Lucid Dreams

Who has them?

I do and they are wonderfull. Great colors like a big screen movie. It's like I'm having a dream in a dream or a third layer of consciousness. I feel emotion and body sensations intensly. I have a little influence directing the dream but most of the time it's an intense mostly positive extra real like experience. I can't make them happen, wih I could....bummer.

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Anyone care to share their Lucid Dreams with us? If you have them.

Dreamers need only post. Thank you.

I do, and I spent a long time studying the form, learning to have them regularly, and inducing them from a waking state (WILDs - Waking Induced Lucid Dreams, staying conscious the whole time you fall asleep and entering the dream aware of it). I gave it up in the end because I had some... weird feelings that I was asleep when I was actually awake

My usual thing to do was to fly, or to meditate. Meditation within a dream is insanely intense. Think acid x10, but safe. One time I decided to age myself within the dream, and I ended up growing into a tree.

Unfortunately, despite many attempts, I only manage a few seconds of lucidity. I can remember many dreams from one night, in colour, with sound, and yet lucid dreams seem out of my grasp

As for flying in dreams... don't get me started. People say, you know you're in a dream when you can fly.. I tried flying, I failed.

Edan, if you want any tips at all I've overcome a lot of obstacles to lucidity, for me and for others. Hit me up with a PM if you like, to let me know what you've tried so far?

For anyone interested in learning about lucid dreaming and lucid dreaming techniques, these are two of my favorite books on the subject. The authors take different approaches, but I've found both books incredibly useful over the years. I thought others might also find them helpful.

Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge
Creative Dreaming by Patricia Garfield

Arcade wrote: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge

My manual, when I was learning.

Most amazing I've done was to stop a raindrop in front of my face, all the power of the dream seemed to shift from the environment into that raindrop - it become intricately rainbowed like an oily sphere reflecting a multitude of colours. This was with general efforts to initate lucidity from normal dream states and was not specifically 'created' by me.

My best lucid dream in regards to controlling a dream was realizing I was at a party, getting up to look in different rooms to see where I was, then going out to the pool and trying to expand my interaction beyond normal. I threw a mobile phone at a window, and it did not break. Next thing I did was command all the people around me to stop moving, which they did - they all stopped and slumped slightly. Everything seems to go a bit grey when I exert lucidity, like it uses up resources. Perhaps like exercise the more I do the more I can handle keeping hi quality content and high quality control.

I did get freaked out once, I was flying over water when the monotonous pattern of water moving underneath me reached a speed where it appeared stationary - and at that point my brain interpreted that as it having frozen! For some reason I then flew straight up out of the atmosphere and into space. It got very cold, and I felt like I'd crossed into some dead zone, which would kill me quickly - so I dived back down and woke up... maybe I was flying around the magnetic field or something :laugh:

My advice would be to let the dreams your not controlling be understood in terms of being controlled by your latent motivations... take ownership of your dreams as a preparatory stage of exerting actual conscious control. Develop a trusted relationship with your subconscious, dont be afraid of what it can throw at you and don't hurt it by abusing yourself during normal waking hours. In that regard a healthy lifestyle might promote it~! Then just focus on remembering your dreams. Unfortunately the longer hours I have in a nights sleep the better chance I have, so ppl sleeping only a short time might have a harder time IMO.

A way to perhaps get started in lucid dreaming might be to take advantage of any interest in Star Wars, specifically try imagining having a lightsaber in a dream. Then try to have a dream where you realize you have (or manifest) a lightsaber in your hands within a dream. It might be to defend yourself for example. Gives a good reason to train with one in the waking world, to give your body some moves to use in the dream.

All my dreams are in color and highly detailed...I have full control, but most of the time I'm a spectator watching myself from a distance (think all the penseive visions in harry potter)...the me that is watching knows it's a dream, the me being watched does not...sometimes the spectator me "possesses" the other me to interact with elements in the dream...

Thank you Rickie the Grey for creating this thread! Being a newbie here I wanted to ask others about their experiences with lucid dreaming but no point in starting a new thread when there is a perfectly good one here already!

I started playing with Lucid Dreaming about 4 years ago - according to my dream journal (which I only kept for a couple of weeks). I did it mainly because I have occasionally suffered/benefited from overwhelming deja vu. I started a dream journal so I could see if it could reveal the source of the deja vu - had I been there / done that / seen that in my dreams before?

The overwhelming evidence (and it was almost as soon as I started the journal) is that my dreams were the source of the deja vu, most of the time. What then became apparent is that the waking deja vu only happened relatively rarely. I was dreaming many more things that came to pass than I could remember, before I started the journal. I still don't feel comfortable calling this precognition but whatever it is, it is interesting. A trivial example from my journal:
"I am at a school re-union - mostly of people I should have been better friends with than I actually was. We drink and have fun" Then in the journal I name 4 people that I remember seeing there. Over the next 3-4 months all four of them send me friend requests on Facebook. I hadn't been in contact with any of these people for over 15 years.

Another one:
"My friend Anthony is in a room with a large 'insect tank' on a table. It has a transparent sliding lid but all the bugs are escaping. He is struggling to get the lid back on because he can only use one arm."
I met up with Anthony in 'real life' two days later and he had his arm in a sling - he'd fallen and hurt it the day before - the day after my dream.

Just re-reading my journal now (for this post) reveals some interesting things that took literally years to happen. From my journal again:
"I find myself in front of a lovely house in the midst of a deciduous forest in the spring. R & D [two friends that are married] greet me at the door - their house is beautiful. The sitting room is expansive and I can see into the garden through amazing floor to ceiling windows. The decoration is traditional and I comment to myself that the big trees of the forest are far too close to the house."
Sure enough three years after dreaming this I found myself standing in exactly that sitting room. Those friends had previously mentioned they'd always wanted to move out of London - so again, its hardly surprising - but still! I had no deja vu at the time - its only re-reading the journal just now that I realize that I might have "been" there before.

Clearly this could all be co-incidental, after all, there are plenty of dreams that don't seem to ever play out. Even in the dreams where something does come to pass there is a huge amount that doesn't. This could well be because my Freudian analysis isn't good enough to interpret the experience from the dream metaphors into what they mean, but there is also an important point that (I at least) had no time reference as to when things would come to pass.

Finally, all the dreaming skill that others have discussed certainly seems to be something that anyone can cultivate. Stopping nightmares in their tracks, actively deciding how a dream will play out and remembering dreams much more clearly are all helpful. I stopped the journal after a couple of weeks - I had the proof that my dreams were the source of my deja vu, and the "coincidences" were interesting but difficult to use in any helpful or meaningful way. As much as anything else - keeping the journal was really time consuming - and for me at least, had to happen as soon as I woke up, otherwise I forgot. I would never have called up my friend Anthony and told him to be careful with his arm for the next few years - that wouldn't have been helpful advice!

Still . . . I have more time in my life now, perhaps I'll start it again . ..