Same here. Usually when I realize it's a dream, that's because I'm like 10% awake already due to some noise or something. Usually I blink, but if I'm extra tired I go back to sleep and forgot that it was just a dream.
When I'm dreaming I usually stay asleep. OP yes I guess you can call my dreams lucid. I can't control my dreams but I can control how long I sleep. Unless my phone rings. Today I took a 4 hr nap and had a dream I flew to walmart for some gatorade, and velociraptors were grocery shopping. Then a T-Rex came in chasing some clowns. :grin: Then some more flying action and Steve Irwin.
thats how it was for me at first but ive been lucid dreaming for about 10 years now, it takes time for some people, others not so much. Everytime i want to lucid dream i think about being in a car crash before i go to sleep and 40% of the time it works, i'll be in a car headed for some sort of collision and i get dream legs (where your legs feel like they weigh a million pounds and you can barely move them) at this point i can tell myself its a dream and to teleport or fly out then i do and watch the car crash, then its off to the races, i do whatever i can think of
nice lol one of my dreams before consisted of a godzilla like creature tearing up the city and me fighting it, that dream took every super power i could imagine, i think it worked my brain too much cz i woke up with a massive headache but aint no godzillas gon be actin a fool round hurre!
Thread Bump So, I know we've had a few of these threads about lucid dreams, and I figured I'd bump one. In one of the other lucid dreams threads, I stated that I have them about twice a month. I realize now, that maybe in the past, I've had semi-lucid dreams, but I've never had a full-on lucid dream. Until like two days ago. I've been reading up on lucid dreaming and techniques to induce them, with no success for about two weeks. The other night, though, I woke up to go pee, and went back to bed. Upon going back to bed, I began to have a dream that I was at work talking to four people in suits. All of a sudden, I realized I thought I was dreaming. I looked at one of them right in the eyes, and said, "Can you float?" He looked at me, and said no, without thinking it odd. This really made me believe that I was dreaming. So I had read about how when you're in a dream, if you reread something, 70% of the time, it will say something different. If you read it a third time, chances are 90% that it will be different. So, I dreamed up a plaque on the wall. I read the plaque, and turned my head and read it again. As I reread it, I watched as the letters began to shake a bit, then rearranged themselves, ala The Butterfly Effect. I told myself that I was dreaming, and that I'd have to remember this to tell everyone else (I've been talking with a couple of people about lucid dreaming). I began to think about what I wanted to do, but got so overwhelmed that I "woke" from the dream. So, basically, my dream was a bit boring, but I know that I've truly had a lucid dream. It was fairly realistic, but awesome in the sense that I told myself a couple times, "I'm dreaming. I'm dreaming." And, no, I'm not on drugs.
Last nights dream had Texas beating ou. That's the only thing I remember hopefully it is foreshadowing this weekend
I was gonna bump a thread because I had a lucid dreaming experience two days ago. I have also checked out and tried some of the techniques to little success. I have had 5-6 lucid dreams now and only one of them was induced. Lucid dreams are cool, and I've done things similar to what you did, instead of letters, I dreamed of bunch of furnitures in my room and moved them around with my mind, it was cool. I haven't been able to really move around much while lucid though because a lot of times the dream becomes unstable and everything starts collapsing once I make too many movements. I think the best time to have lucid dreams is in the REM sleep in the morning. It is a lot easier to induce LD when you wake up early morning and then going back to sleep again.
I've been trying hard to 'control' my dreams ever since I saw Waking Life. The film offers tips similar to the tests aforementioned in this thread, like checking the time, trying to read text. Another trick it mentions is to switch lights on or off, because your mind has difficulty with drastic changes in setting, or lighting, or something. These have only worked minimally for myself, for as soon as I grasp that I'm dreaming, some element of the dream (character, setting, or plot) carries the dream into another direction, unrecognizable to me and soon enough, I am once again unaware that I am dreaming. It's almost like, I will say to my dream friend "Hey this is a dream, let's enjoy the lucidity by doing X," and they will reply something like "Oh of course you didn't know that? Of course it's a dream! Here let's go over here and X!" and my dream attention span practically abandons all lucidity within moments. My dreams control me far me more than I seem to be capable of controlling them. I often wake up, "continuing" my dream, believing it's real and that I must get up and act upon the circumstances. Sometimes I don't realize that I'm awake for 5-10 minutes, before I come to, and revert to my normal sleepwalking, day-starting routine.
