Changing the light level in dreams.

Is there an official dream thread going, I hope no-one minds me starting another one if there is.

I am well into exploring the dream world, and using cannabis as an aid to induce astral projection during sleep. I try to abstain from indulging in sexual activities as much as I can as I beleive this also helps.

Anyway, I'm not going to get into that now. I had an interseting experience last night in a dream Has anyone seen the film, oh I can't remember what its called, but it explores the idea of lucid dreaming. The film is all made with actors, but they edit it to look like animation.

In it they say that you cannot change the light level in a dream, and that this can often alert your mind to the fact you are dreaming and from there you can influence what happens in the dream. Well, this has happened to me twice, once before i saw the film and once shortly after. Both times I had a lucid dreaming experience.

Both times though, before i tried to change the level of light, which was dark, I was not aware i was dreaming. However, rather interestingly, last night i started to become lucid in a dream. THis often happens when I look into a mirror and the reflection of my face looks somewhat different. I was in the bathroom and this time the light was on. I had become aware I was dreaming and decided to test this by turning the light off, only this time by contrast the light actually did go off, and I then started to become convinced again that i was not actually dreaming after all! It wasn't until i woke up and remember that I realised now that it is wrong to say you cannot change the light level in a dream, it seems as though in fact you actually can after all.

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the movie your looking for is waking life

Are you high?

hey man... i actually experience lucid dreaming quite often... i remember growing up and talking in classes about how i would change my dreams to be more fun... i thought it was so strange because everyone else told me that you couldn't... i was so confused...

you most definitely can change the light level in a dream... you can turn day to night, night to day, dusk to dawn... whatever!

ipot.. you interested in dream interpretation and stuff too???

Ive tried it, the 2 month period I didnt smoke weed I recognized I was dreamin alot more then if I smoke weed its weird.

But there was only twice that ive actually been able to change things, I would either wake up or it wouldnt change, somthin else would happen and I would forget I was in a dream. I havent tried the light level thing but will definatly!

I find also, that sleeping in not so dark rooms really gives me much more powerful dreams. Something to do with the brainwaves.

Thats why I love sleeping in, becuase you can wake up around nine and then go back to sleep and dream heavily for an hour, wake up, and do it all over again...

i hate those dreams where your being chased, and your eyes wont open, and when they do, its all blurry and it stings... i wish i could change that..

and when you go to hit someone in your dream.. and you punch like a pussy.. i always wake up and go punch sumfin, just to check...

i always change stuff in my dreams, but i dont change the 'lighting' lol

So your saying i should smoke then go to sleep? Wene i smoke and pass out on my couch i get some freaky dreams.

lol, why is this thread here too?

lucid dreaming is no joke
most people i think dont experience
if they did there would be much more talk about this

i am someone who dont beleve in shit unless ive done it or seen it
my friend turned me on to the subject and at first i didnt comprehend
but one night i had this dream and i knew i was dreaming
my friend used to tell me that if you can say your name in your dream
or even look at your hands when your dreaming you will realize that your asleep and take control of your dream.

whatever the fuck i did or just happened but i will never forget that feeling
i flew from the ground to the sky like a bird and i could feel wind in my face
and gravity and i seen the city lights from above

it was awesome and since that day i am so curiuos about the human brain

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Originally Posted by ToDrunkToFish

Ive tried it, the 2 month period I didnt smoke weed I recognized I was dreamin alot more then if I smoke weed its weird.

But there was only twice that ive actually been able to change things, I would either wake up or it wouldnt change, somthin else would happen and I would forget I was in a dream. I havent tried the light level thing but will definatly!

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alcohol and drugs (including weed) greatly diminish dreaming, as it cuts down and hinders one's ability to enter REM sleep (the dreaming level of sleep)...

abbottoir... i hate it when you cant run fast or you punch like a pussy!!! haha.. it sucks...

friendowl... yeah man... when you do superman flying shit (under your own control) it is mad cool... though i have had a few lucid dreams where i still could not get myself in the air for extended periods of time. lucid dreaming was my childhood playground... i use to lead myself into lucid dreaming all the time... sometimes i would even wake up out of it and i would go back to sleep and have myself pick up where the dream left off (this was often in relation to waking up before i killed the bad guy (i use to always but myself in military scenerios) in the dream that i was after or before i banged the chiquita... just being honest.

This is an interesting thread...

I can say for sure that I dream much more vividly and frequently when I have to quit smoking, which has only been twice ever, but VERY noticeable.

I have had what you would call semi-lucid dreams, where I can control some of the outcome, but not all of it. I also HATE when you 'punch like a pussy' in your dreams. That's probably one of my biggest pet peeves about dreams! I wanna knock some dude out but I can't friggin' hit him! lol

Well, I'm going to try to look at my hands and say my name tonight...or the next time I have a dream...let's see if I can fly!

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The Fog :rastasmoke:

When i go to boarding school, i always get lucid dreams.

I think because i dont smoke while im there.

I love them.

I wish there was a drug that immitates a dream in which you can fully control. That would be so incredible.

I have a lot of codeine in my system right now, so im thinkin pretty hard haha. (and by a lot, i mean A LOT!!!)

One time i had a lucid dream, in which i was in the world of Dragon Ball Z.

I was in my old primary school playground.

And me and everyone else were 'Training' and everyone laughed at me for not being powerful and the fact that i made a lot of vocals while 'powering up'.

I then got really angry and turned super sayan and destroyed everyone, each person were in the form of bad characters, like Cell and freeza and shit.

I felt so powerful and incontrol. Nothing could stop me.

Then i woke up. And got really disapointed that it wasn't real.

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Originally Posted by LittLeWinG

I wish there was a drug that immitates a dream in which you can fully control. That would be so incredible.

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check out this vault, Erowid Calea zacatechichi Vault

you either smoke it / make tea with it and drink it before you go to bed and it makes you have phychadellic trip in your dream

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Originally Posted by Metaphor

check out this vault, Erowid Calea zacatechichi Vault

you either smoke it / make tea with it and drink it before you go to bed and it makes you have phychadellic trip in your dream

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Wow that sounds rad. Gotta check the gardening shop for that plant... :lovestruck:

Wow, I don't dream hardly ever and reading all these posts made me really jealous. Everyone here should consider thenselves very lucky to be able to dream like that. My dreams always suck and involve me getting angry at my friends or something really really lame.

My dreams are always trippy. A lot of times I know I am dreaming too(lucid dreaming). It's pretty tight, I don't really change what happens though, I just admire everything my mind is simulatng. At one point I didn't want to sleep because I would have lucid dreams I couldn't wake up from. It really sucked and I thought I would be stuck in dream land forever.

yeah...u guys are really lucky to have dreams like that.
I always have the feeling my dreams happen only right before I wake up...because i only remember what happens right before i woke up. And that although it may seem like hours in my dream, it is all really happening within a minute.

I just remembered, my Shamanist friend told me about using some plant called mugwart. He'd absorb it into a bandanna and wrap it around his head right before he went to sleep and it would give him trippy-ass dreams.

man this is a badass thread first off. yea i used to always become aware that i was dreaming and then do watever the hell i wanted haha pretty badass...not as much now and also i do get that running really slow effect in my dreams too. someone mentioned that. one thing i miss is just willing myself to fly or being under water like it was normal. doesnt happen as much or at all now that i think of it...maybe its because im older or somethin well keep this shit goin i wanna hear more peoples experiences and cool shit haha

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Originally Posted by Abattoir Dream

and when you go to hit someone in your dream.. and you punch like a pussy.. i always wake up and go punch sumfin, just to check...

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Dude...i know exactly what u mean...I had a dream last night, and i went to hit someone in the face, and it felt like..when u try to punch underwater.

punching like a pussy and running slow sucks.. i too only seem to be able to remember what happens right before i wake up, and it seems like anymore, thats a rareity...

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Originally Posted by friendowl

lucid dreaming is no joke
most people i think dont experience
if they did there would be much more talk about this

i am someone who dont beleve in shit unless ive done it or seen it
my friend turned me on to the subject and at first i didnt comprehend
but one night i had this dream and i knew i was dreaming
my friend used to tell me that if you can say your name in your dream
or even look at your hands when your dreaming you will realize that your asleep and take control of your dream.

whatever the fuck i did or just happened but i will never forget that feeling
i flew from the ground to the sky like a bird and i could feel wind in my face
and gravity and i seen the city lights from above

it was awesome and since that day i am so curiuos about the human brain

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Ya it is so fucking interesting when you realize you are dreaming. I've had a few dreams were I realized I was dreaming and I was running around my street incredibly fast and jumping around (low gravity) I hope reading this sparks something unconsiously(sp?) and I have a nice lucid dream tonight. You can do whatever you want its like being in reality but you are God and you can manipulate things. Some people have conditions where they have lucid dreams and I have read stories about how a guy was dreaming and he imagined a taxi cab and he good manipulate anyway he wanted to and could look at all of it and stuff. Sometimes lucid dreams can happen by luck like with me, sometimes you just realize that you are dreaming and when you do make sure you have fun because its a thrill reality wont let you achieve!

I just changed light levels in real life....realll minusculy though

maybe I'm just a fatass, but I've had a few lucid dreams where there is like, a HUGE feast, and it's all like, REALER than real, and it all looks so gooooood, and I've got the WORST munchies of all time (like, unnaturally bad), but then when you go to dig in, YOU FUCKIN WAKE UP. that shit pisses me off SO bad, and then all day you're still hungry, but nothing looks tasty. pisses me off much... bastards

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Originally Posted by LittLeWinG

One time i had a lucid dream, in which i was in the world of Dragon Ball Z.

I was in my old primary school playground.

And me and everyone else were 'Training' and everyone laughed at me for not being powerful and the fact that i made a lot of vocals while 'powering up'.

I then got really angry and turned super sayan and destroyed everyone, each person were in the form of bad characters, like Cell and freeza and shit.

I felt so powerful and incontrol. Nothing could stop me.

Then i woke up. And got really disapointed that it wasn't real.

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Whoa weird I had a very similar dream that I felt in control of where I was really muscular and I could fly and do the kamehameha blue laser thing from dragon ball z. It was sweet.

On another note what about the kind of little dream type things where you fall down the stairs or onto the sidewalk or something and you wake up scared as shit with your heart pounding? I hate that.

i can wake my self up from dreams to and also go about halfway awake and i dont really kno how to explain it but its like i kno im dreaming but i cant do anything and its like im watching my dream from a 3ed person view and i can see what i kno is myself but doesnt look like me and from there i can wake myself up


sorry if you cant understand that im really..really high

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Originally Posted by Abattoir Dream

i hate those dreams where your being chased, and your eyes wont open, and when they do, its all blurry and it stings... i wish i could change that..

and when you go to hit someone in your dream.. and you punch like a pussy.. i always wake up and go punch sumfin, just to check...

i always change stuff in my dreams, but i dont change the 'lighting' lol

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ahahhahaha dude holy shit i thought i was the only one