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[ToonyMan]

You need more iron in your diet.

[Buddybud]

cool topic and glad to see it discussed.

I've experienced sleep paralysis since i was a young child and started lucid dreaming around the time of puberty. Both of which continue to this day and I quite enjoy it. The sleep paralysis scared the crap out of me as a child but i slowly figured out how to control that also.

The one thing i would like to mention are what i call waking dreams...which always occur during the sleep paralysis. Essentially if i FORCE my way out of sleep paralysis i will DREAM i have woken up only to find myself still dreaming which leads back to the sleep paralysis....repeat and recycle....essentially the old "dream within a dream".... Its neat but can be rather annoying at times, but for me it is also a very easy way to enter a lucid state once i relax.

I could talk about this for hours but i'm sure youve heard it all before. In short i've found that my diet, sleep position and physical exhaustion seem to influence both of these states. Also a quick search for hypnopompic and hypnogonic hallucinations will yield some interesting scientific info on these phenomenon.

cheers.

[Jude]

I somehow repeated a dream last night. From earlier in the dream sequence. I was basically in System Shock 2 so it was fuckin' scary, because instead of just a few zombies running around there were dozens of them everywhere and all I had was, I shit you not, a tube of toothpaste and later, a water pistol to fend them off with.


Actually, that does somewhat approximate the intensity and difficulty of System Shock 2.

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[Immortal]

I must reply to this. I have them often when I wake up in the morning on the weekends or my days off work. I usually get woken up by something or my body tries to wake me up but I usually tell whatever it was to fuck off and try to get back to sleep and the result is a dream i can mildly control.

My dreams tend to involve zombies and a forest or my house and a roof or something close. Anyways I tend to run around and guns magically come out of nowhere when I want one. I can run anywhere or do anything. When the zombies get back I climb on the roof hehe. Then I fall off and want to shoot myself before I die but then I think holy fuck if I die in a dream do I die in real life? Then right before the zombie kills me I wake up. Oh the zombies are like the infected from 28 days later.

[Cthulhu]

I had a lucid dream last night.  I twice had things happen to me that would've killed me IRL(Good times), I killed someone(Not fun, not like a vidjyagame), and I passed up sex with catwoman(I'm ambivalent, not sure if this was a good or bad thing)

My powers weren't working as well as they did before.  Instead of firin ma lazor and freezing stuff, I ran fast and jumped high.  At one point I jumped up and didn't come back down until I realized what had happened.  I ended up falling thirty feet and landing flat on my back on pavement.  That was should've-killed-me moment number 1.

The second one came when I needed a car for some reason.  One was pulling out of a driveway and I jumped onto the back of it.  Apparently the driver felt me hit the roof because he stopped moving.  I reached down and smashed the driver's side window.  The guy held an assault rifle out the window and told me something along the lines of "Just try to come in here!"

Knowing it was a dream, I decided to oblige him.  He shot me a few times, including point-blank in the face, and while I saw blood(It was really bright, which was weird on the dark background), I didn't actually feel the bullets hit(Should've-killed-me number 2).  After seeing me take several bullets without flinching, he gave up and shot himself in the head.  Blood everywhere.  Not cool, I kind of felt remorse, even though he wasn't real.  I don't remember anything of the dream after that.

The catwoman thing, though.  I kind of think I wasn't actually lucid when that happened.  I didn't have much control over what was going on, but I was acting like I was lucid, and catwoman offered to come back in future dreams and tell me I was dreaming so I could become lucid more easily.  There was also a sexual proposition which was turned down.  Maybe it was because of that movie.

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[kholhaus]

I pretty much have lucid dreams all the time, I KNOW that i'm dreaming, but the weird part is, I think my subconscious is fighting me. It's like it WANTS the dream to turn out a certain way, even if it's a lucid RECURRING dream, and I know what's going to happen next, whatever I do doesn't really affect the dream, and my subconscious finds loopholes.

Also, has anyone had the feeling where you're on the brink of waking up, and you realise this as your eyelids gain feeling, or moreso from the rest of your body in a dream, and then when you close your eyes in the dream and open them again, you're bolted awake?

[andrea]

Also, has anyone had the feeling where you're on the brink of waking up, and you realise this as your eyelids gain feeling, or moreso from the rest of your body in a dream, and then when you close your eyes in the dream and open them again, you're bolted awake?

always. and that also happen everytime i understand that i am dreaming. or maybe i understand that i am dreaming only when i am waking up?

[Cthulhu]

I don't specifically feel my eyes when I'm waking up from an LD, although that happens sometimes.  The only time I remember the end of an LD, I was sitting on the ground in my backyard and could suddenly feel my real body.  I kept rubbing my hands on the ground trying to regain my grasp of the dream body, but it didn't work and I woke up.

[deadlycairn]

I think I'm too lazy to lucid dream. Sometimes I'm pretty close, or have wait-what? moments, but I can never put the pieces together. Also, false awakenings are a pain in the ass, especially if you need to get up early (you'll dream you checked your watch and have enough time, and then you wake up and realise you've slept in.)

In my latest dream, an unusually detailed and realistic one, although still with plenty of wait-what? moments, I was in my Dad's garage cleaning up stuff. Realising that there was a TON of cobwebs, I went for a can of flyspray. As soon as I picked it up, and started shaking it, a MASSIVE (at the upper limit for feasible size, and way beyond the size of any in my country) spider scuttled from under the bench and ran out. I chased it, brandishing the flyspray, but it had disappeared into the grass. My father and I joked about it, but went off and did something else. Coming back, I idly wondered if I'd see it again, and lo and behold, there it was, in the middle of our drive. My Dad ran off, telling me he'd go get the shotgun (I have never seen a shotgun; my father most definitely does not own one). As he ran off, the spider reared up, exposing its fangs, and then scuttled towards me. Cue me running around in circles with the bloody thing chasing me. Then, as always happens when I'm being chased in a dream, I tripped, and the dream ended just as the spider got to me.

Psychological analysis anyone?

[Heron TSG]

You're a arachnophobic psychopath with daddy problems.

[deadlycairn]

...Daddy problems?
Arachnophobic, yes. Psychopathic, sometimes. Daddy problems? 

[Heron TSG]

I was joking, but it sounds like your dad just ran off on you, going for the shotgun you know he doesn't have.

[deadlycairn]

Lol, I realised you were joking, and I expected some random response, but I that particular response was unexpected.

My nightmares are always either instant death via falling (with my worst being falling onto a brainspike. Quite literally, a spike coming out of a massive brain, that was also aimed at my head. Double metaphor FTW.) or slow helpless death via being chased and unable to escape (with my worst one being locked in a labyrinth full of dinosaurs. I lay down and waited to die, falling asleep (yes I dreamed I was sleeping), and waking to find a dino munching on me. Good thing I rarely have nightmares.