Has anyone else had ALL of these powers?

Hi, I'm Sapient. This is my first post :-P
I rarely have lucid dreams but when I do they are amazing!
I was wondering if anyone else has ever experienced all of the powers that I have posessed dreaming at one time or another.

Years ago, I could fly in my dreams. Quite frequently. I would usually start high above the clouds at sunset and be able to really fast like a jet plane! About a year ago though, this ability became harder and harder to achieve. I began having to start from the ground, which was really frustrating as I kept flying forewards with my feet dragging and being unable to lift up. I can easily fly straight up vertically in my dreams, but sometimes there are people grabbing onto my feet and pulling me down, or throwing things at me in the air!

I think the next power I had was the ability to jump unnaturally high and far. I've had this power in my dreams for ages and it's never been a problem to get off the ground but sometimes I forget that I can :| ! I wake up and feel annoyed that I wasted a lucid dream just walking around...

I don't know when I first went underwater and was able to breathe in my dreams but I think I've always had that power and always will do :wink: It's a wierd sensation, like floating, and feeling safe.

There is one power that I've only ever had once, this was to create a yellow ball of light with my hands and shoot it out and blast walls and buildings apart. It's quite sad that I've never managed to do that again, but it doesn't really matter because of this next power:

Walking through walls! I've had horrible experiences in my dreams with this in the past, getting stuck halfway through walls, or being unable to when I really wanted to and getting so angry! I think I have it sussed now though, I just have to imagine what coming through on the other side will be like and it just happens!

Slowing down / stopping time. This one is my favourite, because most of the time if I am being chased by a threat in my dreams, this will usually work and I can 'stop' the world and walk away. I usually am able to use this power in dreams where I am at school - and boy do I have too many of those! I can freeze everyone in time and look at them in detail and move around people, although they're never anyone I've ever seen at my school!

Solar Eclipse!?? Is this a power? I remember doing this only once, so probably not - just a 'changing the scenery' kind of thing. It was pretty cool anyway, I dreamt I was doing P.E. at school and having a really bad time, so I blocked out the sun, and while the teacher was looking up I ran away! :-P

And the last power I can remember that I've had - hmm, what shall I call it... super strength? It's not like feeling strong though, - I can pick most objects up in my dreams, usually tables or benches, and wield them around or throw them, as if they weighed nothing at all! I've been able to get out of horrible nightmares by using this power, usually when nasty people are chasing me. I've only had this power for about two months, I think.

Well, thanks for taking the time to read my post - I'd love to read some replies and see if anyone else has been lucky enough to have all of these dreaming experiences! :lol:

I haven't had all of those experiences, but I've had most of them, usually during non-lucid dreams. I found it kind of interesting to hear about your flying experiences, because I've gone through the same thing. I recall the very first flying dream and after a couple of years I managed to fly effortless (still not lucid, though). However, after a particular dream, I somehow lost the ability for a long time. I was able to glide, more or less, but not really fly. It was a while before I managed to have another one.

I think I recall the first under-water breathing dream I had. I actually really enjoy the feeling! At first I'm usually kind of nervous, but once I see I'm breathing I'm very relieved... though you think I'd become lucid at that point :P ..... I've also walked through walls. I had one a couple of months ago that I found particularly enjoyable :) I think the biggest thing with that is just confidence. You won't get stuck if you have your mind set on going all the way through.

Sounds like you've got a good start on things :goodjob:

ive been able to jump really high for ages, ive had 1 underwater-breathing dream, and a few flying dreams, those are my favorites. ive also had a dream where i have really good martial arts skills, and its like in the matrix. that was cool.

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I've had a lot of those as well. flying, jumping high, breathing under water, walking through walls - I gained those throughout the years in the same order as you described :D maybe thats just the way people naturally develop their lucid skills?

how about running fast? or flying super fast? I can go super fast, but only if im having pure fun. if im stressed right before flying - for whatever reason - its harder to go faster. running fast takes more concentration than anything ive experienced in a dream. I gotta really think about my feet - which a lot of times arent even there. Sometimes I like to turn into an animal - seems easier to run an all fours. I find running fast is more exciting than flying - so I look foward to mastering that

I've done energy blasts before too - they are hard! Im sure youll get to experience it again in a dream. Do you play video games? Or x-men? Its easier when you can think of a character in a dream. My favorite anime character is Tetsuo from Akira - and if you know about that then you know he has telekenitic powers and the like! So I 'claim' I have his powers in a lot of my dreams now.

I've used a power shield in dreams before - really handy and seems to work easier than a blast! A fun power, but also funny since nothing in a dream can hurt you?? I've never lifted heavy objects before! Never thought about that....normally when an object is heavy I try to use telekenises - sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Super strength huh? :D

I've used Storms powers, from X-Men, mostly just for lightning - that was fun.

stopping time..wow!! I've never done anything like that. I gotta try that out some time. The closest I got was a time watch, which traveled through time and created portals to other galaxies. But I was given the time watch by a dream character, I didnt create it myself. So that was a one time thing.

solar eclipse? XDD cool..nah..when I wanted to distract the attention of someone I did a cheasy movie line "LOOK OVER THERE!!" and then make my gettaway - works like a charm - is that a power? >_>;

have you ever shrinked yourself? I don't know why, but I get a kick out of this as gross and stupid as it is. In one dream I was in a sewer with no entrances - just pipes and sometimes sinks. The sewer people told me I could NEVER leave. Well..the sewer stinks. So I shrinked myself and traveled through the pipes - a sorta fun but also gross experience. Ever since then I've used it in a lot of dreams, sometimes for traveling through a vent too thats only big enough for a child.

what about transformation? Have you ever taken the form of something other than a human? Me and my friend transform often. It started out in NON Lucid dreams. Now we try it when lucid - which is more challenging. The first time I tried to transform myself in a Lucid dream, it went horrible and I ended up being some hideous worm like monster instead of a beautiful blue eastern dragon......Now I can have scales, claws and feathered hands! Getting there!

As a general rule, I have always been able to do ANYthing in my dreams.
That's what I believed, and so that's how it was. Even if I had not thought of it before, I knew I could do it, so I could.
I think it was walking through walls that taught me that. Star is absolutely right when she says that you won't get stuck if you know that you are going all the way through, and that is what taught me how control worked I think. I used to play around with the walls, to see at what point I would get stuck, and it was always the times when I thought I Juuuuuuust might. If I had no doubt that I could get through, I could do it.

Anyway. I developed the basic concept that I could do anything before I ever went lucid. I would simply forget that I couldn't do everything. I still do.

I have never shot beams out of my eyes though. I've never destroyed anything, or hurt anybody. . . Even in my dreams.

I've also never been physically strong, because I move everything, from the pencil that fell on the floor, to the semi that is in my way, with my mind.

I never walk in my dreams. I hover and glide, which is different from flying, you know.

I've never stopped time, but I have restarted it from a chosen point.

-sloth

I haven't experienced all those powers you mentioned. I've been able to fly in the clouds and in outerspace. I've breathed under water, which was cool. I've shot rays from my hands. I haven't been able to walk through walls or anything else.

I have been able to play with a mirror using my hands. Swirling it around and pulling at it. That was a great feeling.

the only "power" in a lucid dream is realizing that you can do literally anything, if you realize that then you wont have to "gain" your powers, you just have them

thus only when you can say "I can do anything effortlessly in my lucid dreams" should anyone be impressed

Bob,

That's a good way of putting it. :)

Hi! Sapient again. :-P

Thanks for all of these interesting replies!
I'm going to try and respond somewhat to each one :)

Amethyst Star, nice to hear that you really enjoy the feeling of breathing underwater too! Can you remember if anything stressful was happening in your life when you began to loose the ability to really fly? I'm trying to figure out why I have also lost the ability of high and fast flight, I'm quite depressed and stressed out most of the time with A-levels and such, so I wonder if I'll be able to fly when ( and if ) I stop worrying about life so much. Have you ever tried anything to regain the ability of flying? I was also wondering if you get frustrated about the lack of flying dreams when you're awake... that would make two of us :P

Tavasion, hehe isn't jumping really high sooo cool! :D
Have you ever used this power to go exploring in lucid dreams? When I have a lucid dream and can jump up high, I find that there's always an amazing and breathtaking view ontop of tall buildings and mountains, which surprises me as usually wide views of landscapes and such appear blurry. I'm always trying to jump to the highest roof! :-P
Did you use those matrial arts skills to fight baddies? :P hehe The Matrix is a great film :D I think watching it improved my lucid abilities somewhat...

Juroara - wow quite a long post! Thanks :D
You can turn into animals? Cool!! Which animals do you turn into? Can you choose? I think I've started out as different animals in a few dreams I had ages ago, definately I was a fish in one :-P and some four legged creature in another but I can't remember, I think it was a horse :? - that was a wierd dream though because it felt like I was in love :D lol
I play video games alot but not a great variety, mainly first-person-shooters like Goldeneye and role-playing-games such as Ledgend of Zelda for Nintendo. I can play these over and over again and never get bored with them :roll: is there something wrong with me? lol
Did you say you created portals to other galaxies? I think the closest dream I've had to something like that is, well, about eight dreams exactly the same, except in each one the story continued further and further. I start off in my grandmas house, and she's got a massive front room, and in it there are loads of floating lumps of colourful energy, and I look at all of them and they 'lead' to places I've been before. In each of these eight dreams I always choose the same one, and it leads to somewhere else in the house - although the geometry is messed up a little, like different rooms lead off from the wrong doors, it's always the same configuration :?
I've never been able to even shrink myself! Or morph in any way... Can you explain what you mean by it being a gross experience? You've got me intrigued! Ahh and I'd love to be able to transform and design what I become...

Sloth, wow you seem really lucky to be able to do anything! Do you think it has anything to do with your life? There are usually people chasing me in my dreams which distracts me from enjoying them, and once they appear I haven't been able to get rid of them. I'm going to start trying that 'dream spinning' thing though where you spin around to change the dream - it feels like it could work. Anyway, I think people chase me in my dreams because I've been bullied quite alot in school. How much do you think dreams respond to real life?

Nowell, flying through the clouds... wonderful isn't it! :-P Can you do it often? What time of day is it when you're up there? It's always been sunset for me. Playing with a mirror using your hands sounds very interesting! I love it when there's something optically complex to look at in dreams. I remember a dream I had where I had a pet ball, just smaller than a normal football, and it felt like jelly, and it shone from within with wonderful purples reds and pinks. It kind of made me sad to wake up :( lol I think I was about seven or eight at the time...

BillyBob_001, have you contradicted yourself? You said that there is only one power to be had in a lucid dream - the power of realizing that you can do anything, but then you said that powers wouldn't have to be gained, as in the plural. Maybe you just can't think of the right word for the individual 'things' that one can do in a dream. Certainly 'powers' sounds like the right term to me, ever seen any superhero films? Those superheros have powers, the creators designed them to have certain powers such as super-strength or lazer-vision. Thus, if I can recreate these 'things' in a dream then I call them powers. Anyway, why are you replying to my post if you are not 'impressed' ? Are you evil?

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To everyone, thanks again for taking the time to read my posts!

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Originally posted by Sapient192
Amethyst Star, nice to hear that you really enjoy the feeling of breathing underwater too! Can you remember if anything stressful was happening in your life when you began to loose the ability to really fly? I'm trying to figure out why I have also lost the ability of high and fast flight, I'm quite depressed and stressed out most of the time with A-levels and such, so I wonder if I'll be able to fly when ( and if ) I stop worrying about life so much. Have you ever tried anything to regain the ability of flying? I was also wondering if you get frustrated about the lack of flying dreams when you're awake... that would make two of us :P

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Well, I remember when it stopped, but I don't know what might have affected it. At one point after a particularly great flying dream I told myself never to forget how to fly :( Anyway, one night I had a dream and in this dream there was a test. I managed to glide over the lava to the platform, but when I was supposed to chage the color of the rose to silver, I couldn't. I was kind of sad when I woke up..... after that, I just couldn't seem to fly for a long time.

It hasn't really bothered me in real life because I know that someday I will fly again. It's only a matter of time.

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Originally posted by Sapient192
BillyBob_001, have you contradicted yourself? You said that there is only one power to be had in a lucid dream - the power of realizing that you can do anything, but then you said that powers wouldn't have to be gained, as in the plural. Maybe you just can't think of the right word for the individual 'things' that one can do in a dream. Certainly 'powers' sounds like the right term to me, ever seen any superhero films? Those superheros have powers, the creators designed them to have certain powers such as super-strength or lazer-vision. Thus, if I can recreate these 'things' in a dream then I call them powers.

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That didnt make any sense :P

my original point was that you shouldnt be like "omg last week I learned how to pick up a car in a lucid dream so now i can do it always!!!!" you can always do anything in your lucid dreams, just because you couldnt do it in your last two lucid dreams doesnt mean you "lost the ability" or something like that, (also just bnecause you DID do it in your last ld that doesnt mean you can do it again) most lucid dreams arent truly lucid, if you were in fact lucid you would see that the dream isnt real, theres no rules, its all in your head... so then if you think about that you find that in the lucid dream theres no real reason why it should be any harder to shoot a missile out of your fingernail than it is to walk, because your not actually doing it in a real place, your just thinking it
visit this link if none of that made sense: http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic....=asc&highlight=

bob,

(PS/edit: so i guess my overall point is/was dont gloat about your powers in your LDs, it just makes you look like a noob.)

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Originally posted by BillyBob_001


That didnt make any sense :P

my original point was that you shouldnt be like "omg last week I learned how to pick up a car in a lucid dream so now i can do it always!!!!" you can always do anything in your lucid dreams, just because you couldnt do it in your last two lucid dreams doesnt mean you "lost the ability" or something like that, (also just bnecause you DID do it in your last ld that doesnt mean you can do it again) most lucid dreams arent truly lucid, if you were in fact lucid you would see that the dream isnt real, theres no rules, its all in your head... so then if you think about that you find that in the lucid dream theres no real reason why it should be any harder to shoot a missile out of your fingernail than it is to walk, because your not actually doing it in a real place, your just thinking it
visit this link if none of that made sense: http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic....=asc&highlight=

bob,

(PS/edit: so i guess my overall point is/was dont gloat about your powers in your LDs, it just makes you look like a noob.)

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Bob- I LOVE the way you explain how dreams work, thats always sort of what I thought about dreams, and I am glad someone like you tihnks the same way and is able to explain it to others fairly well.

See? How come you guys don't get it when I try to explain this?

I agree with 'Bob and Sloth on controlling dreams. I can do anything i think of in dreams for those exact reasons. I think you guys are kind of being mean to Sapient though, heh. He's not trying to impress anyone, he's just talking about the fun he's had in his dreams.

Sapient: Once you get to the point of really being able to get lucid, dream control is extremely easy. I suggest not really concentrating on all the awesome things you're going to do in your dreams, yet. Work on your lucidity. You can get to the point of becoming lucid nearly every night. BillyBob is definitely right on the fact that most lucid dreams aren't truly lucid. So it's not only about realizing you're in a dream, you truly have to believe that everything around you isn't real.

I wasn't always really good at dream control. In the past I would get lucid every now and then, but have trouble doing simple things. The better you get at believing in yourself, the better you are at dream control. You get to a point where you never have to use techniques like dream spinning to stay lucid. It's probably a good idea to use the known techniques out there for a while though. Just read around dream views and believe in yourself.

yes..that's really normal.
i had most of them to

Jup

Hello

Well, BillyBob_001, I think you have made it clear to me that I have never experienced a truly lucid dream :( It's been impossible for me to think in terms of being able to do absolutely anything while dreaming, I have only been able to think in terms of the individual powers I seem to gain and loose - and I only say gain and loose because there have been months where I would do these things in my dreams naturally, and others when I just couldn't. So, maybe when I felt I had to 'practice' using these 'abilities' in my dreams, I was just really practicing my ability to realise I can control anything I want? :-P That sounds good, I suppose.

Thanks again to all of the replies - I'm keeping this post short because it's 1 in the morning and I have to get up early for an A-level exam :P

night night! :D

Well, I wouldn't say you "haven't had a real lucid dream." There are different levels of lucidity, though. It's more just changing your point of view to a confident, positive state which will come with practice.