Anyone have lucid dreams regularly?

The trick is to wrap your head in tinfoil before you go to sleep.

 

There's a decent thread about this I might search for, after I've had 4 or 5 more cups of java. This is a very old subject that was in an upper level psychology course I took about 40 years ago on altered states of consciousness (dreaming is considered an "altered state of consciousness" for obvious reasons). Yes, you can learn to "control" your dreams, at least some can, and you can learn to remember your dreams from almost every night, instead of it being a rare thing, which is the case with a lot of people. You can become aware that yes, I am dreaming, I'm aware that I'm dreaming, I'm watching myself in my dream (which is a trip, I can tell you!), and perhaps I can tinker with it. You start with having a notebook and pen next to your bed, the purpose of which is to write down anything, anything you can remember from your dreams the night before, even that you remember nothing. You more you do that, first thing upon waking, the more you will remember. It works. I've done it.

 

I took a class about dreaming in high school and before that, I never remembered my dreams. But i this class, they told us that before you go to bed, think in your mind that you will remember your dreams. Also keep a notebook next to your bed so you can write them down immediately. By doing so you do not forget theme. After doing this for a while I was able to somewhat control what I was dreaming about. Definitely not 100% but vaguely

 

I can do it every night that I want to..just read a nice little book about it and can easily go off to la la land where I fly around like a hawk and swoop up supermodels, fly up and use them in the air, then drop them into a volcano. SPICY!

 

I remember my dreams in vivid detail most nights, but I've had difficulty getting control. I can return to a dream after waking up, but that's about it.

Check out the movie Waking Life.

 

That night I had a dream. I dreamt I was as light as the ether- a floating spirit visiting things to come. The shades and shadows of the people in my life rassled their way their way into my slumber. I dreamed that Gale and Evelle had decided to return to prison. Probably that's just as well. I don't mean to sound superior, and they're a swell couple of guys, but maybe they weren't ready yet to come out into the world. And then I dreamed on, into the future, to a Christmas morn in the Arizona home where Nathan Junior was opening a present from a kindly couple who preferred to remain unknown. I saw Glen a few years later, still having no luck getting the cops to listen to his wild tales about me and Ed. Maybe he threw in one Polack joke too many. I don't know. And still I dreamed on, further into the future than I had ever dreamed before, watching Nathan Junior's progress from afar, taking pride in his accomplishments as if he were our own. Wondering if he ever thought of us and hoping that maybe we'd broadened his horizons a little even if he couldn't remember just how they got broadened. But still I hadn't dreamt nothing about me and Ed until the end. And this was cloudier cause it was years, years away. But I saw an old couple being visited by their children, and all their grandchildren too. The old couple weren't screwed up. And neither were their kids or their grandkids. And I don't know. You tell me. This whole dream, was it wishful thinking? Was I just fleeing reality like I know I'm liable to do? But me and Ed, we can be good too. And it seemed real. It seemed like us and it seemed like, well, our home. If not Arizona, then a land not too far away. Where all parents are strong and wise and capable and all children are happy and beloved. I don't know. Maybe it was Utah.

 

H.I. McDunnough (Nick Cage) in Raising Arizona.

 

I can usually become lucid in the middle of a dream.

I can also make myself float around in my room. That is actually cooler than lucid dreaming. Its like I open my eyes then move around in my room or the entire house. Its creepy at first, but its fun.

I also usually thoroughly enjoy night terrors, seriously.

 

I've been able to have lucid dreams for a long time -- the first time I really remember is in my mid-teens. I find I have them more frequently if i'm taking a long nap, but i'll still have them during regular sleep at night. To this day it's still the strangest feeling to suddenly realize i'm awake in a dream.

The amount of 'awakeness' in the dream varies quite a bit - sometimes it will be a very vague fuzzy realization i'm awake and sometimes i'll be able to control situations and events. It's very cool -- I love it when it happens.

 

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A few years ago I got in a habit of typing up my dreams immediately after waking up. I never have gotten to the point of being able to control them, but it's a trip to go back and read about your dreams. If anyone has a good book they would recommend on the subject I would love to learn more about lucid dreaming.

 

There are probably hundreds of lucid dreaming books in the 'new age' section of any book store, I haven't read any so no idea on which are good or nutty.

I recall some company was marketing a device that would help you 'wake up' during the REM stage of your sleep. It was some sort of eye cover that detected the movement of your eyes during REM and would blink on and off some kind of red light. It wouldn't wake you up entirely, but would alert you that you were dreaming. I haven't seen or heard of one of these in years so it was probably a piece of junk.

 

Yea I have seen those before. I downloaded a Lucid Dreaming Kit, basically its sounds and music that run you through the sleeping cycle. after about 90 minutes you get certain sounds like help you become lucid. I never even tried it.
There are also pills out there that say they help you lucid dream. Never tried those either though, i doubt they work.

 

I want to learn how to have lucid wet dreams

 

Be careful.

 

Never had a lucid dream, but a good friend of mine has them all of the time...at least once a week. he says it varies as to how intense it is or how "awake" he is in the dream...sometimes he's just aware he's dreaming and sometimes he says he can actually control what is going on

 

I seem to do this often but it usually dosent last long and most of the time i end up in sleep paralysis which wakes me up

 

I'm the only one that can control your dreams!

Signed

 

Pills from the Internet? Of course they work!