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[GlyphGryph]

Hahaha no. That's... not what lucid dreaming is at all.

Lucid dreaming is an awareness that you are dreaming and are in that dream. It has pretty much zip to do with actually controlling the dream - you can be aware and have no control, and you can have control but not be aware (you can even think you aware of it being a dream without actually being so which is hella weird in hindsight).

But controlling a dream != lucid dreaming.

[Loud Whispers]

The problem with lucid dreaming is, of course, the essence of lucid dreaming. You know you're dreaming. There's no unknown, no unexpected, no thrill, no interplay. There's nothing. It's boring. At it's best, it's as exciting as drawing a picture is in real life - except that if your attention wavers for all of a second, you lose any sort of realistic continuity, and your effort is wasted.

Yeah, where's the fun in everything going exactly as you imagine it. I thrive on leaping into the unknown and seeing what my subconscious throws at me.

As demonstrated here (also kinda opposes on the whole lack of continuity thing, but it'll vary from person to person), that's where the fun can truly begin. This is creating a stable canvas - where you can really see what your subconscious is about. I've traveled through memories, concepts and even past dream settings through lucid dreaming, and for some reason it's a great deal harder to forget lucid dreams.
As for imagination - well, this is you when you're dreaming. I'm not even certain how much control you ever can really get, and it's incredibly surprising when you finally manage to push your limits and see places that are entirely invented by your subconscious.

Keep dreaming bay12.

[Scelly9]

Hahaha no. That's... not what lucid dreaming is at all.

Lucid dreaming is an awareness that you are dreaming and are in that dream. It has pretty much zip to do with actually controlling the dream - you can be aware and have no control, and you can have control but not be aware (you can even think you aware of it being a dream without actually being so which is hella weird in hindsight).

But controlling a dream != lucid dreaming.

Weird, generally in my dreams I have to be lucid to control anything, otherwise I'm just alone for the ride. That's what I was trying to say, not that controlling a dream is lucid dreaming, but that you needed to be lucid to control it. (obviously not the case)

[Lord Shonus]

I've never had a dream where I didn't have some level of control, usually being used to force it back into the track it was in. Of course, I've also woken up bruised and (in one case bleeding) at places where I was wounded in a dream.

[Loud Whispers]

I've never had a dream where I didn't have some level of control, usually being used to force it back into the track it was in. Of course, I've also woken up bruised and (in one case bleeding) at places where I was wounded in a dream.

I've woken up after once punching a nearby drawer. I won, the drawer lost.

[ChairmanPoo]

I once woke up to find that I was banging the alarm clock repeatedly against the floor.

[da_nang]

I once woke up to find that I was banging the alarm clock repeatedly against the floor.

"JUST! FIVE! MORE! MINUTES!
GOD."

[Mephansteras]

I have an odd sadness today. My original plan for tonight was to do a few chores and settle in to a nice long uninterrupted session of XCom. Last night while I was off with friends my sister called wanting to hang out and chat for a bit (she's just gone through a nasty divorce and needs someone to vent to occasionally). I said I couldn't do anything that night, but I could find some time on Thursday, figuring I could hang out with her for a bit and then do XCom after that.

Well, now one of my other friends is going to be stuck with nothing to do and wants to play boardgames tonight. I don't want to blow him off, so I probably just won't end up doing XCom tonight at all.

It's really odd to feel kind of sad that people really want to spend time with me tonight. But I really was looking forward to just immersing myself in XCom and making some good headway in my campaign.

*sigh*

Maybe Saturday. I don't have anyone competing for Saturday yet...

[Nadaka]

I continue to work on doing something about the sad crapsack of depressing bullshit that my life is, in my own kinda half assed way.

I bought 2 pair of pants this week. Now I now have enough pants that I can go to work 5 days a week without wearing something dirty, stained or torn. And my room is still relatively clean, even if I do have a stack of plastic totes in the middle of the room at the moment.

I also have a clip board full of crap I really need to take care of, filtered out of a large box of unopened mail. I have not been diligent in making this clip board shrink every day.

I've watched television, two whole days in a row. The presidential debate and the Daily Show/Colbert report while drinking alcohol.

These are the positive things I have going for me. WTF.

[pisskop]

You make my impending spike in difficuty seem less so by comparison...  Chipper up CatFlayer. 

[Zrk2]

I'm not sure if it goes here or in the rage thread, but the number of people my sister has kissed is entirely too high for a 13 year-old.

[kaijyuu]

Mmm, depends. Is she being abused and manipulated into it?

If she's just outgoing and flirty, well.. whupidedoo. Just tell her to make sure to use protection if it goes past kissing.

[Vorthon]

Dude. 13. Bit young for that kind of stuff.

[kaijyuu]

So long as she doesn't get pregnant, doesn't catch any STDs, everything's consensual, and she isn't being abused, then I don't care what age she is.

[Zrk2]

I think she's too young, and it's just weird. It's even weirder when you consider she's the her school's Christian Club thingy.