Lucid Dreams ( Realizing you are dreaming )

[LLockhart86]

A lucid dream is realizing you are dreaming while dreaming then either watching your dream vividly or taking control of it.

I had my first lucid dream about a month ago out of the blue. I threw a dime on the ground then realized I was dreaming. My everything that was happening in the dream stopped and I started running down a street screaming "Im dreaming Im dreaming" then I started to try and fly. I only got about 20 feet off the ground, seemed like I couldnt go any further. I was grabbing onto tree branches trying to get higher, but I couldnt. So , instead I decided to just fly ahead and into a garage...I then woke up.

After that, I decided if that ever happened again I would try to keep my emotions at bay and not do anything to intense for fear that was making me wake up.

The next one I had I realized I was dreaming and started screaming I was dreaming again. Ended up in a backyard where I again tried to fly. This one seemed to have been less in my control since there was other things going on, other people. I tried flying again, this time trying to stay calm and just float upwards. But again, I could only get so far. Then I started making out with a girl (this part seemed to really not be in my control much)

Then last night, I had another one. I think. At some point in the dream I realized I was dreaming. I tried pinching myself and couldnt feel it so I knew. The thing is I wasnt really in control of this dream like the others (Im wondering if there are different levels of lucidity). Like, I remember looking across a field and seeing people trying to hold down a dinasaur with ropes and while I was watching I was telling myself to try and remember this vividly for when I wake up. I was telling other people in my dream that it was just a dream. And at one point something was attacking me and I was yelling at myself to WAKE UP cuz I was getting scared. I also was telling people in my dream to do the tricks to tell if your dreaming like putting a finger through your hand.

Thing is about this one, is after I woke up, I remember pretty much everything in the dream. However, I wasnt as aware as my others. I wasnt screaming IM DREAMING, I was just aware that it was a dream but my mind was just kinda going along with the dream. I wasnt really in control so much as aware I was dreaming.

This last one is real interesting too because in my others I only had so much time. This last one, I was in a lucid dream, knew it, but crazy things were still happening like a reg dream and it lasted A LOT longer then the others, then I told myself to wake up, then I did. When I went back to sleep, I started lucid dreaming again, and it went on for the rest of the night. It wasnt just 2-4 minutes, it was an all night thing.

Any body else ever have this happen to them or know a bit about it?

[Mr. Chambers]

lucid dreaming....the thing that madmen are made out of....


if you need a comparison....

imagine the madman as an athlete.....now imagine lucid dreaming as his or her wheaties.........

[LLockhart86]

What do you mean? Its crazy to lucid dream?

Nah....I only started to lucid dream after I read about it and found it interesting. Then all of a sudden it happened. Only happened once I was aware of what it was. I read about things you could do to trigger lucidity. Pinching yourself...looking at a clock and ask yourself if your dreaming...putting a finger through your hand. Eventually you just do something like this in your dream and if your lucky, you start to control it.

You actually get the sensation of flying...you know you are dreaming, but you can feel yourself flying. Its basically what your mind constructs flying to be like based off of all the information your mind has gathered subconciously about it. Its amazing.

[SajN]

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