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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)

If you really think about it though, dreams are amazing. I mean, why do you dream what you dream (ignoring lucidity), and why does your sub-concious mind interpret things the way it does?

And I bet the next time this happens to you, you will remember what I wrote and it will happen to you.

Sorry for ruining your life. :)

Heh, there's a name for that. I've been able to do that for a while. However I love it when I wake up and remember parts of a dream I didn't control and realise how messed up it is. That's great.

Othertimes I've had the opposite effect, I know I'm dreaming and everythings all fine and dandy then I think how much it would suck if a certain thing happened but then I can't stop thinking about it and it happens in my dream. Weird goings on happen then and I loose real control and I just try to wake myself up.

Yes that is strange but true.

I've never controlled dreams before, hec, i'm lucky if I can remember them. It does sound interesting though. I'll give it a try.

Grix, since I have your attention.... sort of, I have a question. I read that you went to Venice. Was it good? Was it worth it?
I ask because I was thinking of going sometime, probably next year.
Cheers in advance.

Erm, I don't think you can control other people's dreams directly... :0)

I'll just keep to my own. I've got to realise though, that a dream is just that, and I can't hurt anyone or myself.

Grix Thraves wrote:
> "I better not put my hand in that fire, it'll hurt me."

Most sensible thing you've said in a while Grix. :-D
Just kidding.

It would be cool if you imagined yourself as someone else, if you thought hard enough, you entered their dream, or controlled thier dream, or saw it or something. The power of the mind!

http://www.lucidity.com/

Makes good reading.

There seem to be three traps you can fall into, if you manage to control your dreams. As soon as you fall into one of these, you'll lose control.

1) Fear of being hurt.

"I better not put my hand in that fire, it'll hurt me."

2) Fear of social concequences.

I.E. Not wanting to strip nude, because you'll be embarressed.

3) Thinking that someone in your dream is real.

And therefore worrying about what they feel.

Okey.. thats rather randomly cool. I want to control dreams. I can control somethings. When I dream at night like. I can control which way I go, and stuff.

But cool Da, very cool.