Lucid Dreaming

[CerpinTaxt]

I was reading about lucid dreams tonight. For those of you don't know, it's basically being aware that you're dreaming and being able to control the dream world. Apparently you can do all kinds of crazy things...

I was reading all these tecniques on how to induce lucidity in your dreams. I really want to try it and I hope it will work. Has anyone ever had one? What is it like?

I think I had one once. I just know that i KNEW i was dreaming. I even told people "I'm dreaming, it doesn't matter what I say to you". It was more of a "no consequences" mindset rather than "i can do bizarre things".

[Sydney]

oh god.. if FWr was here she'd tell you all about it, and how much better it is than drugs, blah blah blah.
Anyway, it's an interesting concept, but I don't think I've ever had one nor would I know how to induce one. To me, it just sounds like day dreaming a lot.

cheers

[darksideofoz]

I've had dreams where I know I am dreaming, but I never tried to change the dream. I usually just went along with whatever was happening in the dream.

[Axe victim]

I once dreamt that I was eating a very large chicken, complete with feathers. The surprising thing was, that when I woke up my pillow had vanished!!

[sun green]

ya i once Dreamt i was jean luc of the starship enterprise and i had to kill Nazi's, and i knew i was in a dream.

weird no?

[Brad]

I actully have quite a bit of dreams like that, it's great, I ussualy just go around doing things I ussualy can't do in real life.

What can you do to get them?

[Gilmour/Lifeson]

I've had quite a few lucid dreams....and to be honest I remember being absolutely frightened to death and wanting to get out of them.

I was lying there in bed, very aware that I was in a different mental state, or different kind of world and unable to get out of it. The surroundings are always the same, but I remember consistently hearing things behind me and not wanting to look...it's almost a spiitual state. I just didn't want to know what it was my imagination had cooked up and what I would see if I turned around. It's extremely diffcult to awake from one of these...it's almost as if I'm moving in slow-motion, forcing myself to get back to an awake state of reality. Really bizarre.

I have no idea how you would purposely have a lucid dream, however, the one common theme I've experienced when having them was that I was extremely, extremely tired at the time I fell asleep...(like I had pulled an all-nighter the night before.)

[Wing'd Icarus]

i have never had a lucid dream. I think they are just something everybody lies about. Like masturbation or alien abduction. Both of which I've experienced often, btw.

[Dr Cheese]

It sounds like a load of bollocks to me.

[Gilmour/Lifeson]

Originally Posted by Dr Cheese

It sounds like a load of bollocks to me.

It's not

[Dr Cheese]

A load of shite then?

[Gilmour/Lifeson]

"We mock what we don't understand"

[Dr Cheese]

What's to understand?

[Brad]

It's real, or maybe not, maybe it's part fo the dream that you think your controling it.
Anyway, i love it when i have them, i need to know how to purposly have them
!
can anyone help with it?

[darksideofoz]

Wow... I am so stoned right now, it feels like this is a dream (a lucid dream), except it isn't.