Dreaming

[Druidus]

Can you lucid dream? Do you always remember your dreams? DO dreams tell you anything?

 

[No*s]

I almost never remember my dreams, and I can remember sometimes realizing it isn't real out of the few I have remembered when I woke up, but I generally forget even those within a few minutes.

 

[jewscout]

I've seen Rachel giving birth to my son...us living in Israel...
I predicted my parents divorce a year before it happened....

it's usually hit or miss though...

 

[Feathers in Hair]

I've been trying more and more to lucid dream, but I haven't quite gotten the knack.

 

[Scuba Pete]

I dream solutions. When presented with a problem, any problem, I often dream the correct solution. Sometimes it's quite lucid... very clear image of what to do and how to do it.

Sometimes I don't remember the dream, but the concept is still there. It's deja vu all over again as I remember the dream while I work. It's deja vu all over again as I remember the dream while I work.

Some of my dreams are prophetic. I am fairly convinced that I will be shot in the left shoulder and that I will die by drowning.

 

[Lightkeeper]

I dream solutions. When presented with a problem, any problem, I often dream the correct solution. Sometimes it's quite lucid... very clear image of what to do and how to do it.

Sometimes I don't remember the dream, but the concept is still there. It's deja vu all over again as I remember the dream while I work. It's deja vu all over again as I remember the dream while I work.

Some of my dreams are prophetic. I am fairly convinced that I will be shot in the left shoulder and that I will die by drowning.

We have more control over our dreams than we think. Why don't you change the theme and outcome of that dream. It can be done.

 

[kreeden]

Feathers , the main thing about lucid dreaming to to realize that you are dreaming ... which sometimes can be quite a chore .

NetDoc , I often have dreams like yours . { the first ones at lest } . I'm sure that friends get tired of hearing me say that " I will sleep on it "....

 

[michel]

We have more control over our dreams than we think. Why don't you change the theme and outcome of that dream. It can be done.

That's funny, I have often woken from a dream, gone back to sleep, and as you say changed the outcome. I dream lucidly quite often - one of the times when I went through a long 'bout' of lucid dreaming was when I got mixed up with my medication and was'nt taking my full dose of anti-depressants. made me think was it withdrawl symptoms, or would I continue to dream lucidly if I came off them altogether? (Not that I think I'd dare do that)

 

[Jaymes]

Every once in a while I'll have a lucid dream, but not often. I almost always remember my dream when I first wake up, then forget them and have them come back to me in shards later during the day. My dreams tell me if I've eaten the wrong thing before bed.

 

[Druidus]

I'm trying to learn how to do it too. One of the things I've heard is that you must start a routine. Whenever you go through a door, tap the hinges, or the side of the door itself. When you do this, think "Am I dreaming?". Once you realize that, test it by looking at some written material, noting the words, and then looking away. If you look back, and the words are the same, good, you're awake. If not, you're dreaming. Another way to test, is to fly out your tenth story bedrooms window, but I wouldn't reccomend that...

It's only hard to lucid dream because everything seems so real. I had a couple very short lucid ones this morning, but I only realized my lucidity at the end.

Check this link out: http://science.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=sleep.htm&url=http://www.dreamviews.com/

 

[Mr Spinkles]

I remember the first time I had a lucid dream. It was when I was young. I was having a nightmare in which witches were chasing me, and I suddenly realized that there is no such thing as witches...and I realized I was dreaming. I made the witches disappear, but then I woke up. After that, I thought I might be able to realize I was dreaming again...and a short time later, I had a lucid dream and I ended up flying and such. It was fun.

I haven't had a lucid dream since, though. I don't dream very often anymore.

 

[Druidus]

I don't dream very often anymore.

Wrong Spinks! Everyone dreams. We just don't remember them. At the end of every sleep period (there are several per night) you have a 5-30 minute REM state. Usually, your brain erases the REM state results during the rest period between REMs, and after you wake up. BUT, if you wake up during a REM state, you remember all of it. By getting an alarm clock, and setting it for the middle of most of your REMs, you can wake up during a few of your REM states, and then record your dreams in a journal. Eventually, you won't need to wake up in the night to write, because your dream recall will improve, and you can just write them in the morning. This is the first step in learning to effectively lucid dream (They won't matter if you forget them, will they?).

 

[mrscardero]

One dream I had was when I just began dating carrdero. I had never met his uncle but I knew of him from when he use to go to the gas station that I use to be an assistant of. He would come in and I would always ask him for his ID when he would purchase cigarettes. He was in his 70's. When carrdero, his mom and I went to visit him in the hospital, it was like we had known each other for a long time or in the past. I went to bed that night and had a dream that we had gone to visit him and I was walking into his hospital room and he was wearing a white suite and the whole room was black. This must have been around 1:30 in the morning the next day. There was no one else in the room but him and me walking in. He was saying something but I couldn't make out what he was saying. Then I woke up. carrdero's mom had informed us that he had past away in the early morning. I had informed carrdero about my dream.

I would dream about things that either had happened during my dreaming or after. Sometimes it's like de javu. Sometimes my dreams are so realistic that I would wake up wondering if it really happened or it will happen.
One time I woke up from dreaming that I was shot and checked myself out. I thought I was shot cause I felt pain where I was shot in my dream.

Then you get those dreams where you are spitting and you literally spit. Ever wonder why you have a wet spot on your pillow? Stop spitting in your dream :biglaugh: .

At least I haven't been sleep walking like I used too .

 

[No*s]

Wrong Spinks! Everyone dreams. We just don't remember them. At the end of every sleep period (there are several per night) you have a 5-30 minute REM state. Usually, your brain erases the REM state results during the rest period between REMs, and after you wake up. BUT, if you wake up during a REM state, you remember all of it. By getting an alarm clock, and setting it for the middle of most of your REMs, you can wake up during a few of your REM states, and then record your dreams in a journal. Eventually, you won't need to wake up in the night to write, because your dream recall will improve, and you can just write them in the morning. This is the first step in learning to effectively lucid dream (They won't matter if you forget them, will they?).

I might try that. I rarely remember my dreams, and what I do remember falls into certain themes .

 

[Yerda]

Everyone has had weird dreams I'm sure, but some of the things my head comes up with while I sleep worry me. My dreams are so strange they give me the heebies.

 

[painted wolf]

I usually have dreams that are like wacky tv shows. I usually realize that they are dreams but can't interact with them at all. I ussually just sit back mentally and enjoy the ride.
every once in a while I've solved some puzzle or problem in my sleep, my brain continuing to crunch away at it eaven when the rest of me is out... not very restfull but I usually come up with the solution. I usually don't think I've slept at all but I've had my fince tell me that I was sound asleep when I thought I was awake 'problem solving'.:bonk:

Every once in a while I have a spiritual dream/vision. They are immedately reccognizable to me, by thier strength and 'rationality' (dispite sometimes being a tad 'wacky') I can't interact with them (in the sence that I can direct them) either but thier clearity is deifine. I can see more vibrantly, I can hear everything more vibrantly, Its always first person rather than my usual third person and I can remember what happins, because I realize that I am supposed to remember what is going on.
I have had talks with elders and my totems and other spirits, recieved messages and gifts.

I also have some recuring dreams that are my minds way of pointing out problems or issues that I have in my life. My internal warning system.

wa:do

 

[Master Vigil]

My dreams are normally Lucid. They need to be, because of my spirit works. But you do learn to control them. My favorite exercise, and this was a breakthrough for me. Ok, it is extremely difficult to explain, but here it goes...

Lay down, turn all of the lights off, and lay as still as you can. Now here is the hard part, imagine that your paralyzed, but your trying to move. Like, move your arms in your head, but don't move them physically. It will feel as though you are completely paralyzed. Now try to do this with your whole body, while relaxing your mind. That is the hard part. And what happens is you end up sorta falling asleep, but you are in the state before dreaming. And in that state, you can control lots of things. Like, I remember turning on the lights, and once I even called my mom to come and wake me up. Needless to say, that is extremely difficult and I haven't done it in a while. But it was definitely an extreme breakthrough in my vigil training.

 

[Master Vigil]

If it is hard to do with your whole body at first, try to do it with just your finger. And work your way up. I used to do it at school when I was bored. So try it at work, you have to get that paralyzed feel where your mind is working your arm, but your arm isn't working.

 

[Bastet]

I often have very, very strange dreams, but rarely a lucid one.

 

[michel]

[PART QUOTE=painted wolf]Every once in a while I have a spiritual dream/vision. They are immedately reccognizable to me, by thier strength and 'rationality' (dispite sometimes being a tad 'wacky') I can't interact with them (in the sence that I can direct them) either but thier clearity is deifine. I can see more vibrantly, I can hear everything more vibrantly, Its always first person rather than my usual third person and I can remember what happins, because I realize that I am supposed to remember what is going on.
I have had talks with elders and my totems and other spirits, recieved messages and gifts.

I also have some recuring dreams that are my minds way of pointing out problems or issues that I have in my life. My internal warning system.

wa:do[/QUOTE] hey, Painted wolf, did you work at that, or did it come naturally to you?