Ever tried lucid dreaming?
By catalyser
@catalyser (531)
Malaysia
August 4, 2010 8:24am CST
Have you ever tried out lucid dreaming? I read some tips and tricks about lucid dreaming. Although I've never tried them before, I'm planning to try it out tonight when I go to sleep. I read that its pretty awesome to be able to control yourself in a dream.
There are also dream checks. Dream checks are things you could do to really know that you are in a dream. Like pressing your two hands together and looking at both your hands or pinching your nose in your dream and if you could still breath, then you are really dreaming.
Sometimes I could really tell that I am in a dream but its usually pretty random, it would be great if I could enter the 'dream world' as I please. Have you guys have any experience in it?
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@roderickdeschain (41)
• Brazil
4 Aug 10
yes, i aways have lucid dreams, but is necessary a lot of determination, can be easy or hard, it depends of your mind, you have to ask yourself all the day if you're dreaming, it helps a lot, of course you should have a diary of dreams, etc.When you get the first time lucid probably you will begin to wake up, at this time you begin to you spin your body ''into the dream of course'' it helps you to noy feel that you are lying on your bed and keeps dream on.
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@catalyser (531)
• Malaysia
4 Aug 10
Yes, I read keeping a dream diary helps you with lucid dreaming. I don't know how it helps though
@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
4 Aug 10
Day dreaming is not the same as lucid dreaming. It's not even remotely similar.
@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
4 Aug 10
I stumbled into lucid dreaming by accident before I knew it was a known science. I've always been really interested in dreams. When I was little my sister and I would tell each other about our dreams before we went to school. I started keeping a dream journal when I was 12. Eventually, it got to the point where I recognized the dream world so well that I would become lucid at random points during my dreams. Now that I know about the techniques, tips, and tricks that other lucid dreamers practice I have lucid dreams more often.
I usually have lucid dreams in the early morning because I almost always wake up and fall back asleep sometime around 3-5AM. When you go back to sleep after waking up from a dream then you drop straight back into REM sleep. Since you've been awake, you're more alert and can recognize the dream world better. As for reality checks, I don't really practice them... but non-working light switches almost always tip me off when I'm dreaming.
I'm not really good at controlling the dream world. Some of the time I don't really want to control anything, I just want to explore! When I'm lucid, I'm alert. I observe more and I catch more details then I do when I'm not lucid.
@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
5 Aug 10
For me, it's usually a trigger not a test. I'll be running around in the dream, doing my dream thing and not thinking about it.. and then I'll flip a light switch and it won't turn on. So I'll say, "HEY! Why isn't that light switch working?" Which will be the point I realize that I'm dreaming and FLY AWAY!
You should try waking up in the early hours of the morning and then going back to bed. That's what works best for me.
@catalyser (531)
• Malaysia
4 Aug 10
I read about the light switch method. Turn on the switch and if nothing happens, then you're most probably in a dream. I'm still getting a hang of it though, having no luck so far
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@Cargoleta (723)
• Spain
7 Sep 10
I've noticed many times that I'm dreaming (usually when something really weird happens in the dream, it makes me go all 'there's no way that's possible, so it must be a dream'), but I've only been able to actually take control of the dream a couple of times and not for long anyway... hopefully next time it happens I'll do better :)
