Have you ever experienced lucid dreaming?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion centers around the phenomenon of lucid dreaming, where participants share their personal experiences, challenges, and techniques related to recognizing and maintaining awareness within their dreams. The scope includes subjective accounts of dream states, the impact of stress and insomnia on dreaming, and varying levels of control over dream experiences.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
  • Debate/contested
  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants describe their ability to recognize when they are dreaming and the effort required to remain in the dream state, often motivated by specific desires or interests.
  • Others report that they rarely realize they are dreaming, typically waking up when they encounter impossible scenarios within their dreams.
  • One participant suggests that the frontal lobes may not be fully inactive during certain dream states, allowing for more control and awareness in the mornings.
  • Another participant mentions a personal experience of hovering in a dream state after becoming aware of it, indicating varying degrees of lucidity.
  • Some express that they can stay in dreams longer when they engage with the narrative, while others find that dreams lose coherence without conflict.
  • There are discussions about the commonality of falling nightmares and their potential evolutionary significance, as well as the nature of vividness in dreams and memory retention.
  • Participants share coping strategies for stress and insomnia that may influence their dreaming experiences, such as thinking about familiar TV shows.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants do not reach a consensus on the nature of lucid dreaming experiences, with multiple competing views on how awareness and control manifest in dreams. The discussion remains unresolved regarding the implications of stress and the mechanisms behind dream lucidity.

Contextual Notes

Participants express varying degrees of awareness and control in their dreams, with some noting that their experiences may be influenced by external factors such as stress and insomnia. There is also mention of the complexity of memory retention related to dream experiences.

Who May Find This Useful

This discussion may be of interest to individuals exploring the nature of dreams, lucid dreaming techniques, and the psychological factors influencing dream states, as well as those experiencing stress or insomnia.

  • #31
Danger said:
This didn't happen in Woolie's cott, did it?
I think if Wolram and I ever got too close to each other, life as we know it would cease to exiist. We seem to be plagued with misadventure.
 
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  • #32
So, which one of you is the anti-matter version?
 
  • #33
Evo said:
I think if Wolram and I ever got too close to each other, life as we know it would cease to exiist. We seem to be plagued with misadventure.
There would be no time for misadventures :biggrin:
 
  • #34
Woolie, a beautiful young lady like Evo being in the company of one such as yourself would be a misadventure in its own right. :-p
 
  • #35
Danger said:
Woolie, a beautiful young lady like Evo being in the company of one such as yourself would be a misadventure in its own right. :-p

SSSSH, this is MIHs thread you great hairy wazok :biggrin:
 
  • #36
Experimental data in oneirology shows that spinning around your vertical axis works the best way to stay in your dream. I use it, it works well.
 
  • #37
I have two recurring dreams which are something like lucid dreams.

1. I find coins scattered on the ground. The coins are weird in that the face of Lincoln on the penny faces the left instead of the right, or the date is printed upside down, or the words are misspelled. When that happens I say to myself that I am probably dreaming since this only ever occurs in my dreams. However, the situation seems so real to me that I convince myself that I am not dreaming and this time I really did find the weird coins.

2. I dream that I can fly. I jump up in ordinary fashion, and fall back down in the ordinary way except that I only fall about half way to the ground. So I am standing in mid-air. I jump up again and push myself a little bit forward and through a series of such jumps I finally go forward fast enough to soar fairly high. At that point, I am flying and as in the coin dream, I convince myself that this time it isn't a dream.
 
  • #38
:blushing:

okkeee .. me didnt read the whole thread but here's my 5c worth :biggrin:

I lucid dream most of the time ... Can control my dreams and know that I am in the dream. Its kewl, because, u are able to actually push the boundaries even more .. u not scared to "try" things out ..

Its weird though .. but you ..
 
  • #39
If I try to change the ending, the other characters in the dream don't cooperate, so I end up erasing all of them, and thereby getting tortured by things(?) until I wake up
 
  • #40
johngalt827 said:
If I try to change the ending, the other characters in the dream don't cooperate, so I end up erasing all of them, and thereby getting tortured by things(?) until I wake up

http://www.lolblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/facepalm.jpg
 
  • #41
I have lucid dreams often. The weirdest one ever was one where I was convinced I could fly based on the fact that when I jumped into the air, I had abnormally long hang time (sort of like levitation). This is bad evidence of course, but since I was in a dream (and knew it) obviously the effect could be extended. So I jumped off a building from about 20 feet high and fell to my death. The rest of the dream was just a bright blue background (sort of like a blue screen of death) and me thinking how stupid I was getting myself killed like that.
 
  • #42
I get floating dreams sometimes. I can't seem to get myself above treetop level even though I have conciously controlled my dreams before.

I fell from about 150 in a dream once but it didn't 'kill' me. I just got up and chastised myself for doing something so dumb.

What was funny for me this week is that I dreampt about a dream within my dream after seeing Inception Monday. :rolleyes:
 

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