Thread: I joined because I'm freaking out!!! I ALWAYS lucid dream!!

Hey, I'm Nicole. I'm very worried, because I never not lucid dream. I've always dreamt consciously, ever since I was little, and rarely have unconscious dreams. I had no clue that people didn't normally dream lucidly, so I'm very concerned. What does this mean? I always thought it was a "cool thing I could do", controlling my dreams like I do. I can do whatever I want in my dreams; I've always been the author. But as I've delved more into research, I've realized it's rarer than I'd first believed. Please help me! I had no idea it was considered difficult or unnatural.

I also have very vivid realistic dreams. My dreams are usually things that could possibly happen in real life; it's never like I've become a fairy and I'm suddenly flying winglessly. Actually, I often confuse what occurs in dreams to what happens in reality. This results in a dilemma sometimes.

Thank you so much, and I really do hope to become a good part of this forum. Dreams interest me tremendously.

Stop for a moment and think. There are several thousand people who wish they could be you. >_> Seriously, don't freak out! XD That's very amazing, and I've actually met a few other people in the past who have claimed the same thing, though certainly not that many. It is slightly "unnatural" but that doesn't mean you're a freak or a weirdo. Just means you're gifted. If only we all were!

Thank you, but my mind is still reeling. I can't help but feel like I freak. I had NO IDEA that people tried to achieve dreams like that.

I'm also a strong synesthetic, if that has anything to do with it. I've always suspected it has....

XD I'd probably be a little weirded out too, don't worry. But still, that's so amazing! I wish I could do that! And you'll be a great help to the forum, I bet, because you've got experience very few of us have.

Synesthetic, eh? I've heard of that before, and I suppose there could be some correlation between lucidity and that. Maybe your mind is just awesome. XD

Welcome to DreamViews

You're not a freak, you're a natural as people say. Most people aren't natural lucid dreamer... I'd feel special if I was you! Now you can go brag at everyone and tell them you can dream unconsciously every night. They'll be like "It's impossible!" and you can laugh at them! lol! (no I'm not the bragging type) but that'd be funny.

Don't worry, let it be! If you won the lottery, would you freak? Okay... bad exemple... lol!

What is synesthetic?

Anyways, that's cool that you love dreams. Actually, I found out about DreamViews because I had good dreamrecall and was interested in dreams... I guess we all found this place because we are interested by dreams... Which means you are completly welcomed here since you're like us. (and even if you weren't, you'd still be welcomed)

Seriously, I really hope I don't sound like I'm bragging; I'm just saying, and I'm still freaking out.

I definitely will try my best to help all of you.

Synesthesia is a neurological condition when your senses are linked, or one sense will stimulate another. That's to put it as simply as possible. For example: projecting color onto letters, seeing color for songs, tasting words, etc. That's where photographic memory comes from (which I also have...maybe that also correlates?).

Again, I'm extremely curious on dreams and hope to discover a lot on the subject soon enough.

syn⋅es⋅the⋅sia
–noun
a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.

So, for example, if you hear a song, you might visualize the color blue, or whatever. Or when you see a certain shape, you immediately associate a color with it. I took a test on it once and it said I was completely negative. XD

. . .Oop, you were too fast for me. XD Anyway, there it is from the dictionary.

LOL Thanks OpheliaSophronia for that definition.

Synesthesia is actually a lot more involved than I'd expected at first. It contributes to a lot of things I'd never been able to explain, and I'm pretty sure that's why I dream as vividly as I do. But who knows...I could be wrong.

No, you weren't bragging at all. I'm just saying that you have noting to worry about since you COULD brag which would be negative attitude

Awesome! Synesthesia sounds so cool! You are so cool! I wish I was you so much.... lol! Maybe I'm partly synesthesic since I get a taste to anything even if food wasn't mentionned. Like when I read about synesthesia I felt an aweosme flavor in my mouth! lol!

You rock!

Welcome to Dreamviews! That's awesome that you're a natural

Originally Posted by nicole_1024

I also have very vivid realistic dreams. My dreams are usually things that could possibly happen in real life; it's never like I've become a fairy and I'm suddenly flying winglessly. Actually, I often confuse what occurs in dreams to what happens in reality. This results in a dilemma sometimes.

You might want to try Reality Checks. Usually they're used to find out when you're dreaming, but I've found that sometimes they're useful for checking to make sure you're really awake Note: I used to use the finger counting reality check all the time (if you have five fingers, you're awake. Any other number, and you're dreaming.) After a while my hands starting looking too realistic in dreams and I would think I was awake when I wasn't. I fixed this problem by trying to consciously create an extra finger whenever I did the reality check; if I was awake, nothing would happen, but in a dream it would eventually work. Great for practicing dream control, too.

wow

welcome to the dream views,

may i ask you something? in your next lucid dream, can u please summon a character and give him the name, jaffacakes, and ask him what he/she thinks of that name.

hehe

may i ask you something? in your next lucid dream, can u please summon a character and give him the name, jaffacakes, and ask him what he/she thinks of that name.

Sure! I'll let you know.

You might want to try Reality Checks. Usually they're used to find out when you're dreaming, but I've found that sometimes they're useful for checking to make sure you're really awake Note: I used to use the finger counting reality check all the time (if you have five fingers, you're awake. Any other number, and you're dreaming.) After a while my hands starting looking too realistic in dreams and I would think I was awake when I wasn't. I fixed this problem by trying to consciously create an extra finger whenever I did the reality check; if I was awake, nothing would happen, but in a dream it would eventually work. Great for practicing dream control, too.

Thank you! I'll definitely try that out.

What have you done in your dreams so far?

Tons of stuff. I mean, what do you want to know?

Hi,

With photographic memory, do you remember everything you decide to memorise? Could you "photograph" a page and read it from memory, or do you just understand everything that's written, the moment you photograph the page?

This may sound blatantly obvious, but have you ever considered that you dont have any perception of what a dream is? I probably worded that wrong, but what I mean is..

If you had a lucid dream, would it be completely different from what you're feeling? Then you would realize that you only thought you were having a lucid dream..

Originally Posted by Bonsay

Hi,

With photographic memory, do you remember everything you decide to memorise? Could you "photograph" a page and read it from memory, or do you just understand everything that's written, the moment you photograph the page?

I'd like to know that too

Originally Posted by nicole_1024

Tons of stuff. I mean, what do you want to know?

Have you ever killed yourself knowing it a dream or do anything that you could only do in a video game? Also have you done any godly things like 360 degree view?

O, go for the task of the month, you get your name change to a different color and get a nice little badge and board.

I'm so jealous. Wow.
And so what if it's special? It's positive to be special, and not just fade into the background. And those things there are very good kinds of special

OMG Nicole I just joined this site because I was feeling the same way! I didn't know that it wasn't normal until I started reading about it! Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!

/jealous can we trade brains? seriously? i would be happy for you to have sub conscious dreams with the exchange of me being lucid for the rest of my life.

It's not a bad thing, really! just find out what you can actually do in lucid dreams and then try it out you wont even need a dream journal!

I'm actually very jealous of you, Nicole. Plenty of people would give an arm or a leg to have your dreaming prowess - embrace it instead of opposing it.

Doesn't it get boring? About a year ago I was having 3-5 LDs in a week (DILDs). Eventually I got bored and stopped lucid dreaming for the summer (maybe 5-7 LDs in 3 months).

Originally Posted by Recidul

Doesn't it get boring? About a year ago I was having 3-5 LDs in a week (DILDs). Eventually I got bored and stopped lucid dreaming for the summer (maybe 5-7 LDs in 3 months).

Need an imagination?

You should not freak out of that at all. Actually if I were you I would spend most of my day sleeping, since I did not have any LD yet, even though I am trying so hard. It is harmless and very fun, helpful.

Less freak more idol.

Anyways, I read somewhere that in lucid dreams you can create a pill that will prevent you from or force you to lucid dream for periods of time. I think there was a forum post somewhere in DV about it.

I'm kind of a musicphile as well. I usually listen to chiptune. As for "being without" music, I can "play" music in my head. Very vividly. I play music all day every day (it does still take effort, so I have occasional silence). It's easier for music I've recently been listening to, but I can experiment with whatever sound I want. In fact, this is how my first and only lucid dream became lucid. I started playing music in my head and the same song came on over the loudspeaker in the room I was in. I haven't had success since then, but I'm still trying to DILD and WILD. Although a recent altercation with REM inhibiting medicine is stalling me for now, I hope to have success soon.

I'm interested in the dream characters. How "intelligent" are they? How deep are the characters, I guess. I haven't really gotten to experiment with lucid dreaming. You could go to the "dream doctor" and have them prescribe you that pill I mentioned earlier. Although I don't really like to be dependent on drugs. It's not my thing.

Right then, back to characters, I also wonder if you've encountered the "Dream Guide" character that many "meet." If you haven't heard of this, it is a character that helps you do dream control and stuff. Also, we unblissfully unaware people who don't normally lucid dream have developed terms for everything. Such as DC, LD, DG, SG, AP, OOBE, WILD, MILD, DILD, DEILD, FILD, VILD, REM, SP, HI, HH, and RAWRISUCKATLUCIDDREAMINGHELPME are some examples. It's like being in the military. The "wiki" tab up there where you clicked "forum" to get here is helpful.

As for photographic memory, I have nowhere near that kind of ability, but sometimes when I'm taking a test I studied for, I can "visualize" what I studied. It isn't really detailed, but can help me recall the information better.

Wow, I didn't mean for this to be a wall of text, I guess I don't identify with "normality" either. It's fun to have unconventional brains, especially when they're different. I'm not "clinically" different from the "rest of us," but I don't feel as a part of it either.

For most, lucid dreaming is not a daily occurance, many will get to one a month, twice a month, maybe once a week with much practice and dream journal keeping.

Haven't been lucid since December