Lucid Dreaming

Creeper

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One way I've heard how to lucid dream is to dedicate one specific thing of your daily routine to memory. That way in your dreams you might be able to find a discrepancy with what your mind knows/remembers. Thus, leading to your awakening within your dream. That's what I remember being told.

I never have experienced it myself. However, I would be interested. Very interested.
Yes, those are called reality checks. There are many of them, such as pressing your fingers into your palm or breathing with your nose and mouth closed.

Here is a very good reference for lucid dreaming and reality checks:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_Dreaming/Induction_Techniques
 

Ustulo

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Quick question:
I always get a kind of Lucid Dream, where in a quick little break in thought, I can manage to look at my hands in the dream, to notice that they don't belong to me. I become aware of the dream at that point (You don't say?), but... I have a problem.
DREAMS, Y U NO LET ME SPAWN IN TNT, OR ANYTHING FOR THAT MATTER! >:o

For those who have Lucid Dreams, please tell me how you do stuff, I can't do shit in them. It's more like watching a movie.
 

Patchouli

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Quick question:
I always get a kind of Lucid Dream, where in a quick little break in thought, I can manage to look at my hands in the dream, to notice that they don't belong to me. I become aware of the dream at that point (You don't say?), but... I have a problem.
DREAMS, Y U NO LET ME SPAWN IN TNT, OR ANYTHING FOR THAT MATTER! >:o

For those who have Lucid Dreams, please tell me how you do stuff, I can't do shit in them. It's more like watching a movie.
Well "Lucid" simply means you're aware, it doesn't mean you can control every aspect.
 

Creeper

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Quick question:
I always get a kind of Lucid Dream, where in a quick little break in thought, I can manage to look at my hands in the dream, to notice that they don't belong to me. I become aware of the dream at that point (You don't say?), but... I have a problem.
DREAMS, Y U NO LET ME SPAWN IN TNT, OR ANYTHING FOR THAT MATTER! >:o

For those who have Lucid Dreams, please tell me how you do stuff, I can't do shit in them. It's more like watching a movie.
Well "Lucid" simply means you're aware, it doesn't mean you can control every aspect.
Yes, Patchouli has a point. You probably aren't able to do anything because you are not aware of the fact that you are dreaming, and that your state of mind is that of "oh, this is just a dream, nothing to do here."

It's all about awareness and control. Train yourself to become aware of when you are dreaming. Do little exercises, such as saying to yourself "When I am dreaming, I will know that I am dreaming." Keep the thought in your mind before you drift asleep. Try to relax, too. I have found that not moving too much helps when it comes to lucid dreaming. Try to achieve pre-lucid dreams.
 

MiniCacti

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Fortunately for me, I have never had sleep paralysis. On the other hand, I have never dreamed lucidly, and can almost never remember my dreams. Occasionally, a small tidbit of a dream will stay with me, and usually for quite a while. I currently can remember a grand total of five dream pieces, and they are still fairly clear. I wrote them all below for your entertainment.

Dream #1. Four years ago: It was a suprisingly well lit night, and the sky was a dark blue. I was sinking into one of many square pools that were arranged in a massive grid. A train was going by above the water and in between the pools. Then there were some coins in front of me, spiraling down into the dark and fathomless depths...

Dream #2 Five years ago: A local restaurant was suddenly beside my house. I was wearing shorts, t-shirt, and flip flops. There were about two inches of snow on the ground, and for some reason this did not look out of place. I walked up to the window, and ordered some popcorn chicken... (I think, it may have been a chicken sandwich.)

Dream #3 Nine or ten years ago: I "woke up" and started getting out of bed. A wave of spiders then poured out from under the bed and completely covered the floor. I stayed on my bed and watched them...

Dream #4 More than ten years ago (Least clear): The only part I can remember clearly is a haunted house with a bubble shield made of smoke coming out of the chimney. That, and something ate my dad... IDK.

Dream #5 Well over ten years ago (This is the one I remember most clearly, strangely enough): I am hiding behind a tall bush in a massive field. My parents, family, and friends are up in a tiny, light gray radio tower. They are motioning for me to come up with them, so I run out from behind the bush. A bear comes from my left, and smacks me in the face. Blackness, total void. Then I woke up...
 

Patchouli

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I've frequently had lucid dreams, but almost never had any ones I could control past my own actions.

Best one though was the one where my house seemed...off, and I did an inception type thing and tried to think of the last place I was before I got there, and remembered I was laying down on my bed and thus realized I was dreaming :p
 

MagicForDummies

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I ACTUALLY READ the article and not only its title and that isn't how you should lucid dream at all...

And the picture isn't even a good representation of a lucid dream. It looks more like an Out-of-Body experience.

There's alot of misinformation in the article actually.
 

ChibaMasato

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Never had lucid dreams, nor would I try to. My dreams are already messed up as it is. Now, excuse me. I need to go run through a rainy desert from a cybernetic panther while trying to decipher a key code that will cause giant pine trees to rise up from the ground high enough to lift me up to a space station where I need to win a scientist over by making him his favorite pudding and serve it to him in a martini glass, so he'll tell me how to stop the omega death ray I triggered from blowing up the dark side of Mars and a quarter of Saturn's ring.
 

Crogenitor_Mario

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I actually had a lucid dream a few weeks ago. I also discovered that I was dreaming in a few other cases, but they all ended in the second I found it. But in this one, I managed to control my dream.

I was in a train, with a few other people with me. The train was in a jungle. Suddenly, another train appeared on the rail, coming at our train. The two trains collided, and our train pushed the other train. Then, I saw the rail was broken, with a pit below it. The other train fell in the pit, while our train "flew" because of the angle of the rail's end. Right here, I discovered that I was in a dream and it was gonna end with the train falling in the pit and me waking up, yelling "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" (I frequently have dreams ending with me waking up right before I die). I said, "Fuck this shit, this will not end same!" and then, I managed to levitate myself while our train was falling. However, after levitating out of the train, I lost the control of my dream and got stuck in midair. My dream ended a few seconds later.

At least, it didn't end with me dying again. :D
 
I have lucid dreams on the nights I work hard and am super tired. I think its a very interesting phenomena of the brain.

it's odd because on normal nights I dont remember my dreams, its like.. Not having them
 

Mariolink42

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Right so I know a little bit about sleep, there are 5 stages.
1-2 Light Sleep
3-4 Deep Sleep
REM Rapid Eye Movement, dreams occur here and temporary paralysis and of course rapid eye movement. Usually takes about 60-90 minutes to get here.

So i'm sort of skeptical that it's really just 30 minutes and that you have to be completely still, as long as you make it to REM you'll have the same experience.
 

Cheese7710

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I have five "types" of dreams, most of them are lucid:

1. Empty (I just fall asleep, then wake up. Not lucid.)
2. Controlled (I rule my dreams and can do anything I want in them until I die or fall asleep, that's when I wake up)
3. Realistic (non-lucid, and is so realistic, I sometimes think that it actually happened)
4. Nightmare (Pretty simple. Scary; pretty fun if it's also controlled :D)
5. Epic (As in a very long, movie-like dream that's lucid.)
 

3vans

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Quick question:
I always get a kind of Lucid Dream, where in a quick little break in thought, I can manage to look at my hands in the dream, to notice that they don't belong to me. I become aware of the dream at that point (You don't say?), but... I have a problem.
DREAMS, Y U NO LET ME SPAWN IN TNT, OR ANYTHING FOR THAT MATTER! >:o

For those who have Lucid Dreams, please tell me how you do stuff, I can't do shit in them. It's more like watching a movie.
It takes time. If, like me, you have flown in a natural, non-lucid dream before, flying will become natural for you. I just jump and concentrate on trying to fly. Usually works.

The other thing I tried, throwing fireballs, didn't quite work. I tried to throw them, but all that happened was a small amount of fire appeared on the opposite wall.
 

TheXraptor

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I have five "types" of dreams, most of them are lucid:

1. Empty (I just fall asleep, then wake up. Not lucid.)
2. Controlled (I rule my dreams and can do anything I want in them until I die or fall asleep, that's when I wake up)
3. Realistic (non-lucid, and is so realistic, I sometimes think that it actually happened)
4. Nightmare (Pretty simple. Scary; pretty fun if it's also controlled :D)
5. Epic (As in a very long, movie-like dream that's lucid.)


Don't lie, there is also the "Sexy" type of dream....
 

Patchouli

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The only reason I would never try it is because I am insanely afraid of getting lucid nightmares
Errr what? Being lucid while having a nightmare is better than not, being you can wake yourself up (or at least I'm able to)

When I realize I'm dreaming in a nightmare I just shake violently in the dream, it seems to make me actually shake a bit, which wakes me up.
 

Kc006

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I can't fucking tell if you guys are trolling or just giving advice on how to improve in Lucid Dreaming.
 
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