Thread: A Wierd Dream & A Few Questions

umm... any body out there?

Originally Posted by roadrash_140

this was the strangest thing for me, as i was dreaming i swear i could hear my radio & outside noises the whole time i was dreaming. it'd fade out from time to tome depending on my concentration on the dream. can you be like half asleep & half awake at the same time? ths really creeped me out for awhile & i even tried to wake myself up while i knew i was dreaming until i figured out to do some really cool stuff. second question, i have two friends, one is my best friend ever. lucidity comes to him naturally, he didn't even know people had to try to attain this. my other friend when i told him about it, he was like "you have to try to do that? F%$^ dude, when i'm hav'n a nightmare i just grab a machine gun & start blow'n s*(# away!" my question is this (& it contradicts everything i've read on this site) it seems to me i have an easier time attaining lucdity when my mind is altered in some way or another, why is this? (both of my friends like to smoke ALOT) i however do not (just dosen't do much for me) but i have two jobs (as in severe sleep deprivation, a while ago i stayed awake 66 hours strait & was working 19 hours a day) & tons of stress in my life with all my debt from my crash (docters bills & paying off whats left of the bike) when i'm like this i have crazy freak'n dreams, remember them easier, & can control them easier. can anyone explain this to me? last night i had about 5 hours of sleep (a little more than average) & can't hardly remember a thing! HELP please. third question, i can take a power nap for maybe 20-30 min on my lunch break & almost always get a little lucid, what up with that? anyway, this is the dream i had two nights ago & it is by far the wierdest/most controllable dream i've had yet. here's a little background.

thursday, i wake up around 8, i had to drive almost 1000 miles, i did this feat in 17 hours. i am really messed up mentally (completely blanking out, halucinations, having convo with myself for hours to stay awake driving, etc...) i get back to my house @ about 6am fri. & have get to work by 9am. this is what happened when i fell asleep, throughout the dream i could hear everything in the real world (it would fade when i was concentrating on control) here go, btw sexual content inside.

i find myself at my old booty-call's apartment & we are arguing because she thought it was a relationship, "i'm like whatever you stupid whore." as i turn towrd the parking lot, it's not there. what is there is like this long desending hill covered in those little play ground things that are on those big springs that kids ride & also it's all inside this jungle-gym like entanglement of neon pipes or tubes all about 6 to 12 inches in diameter. i told myself i had to be dreaming but wtf, i can hear my radio in real life! this is when i try to wake my self up to no avail. i'm walking toward the neon play ground stuff when i slip & start sliding down the hill very quickly. i could feel hitting things & i said to myself this shouldn't hurt because it isn't real, it took a few tries, but after awhile i couldn't feel things hitting me as i fell. then i tried to stop myself but to no avail. i finally stop & find myself at the bottom of the hill facing this contorted wall with wierd out-of-focus shapes moving & trying to come through (it's also neon.) i want to see what i can do, so i try to change my surroundings by closing my eyes & spinning around, no luck with that. so i try to fly away. i jump up & down a few times not flying but falling back down very slowly. so then i run a few steps jump & bounce of the wall kinda like neo did & i took off for a little while. i was so pumped i could feel my real body trembling with excitement (or it was a halucination) i had to concentrate so hard, when i started to fall i'd tell myself "fly dammit! FASTER!" the first thing i do is imagine myself right before i crashed my bike, i'm flying above myself, watching me going down the highway & swoop down into my body on the bike. everything is just like the night i crashed. i look at the speedo, 169, i look up & there's the corner where i crash, right before my front-end looses grip, i just shoot off into the sky on my bike like a neon green ICBM! i'm zooming through space with stars flying past me. i decide that i've had my fun with my bike & when i wake up it's still going to be crashed so i need to stop. i let go of my bike as i'm flying through space & kick it toward what i believe to be a black hole to destroy it. i quit cocentrating on flying so i'll land. i look around & the ground is like black or dark grey marble, cold & hard. there is about a dozen little white condo type beach houses spaced around this area. there is nothing in the distance, just darkness. eveything (the buildings) else is white. i think to myself that this is really F&*^ing boring, so i try to fly off (it takes me a few times)right as i take off i see my ex (not the other girl in this dream, THE one i really care about) sun bathing in her neon green thong, which was my favorite (if you haven't noticed, i really like neon green) everything in this dreamscape was black or white, aside from her thong. so i turn around to fly to her & when i do notice man flying up toward me. then little red bullet like shapes were zinging past me& they were coming from his fingers! "holy s&%#!!&#33 i turn around as fast as i can & gain alot of altitude, dive down on him like a stuka bomber from WWII. it took my a few tries to make my fingers shoot, but they finally did. then i practiced on my aim. it was just like waking life how the bullets were (trajectory, leading a target, etc.) as i dived down he saw me & turned upwards. as his bullets were flying past me i noticed the red on them was blood (i guess since they are coming out of our fingers?!?) i go a little bit to the left & then back to the right as he got really close & fired my fingers about 3-6 times saying, "big, fast bullets!!!" i swooped back toward the left again & right as i did his head exploded very greusome tearing him limb from limb & blood spraying throughout the sky. i had to fight off a few more of these men & i even had a few moments where i could slow time & dodge the bullets! i do awesome summersaults & aerial manuvers. i quit thinking about flying again & as i'm falling back toward the condos, i played around a little with slowing myself & levitating, but to no great avail. i land & now i'm a gaint towering over the little white houses, but i can still see my ex. i shrink myself & walk toward the house, i jump/kinda levitate up to the deck where she's lying. she is very surprized, excited to see me & looks exactly the way she looked the last morning i was with her we talk for a little while but i can't remember exaclty about what ( i think i started losing control so i started trying to cotrol things after a little while, note to everyone reading this, it gets graphic after this you have been WARNED! also, i am NOT like this in real life i simply did it to see what i could control in my dream) i make her breasts HUGE, (but i think she is absolutely perfect just as she is in waking life so i quit playing with her breasts) so i have regained control at this point. we started doing what we did best so i just let what ever happen, happen for awhile. it was almost more real than waking life, i can't even desribe how it felt, almost scary good! we're doin' our thing & i see someone walking onto the deck. she's naked, darker complected, brunette about shoulder length & skinny about 5' 2". then i realize, it's my first crush/love from kansas when she walked into the light. i am stoked!!! my ex gets up & starts making out with her very aggresively. "Holy s*&@, all i need is a beer!" POOF! i now have a budwieser in my hand. (i had gotten lost in the moment from excitement & forgot i was dreaming, if you can believe that&#33 i begin having sex with my crush from kansas, which was great because that never actually happened in waking life! we pretty much just keep on having a three-some & comepletely forget about controlling anything because i am enjoying this WAY to much. all of a sudden i hear gorillaz "feel good inc." (thats what my cell phone play for an alarm in waking life) & i know that it's time to wake up & go to work so i try & wake my self up but i can't at first so i finish with my crush from kansas, tell her thank you, & that i will keep praying a legion of angels over her to protect her, guide her & keep her from temptation & desicions that i have made. then i wake myself up. wierd huh?

one more question my alarm was set for 8:00am, i didn't wake myself until 8:44. can you actually dream this long? or is it all in my head?

sorry about the long post, but this experience was freak'n awesome, so i thought i'd share it. all comments & help are greatly appriciated. thanks in advance guiys & gals.
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Hey,how are ya?You're on to it with the sleep deprivation and stress.Drugs themselves dont trigger the lucid experiences,it's the stress that taking them puts on your body,and more to the point,your mind.I actually had more when I stopped.See,I've had a sleep disorder since I was 14(27 now),and had been to every doctor in my state to get some answers,to no avail.I have what are commonly known as sleep terrors and although they have lessened with age,I still have the occasional one.This is some scary shit,im on video fighting nothing!Along with the terrors came what I used to call "super vivid dreams",before I knew the term "lucid dreams".Obviously,the ones that went with the episodes scared me,but I could never remember them.The ones I could remember were amazing but.These dreams meant nothing to the doctors so my mum decided to monitor me herself.What we found was that she could tell if I was going to have a lucid or a terror cause I would start moving my arms and legs around,grinding my teeth and mumbling incoherrently.When this didn't happen which was most nights,I wouldnt have a terror or even be able to remember a dream.The next part of the puzzle was that she noticed the signs would follow either a stressful time or a lack of sleep!This became my mantra-plenty of sleep and relaxation.Although the terrors began to subside,unfortunately so did the lucid dreams.I have since learnt to find a balance.The dreams are worth a rare terror.Basically,we dream in the REM stage of sleep,which is generally within the first 2 hours.The brain actually paralyzes the body while we sleep,so it can repair damage and create proteins or whatever it does,but also so we don't act out our dreams!Apparently,in people such as myself,this link is faulty and sometimes wont allow me to fully "lock into" sleep.This invites the terrors but also allows for lucid dreaming.This puts the brain under great stress according to sites on the web,although in the numerous "sleep over" tests I have done hooked up to machines,no change in brain operation was recorded during either the terrors or the lucids.As far as the short naps go,I've had my best lucids whilst having a sleep in the day.Dont quite know about this one but it is a very common thing.Basically,I believe that anything that alters the brain's natural operation such as sleep deprivation,stress and altered sleeping times,are the catalyst for lucid's.Dont know how bad your crash was but it's said that NDE's can also create the ability to have,or significantly increase to frequency of lucids.Unreal control in your dream.I've never been close to that.Hope this helps.

I guess that helps a little. I've pretty much lost my ability for awhile now, now matter what I do. I don't know how many nde's I've had if any, but I have been in 4 car wrecks (two minor) was shot when I was fifteen. My bike crash was by far the worst physical thing thats ever happened to me, I went down at over 140 mph. I walked away somehow & my friend made me go to the hospital once he thought I started going into shock. Dreams became much more vivid after that for a short while. The last 6 weeks or so I know I'm dreaming when I wake, I just can't remember anything hardly. My heart will be pounding & all my blankets will be on the floor almost every morn'n.