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"Lucid Dreaming"

I did it!

Last night, I dreamt that I was in my lounge with Katie, and she was lying on the sofa. We were just talking, watching tv.

During it, I kinda worked out that the situation was impossible. Katie is something like 300 miles away, so she couldn't possibly be in my living room, and I worked out, or rather, guessed, that it was a dream.

And I could control it. Completely and utterly, so you can guess what happened. :0)

I was looking into Katie's eyes, completely amazed how completely realistic everything is. I mean, anything you pay attention to in the dream and outside it is perfectly realistic, especially to me, anyway. For example, I didn't look at my coffee table thing, and there wasn't anything on it at all. No plants, magazines, anything. Because it wasn't important to me, I guess.

So now I'm pretty obsessed with this.

The idea is, if you can realise that you're in a dream, then you can break from it. But how'd you do that?

Venombyte posted on here a while back about it. He basically said, if you can find something wrong in it, then you can break from it, and realise it's a dream, and start controlling it.

So, I'm trying to make that thought stick out in my head. So when I sleep, I'll have it in my mind to try and work everything out. So cool.

That'll be my New Year's Resolution, try and become an expert at Lucid Dreaming. :0)

I never catch on to a fact that it was a dream until just after I wake up, no matter how stupid it goes.

I'll look out for that...

Lucid Dreaming... definately something to try!

Have you ever had a dream were you want to punch someone and you come out with this almighty weak punck like your in space.

Bloody love dreams. Like your own personal David Lynch movie.

Dreamt about electric blue sunsets last night. Cool.

I used to have lucid dreams quite a bit, but I haven't for ages now. Wonder why?

One thing I will say is that it's very difficult to have a lucid dream for for than a couple of minutes without either:
a) forgetting it's a lucid dream.
b) waking up.

The trick, once you've realised you're dreaming, is not to question the dream or think too hard about it, just to control it. Think of yourself as a superhuman, not as someone who is dreaming. Otherwise you'll be thinking "Whoa! This is a dream! I can control it! I can do anything I want! What can I do? I'd better concentrate on not losing this!" and as soon as you so that, you'll wake up.

I've done the same thing before.

I sometimes realise I'm in a dream, so when something crap happens I kinda rewind it and do it again but better.

God that sounded stupid.

Never done it to the extent that i've completly controlled everything though.

I just read my last post, and noticed the example makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Oh well.

I have done that once. It was incredible.

Something that doesn't annoy me, just confuses me I suppose, is when you're not sure if something happened in a dream or not.
Eg. You've been meaning to tell someone something, and you remember telling them, but your not sure if you told them in your dream the previous night, or if you have actually told em'. Bugs me that.

I'm a lucid dreamer. It happens to me quite regularly, although I can't control it totally.
The things I've done, the places I've been - it's the closest thing to real magic.
Within lucidity I've read books that have never been written; held bizarre conversations with strange creatures; commanded events both trivial and monstrous....
Everyone should try to be a lucid dreamer - it's another world waiting to be explored.

Just think: we spend roughly about one third of lives asleep.... why waste that time? The possibilities are endless.

I frequently realising I'm dreaming, but I've never been able to control it because once I know it's a dream, it just dissolves away and I wake up.