Lucid Dreaming

[Tom Gunn]

Bump because I had my first lucid dream last night.

I don't know how I triggered it, but it was right after a normal dream, and a quite creepy one at that. Right after I woke up from the first dream, I didn't move - or rather I couldn't. I laid there with my eyes closed for a few minutes until I noticed a light in the center of my vision. It slowly grew larger and larger until I was able to make out a shape inside of it. It was the floor lamp in my room. I stared at it until it finally consumed my entire vision.

I think this is the point I was finally pulled into the lucid dream. I was laying on my bed, staring at the lamp. I remember breathing very heavily and shaking quite violently as I stood up. The entire thing had a very uneasy and uncomfortable feeling about it. When I finally got to my feet, I looked around to get a bearing on my surroundings.

My bed was in a small clearing in the woods, and almost nothing outside of the light from the lamp was visible. Naturally, the first thing I did was try flying. I jumped around like an idiot a couple times, slowly feeling lighter and lighter. As soon as my feet got off the ground, I woke up faster than I could do anything to stop it.

What a load of stuff.

I had my first too. It didn't go exactly well either. I managed to stay in my dream  but I couldn't stop myself from spinning uncontrollably.

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[Frontrox]

I'm curious....How do you tell when you're in a dream?

[Tom Gunn]

when you know you are in bed but you are awake in a place completely contrary to your surroundings. You can also tell if your fingers blend together, or if peoples faces do not register completely.

[Vegetarian Zombie]

What is a lucid dream?

[carolcat]

What is a lucid dream?

controlling your dreams while asleep.

when you know you are in bed but you are awake in a place completely contrary to your surroundings. You can also tell if your fingers blend together, or if peoples faces do not register completely.

or when you have superhuman powers.

[Frontrox]

when you know you are in bed but you are awake in a place completely contrary to your surroundings. You can also tell if your fingers blend together, or if peoples faces do not register completely.

Oh cool, that's almost how i do it. Don't know if i said this already or not, but I've been unknowingly lucid dreaming most of my life.

[Vegetarian Zombie]

Oh, I did that last night :/


Lucid dream contained zombies, my mom's room, the Heavy, and carolcat.

[dkamm65]

Oh cool, that's almost how i do it. Don't know if i said this already or not, but I've been unknowingly lucid dreaming most of my life.

Lucid dreaming is being aware that you're dreaming, so you can't unknowingly lucid dream.

[carolcat]

Lucid dreaming is being aware that you're dreaming, so you can't unknowingly lucid dream.

I think he meant lucid dreaming without knowing what lucid dreaming was.
I know that when I was younger, I got lucid dreams every now and then without really knowing what they were.

[Frontrox]

Lucid dreaming is being aware that you're dreaming, so you can't unknowingly lucid dream.

I think he meant lucid dreaming without knowing what lucid dreaming was.

^^^

[tkepahama]

Oh, I did that last night :/


Lucid dream contained zombies, my mom's room, the Heavy, and carolcat.

Fixed.

[masterockets]

My first lucid dream was when I was in a dream
2 planes crashed into my house, and I said in my dream "that isn't real" then someone nodded at me and I jumped in the air flying and feeling so happy for myself
My second lucid dream worked like I was in gmod and created stuff on a bridge until I was thrown into a dream

[Vegetarian Zombie]

Fixed.

o_o

[LizzyRascal]

I'm curious....How do you tell when you're in a dream?

Reality checks. Such as leaning into the wall, looking at a mirror, looking at text and looking away and back. If you start doing them frequently in real life, and build up a habit of it, you'll be more likely to remember to do them in your dreams.

[Mr. Wallet]

Sooner or later I always know I'm dreaming because of a logical inconsistency. I'm very nitpicky about the internal consistency of a fictional world, so when I see two things that logically cannot both be present regardless of the scenario, my brain goes into conspiracy uncover mode and I usually wake up within 20 seconds. When a situation in my sleep changes and I start to dream a lot, I end up realizing and forcibly ending the dreams over and over again. I'm pretty sure my low rate of dreaming is related to my brain just being  fed up with even trying.

Recently I realized I was dreaming and my first instinct was to wake up (probably because I'm prone to nightmares and in general growing up if I ever realized I was dreaming I wanted out now), so I psyched myself up to raise my heart rate - I'd never tried this before but it seemed like a good idea at the time since the body tends to be sympathetic to things like that. I woke up in my bed safe and sound after a few seconds.

... Then I woke up again. I got incepted and the elevated heart rate forced me to wake up again even though I had stopped trying to wake up.

I'm pretty sure inceptions are just top-level dreams, then your dream changes gears to a brand new dream when you're just waking up. It would be like changing channels, or even changing channels away and then back. I don't think the mind has the capacity for nested dreaming. It's still fun to say though... "incepted"

Also sometimes I have the same dream with minor variations repeatedly in one night. Sometimes I have the same dream 5 or 6 times in the same night with small differences each time, like some kind of bizzarre time loop.