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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #180 on: August 06, 2009, 12:01:34 am »

my favorite lucid dream actually involved me running down a pack of land whales while riding a velociraptor that had AK-47s for arms.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #181 on: August 06, 2009, 12:06:55 am »

Lately, any dream that wasn't a nightmare, and wasn't me playing an awesome videogame has had me going at high speed at some point. Like the one where I was in a motorbike (never driven one) and went so fast that when I turned, I skidded sideways for quite a while. Then, in another dream, I was running a race. Halfway through the dream got weird, I turned into a Feral (see Strife's Fortress for more details, or just go with werelizard), and ran on water so fast that when I turned, I skidded sideways and created a massive wave. Why do my dreams have so many obvious signs, and yet I still can't lucid?
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #182 on: August 06, 2009, 01:05:18 am »

Start asking yourself if you're dreaming whenever something odd happens in real life, or in the absence of weird things, just every few minutes.  Do a reality check or two.  Once you're doing it all the time, it'll get so ingrained into you that you'll start doing them in dreams.

Note that this isn't 100% effective.  I once had a dream where I was walking around with my hands over my eyes, laughing at how I could see through them, and that it was crazy, but I didn't notice that I was dreaming.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #183 on: August 06, 2009, 01:11:05 am »

...And that sums me up perfectly. Seriously, in my dream I'm thinking
"I've got to get up early tomorrow, I wonder if I should get up yet?"
And I bring my watch up and look at it and its some random time and I think "Oh, never mind then" and I STILL don't click that I'm sleeping.
I lack the willpower to lucid dream.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #184 on: August 06, 2009, 01:29:18 am »

How are you not dead?  I'm pretty sure REM sleep is an essential part of the cycle.


No it isn't. Non-REM sleep is the necessary one.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #185 on: September 25, 2009, 12:32:22 pm »

Is this a necro?  It's only five pages back, and I don't want to start a whole new topic when this one is full of discussion.

Anyway, I had a wake-induced lucid dream this morning.  I'm not sure where I stopped being awake and started dreaming.  It was seamless, which really confused me at the beginning of the dream.

Anyway, I'm at my house for the weekend.  I wake up around 6 to hear my brother and sister getting ready for school.  I grin, thinking about how awesome it is to only go to school for twelve hours a week.  At some point I start to fall back asleep, and start to feel like I'm slowly rocking on a boat.  This intensifies until I feel like I'm actually moving back and forth.  At some point this goes into Screaming Eagle Hyperforce Mode, and I'm yanked backward and start flying through the air.  I fly all over my room,  but everything outside my room is just this empty expanse of sunset-colored sky.  I know I'm going to have a lucid dream, and I try to stay calm.  Eventually I land back on my bed, and get annoyed, thinking that I must've ruined the dream somehow.  My mom wakes me up for something, even though my parents are divorced and my mom doesn't live with me anymore, and I pinch my nose, testing to see if I'm having a lucid dream just in case.  I can't seem to get my nose pinched properly so I just get up and walk around.  The light switch in my bedroom doesn't work, neither does the hallway.  Same with the living room.  I say something angrily about how none of the lights work, and then try looking at my hands.  Sure enough, they're all freaky and deformed.  I run around trying to decide what to do, and forget to solidify the dream by rubbing my hands together and such.  As a result, I have no powers except being stronger than normal and being able to turn the lights off by pointing at them.  This can't turn them back on though, and I'm afraid to go into my bedroom because it's dark and I'm convinced that there's something in there.  Considering it was a dream, there totally could've been something in there.

I went outside and people were packing up and leaving their homes for some reason.  I started looking for someone to be dream-friends with, because I wanted them to come back in future dreams and tell me I was dreaming.  I was attacked by zombies and eventually a guy I hated from high school shows up and starts wrestling me.  I kicked him in the groin a few times and just as seamlessly as I went in, I blink my eyes and I'm back in the real world.

Also, I can no longer keep a consistent tense.  I'm not sure if this has to do with the dream, or if I'm just stupid today.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #186 on: September 25, 2009, 04:23:40 pm »

Not much time ago, i dreamed about lucid dreaming... or maybe a small lucid dream in a dream, but i am not sure.
At the beginning, there is a story about going somewhere, first with a car that falls out of the road, then with a wooden bicycle. then i meet my parents, can't remember why we were there, but when we have to go back home i worry about the lost car, my mother says that i am too young to have a car, and then i answer:"not my fault if i dream about having a car!" ( answering in that way must be really hardcoded into me). So i think: "hey, if this is a dream and i know it, i might be able to do things like the people in that B12 thread!" so i try to move a rock in the air, and i can do it! then i think : "i could try flying!" but this time i fail... i imagine myself in the air, but i fall before i can manage to fly.then i wake up in the car, all the part where i know that it is a dream, was just a dream-in-dream and so the normal dream goes on.

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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #187 on: September 26, 2009, 08:13:01 pm »

Ha, my lucid dreams I can't not fly, I actually have a hard time having gravity in my dreams, I have to jump off of walls and trees and telephone wires and such to be able to go anywhere, and if I miss I just kinda spin off into space, once I got all the way to the moon!
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #188 on: September 26, 2009, 10:09:09 pm »

Just recently I am starting to have lucid dreams about Animal Crossing: City Folk.

In them, I embody my character, and go about daily (nightly?) life in-town. You know, pick fruit and catch bugs. The whole deal. My brain is even kind enough to have K.K. show up and sing for me. That's cool and all, but when I dream the next time about Animal Crossing, Resetti shows up and gets mad at me for not saving my dream.
"But how do I save my dream, Resetti?"
"THAT'S FOR YOU TO FIND OUT. NOW SCRAM!"

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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #189 on: October 01, 2009, 04:26:27 pm »

I am not sure if it was a fully lucid dream or not, I can only remember portions near the end, but recently I had a dream which was like playing a strategy game... Except it was a strategy game controlled by my mind. All I can remember is it was a medieval style city, with walls which were either built up dirt or pallisade, and I had just finished constructing a second entrance which led directly onto the walls (I remember thinking as I completed it that the new entrance was awefully open to attack and that defenses would need to be built up around it). Unfortunately, my sister came in at the point and turned on my lights and woke me up because she was looking for something.  >:(
Seriously, waking me up at 6 AM is one thing, but interupting my imaginary strategy games? That's just evil.  :'(

Now for a couple of similar topics...
First, a couple years ago I had surgery to remove a small cyst in my jaw. This involved general anethesia. After the fact, I was told I had woken up during the surgery. I of course had no memory of it due to the amnesia causing elements of the anethesia. As it currently stands, I have very vague recollection of it... not fun in the least. From what I remember, it started out as a sort of vague sensation of existing, which gradually changed into a faint acknowledgement of sights and sounds (somewhat like what you see when your eyes are at almost entirely closed so you can only get very dull impressions of light). From there it turned to panic as I realized what was happening (as at that point the anethesia still kept me paralyzed). Shortly afterwards though, they must have added more drugs, since I fell back asleep. Since then, I have the tendancy of passing out any time I have to get pricked by a needle (such as shots or getting blood drawn).

Which leads me to my next related topic: Passing out. I have had a few experiences with passing out, mostly due to needles, but once due to straining my neck the wrong way. I must say, passing out is one of the most intriguing experiences one can have. Colors, images, shapes, sounds, they all kind of blur together into an overwhelming sea of confusion. The first time and most recent time were the most interesting. The first time I passed out, it felt like I was drowning in a sea of sounds, image, and colors. I literally felt like I was trying to make my way through to the surface, at which point I woke up. The best analogy would have to be if you were to take you entire "My Pictures" folder, print them all off, turn them into some sort of liquid, and fill an olympic swimming pool with them... The most recent time was a bit more structured, in that I felt like I was riding in a convertable, and all around were shifting and changing images.

Oh, and some on topic linkys (hopefully noone has posted yet, I have yet to read all the way through):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
Here's an interesting one which I found on the lucid dream wiki page; apparently some use it as a spiritual device: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Yoga
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #190 on: October 01, 2009, 04:38:47 pm »

I've never fully passed out, but having the blood drain out of your head from standing up too fast is pretty trippy.  Everything goes gray, you can't understand what people are saying, and time dilates so you feel like you were there for ten minutes when it was actually less than five seconds.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #191 on: October 01, 2009, 07:31:23 pm »

I've never fully passed out, but having the blood drain out of your head from standing up too fast is pretty trippy.  Everything goes gray, you can't understand what people are saying, and time dilates so you feel like you were there for ten minutes when it was actually less than five seconds.
Oh is that what that is?  I've always liked that sensation.
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« Reply #192 on: October 01, 2009, 07:54:29 pm »

ugh, once I had blood donated, double like normal cause I'm tough like that, no seriously though it was like 3 or 4 packs, I left the hospital and got slit my arm open on a rusty fence at my house, I thought oh well, no problem I've had my tetnis shot, and proceeded to bleed so much that everytime I stood up for the next two weeks everything went black for around 20 seconds, fucking trippy low blood pressure.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #193 on: October 17, 2009, 03:32:30 pm »

I had a sorta kinda lucid dream last night.  Only the very end was lucid, and barely.  It was more of an increased awareness thing than an actual lucid dream.

Anyway, the beginning of the dream I'm sitting next to a hot tub, and there's some people sitting around me, some in the hot tub, some out.  I'm talking to this guy in the hot tub, and he really wants to go out with this girl in the hot tub across from him.  I have this very strong sense that at any moment a zombie outbreak is going to hit.  I'm just kind of waiting for it, calm but tense. 

The girl the guy likes says something retarded, like ditzy retarded, and I'm like "Are you sure you want to date this girl?"  He says he does, and a few seconds later the guy next to me (Outside the hot tub) accidentally cuts himself.  A drop of blood lands in the water, and I'm thinking "Here we go..."  The water almost instantly turns this kind of crystalline red color, and another drop lands on my pants (This is important).  I brush it off, afraid that I'm going to be infected, and start moving away from the pool.

There's some kind of scene transition, and it's in the middle of the apocalypse.  The guy in the pool's five year or so old sister is running from the zombies, and there are other people running with her.  It's night at this point, and the city's in chaos.  She trips, and I pick her up and carry her to the safehouse.  Someone else trips, this time closer to my age, and I drag her in too.  There are like 20 of us in this classroom and the doors have been locked to keep the zombies out.

A large African American gentleman has us all sit down, and tells us we're going to take a test.  It's the end of the world, but since we're in a classroom he's determined to make us do schoolwork.  A girl behind me asks the girl I saved (The older one) for a piece of paper.  She hands her one, as she has this big stack of loose-leaf paper on her desk.  I ask her for one, and she hands me this crinkled-up piece of paper that she had already written on.  I guess that's cool, I just saved her life and all, she doesn't owe me a piece of decent paper.  Ungrateful punk.

Anyway, at some point in the test she's swapped with a large neckbeardish guy.  Good riddance.  He starts rubbing his eye, and says his eye itches.  It's all red and swollen, and dripping blood.  Everyone starts scooting away from him, and he gets mad.  I stand up and pick up my chair, and he starts running toward me.  I throw it at him and hit him right in the bridge of the nose.  He falls but just gets back up.  Some other people join in and start hitting him.  At this point most of the people in the room have mysteriously disappeared.  All that's left is me, the zombie, a guy I know from college (we'll call him Steve), the teacher(Frank), an old lady(Beverly), and some young guy I don't recognize(Ronaldo).  The girl who borrowed paper might have still been there, I'm not sure.  She won't need a name though because she doesn't do anything.  We all start beating on the zombie.  Frank pulls out a gun and shoots him.  One of the bullets misses and hits Steve, but he's alright.  We finally bring down the zombie after like 20 shots and Frank shoots Ronaldo.  He says he didn't have the will to survive, and threatens to shoot Steve if he doesn't show more will.  The power goes out, and Beverly keeps looking out the window.  We tell her to close the sections of fake wall inexplicably placed over all the windows, since the zombies almost certainly heard the gunshots.  Sure enough, we hear them beating on the window.  It opens, and leads into some kind of weird bar, divided in several places with bookshelves.  All these zombies start coming in, but I can barely see them since it's dark.  Frank tells us all to charge, and we run forward.  They all make it out, but the zombies catch me and I have trouble getting through.  I think "Oh well, at least they made it out" and fall into the bar (They all jumped across the tops of the bookshelves).  I look around and realize that the zombies aren't really that zombie-ish.  They're having some kind of party, in fact.  Apparently when that drop of blood hit me I was infected, because they didn't have a problem with me joining their party.  There were alcoholic beverages and the girl serving them was naked.  I guess they were Slaaneshi zombies.  I was okay with this, and decided I'd like being a zombie.  This is where I became kind of lucid, I had some kind of partial awareness that it wasn't real, and woke up pretty quickly.
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« Reply #194 on: October 17, 2009, 03:52:25 pm »

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