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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #240 on: November 13, 2009, 04:22:29 pm »

I keep having these happy ending dreams.
WHERE'S MY BAD END DAMMIT

Last night, I had a dream where Fawful (from M&L) was out to assassinate me. I kept getting threats that were written in blood. Presumably his.
Anyways, I am in some swamp visiting somebody when a bus pulls up. Guess who gets off?
Fawful. But he is a head, and a marshmallow. And he had a gun.
Anyways, I drop my stuff and run, I grab a zombie to use as a shield BUT HE DESINTIGRATES
Finally, he corners me. Thinking fast, I take a paper out of my pocket
I unfold it and his body falls out.
He thanks me for finding his body, then goes on his merry way
That's where my dream ended

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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #241 on: November 13, 2009, 04:32:43 pm »

When I LD I usually can move anything thing, fly around, mentally rip/blow apart things, change my perceived shape, change creatures and people into other people or creatures, materialize buildings and objects...ect

The hardest is maintaining a non human shape and keeping a stable LD.

Also the last bad dream ending I can remember was when I was dreaming about summoning monsters and I got slashed by a dream creature and woke with a start...
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #242 on: November 14, 2009, 03:38:18 am »

Wow, I rarely have any real power in my lucid dreams.  I always have to find workarounds to convince my subconscious that something is possible so it will let me do it.  Like, I can't fly to any useful extent because something in my brain, against my orders, goes, "Wait, I can't fly."  But if I close my eyes, which always changes the setting, and say okay, I'm in outer space, then when I open my eyes, I'm on a spaceship floating around, and my subconscious goes, "Yes, you're in space, weightless, therefore you can fly.  Acceptable."

Sometimes I get frustrated that I can't make things happen, but mostly I enjoy the ride anyway.  The most frustrating thing I've encountered recently is the inability to get out into nature.  I live in a city now, for the first time in my life, and I miss being in the woods.  So the last time I had a lucid dream, my first instinct was to go out into the woods, but every time I went through a doorway, it was just another room, no matter how much I tried to make it lead outside.  When I finally did get outside, the best I could do was the edge of the woods around some train tracks - still connected to the city somehow, still artificial.  I was really disappointed - it's been months since I've been out of the city in real life and I miss that so much!

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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #243 on: November 14, 2009, 05:00:42 am »

I am envious of you guys.

I haven't remembered more than one dream in over a year.
And I still forgot it.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #244 on: November 14, 2009, 09:41:32 am »

Use a REM-cycle chart somewhere on the internet to figure out when your REM periods are (Based on when you go to bed and wake up) and set your alarm in the middle of one.  People remember dreams like 95% of the time when they're woken up during REM, even people who claim to never dream.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #245 on: November 15, 2009, 04:35:28 pm »

Wow, I rarely have any real power in my lucid dreams.  I always have to find workarounds to convince my subconscious that something is possible so it will let me do it.  Like, I can't fly to any useful extent because something in my brain, against my orders, goes, "Wait, I can't fly."  But if I close my eyes, which always changes the setting, and say okay, I'm in outer space, then when I open my eyes, I'm on a spaceship floating around, and my subconscious goes, "Yes, you're in space, weightless, therefore you can fly.  Acceptable."

I have something like that, in that I need to mentally justify anything to make it possible. However it's somewhat less extreme, in that the "Wait, I can't fly." part can be easily solved by growing (for lack of a better phrase) frikin' huge wings or just subtly distorting gravity.
Essentially, most of my dreams seem to run on rule of cool.
"Hey, you just blew up that truck by throwing a knife at it!"
"so?"
"you both made and threw the knife with your mind."
"Rule of Cool."
"...damnit."
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #246 on: November 15, 2009, 04:42:06 pm »

Next time, I'm going to close my eyes and think "I'm a superhero".  That should work.
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« Reply #247 on: November 15, 2009, 04:48:24 pm »

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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #248 on: November 17, 2009, 03:17:36 am »

Wow, I rarely have any real power in my lucid dreams.  I always have to find workarounds to convince my subconscious that something is possible so it will let me do it.  Like, I can't fly to any useful extent because something in my brain, against my orders, goes, "Wait, I can't fly."  But if I close my eyes, which always changes the setting, and say okay, I'm in outer space, then when I open my eyes, I'm on a spaceship floating around, and my subconscious goes, "Yes, you're in space, weightless, therefore you can fly.  Acceptable."

Sometimes I get frustrated that I can't make things happen, but mostly I enjoy the ride anyway.  The most frustrating thing I've encountered recently is the inability to get out into nature.  I live in a city now, for the first time in my life, and I miss being in the woods.  So the last time I had a lucid dream, my first instinct was to go out into the woods, but every time I went through a doorway, it was just another room, no matter how much I tried to make it lead outside.  When I finally did get outside, the best I could do was the edge of the woods around some train tracks - still connected to the city somehow, still artificial.  I was really disappointed - it's been months since I've been out of the city in real life and I miss that so much!

Funny because I see this differently. Dreams are less observerd than waking world. This means that you'll have to create each experience yourself althought the unconsciousness is very powerful the conscious mind is depended upon what the unconscious mind does in the same sense as the unconscious mind is responding to the environmental stimuli in the waking world. From another viewpoint the unconscious mind in a dream does not mediate the environmental stimuli, it creates the illusion of them. It CREATES the environment or you can think that the stimuli come from another plane of existence. This is the same as freedom and restriction in dreams... Because you have to create the environment, and I mean the EXPERIENCE that you see in the field of your vision and bodily senses. At the same time as your subconscious mind doesn't entirely decide which experience to pursue knowing to some extent that, you just must know that for example flying is hard to create and at the same time you must have already known that it's not the same as in the real life where you yourself don't have to create the experience of flying, but will download a vast amount of new refreshing information from 'the environment', the quantum computer, for your subconscious and unconscious mind about your surroundings that the experience structures itself as fairly positive also in the conscious mind without the seeming conscious connections between the causes and effects of the flying experience. In a dream for example something abstract like walking around a tiny Earth gravity center into the earth and to China in a short period appearing on the other side of the globe while feeling the earth slide around you is maybe even more excavating an experience than flying. It's much like as if you didn't really want to spend time on merely flying because creating the experience is 'a trick' and the benefit to the unconscious mind is meager. Maybe the human mind wants to dig deeper in dreams just as eagerly that it wants to climb up into the skies in the waking, these representing the movements of the neural system to gather information from the outside, "the sky", and from the inside, "the earth", "water". The benefit of the unconscious mind is to process information about something that has taken place before you went to sleep, and not create specificly brand new experiences from the base of vague stimuli. That's my experience of flying or doing something extraordinary stubbornly in dreams. If your job was to deliver mail in a flight suit you would see many many dreams about flying every month I assure that. Even taking time to imagine flying while awake might cause flying to activate in a dream just like playing Magic Carpet will activate flying sorcerer game dreams. Same way, driving a car will store memories of driving which will process in your dreams. Being truly creative is the diamond in lucid dreaming.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #249 on: November 17, 2009, 02:19:33 pm »

The last dream I had that I remember was when I was trying to think away a giant black triangle, visible in a black void.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #250 on: November 18, 2009, 01:23:59 am »

Use a REM-cycle chart somewhere on the internet to figure out when your REM periods are (Based on when you go to bed and wake up) and set your alarm in the middle of one.  People remember dreams like 95% of the time when they're woken up during REM, even people who claim to never dream.

Or, if you're like me, you enter REM immediately, even if you only sleep for a minute, and appear to stay there all night, since I interrupt a dream every time I wake up and almost always remember them for at least a few minutes.

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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #251 on: November 18, 2009, 07:35:20 am »

Yea! Hooray! Wipe the drowsiness in dreaming! Let's put consciousness and growth into dreams. Last night I meditated 1 hour before bed and visualised certain situations. I went seemlessly into a dream about elements in my visualisation soon after and woke up in the morning happy, knowing that I can now control my dreams from the waking.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #252 on: November 18, 2009, 07:56:40 pm »

I think I had a lucid dream last night, I don't actually remember the dream or anything I did I just have this memory of being in control of a dream and not my usual waking up the moment I realize I'm dreaming.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #253 on: December 01, 2009, 09:59:22 am »

Oh man.

I think I just had like, ten lucid dreams or something.  They were all broken up by what may or may not have been wakeful periods, they might've been non-lucid false awakenings.

First:  The actual dream.  This wasn't lucid, and it came before the string of lucid dreams.  My brother was playing some kind of (Totally awesome) cross between Hinterland and Mount&Blade.  He had this big village in the foothills of a mountain set up, with farms and fields and stuff, all built while I watched.  After buying some cows and stuff, he started the game, and we all appeared in the game (Virtual reality fick year), including my parents and maybe my aunt and uncle, not sure.  We all went over and were checking out the village.  I noticed some farmers were standing at the top of a steep incline and looking angry at something at the bottom.  I went over and there was some kind of mountain giant sitting next to a little cottage at the bottom of the cliff.  They were taunting it and throwing rocks at it.  Finally, it threw a rock back (Note that as a giant, "rock" for it is around the size of a large horse).  I turned around and yelled, "Hey, -My Brother's Name-, there's a stone giant over here attacking your village."  He got on a horse and joined two other horsemen in going over to look.  The rock it threw went down at this point and missed a horseman by a few feet.  I was disappointed.  Nothing came of it.  The giant was content to sit around in his cottage and not be bothered, so we didn't bother him anymore.

Later though, the farm was attacked by two Chaos Knights (Yeah, Warhammer Chaos Knights)  This time I got a horse of my own, but it was some dinky old thing, and I didn't have any armor, so I was pretty sure I was going to lose some body parts.

I didn't.  I actually survived, but I woke up before the fight was over.  It was intense though, I almost killed one of the chaos knights by driving my sword through a chink in his armor along his side.  He bled everywhere but was fine.  I got a few other nicks on them, but nothing serious.  They were really good, and just knocked my sword away with their hands half the time.  I want this game to be real.


Anyway, onto the lucid dreams.  I can't remember all of them because there were so many and the false/real-awakenings between them muddled them up really badly.  I finally discovered how to use my powers, and am now some kind of god in my lucid dreams.  There wasn't much to the first one, I ran up to the top of this tall building, slowly coming to lucidity as I did.  When I got to the top I was fully lucid and in some kind of really dark college classroom, where everyone had computers and the teacher was going over something on a projector.  I should've paid attention but I didn't, he was probably teaching some mind-blowing truths about me.  I sat down reasonably close to the front row.  The girl next to me, wasting no time, immediately leaned over and propositioned me for sex.  Jeez, don't say hi or anything, just get right down to business.  Dream-people, seriously...  I woke up(?) a few seconds later and quickly transitioned to another lucid dream.

This is where things get really muddled.  I'll write down what happened in what I believe is at least close to the correct chronological order.  These may or may not have been separate dreams, but I won't list parts where I woke up.  Anyway, I started out in some kind of restaurant.  I walked around for a while but not much was going on so I went outside.  Outside there was some serious Fallout stuff going on, and everything was all ruined.  I was next to the remains of a gas station, and it was here that I figured out how to use my powers.  If I say (out loud) "rise" or "Float" I'll start floating.  I can say "Fall" or a synonym to drop back down.  Simple.  One muddled part of the dream later, I was in a field on halloween, and this twelve year old girl told me she needed my help, and to hurry.  It was night at this point, and we both ran across the field because her brother must've been drowning or something.  I said "Nightvision" and gained nightvision powers, because I'm super like that, and when we reached the end of the field there was a jack'o'lantern.  She got some candy out of it, thanked me for my help (Because she really needed my help here) and left.  Some weird stuff happened, somehow involving our own Jackrabbit (I can't remember what happened, something about a loading screen and a laboratory, but I remember seeing his avatar), and as I was leaving whatever laboratory or whatever, still all Fallout-ish, I ran away.  My writing skills evaporated and nothing I wrote about the previous part of the dream made sense.  I pushed past some people, one of them calling me a retard as I went by, and then noticed that it was dusk outside.  I yelled "Daytime" and the universe obliged.  The rude man muttered "retard... superman..." as I ran outside.  I went into some kind of office supply store, and this is where things got awesome.  I tried to show someone that I was lucid dreaming, so I pointed at him and said "Fly" thinking it would enable him to fly.  He was catapulted through the roof, and probably died or something, I don't know.  Other people attacked me, and apparently some of them had limited LD powers as well.  I used my newfound force powers to knock them away from me, and eventually slammed one into a wall, grabbed him by the neck, and experimentally shouted "Grow bones" or something along those lines.  My hand turned into a huge crazy claw, and I started using that as a weapon.  It didn't work very well though, and I later turned both my arms into big blades.  As ineffective as that seems, I killed quite a few bad guys.  I also turned my arm into a big spike and used my force powers to pull people into it.  I was pretty much awesome.  The rest of the dreams are either uninteresting or fragmentary, so I won't go over them.  I hope this happens more often, it was incredible, and I seem to be having more lucid dreams lately.  I had another one the day after Thanksgiving, but it was short.
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Re: Lucid dreaming
« Reply #254 on: December 01, 2009, 05:28:05 pm »

OH GOD WHY
WHY MUST ALL MY LUCID DREAMS BE PRECOGNITIONS OF THE FUTURE
WHY AM I CURSED WITH DEJA VU

Seriously. I think Armok wants me to be some kind of Oracle. I'm having future-dreams much more frequently now.

Also, I've noticed that if someone's sleeping in the room with you and you both have lucid dreams, you both are in the dream as eachother.
It's like one fused dream.
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