Has anyone ever Lucid Dreamed?

For those who are unaware of what it is, Lucid Dreaming is basically when you're dreaming, you realize that you are, and you take advantage of it. By doing this, you are basically a GOD in your dream since there are no limits. If you want to fly, you can, if you want to go to other worlds you can.

Anything you think of is possible, if you want it enough. If you want several pounds of Northern Lights to appear right in front of you, it's possible. If you want to have a Lucid wet dream with the girl of your dreams, it's possible. That's why Lucid Dreaming is so freaking awesome.

I'm going to be attempting it tonight, and for those that want to try to get started on achieving this state you should read this FAQ for great tips on it:

GameFAQs - Sleep and Dreams Message Board

And yes, I've heard that smoking some bud before going to sleep helps greatly, both in the lucid dreaming and in the remembering your dream part when you wake up.

yeah, I've done that a couple times. It's really cool. I havn't had one of those for over a year now though.

I don't know if you can really plan on lucid dreaming. For me it just happens.

Dudes,

Yes it is very cool, been doin it since I was about 7yrs old. Mostly in reoccurring dreams at first, (they are easiest to identify AS dreams). Itâ??s cool, but can get scary. Donâ??t rush in and think you are GOD. Your subconscious mind can fuck you up dude. :stoned:

hell yea, sometimes if i have an awesome dream ill go back to sleep real quick and then ill be able to control things...its amazing

*Jealous* For years I've been trying to do this to feel a connection with a friend who passed but I haven't been able to. I guess I never tried it under the influence of cannabis. I will have to try this when I start up again.

ye this happens to me sumtimes
i dont get much sleep but when i do sometimes i realise im dreaming and jus control it for a bit then wake up
i thought i was the only one lol

I have lucid dreams and always in the same circumstances. Sometimes, I wake up in the morning when my alarm goes off but I think I'll have another 10 minutes. When I drift off into a light sleep (and am sub-consciously aware that I need to wake up) I can have the most incredible dreams.

There is still the random environment that your mind creates but you seem to know that you are in control of any possibilities that can happen. You can re-live the same moment, like flying over your town and keep on feeling the adrenaline rush as you do it.

The only downer really is that when you do wake-up, it is so so sooooooooo disappointing. You sometimes be in limbo, fighting to stay asleep because you know that when you wake you can never get it back. I've had seemingly very long lucid dreams in the space of drifting off for 5 mins before my second alarm bell rings.

Have any of you ever had sleep paralasys where you wake up mentally but your body is still asleep and you can't move. I scared the living shit out of my girlfriend with it.

I get it very occasionally but once, my girlfriend had got up and had switched on the small light above our bed. She said I made a noise and when she looked at me my eyes were wide open. I remember it perfectly because I was aware of everything I was seeing. I tried to move my arms to get up but my brain could not comminicate with them. I remember my girfriends horrified face. I got my left arm to move off the bed but it was so heavy and was moving in slow motion. I could feel myself straining really hard and she said I was making a horrible gutteral sort of noise. She said my eyes were full of panic and she started crying. It's very strange and the first time it happens to you it is terrifying.

I thought it was something wrong with me. I even considered that I was bieng messed around with by aliens, lol. Seriously. It's quite common though as it turns out and nothing to worry about.

I had a re-occuring nightmare for many years that I learned to conquer by finally learning to lucid dream. The key is to look for something that let's you know your dreaming, something that just can't be. This is easiest to recognize in re-occuring dreams. In my nightmare it was a certain lamp that would never ever work in the dream. I always kept this lamp working, and so when I would try it and it wouldn't work I would know I was having my nightmare again. From that point on I could alter the course of the dream, and manipulate things to go the way I wanted them to.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

And yeah, I've had sleep paralysis 2 times, very scary the first time since I didn't know what it was. This was when I had a terrible sleeping schedule and usually just passed out in awkward positions on my bed or even in my computer chair.

I've heard it's when your mind wakes up, but your body hasn't. I've also heard that it's just your body locking up when you go to bed to prevent you from sleep walking, and when you wake up really fast your body isn't ready to unlock so you're paralized for a short while.

I've heard that wiggling your toes can help, but I don't know for sure. and nope, no luck on the lucid dream, guess I had too much on my mind.

And yes, sorry, I wouldn't reccomend going into your first lucid dream thinking you're a god of some sorts. That can cause some problems, probably. I would start off easy, doing things like defying gravity and physics, and work your way up to god-like powers.

Also to make sure you're dreaming, reality checks always work. For me I just know that I'm dreaming because whatever is going on at the time doesn't make sense, m y dreams are really random. But for some people, they have normal dreams where they just wake up and they're in their room, completly unaware they are actually dreaming.

Some good reality checks are looking in the mirror, seeing if anything if "off", counting your figures, looking at a clock, then looking again if it says the same time, sometimes pinching yourself can work but I've heard that you can indeed feel pain in dreams.

Which brings me to another thing, please do not die in a lucid dream. IT IS medically supported that the mind will actually think you have died, and will cause the brain to shock you to wake you up to see what the problem is, so just don't die and you're fine. Usually in lucid dreams, your last thought is dieing, and since you control everything and anything that's kind of hard for you to die. So don't worry about it, just wanted to mention something though

I've always found it more difficult to have/remember a lucid dream when going to sleep intoxicated.. You all should do some research on Astral Projection, very interesting.

I love lucid dreaming. It's been a while though. I could actually wake myself up while I was in a dream too if I wanted to wake, just by like twitching. I used to wake myself up if I thought it was going to be a bad dream when I was younger. It's really cool to realize your in a dream, then explore.

I need help inducing dreams..... how can I make myself dream any tips guys

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I need help inducing dreams..... how can I make myself dream any tips guys

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You don't need to induce dreams, you just need to remember them.. You have at least 1 dream every REM period, and if you get at least 8 hours of sleep at night, you have 5 REM periods (5 dreams, minimum). Most people have ~20 dreams a night. Remembering dreams is as easy as telling yourself "I will remember my dreams" repeatedly when you go to sleep. Write them down when you awake. (You will probably remember some dreams the first or second night, if you make an effort).

Do some reading :thumbsup:

Man... it happens with me very frequently... i remember becoming aware that i was dreaming while i was a child... sometimes, during very weird dreams, i would realize the weirdness of it and then realize i was dreaming... but then it was only a curious thing.
Many years after it, i started to learn about Astral Projection, and started to try it. And then it started to happen very frequently. I would have several lucid dreams. Until today i dont know how many experiences i had were only lucid dreams and how many were actual astral projections. I never had any awake-induced astral projection, so i cant tell the difference between astral projections and lucid dreams.
I also had lots of sleep paralysis... mainly after "returning" from attempts of astral projecting... i could feel i was in my physical body, unable to move, and i also could feel i was "floating"... it was scary... and i also had lots of dreams within dreams... like... you think you awoke but youre still dreaming... once i "awoke" several times... 7 or 8 if i remember well... i was starting to become bored... i awoke, and was dreaming... then awoke again, and still was dreaming... then forced myself to awake, and i awoke... only to discover i still was dreaming... damn...
And weed can help you... usually indica strains, which give you a heavy couchlock can make you enter a dreamlike state, and its easy to start a lucid dream from this dreamlike state... also, several people reported having out-of-body-experiences (astral projections) while high on weed. I never had it myself yet... but i want to have one so badly... thats why i smoke every day lol :rastasmoke:

There is a lot of useful information about this in this sites:
Lucid Dreaming Resources, Out of Body Experiences and Astral Projection Books, Reading and Programs
The Robert Peterson's book is very good.

The Collected Writing of Don DeGracia
The OOBE course and the book about science and occult is VERY good also.
So, good luck, and have nice dreams! :thumbsup:

Hell yeah man, yeah I used to smoke indica because it was all I could get, and the body high was strong as hell that I wouldn't want to move. So I would just sit there in a coma-like state and literally dream while awake, very cool experience.

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Remembering dreams is as easy as telling yourself "I will remember my dreams" repeatedly when you go to sleep.:

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I'm gonna remember that tonight. :thumbsup:

this sounds great im gunna have to give this a try.

I've experienced this once,and it was during a bad dream.

I must do this, ive never done it before, never even heard of it. Now i just want to go to sleep.

damn, this seems pretty tough. but very cool. im usually bad at this stuff tho. i relate it a lot to spirituality, and im very out of touch with my spirituality at this time in my life. but hopefully i can put that aside and just attempt this. thanks for the idea, seems interesting

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I've always found it more difficult to have/remember a lucid dream when going to sleep intoxicated.. You all should do some research on Astral Projection, very interesting.

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Ive had a complete out of body astral projection once, it was quite fascinating and somewhat overwhelming yet peaceful at the same time. Ony thing is it was with the aid of some unmentionable substances. I became detached from my body and at one point was observing myslef having a conversation with a friend from across the room. He would say something to me I would hear it from where I was then a second later it would kinda repeat louder in my head, as if my soul or whatever was processing it moments after my body recieved it. I would then think a response and watch my body wich was like 10 feet out in front of me deliver the response thought that had just ran through my head where I was... It was fuckin unreal, and I've been told I was lucky I was able to come back.

I have a couple books on astral projection, one completely about it the other is more about the capabilities of the mind and touches on it, but admittedly I have never gotten too far into either book. Perhaps when I get more time though I will read them in entirety.

i fiend for lucid dreams

I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I dont want to say that I dont dream, but I think I dont remember my dreams I think from all the smoking. Last dream I remember was like 9 yrs. ago. I think it was my wedding and I was at a long banquet table toasting to the good life and partying with all my cousins for some reason. I luved it!:thumbsup:

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I have a couple books on astral projection, one completely about it the other is more about the capabilities of the mind and touches on it, but admittedly I have never gotten too far into either book. Perhaps when I get more time though I will read them in entirety.

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Damn man... if i had one experience like yours, i would read anything i could about this... its quite a experience...

I sometimes have what I call "onion dreams." I dream that I am waking up, only to realize that I'm still asleep. Sometimes it happens many times before I actually wake up (onion layers). Even then, I sometime don't believe that I am awake. It can be very stressful.:mad:

I have had a few lucid dreams, less than 10. though when i smoke weed i cannot remember my dreams very well and definately cant lucid dream. Which is quite upsetting. Lucid dreaming is actually my number 1 positive of taking a break from smoking weed.

I dont believe in actual astral projection and i believe there is big debate on that topic. It is interesting though. I have had some truly insane lucid dreams, it is worth looking into.

well i told myself last night repeatedly to remember my dreams.
it worked.
i remember one dream distinctly and the other i remembe the main idea. i have always wanted to be better at remembering dreams. who knew it was so simple?

chong
when i was in school and my mum would wake me up i always fell back to sleep and not realise and in the dream i would get up feeling really tired then force my self to get ready for school and everytime i was about to leave the door i would wake up and get really annoyed because i was still laying in bed lol.

I have had a coupple lucid dreamd, it happened mainly when i was reading about it n such. i suppose because it was on my mind so once something seemd out of place in a dream i was like ohhh yepp i never had a pair o these before...and then stat making things happen :D

right now i love going to sleep because ive been having really long dreams and because im not working when i wake up i have time to thnk about them and remember them ully :D

Last week i had the same dream 4 times...i would go into one of my old classes at school but it would be called dream analysis...once in there a boy from my school would say that hes had the same dream 3 nights in a row o 3 birds, then the teacher would put a picture of 3 birds up on the board. Every time i had it i knew i was dreaming and that it was the same dream but it was like my brain was switched of and i just went along with it as i i was in a ilm. very weird lol


yeah thats another thing that happens to me allot, ill be dreaming, realise im in a dream but then not try and change anything, then when i wake up im like ffs wish i had made that dream more fun!



o yeah something i read that worked for me when i was trying to lucid dream was drawing a big letter or number on my hand in the morning and going to sleep with it that night...apparently because you subconsciously take notice of the letter or number on your hand all day once dreaming when your brain notices the letter or number is not there it knows that it cant be real, you realise your dreaming.



i love the subconscious mind!

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when i was in school and my mum would wake me up i always fell back to sleep and not realise and in the dream i would get up feeling really tired then force my self to get ready for school and everytime i was about to leave the door i would wake up and get really annoyed because i was still laying in bed lol.

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Man... it used to happen with me a lot! LOL!

you should check out this website Lucid Dreaming -- Dream Views

o yeah and when i was around 10 i thought i had woke up, went to the toilette..the inevitable happened lol. that musta happened about 3 times when i was 10!:(:jointsmile:

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o yeah and when i was around 10 i thought i had woke up, went to the toilette..the inevitable happened lol. that musta happened about 3 times when i was 10!:(:jointsmile:

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ROFLOLOL!!! :S2:
Man... it happened with me also... but i was younger, maybe 7 or 8... anyway, since then i became "conditioned" to never let the things "flow" when i were dreaming... and it worked very well until i start to smoke... cause when im high sometimes i feel like i were dreaming... then i go to the bathroom, try to piss, but just CANT! My conditioning doesnt allows me to do it, cause my mind thinks im dreaming, even if i know im awake, but stoned... :stoned:

EDIT: BTW i dont think lucid dreaming should be in the spirituality sub forum... i dont think it is a "spiritual" thing... but surely the mods have a different opinion about this...

So many things to say...kinda.

Well i have had one lucid dream i can distincly remember. I just remember it was a bad dream, i relized it, and then me and all my friends just walked off into the distance, i could see myself. Wee looked like backstreet boys or someone of that nature, with a big spot light infront of us, casting our shadowy outlines. I didnt choose to do this, but i must admit, i felt like a total badass(this was when i was like 10 or 11 mind you:D)

I almost had a lucid dream once. Let me explain. I dont remember what i was dreaming about prior to the incident, but i was in some sort of library when i noticed i was dreaming. The first thing i do is try to make a geometric shape with my hand, but it doesnt work....?! I look around and all these old librarian ladies are staring me down, and all the scenery turned white expect for the librarians. They all asked in a harmonistic tone "What are you doing? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO!!". The voice frightened me so much i wish myself awake (thank god that worked!)

Also, i have the disease sleep paralysis. For those of you who dont know, its where you become comepletely paralyzed except for your lips (but you cant speak (or yell)) and eyes. At least for me. It occurs before you fall asleep and right after you wake up. Also, during the paralyzed time, I am bombarded with hullucinations, visual and auditory, sometimes both, sometimes one. For me, this happens at least 2-3 times a week. At first it freaked me out, but i am now used to it, most of the time anyways.

I have seen very random things, that really mean nothing to me. I have also seen scary thing like "wind spirits" beating me up. I wouldnt say that it hurt, but i was aware they were hurting my body and was scared. I also see old pets that have passed staring at me when i open my eyes.

The most profound expirience was my first out of body expirenece from this ailment. I was sitting in the chair and felt pressure on my ribs, and suddenly popped out of my chair (yes i was sleeping in a recliner) into the air, sitting in the same position. I had no control over where i went, and i kinda just fell to my right, and halfway through a table like a ghost before i just snapped out of it. Was pretty crazy. The brain does strange things.:rastasmoke:

Man... i dont think sleep paralysis is a disease... i know its related to the ability to have out-of-body-experiences, like, it happens when your consciousness is not completly linked to your physical body, but only to small parts of it, like the eyes or lips as you said... and several books of OOBE says that whenever anyone feel this sleep paralysis symptoms, they should feel theyre floating, and there is a great chance of a OOBE happen from this.
Also, thats why you get this "hallucinations" when youre sleep paralysed. Its because some parts of your consciousness are out of the physical plane (thus unable to affect it, which means you cant move), and are recieving information from another "planes" instead the physical one.
All this things you described, sleep paralysis, out-of-body-experiences, and seeing "spirits" are closely related. They are just manifestations of the same thing, which is your consciousness being able to acess other "planes" instead the physical and material one.

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Man... i dont think sleep paralysis is a disease... i know its related to the ability to have out-of-body-experiences, like, it happens when your consciousness is not completly linked to your physical body, but only to small parts of it, like the eyes or lips as you said... and several books of OOBE says that whenever anyone feel this sleep paralysis symptoms, they should feel theyre floating, and there is a great chance of a OOBE happen from this.
Also, thats why you get this "hallucinations" when youre sleep paralysed. Its because some parts of your consciousness are out of the physical plane (thus unable to affect it, which means you cant move), and are recieving information from another "planes" instead the physical one.
All this things you described, sleep paralysis, out-of-body-experiences, and seeing "spirits" are closely related. They are just manifestations of the same thing, which is your consciousness being able to acess other "planes" instead the physical and material one.

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So full of knowledge you are:thumbsup:, also, i didnt mean disease, i couldnt think of a good word, but i guess condition would better fit it. Well put

from adolescence on, all of my dreams were lucid. It was super cool for a few years...

Since I became a daily toker, I don't have lucid dreams, or any type of dreams anymore. I am shore I still do dream, I just am unaware of it and never realize/remember them.