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[Cthulhu]

Maybe you could try making something out of it.  Supposedly if you know how you can make whole worlds in lucid dreams that persist in future dreams.  That'd be neat. 

Oh, I also figured out how to save a dream when I'm waking up.  Twice during this dream I started to feel like I was waking up, so I covered my eyes and whispered "Increase lucidity" over and over until things stabilized.

[Tradanbattlan]

Strangely enough, my Lucid Dreams are a relatively persistant world, but divided into different sectors. My last one, with the monster, was about southwest of the one I had last night, where I was flying through the air, via jetpack squirrels strapped to my feet. I saw most of the worlds I've dreamed of, and my body changed according to the world.
I thought that was really neat.

[Cthulhu]

Three lucid dreams last night.

First I became lucid in a regular dream and fought Revolutionary War-era British soldiers with a saber in my back yard.  I killed a few of them.

The dream started getting weird.  People would disappear before I stabbed them, stuff didn't work, and I sensed I was about to wake up, so I closed my eyes and spun around.  After a few turns the floor disappeared, and I fell, landing on my bed.  I knew I was going to be in a scary dream, so I just stayed there trying to wake myself up.  I couldn't seem to force myself to wake up, so I just closed my eyes.  There was this freaky clown imprinted on the inside of my eyelids, and then when I opened them a hand came out from under my blanket and started scrabbling around, and I woke up.  After a little bit of calming down I went back to sleep and had a normal dream.  When I woke up, I didn't move and started imagining Spongebob talking on the phone.  He was saying all this bizarre stuff and sure enough I had a WILD. 

This one wasn't scary, but it only lasted a little bit.  I got out of bed and walked into the living room.  My whole family was there, and I told my dad it was a dream.  He didn't believe me, but I asked him if he had any profound truths for me anyway.  He said "I dunno, purple?" so I decided I'd have better luck asking non-family dream characters.  In the background my grandpa was having a phone conversation with God.  My dad wouldn't let me go outside, he grabbed my arms and held me back.  I tried to pull away and found myself awake.  Darnit.

[Jervous]

I've never had a lucid dream before, but a few weeks ago I thought I did. I remember realizing it was a dream somehow, then I went and did a whole lot of weird stuff in my dream. It turns out I actually dreamt I was having a lucid dream >_<

[Cthulhu]

Are you sure?  I've heard of that, but the first few lucid dreams I had I wasn't sure, too. 

ANOTHER LUCID DREAM!  Truly it is only a matter of time before I apotheosize(Is that a word?) and become the Dream King.

The regular dream was incredibly long, and went from my registration at a new college to my eventual return home after getting lost, because the college was some kind of multi-story horseshoe and I took the wrong fork.  Anyway, when I registered, I had to go to one end of the horseshoe, which involved climbing through the branches of very high plants, which was scary, and I think at some point I lost where this sentence was going and now it's all convoluted and broken.  Oh well.  I went to gym, and then left gym, and somehow got lost going back to gym.  Why I didn't just turn around is beyond me.  I eventually had to go back home, and when I went home I suddenly realized I was dreaming.  I started walking around outside looking for someone to talk to.  I remember it was really cold, and I wanted to go inside but the lights were out in all the houses and I'm kind of leery of the dark in lucid dreams after the recent Silent Hill stuff.  I finally found a nice, cozy house with the lights on, and started walking up to the door.  When I was almost there I woke up.  I wish I had known what was in there.

[Exiledhero99]

...This is uncommon? I've been dreaming lucidly for as long as I can remember. basically every other dream I remember having (in order of occurence) has been lucid. The only real downside is that once I realize I'm dreaming things become a jumbled mess for a few minutes while my conscious mind and subconscious mind are trying to "put each other on the same page" so to speak. It's a matter of my conscious mind attempting to take over what my subconscious mind's been doing (think succession game without the updates).

[Cheddarius]

How do you know you dreamed lucidly and didn't just dream that you were dreaming lucidly?

That is, what if you remember a dream where you thought to yourself, "Hey, this is a dream!", but it was actually a dream and you weren't lucid dreaming?

[Tradanbattlan]

Oh gods. I'ts 2:00 in the morning. I'm hallucinating. I'm talking to myself. I'm posting ftom my Nintendo Wii for crying out loud.
I cant get a wink of sleep. Should i just man-up and pull an all-nighter? Or lay awake in an insomnia-enduced awakedream?

[Cthulhu]

Another lucid dream, this one was a WILD.

Zombies.  There were zombies attacking.  I fought them off with a mop at first, because it terrified them and they wouldn't go near it, and then I grabbed a shotgun.  The shotgun did nothing, and I ran across the street and either lost lucidity or lost the presence of mind to impose my own will on the dream at some point there and started going with the flow.

[Googolplexed]

How do you know you dreamed lucidly and didn't just dream that you were dreaming lucidly?

That is, what if you remember a dream where you thought to yourself, "Hey, this is a dream!", but it was actually a dream and you weren't lucid dreaming?

Generally the difference is that in one, you have fake memories, in the other you can remember your real memories if that makes sense.

EG, I tend to have dreams where I think I WILDed into lucidity, and can remember it, I then do something stupid in a half-lucid state. Generally I then wake up within the dream and think that I woke up for real.

Then I hit myself for missing the signs when I do actually wake-up

[Lord Dakoth]

Maybe you could try making something out of it.  Supposedly if you know how you can make whole worlds in lucid dreams that persist in future dreams.  That'd be neat. 

Yeah, I can do that sometimes. What usually works for me is if I imagine the dream as a game, then I can "save game" and pick up more or less where I left off.

[Buddybud]

Strangely enough, my Lucid Dreams are a relatively persistant world, but divided into different sectors.

 Not strange at all. Most of my dreams seem to be spatially integrated. They share some elements with reality but are quite often distorted. Example to the north of where i live is a river with hills on the other side. In my dreams these are always tall mountains. If i cross the river in the dream there is a valley that breaks through the mountains and leads to a cottage i used to visit as a child....further north is a tundra like area, to the east is a series of mountain trails and to the west is a ski slope where it always seems to be winter. etc.
 All these elements exist in reality but are quite some distance apart....tundra being the strangest, as it is hundreds of miles north of here and i've never been that far north in canada. But i guess my brain decided that it needed to put something north of the cottage..and tundra fit the bill. lol
 There are variations but once lucid i can easily travel from one dream site to another....distances and time are all screwy but the destinations are usually quite consistent but not always.. For example those mountains can also lead into nepal, where i lived for awhile many years ago.

fun stuff indeed....
Bud

[Tradanbattlan]

I think I have enough of an understanding of my lucid dream world to make an effective map of it. The map has been finished.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So yeah, here we are. Everything should be pretty self-explanitory. "The Hub" is where my dream starts most of the time, with a country representative of each of the countries that connect with it. Please note that this is pretty much all I have discovered in terms of landscape. Cities and the like are not included

[penguinofhonor]

I had one dream that was lucid for about one second before I woke up. Otherwise mine are never lucid.

[Googolplexed]

I had one dream that was lucid for about one second before I woke up. Otherwise mine are never lucid.

I get them randomly every few months without trying and every few days whilst trying.
Mostly lucid dreaming is something that you try and learn, not what you do naturally. Its definitely worth the effort though.