Lucid dreaming

[mungbeanz]

I am really interesed in the idea of controlling or at least awareness of dreaming. Is it a myth or can you really do this? Any lucid dreamers on the answerbank, or anybody know about it? Sounds like fun!

[joggerjayne]

Being able to control your dreams would be fantastic.

[dannyday5821]

YOU CAN DO IT!

ive done it but its a very difficult skill and its wierd because you have to teach yourself to do it. basically, you have to change the way you think, and you have to think about it long enough that it transfers into your dreaming world. you have to teach yourself to pay more attention the world and remember it more than you would normally. then you should find yourself doing this in a dream, and in the process, you should wake up in your dream and think... "that doesnt make sense... that shouldnt be there..." etc...!

the times ive done it, are times when ive awoke in my dreams, realised the situation im in makes no sense, then i consciously decide to control it! im not sure exactly what level of contol your supposed to get. but i did what id probably do in real life, and thought of the stupidiest thing i could to test that i was lucid dreaming... et voila! a t-rex came storming through the streets!

other times have been abit more scary. the most recent i was in a car crash and i woke up in my dream, so in theory i guess im lucid dreaming, but it was so horrific and realistic the last thing i thought, as in real life, was about t-rex's storming through the streets. my legs were trapped and i had a chunk of metal sticking out of my stomach - only when i saw that i went into shock and i heard this god awful high pitched screeching sound...

but i could control it... everything went back but the more i kept playing with contolling the noise the more i changed what i could see. at first everything went black then slowly there was a white and blue light and as the sound got louder and louder it suddenly stopped and i was back in the car - i remember taking a deep breath in... then i suddenly woke up!

What The Funicular!

[mungbeanz]

How vivid is it dannyday? Is it difficult to confuse dream and reality in that situation? I have had the experience of false awakening, which I find really annoying. Everything seems realistic to a degree, but have never considered the thought that it could be controlled.

[Kayless]

I've done it but it's quite rare to get into the situation because dreams always seem so real. You need ways to first realise that it is a dream or you start doing stupid things whilst awake! I now have a process where I can verify that it's a dream and then I can "play". The difficulty is that dreaming naturally occurs during REM anyway which is just before you wake up so I often find I'm fighting waking up at the same time as playing along with a dream. Diffucult to achieve but definately possible.

[jno]

http://www.world-of-l...o-lucid-dreaming.html