Ever Narrated Your Own Dreams?

[Gelomatron]

Last night was the very first night I tried lucid dreaming after reading the website. I started a dream journal and was amazingly able to remember three dreams on my very first try. The third dream was a WBTB in the early morning, and the dream is written in my journal as this: The dream begins looking through a rusty metal pipe. The field of view zooms out until I see a cartoon/animated street and two very small "people" walking on the sidewalk towards the left of my vision. One of the "people" is really just a cylinder with a face, I would assume 5 inches tall based on the size of the sidewalk. Following him is a corn-cob with a face. It has big lips so I assume it is a female. The corncob walks up to the cylinder and asks, "Can I balance on top of you?" after which it promptly hops on top of the cylinder and they begin walking to the right. My vision pans very artificially to the right as they walk up the street which is now a sharp incline. When they get to the top, my vision becomes 3D. There is a large human baby playing with a manhole cover with chocolate pudding all over its face. The cylinder asks the baby "Which way is the farthest direction?" The baby does not answer, but the corncob, still on top of the cylinder, says "Down!" at which point I, being basically a "camera" and not feeling like a character at all, say "Up!" Then my phone rings and I wake up. The odd part of the dream, however, is that I was not a character, but more like I was doing the voice-overs of the animated characters. I decided what each of them would say consciously. Every time they said something, I was essentially speaking it through their voices, as I could feel my own mouth moving and see their mouths moving. Somehow I was consciously deciding what they would say and at the end I finally butted in as myself to say "UP!" Has anyone ever had the experience where they were literally thinking about and deciding what everyone was saying, consciously, even when you don't think you were having a lucid dream (I never at any point realized specifically that I was dreaming)? Or is it just a regular dream?

[ninja9578]

This has happened to me a few times. None were lucid I don't think.

[JET73L]

No. I narrated someone else's dream once, sort of (they were fictional, and it may have actually been a nonexistent movie rather than a nightmare that i was narrating in my dream). I think you might narrate a dream if you were lucid, but only if you were really trying. If I were narrating a dream, and became lucid, I think I would drop the narration and have to focus to start again (I did, in fact, become lucid. I stayed discorporeal, and was able to move through the different events of the dream as i wished, without narrating.)

[Shift]

As soon as I read the title I remembered fragments of dreams that I had where I was narrating, all non-lucids. I imagine this could be a very effective technique for dream control though, especially if you made the statements with force. I wonder if first or third person would be better? Hmm, sounds like we ought to start experimenting! Makes me think of that movie with Will Ferrell...

[WolfeDreamer531]

Most of my non-Lds are always third person. Like the lsat dream I had where I was being chased by guerrilla soldiers out of a forrest, and then when I jumped to climb a fence, they gunned me down and then it was like I was narrating the whole thing b/c I remember saying that he was gunned down after he tied to climb the fence or something like that.

[Reality_is_a_Dream]

Earl Hickey narrates my thoughts

[JET73L]

Earl Hickey narrates my thoughts Awesome. Does he talk in first person (you) or third person (him)? I've always wondered what it would be like to have someone narrate a dream, in the dream, as it occurs (with me as the character, not the narrator). I expect it would be freaking weird (It would certainly lead to a lucid, unless the narrator tried to give you reasons it could be real, and you are awake).

[Reality_is_a_Dream]

He talks as if he is me, but to a greater viewer. Like "You see, a few years ago, I met this strange fellow. Later, I found out he was mu brother. I had alot to make up to him." I want someone to narrate my dreams! That sounds kick ass!

[Robot_Butler]

By the way, Gelomatron, that's a great dream! I would love to see that as an animated short or something.

[MRooney]

None lucid, but I've definitely experienced my dreams from a narrative perspective.

[JET73L]

Jasonlee Hypnonarration. (totally garbled that) Having Jason Lee as Earl as your running narration would rock. Definitely got to try inducing a narration during my next lucid.

[Scarhand]

Jasonlee Hypnonarration. (totally garbled that) Having Jason Lee as Earl as your running narration would rock. Definitely got to try inducing a narration during my next lucid. When I read Freeman I thought of Half-Life. I've been playing that game way too much lately.

[mini0991]

This sounds like a great way to get control over LDs. "I was walking down the street when suddenly I turned the corner and I saw the most beautiful woman in the world lying naked on the sidewalk..."