Hi. I was just wondering about your name. I came across an article about lucid dreams and the name onieronaut (different spelling) stood out. Just wondering if you are a lucid dream traveller?
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Hi. I was just wondering about your name. I came across an article about lucid dreams and the name onieronaut (different spelling) stood out. Just wondering if you are a lucid dream traveller?
Indeed I am. Lucid dreaming is the funnest possible activity that one can experience. You become a god of a simulated universe created inside your own mind. I have gotten quite good at recognizing when I'm in a dream. One time (last November) I had 17 lucid dreams in a single month, but that was when I was really trying hard at it. Now I get maybe one or two a week, but it's still really cool.
I've just ordered Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge. I have had 3 lucid dreams in my life but only got a tiny taste of the full banquet. I woke up very soon after becoming aware that I was dreaming. It is something I really want to be able to do on a regular basis to enhance my life. Any experiences you would like to share?
Any tips would be appreciated. I've wasted hours trying to have a lucid dream. I would keep my hand up so I would know when im dozing off to help me have an OBE or a lucid dream of some sort, but I just fall asleep.
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Originally Posted by AlwaysBlazed
My first suggestion is to do likewise. It was only after reading this book that I had my first intentional lucid dream, and I have had them continuously ever since.Quote:
Originally Posted by bhouncy
Yes, staying asleep is perhaps the hardest part about lucid dreaming. All the lucid dreams I can remember having have ended with me waking up. Once you realize you're lucid, it's just a matter of time before you get back into reality. There are ways to stay lucid, however. If your dream is starting to fade or become fuzzy, for some reason rubbing your hands together can make it clearer, and so can spinning in circles. Nobody is quite sure why, but I can attest that those techniques do in fact work.Quote:
Originally Posted by bhouncy
Too many to count. If you're really interested, search for posts by sennomulo at the ld4all forums (http://www.ld4all.com/forum/).Quote:
It is something I really want to be able to do on a regular basis to enhance my life. Any experiences you would like to share?
Here is the post I made about my first intentional lucid dream: http://www.ld4all.com/forum/viewtopi...599&highlight=
I used to control my dreams all the time...twas the shit...but then I stopped dreaming (or remembering my dreams)...but if you can do it....you should go to the next level and try OBEs...
it may be a little too much to swallow unless your open shit like that...but if you can lucid dream it means you have very good control of your consciousness levels
OBEs...if you can induce them...are far better experiences than lucid dreams....
so what exactly is lucid dreaming and also how do you achieve obe's without shrooms or something?
From what I read on wiki the term was coined by some dutch dr or something. A better term to describe it would be "conscious dreaming". So in effect you are conscious like you are now reading this but you are in the dream world. Anything you desire is yours!Quote:
Originally Posted by make it legal
carefull guys, you are messsing with the most delicate organ in your body- the brain.
it sounds harmless, but people have been institutionalized and fucked in the head from trying this type of stuff.
Im not trying to say you will go crazy if you try to have lucid dreams, but be careful, because bad things CAN happen
HAHAHAHA im not saying weed is bad because i dont think it is but that would sound very funny to someone who dosnt smoke weed readin on a weed site. its like that episode of that 70s show where they go to canada to get beer and leos like, i dunno about thaat beer mann. haha its funnyQuote:
Originally Posted by FeedmeWeed
I've been in hospital after smoking weed in Amsterdam. Bad things CAN happen. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Fear is not an option. Good things happen too!Quote:
Originally Posted by FeedmeWeed
If someone is scared of their own shadow they will read what you wrote and think SHIT! I ain't going near that man! In the absence of fear anything is possible. I for one will be diving in on full tilt boogie!:dance:
I read that and now I REALLY want to lucid dream. You paint a vivid picture with your writing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
See, I've only had a "normal" lucid dream once in my life. I could do anything I wanted and I did. I could even control my body outside, like I had an itch on my leg and so in my dream I itched it and the itch in the real world went away.
I've had plenty, PLENTY of lucid dreams where I know I'm dreaming, I can even wake up if I want to but...I can't control a DAMN thing outside of that. It really IS like reality because I'll know that I'm just dreaming and that I should be able to do what I want, but it is like the real world where it just happens and I can't control it. I can merely react to it like I was in the real world. No power, no nothing.
It sucks, haha
BELIEVE!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gothen
oh my god dude how much did you fucking smoke?Quote:
Originally Posted by bhouncy
I was diagnosed schizophrenic in 1999. I went to Amsterdam in 2003 not having smoked for a few years. Bad move for a mental patient! I was OK until about 3 weeks after I got home. Then I had a massive panic attack and had all these strange beliefs about the government trying to kill me off for my beliefs. I smoked a lot but was way behind my friends. I just don't give a fuck anymore. I'm off the weed for now and maybe forever. People in glass houses shouldn't shoot uzis. Lesson learned.Quote:
Originally Posted by make it legal
The reason it's so hard to control things is because you haven't gotten good at controlling your expectations. In a dream, whatever you expect to happen will happen, not what you hope to happen. There is a big difference. If you want to fly but you're still expecting gravity to work, you will fall. You have to overcome your expectations and expect your body to soar like a glider.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gothen
I still have a hard time with it after all my practice with lucid dreaming, and I can't always guarantee I will fly when I want to. When that happens I usually just go off and do something easier, like play with the boobs of every girl I see. :p
dude help me i wanna have lucid dreams it actually fascinates me, but i do not have the money for really anything anymore (incase you don't know, wife was hit by a car and she was the only one working, it's ridiculous trying to get a job here, like fucking ridiculous, i live right on the border pretty much.. so yeah..) but this idea has always facsinated me... if you can help me, train me perhaps? [email protected].........
btw, you've always been my 'idol' of the forums you always know the words i want to say but can't put together.
I too have researched lucid dreaming techniques for a period of years. None of the techniques seemed to work for me (maybe because I gave up too easily when it came to keeping a decent dream journal; I could never discipline myself enough to get out of bed to write down the dream I had and then I would forget it). However, I'm always interested to hear newer techniques. Maybe I can somehow learn to get off my lazy rump and write my dreams down, lol.
I've also had lucid dreams on occasion without intention, but normally my lucidity didn't last but for a few seconds before the dream took over again.
It's good to read about other lucid dreamers though. I've visited Ld4all's website on quite a number of occasions for techniques, and your storeis fascinate me, Oneironaut. I truly feel inspired by them.
thats somthing i rlly want to do and ive read abt like wat to do and stuff but i always forget to work at it so i nvr get anywhere
how do u induce a lucid dream?
first.....its nearly impossible to lucid dream when you smoke weed because you instantly pass out into deep sleep and dont remember shit that happens...
second...start really thinking about dreaming before you go to sleep...and when you wake up just lay there pondering about what you remember...(this will teach you to KNOW when you are IN a dream)
once you KNOW youre dreaming....this is when you just start "EXPECTING" stuff to happen.....
but SERIOUSLY....smoking weed is a BIG HINDERENCE to knowing what happens once your head hits the pillow
This is very true. That month that I got 17 lucid dreams was the month that I was completely out of weed. Don't expect to remember too many dreams if you're getting high.
well I looked at this thread yesterday and I read your posts and stuff Oneionaut, and I gotta say this is really an inspiration! :D
so anyways, i went to that website and looked around for a bit and then when I went to sleep last night i don't think i had a lucid dream, but i do remember my dreams which i haven't done in awhile. I just remember talking to an ex girlfriend and just walking around.
btw, how would i recognize when i'm lucid dreaming? is it kinda like the feeling when you fall asleep and the TV is on or something and you can still hear it and you have full/almost full consciousness?
Sorry to double post, but I had wrote an expansion to my dream and it took over 5 mins so i can't edit my post. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by invoke
"... I just remember talking to an ex girlfriend and just walking around. i also remember talking to some other people, the conversations i have no idea what the subject was, except for my ex. I think i was talking to her about life and stuff and asking her how things have been since i've seen her last. Then i remember i woke up around 2:30 in the morning and remembered the ld4all.com's advice and try hard to remember your dreams. I was still very drowzy so i fell back asleep after about 30 seconds but i do know i remembered a little about what i had dreamt. When I fell back asleep i had a bit of consciousness, and i remember i was at my dad's ex gf's house, which i haven't been to in about 2 1/2 years so i have no idea why i was there or on the roof for that matter, but i tried to jump from her roof to the garage and i missed so i look down and see the ground coming and right as i hit i woke up."
You know you are lucid dreaming the second you recognize that you are asleep. You don't experience anything in reality; everything you see, hear, feel, taste and smell is inside your head, and you are conscious of this. Once you realize you are dreaming, and get used to the idea that your expectations of the world around you are molding your sensations, you can literally experience anything you can imagine.Quote:
Originally Posted by invoke
I have had very few.....I canā??t be sure whether itā??s three or four. The one I will never forget is my jumping off from the black abyss that was below me and gliding. It was the feeling of weightlessness that fucked with my head forever until I forgot I was dreaming and fell. I jumped up off my bed and hit the floor and broke my toe. It was a fucking amazing experience and I will never forget it.
When you dream you are actually tripping on DMT.
only read a lil of the thread, but i really enjoy lucid dreaming i listen to one side of a hemi sync tape(a mp3 i downloaded) and its really hard to sleep with out it. I advise not being stoned when successfully trying if you dont care go for it, but for me if im stoned i just fall asleep after really cool visuals