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[Lear]

Also, instead of biting your tongue, count your fingers.  If you have too many, or too few, or visible deformities, you know you're dreaming.  That was how I had my second lucid dream.  It hurts less.

Well yeah it hurts less, but if you're dreaming, it's awfully hard to count all ten. :/ I'll start trying it and tell you how it goes.

Sometimes you don't even need to count your fingers. When I had my ld my hands were slightly glowing white and kinda warping back and forth in a line that would travel up and down each hand. In short any kind of hand distortion can help you realize you're dreaming, it's not always just a change in number of fingers.

[SHAD0Wdump]

I tend to be able to have lucid dreams from time to time because I have found I can tell a difference in the smell of the air between when I'm dreaming and when I'm awake.

Not all too reliable,but at least I'm not biting my tongue.

[Armok]

On a tangential topic, is it just me or does an OS that requires you to defrag for 8 hours every day or it will result in a complete system crash almost make Vista seem bearable?

[Muz]

I've done it. It's fun. Like one time when I knew I was dreaming and I could do whatever I want, teleport, run fast, make hot chicks appear from nowhere and do stuff.

But I dunno.. it feels wrong. Like that wrong feeling when eating junk food. Or using traps and perpetual energy in DF. Sleep is supposed to be for rest and actually turning on your brain while it's defragmenting has to be bad for health in the long run. Which is why I don't do it anymore.

I thought it was more like playing flash games while your computer defrags?

Well, it's more like taking the fragments and building little structures with them while they're not in place

[Neonivek]

The Trick to lucid dreaming is to simply catch yourself dreaming while your having it. (assuming I got the definition correct and this is controling dreams and not dreams that seem absolutely real)

Giving yourself the goal to lucid dream is a good way to go around it as well as trying to remember your dream. People also try to develop triggers that once experienced they will instantly recognise their experience as a dream.

The way I do it is that Dreams have a muffled feeling while your asleep since none of it is real (Though I have very vivid dreams since I have quite a bit of a sense of touch), I can even access my body while in a dream and have successfully opened one of my eyes during sleep. Unfortunately that would be nightmarish for some as technically I was paralyzed.

I lucid dream when I want to but my advantage is that I had to learned to ignore dreams at a young age anyhow due to horrible nightmares. (Really really bad nightmares)

I also can reach this weird Free Association state that I have no idea what it is called. I am not asleep but in a halfway my mind races with many thoughts at once almost against my will. Unfortunately it causes insomnia.

[Rilder]

I also can reach this weird Free Association state that I have no idea what it is called. I am not asleep but in a halfway my mind races with many thoughts at once almost against my will. Unfortunately it causes insomnia.

Pretty sure this is a form of Hypnagogia.

[Tradanbattlan]

I always have lucid dreams after getting very engrossed while playing a video game.
When I dream about it, I think "Hey, didn't this happen in the game?" and I realise that it DID, so I kinda get a Deja-Vu feeling. This is when I usually realise that I am dreaming.
This is also usually when my arms turn into something odd.

[Neonivek]

Well Lucid Dreaming is difficult.

Mostly because you can't think about what you will do because that will cause it to happen. Plus you have to believe in the outcome of your actions or else it also won't happen.

This is one of the many reasons why Lucid Dreaming isn't good at preventing nightmares, only making it worse.

[Peewee]

Well there is also that, but you can also just force yourself awake by doing something sudden... jump off a building and splat on the ground and you should wake up.

[Neonivek]

Well there is also that, but you can also just force yourself awake by doing something sudden... jump off a building and splat on the ground and you should wake up.

It may not wake you up even then especially in repeat.

Though my worst failed attempt at waking up early was to open my real eyes. I did but I didn't wake up. (Weird sensation. Though I am usually aware of my real body when I am dreaming anyhow. That was the only reason I was able to catch the fact that I was dreaming when the dream was about me waking up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom)

[Rilder]

I found the best way to wake myself up was to hold my eyes tight closed as tight as possible for 2-3 seconds then open them, always wakes me up.

[Heron TSG]

I stand up. it stops my sleeping.

[andrea]

sometimes i think i had what could be called lucid dreaming... not sure. but few times i knew i was dreaming. usually it happens when i notice that i don't blink (because in dreams i never blink). the abd think is that, after i notice that, the natural urge to blink comes back, and the only way to keep dreaming is keep eyes open. and it is just as hard as if they were really open. (try keeping your eyes open, without blinking, for a minute!).
also, i don't control anything ( beside eye lips... they keep me busy enough).
maybe it is just me waking up and opening my eyes , while still dreaming who knows.

as long as this stays, i think lucid dreaming isn't for me, since if i am aware that i am dreaming, i see that i don't blink, and if i see that, i have to blink, then i wake up.

edit : lucid dreaming would have been useful this night, when i dreamt a small leech like creature entering my foot from the bottom, carving an hole in it( it made a small hole, entered, and started tunnelling) while a bigger leech like creature with 2 big teeth bite me in the upper part of the same foot ( teeth are big compared to creature's size, not mine. also, they are both on the same side of creature's mouth[upper])...
while the leech tunnelling was disgusting , the bigger leech gave more problems.... i tryed twice to remove it, but the teeth were stuck, and it hurted. (not as much as it should have,not much at all, since this is a dream, but wasn't a good feeling) after the second try, i stopped, to avoid more pain and damage to the foot. then an unknown girl ( some kind of medic probably) put some herbs in the hole in the feet, to make the leech go out. after that, nothing.
being able to make the bigger leech disappear, and to teleport the tunnelling one would have been good.

being able to feel some pain ( not much: just enough to make me stop trying to take leech out of my feet. maybe more meat moving than true pain) in a dream isn't good either, if you want lucid dream i guess.

also, when i think (awake) about randomish things, my mind has its own ideas about how things should go. i try to imagine throwing an object in a direction, and instead the object , while thrown in a direction, turns toward another point, or falls up or down. and then i have to fight my own brain to imagine what i want to imagine.
if i had a lucid dream it would be a mess  ( even more than my normal dreams)

[Ninja]

a few months ago i had a dream me and my friend were outside and it began to rain small spiders.
we run inside and shake most of the spiders off.
we carry on our day and as i go to bed i feel crawling.
i go to sleep and wake up the next morning (dreaming of sleeping while sleeping, tripped out).
i walk to the mirror and see spiders crawling over my face, then a bigger green and black spider crawls out of my hair (body about the size of a lighter, thin legs, looked like a green red back, only not red... backed).
(and i can feel all this BTW.)
 try to slap if of with my hand but it manages to get on to my hand.
it bites my wrist, a sharp (and very real) pain shoots up my arm.
i wake up in real life.
my arm is killing me and does so for the rest of the day.

[Jackrabbit]

Maybe you just bit your arm in real life. I ate my pillow once.

It didn't taste very nice.