I Had My First Lucid Dream

[CamelToeJoe]

I've had quite a few lucid dreams. I saw a movie in a boutique theater in Austin about 10 years ago called "Waking Life" which is about lucid dreams. I can't remember if I had any before that or not.

I'm usually extremely tired when I have lucid dreams - so tired that when I wake up during a dream, a realize I'm dreaming before I fully wake up, or I can immediately go back to sleep and fall right back in. When I go lucid, I almost always fly... something I've always wished I could do. Every time, I have to get a running start and keep focused to get height. Besides that, I think about who I'd like to get freaky with, and go that route. It's like cheating without actually cheating.

I fly all the time, and I mean ALL the time. I have found the closer to waking time the less distance I fly. I attribute that to the my body waking up and feeling the pressure of the blankets. I dunno. I will say the majority of my dreams are "Lucid" I didn't know the name and just thought this was normal.

Alot of the time my dreams are third person also. I am just watching my self like a "Shooter" video game and can control where I go. I can switch back and forth from third to first person sometimes.

My flying is like swimming through the air, not a superman type of flying. I have to run, flap my arms as if doing the breast stroke and focus to gain height. Sounds weird but it works.

 

[BBKing]

Lucid dreaming sounds awesome.

My weirdness when it comes to dreaming is that a majority of my dreams are some "the world has gone to ****" scenario of some sort where its me and SWMBO and my son and I have an AR in my hands.

I'm not a right wing nut job militia member but I'm fiercely independent on certain stuff and distrust government as a whole, so I guess I've always attributed the nature of my dreams to my "real life" mindset.

And its funny how I come across this thread considering SWMBO and I were discussing not a half hour ago how when we stopped smoking weed we started dreaming again. I've read something long ago about how stoners dont reach REM sleep which is supposedly when dreams start. I may be wrong on this as it was awhile ago when I came across the info.

Any good links to the practice of lucid dreaming?

 

[BBKing]

I fly all the time, and I mean ALL the time. I have found the closer to waking time the less distance I fly. I attribute that to the my body waking up and feeling the pressure of the blankets. I dunno. I will say the majority of my dreams are "Lucid" I didn't know the name and just thought this was normal.

Alot of the time my dreams are third person also. I am just watching my self like a "Shooter" video game and can control where I go. I can switch back and forth from third to first person sometimes.

My flying is like swimming through the air, not a superman type of flying. I have to run, flap my arms as if doing the breast stroke and focus to gain height. Sounds weird but it works.

Simply put: Your dreams sound AWESOME!

 

[KingBrianI]

Had 3 lucid dreams last night...kind of. But before I get into that I'll update the thread a bit and say I've been having regular lucid dreams ever since starting this thread. Still haven't had the kind of control I had in that first one, but lucidity nonetheless. Back to last night. I knew I was going to have a lucid dream. I woke up at 3:00 am, went downstairs to check the temp of the beer I made yesterday and to make sure it didn't need a blowoff tube, then got back in bed. Couldn't fall asleep for a while and that's when I knew I would go lucid once I fell asleep. Something about getting a good amount of sleep, then waking up for 20+ minutes, then falling back to sleep before it gets light outside is the perfect combo to go lucid for me. But here's the cool part. I went lucid and stayed lucid for what seemed like a good few minutes. Then I drifted out of the dream like always when I start to wake up (kind of a fade to black with a growing consciousness of the real world coming in). I think I mentioned before that two good methods of staying lucid are either spinning in circles in the dream or rubbing your hands together. Well, once I realized I was waking up, and I could feel myself there laying in bed looking at the back of my eyelids, I was able to force myself back into the dream by imagining my dream body spinning in place. It was weird, I kind of began seeing a spot of light spin that turned into an almost kaleidescope before I was back into the dream. After getting back into the dream I remained lucid again for a period before beginning to wake up again. And again, I did the spin and saw a kaleidescope appear before going back into the dream. I was literally going from awake to asleep and dreaming by force of will. It was pretty cool. Then the third period of lucidity started fading and during the dream I had been rubbing my hands together periodically to stay lucid. I was also conscious during this last period that I had been lucid for a long time and I was probably stretching what was possible for the dream cycle. Anyway, I started coming awake again and during that period of waking I realized I was rubbing my hands together in real life. That startled me a bit because I expected to still have sleep paralysis. Anyway, I thought it was a cool experience and wanted to share. I'm going to have to start trying to wake up at about 3:00 am on the weekend more often as it has proven a reliable way to have a lucid dream. I'm also going to have to work on control of the dream during lucidity. I again tried flying by jumping out of a window and just fell to the ground. I also got a nice stomach in the throat feeling while falling. I'm gonna have to practice the flying thing.

 

[jakecpunut]

I had a dream that I was a muffler... i woke up the next morning exhausted

 

[TxBrew]

Have you ever tried eating high potassium foods before going to bed, bannanas and what not? It works pretty well.

 

[KingBrianI]

Have you ever tried eating high potassium foods before going to bed, bannanas and what not? It works pretty well.

I'll have to try that. I've heard something about it before along with several other supplements said to help induce vivid or lucid dreams.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

When I'm going to sleep and nice and relaxed I can access brief flashbacks from dreams I've had during my whole life. I get about 40 per minute. Many of these images and short sequences are from dreams I remember well, and others are from dreams I had forgotten all about. There are some very firm favourites that keep popping up, many are about houses for some reason.

It's pretty awesome when I'm on a roll with it, and far better than counting sheep!

 

[KingBrianI]

That sounds pretty awesome. Do you ever worry you're dying and your entire dream life is flashing before your eyes?

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

That sounds pretty awesome. Do you ever worry you're dying and your entire dream life is flashing before your eyes?

Er, no......But now i will!!! Gee, thanks! LOL

 

[jgln]

When I'm going to sleep and nice and relaxed I can access brief flashbacks from dreams I've had during my whole life. I get about 40 per minute. Many of these images and short sequences are from dreams I remember well, and others are from dreams I had forgotten all about. There are some very firm favourites that keep popping up, many are about houses for some reason.

It's pretty awesome when I'm on a roll with it, and far better than counting sheep!

Subliminal?

 

[ericd]

I've had one too, tried flying like you. It was cool.

 

[TxBrew]

I'll have to try that. I've heard something about it before along with several other supplements said to help induce vivid or lucid dreams.

I don't know about the supplement, I try to stay away from that stuff, but high potassium foods works very well.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I don't know about the supplement, I try to stay away from that stuff, but high potassium foods works very well.

But what does it mean if you dream about bananas? Lots of them. A whole huge slippery banana fest with their skins pulled back while you slip it in your mouth?

 

[jgln]

But what does it mean if you dream about bananas? Lots of them. A whole huge slippery banana fest with their skins pulled back while you slip it in your mouth?

Those are called flaccid dreams.

 

[TxBrew]

But what does it mean if you dream about bananas? Lots of them. A whole huge slippery banana fest with their skins pulled back while you slip it in your mouth?

Well, according to young Frued... sex.

Those are called flaccid dreams.

Zing!

 

[HoppyDaze]

I had a lot of lucid dreams when I was younger. Back when I was a horny kid. All I tried to do was go around and grab girlies' assess. I was pretty awesome back then

 

[TxBrew]

I too miss those dreams, now it's all mortgages and kids screaming. Ahh, the ignorance of youth.

 

[Mischief_Brewing]

I had my first lucid dream in ages last night. For some reason, all I really did was fly around and punch people.

 

[TxBrew]

I had my first lucid dream in ages last night. For some reason, all I really did was fly around and punch people.

Are you sure you mean lucid dream, as opposed to "What you did last night?".

 

[Mischief_Brewing]

Are you sure you mean lucid dream, as opposed to "What you did last night?".

No, that was Saturday night, without the flying, unless you call being drunk flying....

 

[TxBrew]

Well it's not a prerequisite for flight, but it helps! LOL.