Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Neonivek]

Actually waking up due to lucid dreaming isn't that uncommon.

You actually sleep more soundly not lucid dreaming.

[Dragooble]

I have gotten pretty good at recognizing hypnagogic images while i'm falling asleep. Right now i just need to learn how to stay conscious while the dream develops.

[Googolplexed]

Are you doing that when you go to bed, or when you wake up at night.

Its almost impossible to WILD when you go to bed. Early in the night you don't have many REM periods, which are the ones used for dreaming(Normally). If you try WILDing when you first go to bed it could take hours before the first REM cycle, and the first ones are quite short.

Common technique is to wake up a few hours before normal, and then WILD. If you hit the cycle correctly then you can WILD within 10 minutes.

[S.K. Ren]

I used to have really horrible nightmares about random things as a kid. So I decided I would think of one really stong Idea as I went to sleep. Eventually my imagination would turn into a dream and I'd be able to direct my dreams like a movie of sorts.

More recently I haven't experienced many dream states during my REM cycles so they usually catch me by suprise. However I can still direct it. I find that when I meddle to much in the dream though I wake up, which is unfortunate. I am completely lucid, but If I try to act, I get thrown out of the studio.

[Alexhans]

Fuck... I totally forgot to write this down...

I dreamed about vampires last night...
And, as always, It was not a nightmare...

I'm gonna make things short... but it was a long, AWESOME, dream.

I was in a touristic city called Mar del Plata (500 km from Buenos Aires) for job related reasons, it seems.
But somehow members of my family were also celebrating something so I had to go back to someplace (yep, it's fading) at 8pm, probably to say goodbye to my uncle and aunt who were going back to mexico.
Anyway... I went to a hotel 3 stories high and start doing whatever the heck I was supposed to be doing (my boss had driven me there, WEIRD).  I was staying at a room on the top floor, I went down torun some errands and met some long lost people from college (huh? I didn't really know those guys) and headed back to the hotel, knowing I was running late.

Little light left... When I arrived to the street in front of the hotel there was this whole evil crowd, of Vampires...! That maybe would've left me alone if it wasn't for my chivalrious attitude (again, huh?).  They had trapped some girls so I faced the leader and demanded their release.  Bad idea.  I had to sprint to the Hotel and climb the stairs with a crazy troop of vampires trying to crush my bones. 

And this is when the fun started.

I had a feeling of half-desperation half-certainty that I would be able to beat them.  All of them.  Once I got to the door of my room I grabbed some sort of toothpicks (that were used for God know's what) and started using them as darts against my pursuers.  I managed to throw like 30 at a time in a shotgun shell kinda way... But would that hurt vampires? Yes!  They had been submerged in holy water... WTF?  Yeah!  I don't know when, why or how... But I knew they had holy water so I kept throwing them at those rampaging beasts that were pushing each other on the stairs, trying to get me.

When I ran out of "darts" I started using pieces of furniture as throwing weapons.  That wasn't as effective but still slowed them down.  There were so many that I had to retreat to other rooms and kept slaying vampires with whatever object I had nearby... I was finally trapped in one last room with a huge window and vampires rushing at me from every direction.  I don't know if I attacked one or two before inspiration flashed the obvious and totally crazy answer...

I jumped through the glass.

I survived by falling... Right on the road... Yeah... I just rolled out and walkedfrom a jump of about 10 meters...

At this point... I knew I was going to be late to my family meeting so I just resigned to my fate and started pulling one Matrix stunt after another (with snapshots of the best moments included).  Forget about the fact that they were vampires and I had been running away from them and desperately using whatever weapon I could find...

I grabbed some sort of axe or metal pipe and destroyed them one by one, sometimes two, or three... I was supreme...

The scenery somehow changed and now looked like an airbase at dawn...

Perfect for the moment when a whole army of swats came in and found me standing alone, with the leader at my feet and about a hundred dead vampires diseminated around me...

I was about to end the leaders life with one mighty blow when they shot him... and he died.

and I was like.... WTF?  You guys left me alone to kill 200 vampires but denied me the pleasure of killing the leader?  You suck!

Of course... I didn't say that...

Then I went to a hospital to be treated for the numerous injuries I had sustained... But all I felt was peace.

There's more but this was the most relevant and crazy stuff.

Now... onto the analysis:
I watched "Being John Malkovich" yesterday.  It was one bizarre (but great) movie.  That probably helped. 
I injured my leg.  That means I feel weakened physically (But I want to compensate it mentally)

Okay... gotta do other stuff... At least I won't totally forget this AMAZING dream.

[Hungry]

I dreamed some confusing and sickening stuff last night...

Firstly I merged into dreaming, and normally when I do I lose my waking personality and gain one of several, but I stayed myself which first confused the hell out of me...then I took notice of my enviroment and found it to be a horrible melting mergence of my real home and the chaos I'm accustomed to seeing in normal sleep, most disturbing were the people that melted and shifted and disintigrated as I looked at them (and it was in hyper detail), I sleep dry heaved at least twice trying to figure out what was happening, trying to enact change only marginally worked and mostly just made stuff worse...

I forced myself awake by pushing my hand through myself (which normally works for me) just to stop the sickening dream...

After that I went back to sleep and dreamed some shit about shopping...

[Red Fortune]

I don't remember my dreams all to often (maybe once a week), but all the dreams I remember occur in the same way. They're all extremely vivid, for a start, and the environment I'm in is sort of blue, and it's usually based on reality. I seem to be able to control them, but it kind of feels like I have proper control, I'm subject to the universe that I dream in. There are lots of themes in my dreams that recur a LOT, and most occur near or extremely distant in the future, and there always seem to be screens everywhere, sometimes showing odd figures and strange sentences, more often displaying people I don't recognize.
That's not to say my dreams are boring, they're either at the extreme of power or the extreme of helplessness for me, like commanding an armada of spaceships or running in terror from an impending meteor strike, but my 3 latest dreams have been a bit different, all of them were set in a fantasy setting, where I was battling a creature or demon of some sort in slow motion, odd.

I'm babbling, though. *shot*

[Hungry]

What kind of creature or demon?

[Red Fortune]

Well, from what I remember, one was a billowing cloud of ash, smoke and fire, and another was some kind of saurian creature, and the last was a horned demon with 4 arms and long claws

[Hungry]

Well, from what I remember, one was a billowing cloud of ash, smoke and fire, and another was some kind of saurian creature, and the last was a horned demon with 4 arms and long claws

How odd, what was the scene like?

[Red Fortune]

I guess they counted as nightmares, I was fighting for my life with my bare hands

[Azkanan]

Have a quiet alarm go off next to your bed so it wakes you up, hit it to turn it off, then go back to sleep as soon as you can, but rather than be lazy and just go ZzZz.... Think of something, like some sort of fantasy or adventure.

Using that technique, your dream-like mind-state takes over the fantasy/adventure. Same sort of experience, when you're too tired to get out of bed one morning, and you think of that really important thing you have to do today. Your brain, sometimes, takes over the event in your mind, and you think you are actually out of bed and doing your shiz, then something makes a noise and jolt up, still in bed.

Whilst on the note... Ever had one of those times, you really need to get up, but cant because your tired? If you have a clock in your room, a non-digital one, watch the second hand and count down to when it hits the 12, or the 6. When you say 0, jump out of bed with all your strength, or just sit up.
Works like a charm, every time... That, or empty a tiny cup of water on your head - like those coffee shop milk cups, the tiny little plastic things...

[Alexhans]

Azkanan... You can even set a particular dream you want if you apply some "Silva Method: Mind Control" techniques...

I need to to those kind of things again because I've gotten lazy and stopped applying then to everyday life but they worked wonders when I used them.

Also... No comments on my vamp dream? :/

Have you guys ever dreamed about slaying such big amounts of <insert evil entity here>?

[deadlycairn]

Yeh, but such dreams are usually from the point-of-view of a videogame (until the dream switches and I'm in the game)

I think the last such one was a top down shooter with spaceships.

Also, has anyone else ever shapeshifted in a dream? It happened once to me, even weirder because I didn't turn into a real creature but rather a creature of my own creation. I didn't have much control over the shapeshifting though.

EDIT: Also, it wasn't a horse of enemies, but in an Oblivion-esque dream I felt quite proud of myself for taking down a giant, well armed and armoured demon-type thing by myself.

[Azkanan]

Azkanan... You can even set a particular dream you want if you apply some "Silva Method: Mind Control" techniques...

I need to to those kind of things again because I've gotten lazy and stopped applying then to everyday life but they worked wonders when I used them.

Also... No comments on my vamp dream? :/

Have you guys ever dreamed about slaying such big amounts of <insert evil entity here>?

Zombies, vampires, my family and elves.