Lucid Dreaming. Can you do it?

I did not know that it was called "lucid dreaming," but when I was a little girl, if I were having a bad dream, sometimes, I would realize that I was dreaming and tell myself that all I had to do is lay down in my dream and I would wake up. It always worked. Now, my dreams have gotten way more interesting. My roommate catches me cussing people out in my dreams. I don't know if she realizes yet, that it is usually her that I am cussing at. I have some animosity toward her because of the way that she keeps house and it comes out in my dreams. I know that she is telling the truth, because a lot of times I realize that I am talking because it seems like there is something wrong with my voice in my dreams and that is because I am actually trying to talk. Then, there are the times when I sleep with my music a little to loud and I am either watching someone perform the song that I hear or I am running around in my dreams trying to turn off every radio I find, but they never go off. I will unplug them, take out they battery, I think I even shot one, one time and it just continued to play. My dreams are quite interesting to me.

I use software called a screen reader to access the computer and the internet. I used to use one called Window-Eyes, but here lately I use Nonvisual Desktop Access because it is free and open source, and it works just as well. When I am dreaming, I see things in full color, and if there were some way to correct my blindness, I am almost positive I would already know colors, or at least the basic ones that you see almost everyday.

YOu have no idea how much i appreciate this post! I thought I was the only one in the world that had these kind of dreams..and everyoen thinks im strange lol..my dreams are like movies to me..but i can make things happen when i think it in my dreams because i know its not real..I have been in dreams that i was getting hurt by this bad magician guy once lol..hush now lol lol..anywho and i needed a weapona nd imagined powers.and won..And did u know this..when you dream..and u want to wake up right away..lay down no matter where you are in the dream..and go to sleep..you wil wake up instantly..! I have ben doing this for years now,,its cool..and then my dreams all end like a movie..and fade into a blackness and i wake up..im glad ot know there are more people out there that have this..thank you for making my night!

I dream a lot and remember my dreams. I also engage in lucid dreaming, usually in the mornings when I don't have to get up right away. If I like a dream I was having when I wake up, I will go back to sleep and take over. I have written some of my dreams as stories, too. Haven't sold any yet, though. I sometimes wonder if stories like "Alice Through the Looking Glass" (Alice in Wonderland) and "Gulliver's Travels" weren't dreams.

I experienced lucid dreaming sometime.And I think it's interesting,especially the dream is very horible or I was chased by some black men and couldn't find entrance to fleeing.I could realize it was a dream and i knew how serious I was. How could that happen,so strange!!

I have had the same experience with you . also i can remember clearly what i have dreamed. some is good and some is not so good.most of my dream just like a story.when i tell it to my friend.they are open-eyed ,coz they usually don't remember what they dream.

Castaneda talks about theese Lucid dreams. Some esoteric practices have specific techniques for consious dreaming. And all of them recomend to have diary. Some accept these dreams also as way for astral travelings and there are techniques for them too.

wel when ever I am having a dream that I hate I normally scream out wake me up please some one but no one in the real world hears me and some times I shake myself in my dream say wake up sidoney wake up but I have never really tried to control my dream just aware that I am dreaming

this is a good omen. this is very good news for you. this means that you can have control of your fate if only you will will it. your will power will have to be strong enough so that you will be able to wield your future in a way that you want it to become. i know that this is very good news for you because, this has never happened to me before. my dreams were of the opposite. i know that i am dreaming but i cannot control the events therein, no matter how much i try to be able to surmount the task which must be done, i have always failed. yes, i have failed in almost all of my endeavors. but for you, my friend, this is not so...you will be successful in all your endeavors because you have full control of what is bound to happen in your life. good luck and all the good things may come your way.

WOW it's amazing. I don't have many lucid dreams experience. But most of my lucid dreams usually was to solve something and strangely my idea is always work no matter how impossible that idea. It seems everyone accept that idea. Well i don't know if i can control that much such as flying. This is really interesting. Based in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming, there are several method to have lucid dreams. I think i'm gonna try it maybe by starting dream diary.;)

That happens to me often. Realizing than I"m dreaming that is. I also always start a dream in the "middle of the story " :) Sometimes I can control what I do or what I choose, other times I'm just looking from outside and can't interfer, but I know that I am dreaming. And when I am having sleep apnea it always warns me.

There are times when I know I'm dreaming but could not do anything about it. It was only after getting consciousness for a short while (a few seconds) and drifting back to sleep immediately was I able to control my dreams.

I can do it, but I don't usually because my dreams don't seem to be as real. I am blind, but when I dream I can see but on the few occasions when I did control my dreams, my ability to see vanished. Also, when I did it I woke up less rested and sort of stressed out. I know that most books and things say the opposite is supposed to happen, but my dreams have always been kind of strange anyway. For one thing, they are usually as in 99% of the time a continuation of the previous dream. It's been that way for as long as I can remember.