Thread: Lucid Gallery?

Wow, that's really touching. I think I must have been able to control my dreams, cause I remember dreaming about all these people in a race and thinking "Okay, you're gonna win..."

Wow, very interesting and the dream was sad and touching. Do you remember if your grandmother was ill at the time? It might've just been a symbolic dream for realizing the mortality of relationships.

How long did you have this lucid gallery ability and did it happen every night? I can't guess why it would stop.

Well first of all, both my Grandparents are still alive today and hopefully will be with my family for a while longer. As for your questions, I had the ability for a good three years(as far as my memory serves) with the "gallery". And I did have the "gallery" every night. I did have some nightmares, but those were all part of bad choices in the gallery(kind of like judging a book by its cover). I guess I was started to be picked on a lot back then, so that might be why I was unable to choose dreams any more. As for why this certain dream was last might be coincidental. But as for my views, the dream wasn't a coincidence. By the way, I was just telling the dream as it was. I guess I didn't expect it to be so emotional. Well, live and learn

By the way, I'm sort of a poet. What're your opinions on my signature poems?

Originally Posted by Theronai

Well first of all, both my Grandparents are still alive today and hopefully will be with my family for a while longer. As for your questions, I had the ability for a good three years(as far as my memory serves) with the "gallery". And I did have the "gallery" every night. I did have some nightmares, but those were all part of bad choices in the gallery(kind of like judging a book by its cover). I guess I was started to be picked on a lot back then, so that might be why I was unable to choose dreams any more. As for why this certain dream was last might be coincidental. But as for my views, the dream wasn't a coincidence. By the way, I was just telling the dream as it was. I guess I didn't expect it to be so emotional. Well, live and learn

By the way, I'm sort of a poet. What're your opinions on my signature poems?
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Do you have theories on why they stopped after that dream? Have you had a quicksand dream since then?
This just really fascinates me, I wonder why I wasn't lucky enough to be graced with such an ability, hahaha.

Your poetry seems really good. You should post some in the Artist's Corner forum.

You might have been feeling abit emotional towards your grandma some time before that dream happend unconsciously then those feelings showed up amplified in your dream. I find it that sometimes when intense love (not sex) or pain is involved in a dream it often repeats once or twice. Try getting over the fact that people dont live forever and learn to just "fly" out of the quick sand. I'm thinking the reason why your getting "stuck" is because your holding onto something emotional so.. let go of it and you should pop out of the quick sand!

Alright alfaalex101, I'm sixteen now and haven't had a lucid dream since my "gallery" days. It kind of sounds like your riding my arse about letting go of my relationships, but I'm am very (almost regretably) aware that every one I now love will eventually die. And no, I have never had a quicksand dream after the last one. As for theories...? My best guess is that when I started to be picked on at school, my stress level increased dramatically and, since my Grandmother is the person I hold most dear now and always was, she was the one I dreamed to...(what's the best way to describe it?) die with me. That's my only guess. This is actually the first time I've mentioned the quicksand dream series to anyone else.

Originally Posted by Theronai

Alright alfaalex101, I'm sixteen now and haven't had a lucid dream since my "gallery" days. It kind of sounds like your riding my arse about letting go of my relationships, but I'm am very (almost regretably) aware that every one I now love will eventually die. And no, I have never had a quicksand dream after the last one. As for theories...? My best guess is that when I started to be picked on at school, my stress level increased dramatically and, since my Grandmother is the person I hold most dear now and always was, she was the one I dreamed to...(what's the best way to describe it?) die with me. That's my only guess. This is actually the first time I've mentioned the quicksand dream series to anyone else.
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Well what I guess I would do is use some auto suggestion to remember that this ability hasn't really left you. There's a lot of auto suggestion threads to look at.

Hmmm. I'll try that tonight. I've auto suggested before, but only half of it worked. I suggested that I had very lucid dreams and would remember them when I woke, but I only remembered the few dreams after that night.

You know, next time you get a lucid dream you should summon your Dream Guide or Your Subconscience Personified, and ask them what this is all about. You should receive an interesting and maybe helpful answer.

Originally Posted by TweaK

You know, next time you get a lucid dream you should summon your Dream Guide or Your Subconscience Personified, and ask them what this is all about. You should receive an interesting and maybe helpful answer.
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Subconscious Personifield? Dream Guide? Where did you find those terms?

I tried the FILD technique, but failed. I had set my palm pilot to ring three hours after I fell asleep. The irony in it was that I woke up ten minutes before the alarm went off. I tried the technique, but fell asleep doing it and sure enough my alarm woke me up again. Then I remembered thinking that it wasn't supposed to do that! Then I fell back asleep and forgot to do the freaking tech.! I am SO pissed at myself. But in a way it's pretty funny.

Originally Posted by Theronai

Subconscious Personifield? Dream Guide? Where did you find those terms?
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Subconscious Personified I made up. It's just your subconscious in person.
Dream Guide .. Pfft, I've been knowing about that for ages (9 months to be exact).

So the dream guide is like a subconscious tour guide through a dream?

The way i see a dream guide: being able to talk to your subconcious. By summoning someone/something with the pretense of he/she/it being a dream guide. You can get an opinion from yourself without thinking it through conciously.

Thats really freaky... If I woke up with that dream when I was 7 or 8 I'd probably burst into tears

I'm starting to get really annoyed now. I don't think autohypnosis is going to work. I stayed up for about five minutes last night just counting to 100 and started to feel the weights pressing on me, then erased the knowledge and yada yada yada IT DIDN'T WORK. I even stayed up a little more so that I would forget that I tried it (like the post I read suggested) and got bubkis. It was slightly relaxing, but my body was NOT made to stay still for that long in conscious (or even slightly conscious) thought. I have ADHD and I am NOT a patient person, I NEED something to do. Actually, this time when I was counting, I was able to keep my mind from wandering. Maybe in a couple days I'll give it another try.

BTW: Dyermaker, I took your suggestion and posted a bunch of poems on the artist's corner. (look for Poems for Thought if you're interested)

Originally Posted by Theronai

I'm starting to get really annoyed now. I don't think autohypnosis is going to work. I stayed up for about five minutes last night just counting to 100 and started to feel the weights pressing on me, then erased the knowledge and yada yada yada IT DIDN'T WORK. I even stayed up a little more so that I would forget that I tried it (like the post I read suggested) and got bubkis. It was slightly relaxing, but my body was NOT made to stay still for that long in conscious (or even slightly conscious) thought. I have ADHD and I am NOT a patient person, I NEED something to do. Actually, this time when I was counting, I was able to keep my mind from wandering. Maybe in a couple days I'll give it another try.

BTW: Dyermaker, I took your suggestion and posted a bunch of poems on the artist's corner. (look for Poems for Thought if you're interested)
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Try the autohypnosis for a couple nights in a row, it doesn't work for everyone. Also you could look at SILDs and binaural beats but again it only works for some.

And yeah, I'll go read through your poems right now.

Well, the problem for 80% of these techs is that you have to wake up during the night and I have to get up at 6 to go to school.

Finally the weekend! I'm going to try autohypnosis all three nights this weekend. Hopefully with some results.

Originally Posted by Theronai

Hi. Yeah, I'm going to skip the formalities and get right to the point. When I was younger (about 7 or8) , whenever I fell asleep I would be in a black...area. In the middle of the area was thousands of dreams playing out like a little demo clip of the full dream. I would be able to cycle through and choose whatever dream I wanted, and morph it to how ever I wanted.[/b]

that's really strange. When I was little, before I would go to bed, I would imagine a filing cabinet. I would pick out my dream from different files and have that dream that night. I wasn't able to control them as far as I know, but it's still strange. BTW, I have been trying the FILD tech for a week now with no success... I'm starting to doubt how reliable that is...

Originally Posted by moosleyman

that's really strange. When I was little, before I would go to bed, I would imagine a filing cabinet. I would pick out my dream from different files and have that dream that night. I wasn't able to control them as far as I know, but it's still strange. BTW, I have been trying the FILD tech for a week now with no success... I'm starting to doubt how reliable that is...
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Yeah, the FILD tech doesn't really even sound too reliable. I just gave it a try for trying's sake. I was too tired to use autohypnosis this weekend. I didn't get to bed till 'bout midnight each night, so that might be why...

I haven't had a lucid dream (yet) but as for suggestive techniques, I do a sort of MILD variant to remember my dreams. Just relaxing, then putting out the intent to remember dreams (or, in your case, put out the intent that the ability has not left you and that it will come back to you) as you fall asleep so that it's the last thing on your mind.

I find that this technique works wonders, and isn't limited just to dreams. The intent for anything that you believe, no, know is possible can cause that to become a reality.

Well I guess I'm not too optimistic these days. Usually everything that I look forward to goes to crap. Every time I tell myself not to get my hopes up, so I get pessimistic and if that thing doesn't happen, so I get angry instead of heart-broken. I've got to stop that.

Also, on Thursday night I got soooo close to a lucid dream. There were five strange mechs, like transformers or something, and they were charging up attacks like an RPG. I thought to myself, "this is a dream, so I should be able to make them attack now," I dwelled on this for a few seconds, " Screw it, I just want to see them attack." So after that, it was a normal dream. I was so freaking close!