any nothing really changes, you arnt lucid. But if like bash said, you know your dreaming and you can do stuff or at least be aware then thats a LD.
Also, how do you wake yourself up?
I think the only way you can "wake urself up" is if you are lucid. Because for you to think, im going to wake up now, you need to have known you were dreaming.
Unless, you desribed it wrong, and its more like, "you wake easily from dreams"
Exactly what I was thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShYne123
well i do realize im dreaming so i guess it is a lucid dream. and i will give u an example of how i restart my dream. a week ago i was being chased by these guys and they caught me. So i closed my eyes real tightly like i always do when i either want to wake up or restart. I just ended up in the same room but the guys were outside. Then my window broke and these guys werent too happy with it so i just did the eye thing and it went back to normal.
oh and i've been "restarting" my dreams pretty much my whole life and in multiple times a week. so if these were lucid dreams y am i having so many. i thought people only have 6-10 a year?
I'm not sure what the average is for untrained people, but I do know that even excluding the so called oneironauts (that's us, yay), the amount of lucid dreams people have can differ greatly from person to person.
For instance: most people I speak to about this tell me they remember one or two instance in which they knew they were dreaming, but the mother of a friend of mine says she's been able to do that in any dream for as long as she could remember and regarded it as normal (you'll find plenty of people like that here on DV too).
My point here is that it really does seem like you are one of those people; a natural at lucid dreaming. All you have to do when you have another dream like that is exercise control other than closing your eyes to escape. There's (litterally) an infinite amount of options here. Be creative, or otherwise, check the forums for options.
but im still confused. im able to recall most of my dreams. so wut else do i have to do to start my lucid dream. i had a very clear dream last night but i just didnt realise that it was a dream. r their any practices i should do so i can realise that its a dream? its really hard to see that ur dreaming when ur actually in the dream.
Keep asking yourself if you are dreaming while you are awake. Then do a reality check. If you do this frequently in real life, then you'll probably do it in the dream as well :)
Hrm I'm not sure, I've been able to wake myself up on command many times before but never payed attention to actually whether I was dreaming or not. With these dreams do you tell yourself you are dreaming or do you just say "I feel like waking up now"? To be honest I think trying to wake up and knowing you are dreaming are seperate things.
ok i just had a lucid dream. i was walking in the school in my hallway and i realized that i was in a dream. i tried to change my surroundings but i couldnt move. i couldnt even move my head. i finally made some of the kids in the hall disappear. but then i started to leave the dream and i did the little spinning technique but it didnt work. so here is my next question. why wasnt i able to move even though i realized i was in a dream?