Lucid Dreaming?

[g0ne]

What the heck is lucid dreaming? Does it really work? Is it any good? So many questions!

 

This is the random and pointless stupidity that invades my mind when I'm tired. And happy. And happy because I'm tired because I don't have to be tired anymore because I'm done with stuff that made me tired so I'm happy. So now I'm a happy tired. 

 

Where was I? Lucid dreaming? What...?

[Gegenji]

I find lucid dreaming actually really hard to pull off. I mean, I went to bed, so anything other than the usual must be a dream, right? And yet I get so caught up in the dream that I never stop to think why I'm back in school or in a race that somehow involves going to a grocery store to get ingredients for dinner.

 

And the few times I do? I get what feels like a couple minutes of freedom before I wake up. I've never had a fully lucid dream.

[Sophia_Grave]

I find lucid dreaming actually really hard to pull off. I mean, I went to bed, so anything other than the usual must be a dream, right? And yet I get so caught up in the dream that I never stop to think why I'm back in school or in a race that somehow involves going to a grocery store to get ingredients for dinner.

 

And the few times I do? I get what feels like a couple minutes of freedom before I wake up. I've never had a fully lucid dream.

You've got to associate normal actions with remembering that you're dreaming, so you sort of snap out of it and get control back  I've been lucid dreaming since I was a kid, but doing that helped when I wanted to do it on demand.

[K'nahli]

I've done it at least once by pure chance not too long after reading about it - obviously with no intention to actually try it. It was kind of amusing but I woke myself up shortly after.

 

I've heard people got really scared because they encountered mirrors in their dreams and the reflections were sometimes deformed, haha. That and tons of stories about this "evil presence" that would sometimes appear that made them extremely uncomfortable and blah-di-blah.

[N'velhi Tia]

I have heard of people trying to enter 'lucid dreaming', only to enter a state of sleep paralysis, which, essentially is you being able to hear, see, feel etc. but unable to move. You're just sitting there, on your bed. Often this incites some scary images in your head, because, you're probably panicking by now.

 

 

[Dat Oni]

What the heck is lucid dreaming? Does it really work? Is it any good? So many questions!

 

Lucid dreaming is a type of dream-state in which the dreamer is in full control of themselves within a dream, fully aware of the fact that they are dreaming, and can actively influence the dream environment. Instead of merely spectating the events going on, the Lucid dreamer can interfere with them and change them. 

[g0ne]

Evil presence?

 

Hey, is there some Highlander out there I can hide behind? Halp!!

 

*panics and fidgets*

[Cliodhna Eoghan]

the only time i've ever done lucid dreaming was either during class or some other sort of larger scale meeting where i was suppose to be awake but kept nodding off. i was aware i was sleeping and usually spent the entire time trying to make myself wake up because i had to be coherent and not unconscious. i would eventually convince myself to wake up but never did any of the "fun" parts of lucid dreaming

[Val]

I have heard of people trying to enter 'lucid dreaming', only to enter a state of sleep paralysis, which, essentially is you being able to hear, see, feel etc. but unable to move. You're just sitting there, on your bed. Often this incites some scary images in your head, because, you're probably panicking by now.

 

 

 

 

Clicked it.

 

Fml not sleeping tonight help.

[g0ne]

I have heard of people trying to enter 'lucid dreaming', only to enter a state of sleep paralysis, which, essentially is you being able to hear, see, feel etc. but unable to move. You're just sitting there, on your bed. Often this incites some scary images in your head, because, you're probably panicking by now.

 

 

 

 

Clicked it.

 

Fml not sleeping tonight help.

 

Oh, good! Now we can hide together! *hides behind Val*

[Cliodhna Eoghan]

I have heard of people trying to enter 'lucid dreaming', only to enter a state of sleep paralysis, which, essentially is you being able to hear, see, feel etc. but unable to move. You're just sitting there, on your bed. Often this incites some scary images in your head, because, you're probably panicking by now.

 

 

 

 

Clicked it.

 

Fml not sleeping tonight help.

 

Oh, good! Now we can hide together! *hides behind Val*

 

need nightlights?

[Brynhilde]

Mildly related : Last night I had a dream that I went to work, headed straight up to the staff room, and slept through my whole 8 hour shift. And my colleagues were totally okay with it.

 

Best dream.

[Bopdoot]

Usually once I realize I'm dreaming, I start to wake up..Which really sucks because my dreams are always really good :sleepy:

[Madda]

Madda tried lucid dreaming once.

 

Fuck doing that again.

[Darien Cadell]

I used to dream lucid all the time when I was a kid. It would start as a nightmare and at some point I'd realize I could control everything. That hasn't happened since I grew up, but I haven't exactly put any effort into it. I wonder if I could if I tried.

[K'nahli]

Ughhh, I used to hate realising I was dreaming as a child(when you would often have nightmares) because it made no difference to me and I was still clinging to the fact that I could feel pain while in there. I couldn't wake myself up either!