[ToR.Arnor]

Originally Posted by Arma

It's very real and I've accidentally done it twice - note that it can cause temporary sleep paralysis if it fails . First time I was not sure what was happening as the dream broke and I was in sleep paralysis for a minute - basically was awake and couldnt move my body, with a feeling as if a ghost was holding my body down - scared the shit out of me. Apparently the best way to get out of sleep paralysis is to just focus on moving one small part of ur body e.g. pinky finger - that tells your brain that you are awake and slowly removes you from the paralysis . I'm no expert on this but that's what i've read/heard.

Thats what that is?

Yeah Ive had sleep paralysis so many times I freaken hate it, as a kid seriously scared the utter crap out of me

[nirvAnA]

Sleep paralysis is another subject altogether. Yea chinese say its a ghost sitting on top of your body but scientifically its when your mind wakes up before your body. Happened to me once before and it was super scary especially when everyone around me I told said it was a ghost sitting on top of me. (They just didn't know better lol!)

[Asrathiel]

Originally Posted by Drgoose

And each and everytime I've no doubt it's just my brain trying to find a way to stay in bed a little longer.

Bwahahaha, that's funny

And I was gonna say that in a rep comment, but you have 69 points and I like it like that

I don't think I've ever done the dream thing... my dreams are weird enough as it is

ETA: argh Nirvana, you broke it, now he doesn't have 69 points any more...

[nirvAnA]

Originally Posted by Doctor

How did you start the phase to enter ur lucid dreaming ?

Downloaded an audio tape one day, listened to it for 60 mins. Starting "jumping" IRL (i dont really jump tho i just think to myself this is the jump test timing) and in dreams. Then one day i finally remember to do the jump test in one of my dreams and bam i was jumping and realized it was a dream and i could control it to some degree.

As Drgoose says if you control it too much it becomes too fake (or you get too excited lol) your mind doesn't believe it and you wake up so i think theres a delicate balance to maintain.

[nGenLight]

Mild and Wild, look it up, I prefer Wild, its more consistent. But you do have to be pretty damn sleepy.

[Doctor]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

Downloaded an audio tape one day, listened to it for 60 mins. Starting "jumping" IRL (i dont really jump tho i just think to myself this is the jump test timing) and in dreams. Then one day i finally remember to do the jump test in one of my dreams and bam i was jumping and realized it was a dream and i could control it to some degree.

As Drgoose says if you control it too much it becomes too fake (or you get too excited lol) your mind doesn't believe it and you wake up so i think theres a delicate balance to maintain.

Can you link me the audio tape ? i want to try but it seems so scary :|

[nGenLight]

Yeh its heaps scary, sometimes you'll never wake up and shit

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SLCN.NXZ:

thought was serious, then realised it was you who posted it :P

[Doctor]

oh and i find out these on youtube...
scares the shit out of me and afraid to try..

You Tube

You Tube

[nirvAnA]

can't remember the exact name doctor, it was a while back. did a quick google search and these two pages seem like a really good resource.

http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Lucid_D...ion_Techniques

audio tapes are only good if u're like jogging / cooking and want to be more productive if not learning it in written form is a much faster way to absorb information.

[nGenLight]

Oh and you don't actually die if you die in dream.

There was a theory where if your brain thinks your dead, aren't you well, dead?

The problem is your brain doesn't know how to die, it's never experienced death before. The death that you dreamed about is just your imagination of what death may be like, but as you wouldn't have a clue - you'll always be waking up.

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[FvRsolis]

Yeah, I can say this is valid. I've been doing it since I was around 12-13 years old.. basically I was going through some rough times, and for some reason my dreams and my reality mirrored each other at the time, so I was consciously doing things in my dreams that I would do in real life.. and when I started to realize I was sleeping, well things only got better from there. I started exploring dreams, and finding little annoyances and inconsistencies with my own imagination, and I've done it on occasion ever since.

Except, when I do it now.. I feel like I haven't slept, so I generally avoid it aha.

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breadfan:

missing out on delta wave sleep, so your brain isn't as well rested

[ToRVenom]

Everyone night! thats why i love dreaming.. I pretty muhc have full control over them

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by Arma

It's very real and I've accidentally done it twice - note that it can cause temporary sleep paralysis if it fails . First time I was not sure what was happening as the dream broke and I was in sleep paralysis for a minute - basically was awake and couldnt move my body, with a feeling as if a ghost was holding my body down - scared the shit out of me. Apparently the best way to get out of sleep paralysis is to just focus on moving one small part of ur body e.g. pinky finger - that tells your brain that you are awake and slowly removes you from the paralysis . I'm no expert on this but that's what i've read/heard.

Sleep paralysis is more to do with when you wake up (i.e. during REM) than the lucid dreaming.

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by Doctor

How did you start the phase to enter Catherine Zeta Jones ?

Oh, Doctor ...

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i too would like to know

[deL]

I have at least one of these almost every night, and I dream for like the whole night and some are kinda weird :/

[ZiggyD]

Pretty funny to see a thread on lucid dreaming here. I used to read a lot of Steve Pavlina's blog and he talked a lot about it and his experiences with it. If you are giving it a try yourself then check out his blog.

[raycey]

My dreams are so messed up I couldn't put them into words if I tried. Though there have been a couple of times where I think I was conscious of the dream but had no idea. Never heard of lucid dreaming before so maybe that's what those occasions were. Kinda trippy, like my dreams in general. I hate my dreams, they're almost always bad dreams (not sure I'd go so far as to call them nightmares). Maybe I should try getting into lucid dreaming to force my dreams in a more desirable direction. Oh man that'd be awesome.

[Fourby]

There have actually been goggles that were put in testing (not sure if produced), where they would read your REM's and when it recognized u were dreaming, it would flash a red light.
Not bright enough to wake you up, but enough to make you aware you are dreaming within your dream.

These were meant to be made for artists/etc. something about being able to have a much greater creative ability while dreaming.

[Larotac]

Originally Posted by Antelope

LOL. but there is the danger of it is the dream becoming a nightmare. O.O

i don't believe that is possible, because when you are having a lucid dream, you are in full control of the dream, meaning that if it does turn into a nightmare it is because you wanted to go into a nightmare etc..

also, i read about this last year, attempted to try it but got lazy and stopped trying before i could have one, i will probably start trying again in a couple of weeks

[Maynarde]

I either have horrifying nightmares or don't dream at all. My brain doesn't like me