Author Topic: lucid dreams... (Read 784 times)

Ripsnort · « **Reply #15 on:** November 26, 2001, 09:04:00 AM »

Being "Stuck" in a dream, or trying to catch up to someone in a dream, is a sign of something you've been putting off in real life, and need to attend to, it could be anything from forgetting a B-day card, to your car battery needs replacement.

Flying dreams are primarily ones that mean everything in your life is generally in harmony with your conscience life.

I studied Behavior Dreams while in college, and they DO have bearing on whats going on in your real life, not all of them, but some of them.

Cuba · « **Reply #16 on:** November 26, 2001, 12:37:00 PM »

Whenever I realize I'm having a lucid dream, the first thing that comes to my mind is, "who do I want to see naked tonight?"

Invariably though, things go awry.

For instance, Gwen Stefani will be stripping for me but then she will morph into a hideous ape monster and begin to chase me. When I'm running away, I'm always like, "Ah sh*t, I knew this was going to happen."

Eagler · « **Reply #17 on:** November 26, 2001, 01:13:00 PM »

anyone else have this experience, I guess it is some sort of dream state...

you are lying there, you know you are dreaming/asleep but you are not in a particular dream, just like a black - nothingness but you can't wake up. You know you are in bed sleeping/dreaming but you are doing neither. You have to force yourself to "wake". Sometimes this takes a yell (which wakes the wife

) and actually sitting up in bed. You remember the "state" you were just in. It seems to me what a coma would feel like. Usually not a pleasant experience..
Just wondering if anyone else has had it.. or should I order my straight jacket now

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #18 on:** November 26, 2001, 01:54:00 PM »

I've had dreams where I'm not sure if I'm awake or asleep but I have this burning need to get up or move....

but I can't, almost like someone or something is holding me in place. I can feel myself pushing, then what feels like maybe a minute (I'm sure it's only a second since you only dream for 15 minutes at a time), I will break (that's what it feels like) into consciousness and be very scared- then realise I was only dreaming.

I also have very vivid dreams (usually when I'm in a deep sleep- either from being sick or something that will put me down for the night) where I'm underground- typically a DC metro setting with wierd creatures all around me and I've got a gun. Hell if I know what it means, just strange stuff that I remember.

Of course, in the end, a lot of the dreams I "remember" are apparently things I made up just as I was waking up (or atleast I'm told).

I took a psychology class, and still have no idea what dreams mean. I just take them for what they are- a means to relieve the days stress and prepare yourself for the next day. You ever noticed you typically feel better the next day after you remember you dream a lot that night? Just some stuff I learned in psychology.
-SW

Kratzer · « **Reply #19 on:** November 26, 2001, 02:09:00 PM »

I have dreams where I get into fist fights, and when I try to throw punches, my fists move in slow motion - the rest of the world doesn't, just my fists, and I end up thinking 'I'll never win the fight at this rate.'

Octavius · « **Reply #20 on:** November 28, 2001, 12:10:00 AM »

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Originally posted by Eagler:
anyone else have this experience, I guess it is some sort of dream state...

you are lying there, you know you are dreaming/asleep but you are not in a particular dream, just like a black - nothingness but you can't wake up. You know you are in bed sleeping/dreaming but you are doing neither. You have to force yourself to "wake". Sometimes this takes a yell (which wakes the wife ) and actually sitting up in bed. You remember the "state" you were just in. It seems to me what a coma would feel like. Usually not a pleasant experience..
Just wondering if anyone else has had it.. or should I order my straight jacket now

I think its called "sleep paralysis." It happens when your brain hasn't fully come back to reality. Your mental state returns, but power switch for your physical state is still in the off position

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Originally posted by Cuba:

Invariably though, things go awry.

For instance, Gwen Stefani will be stripping for me but then she will morph into a hideous ape monster and begin to chase me. When I'm running away, I'm always like, "Ah sh*t, I knew this was going to happen."

At that site I posted above, they have "directions" on how to control your dreams. They say (if you *do* infact have control) to turn and face the monster (or what have you..) and tell it that it is not welcome (ie, a demon approaches you in your dream state). Another thing to tell it would be to leave "in the name of Jesus Christ". Heh, it goes on by saying once you have "defeated" the monster, you can demand a gift from it. I have no clue.. but some say they have recieved beautiful music that they can remember throughout the day.

Sheesh, I would love to try all of these things.. but for me, these types of dreams do not come often. =] When they do, I enjoy them =]

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Originally posted by SWulfe:
You ever noticed you typically feel better the next day after you remember you dream a lot that night? Just some stuff I learned in psychology.
-SW

YES!! I had one the other day that i remembered quite vividly. I don't know why the events in the dream would actually make me feel good, but the whole day had an all-round 'pleasant' feelin to it.

Ok, this post has been around long enough

I'll stop now.

oct out!

bloom25 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 29, 2001, 05:17:00 PM »

You might find this interesting: http://www.engr.orst.edu/~heath/ece44x/index.html

This is a senior project here at Oregon State University. (Not mine though.

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Their goal is to flash a light or sound a tone when the detector picks up rapid eye movement. I hope it works.

Maniac · « **Reply #22 on:** December 17, 2001, 10:39:00 AM »

<Punt!>

Ok i have an question for you guys who can explain dreams hehe.

Whenever i dream about an place ive been too in Real life it is almost always WAY bigger then it is in real life, let me explain!

If i dream of an event that for an example takes part in my home, then my home suddenly has 4-5 more rooms then in real life...

This weekend i had an wicked dream about an night club here in Sweden that i use/used to go to, but suddenly this nightclub was as big as an supermarket, i think i was at perhaps 20+ different bars in this nightclub but in real life it only has 2 bars

This is happens all the time to me when i dream of an RL place...

Am i strange?

Kanth · « **Reply #23 on:** March 24, 2002, 03:35:44 AM »

Hey that is my dream!!!

always seem to be able to fly up to about where my feet are at their shoulder height..either zombies or clowns =/

I remember many of my dreams, of the ones I remember I'd have to say 1% are where I know I'm dreaming.

In one it was zombies coming down both sides of the street and I was banging my head against a tree screaming "WAKE UP WAKE UP" and I finally woke.

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Originally posted by Gunthr
Slightly off-topic...

Whenever I have a flying dream, I'm always in an outstanding frame of mind for the rest of the day.

Sometimes in my dreams I'm flying my old Aeronca Champ, doing things it never could in real life...

Sometimes, inexplicably, I fly by flapping my arms like crazy to get away from zombies. I have to get a running start, then leap and start flapping like mad with the zombies snapping at my heels. If I'm lucky, I make it to a rooftop

Fascinating topic, Octavius

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[ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: Gunthr ]

Kanth · « **Reply #24 on:** March 24, 2002, 03:41:23 AM »

I've had the slow running dream, I sleepwalk and sleeptalk and I can hold fairly full conversations while I'm asleep. I'm thinking it came from when I was younger my mom would yell for me "it's time to wake up and get ready for school" and I eventually could yell back "kay mom!!!" and not have to wake up enough to stay awake.

I also can shut off multiple alarms on my alarm clock while sleeping and I've actually agreed to a date while sleeping =/

it's sometimes scary to find out what I've done while I was sleeping, most people think I already know and just dont' tell me but sometimes something will be mentioned that I know I didn't do while awake and it's kinda creepy.

Kanth

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Originally posted by Zaphod

Just read this post. This is pretty interesting. Several people (me included) report similar experiences in dreams. The most likely case is that you are running/fighting someone or something but you just can't seem to move quickly or at all, almost as if you are in molasses. I remember a psychology professor in college explaining this phenomena. He said that when you are sleeping and in the state of sleep during which dreams occur (4 states of sleep I think, can't remember it's been awhile) your body is effectively disconnected from your brain. A good analogy would be an electrical short from a controller to the device. So that when the controller sends a command to the device the device won't respond. This keeps you from physically acting out what you are doing in the dream (running etc.) This is his explaination of the effect by the way...at any rate you sometimes get that "not responding" feeling during your dream....and can account for the feelings of heaviness. I thought it was kinda cool myself. This concludes my tidbit for the day lol.

Zaphod