Lucid dreaming

[crimsonhearts]

Just wondering how many here can..or have had lucid dreams..
I had my first experience last night.
In my dream I was with my boyfreind and realized I was dreaming, and told him I was dreaming... looked into his eyes, and told him how much I loved him.
Then it was gone.
It was one of the most bizarre feelings I ever had.
anyone wanna share their's??
Blessings,

[Derestanne]

Oh yes!, one of my favorite subjects. Probably #3 or 4 on my list! I am a meditation instructor and I absolutely encourage all of my students to get into lucid dreaming. My approach is very western scientific and I use brainwave simulation sound recordings and Mind Fight Machines, which do wonders for safely opening oneself to various psychic experiences.

An Important Note: Mind Fight Machines, Hemi-Sync and "hypnosis" recordings should never be used by anyone with seizure disorder and the Mind Flight LED Goggles should never be used by those who have a photosensitivity condition. Otherwise, they're perfectly safe.

I use Lucid Dreaming myself to problem solve and look into the future. For myself, more often than not, my own lucid dreams involve information or some sort of experience; I have powerful connections with people less frequently.

One of the best examples I could mention happened recently with one of my students. He is single and looking for his soul mate. So I took him on a guided meditation to see who he might be dating in the future. He ended up in a vivid experience of the first date with his SO to be. He saw the person, saw what she likes to read, what part of town they will meet in and even got the person's name!

When he came out of the meditaton, he told me, "I feel like I know this person, yet I'm sure I don't, so how could that be?".

So I explained, "What do I keep telling you about time? It's really an illusion! Yes, you do know this person, for in fact you just met her, consciously speaking. And just because your conscous mind doesn't have any memory of her doesn't mean your soul self doesn't know her. What to us is the future is common knowledge to our soul selves."

I have a website with more on this entire subject:

http://www.freewebs.com/nsmeditation/thejourney.htm

I will be happy to exchange more with you another time.

[Evendusk]

I've had some lucid dreams but am usually disappointed that I wake up in the dream because it destroys the spontaneity of the action.

[crimsonhearts]

I never thought I would ever be able to do this.
It was pretty incredible. I realized I was dreaming in my dream...and the feeling was great...
It only lasted a minute..but that was good enough.
I hope it happens again!
I have very strange dreams. very vivid. they always seem so real, until last night.
:)

[raedyn_l]

Hmm. I used to have lucid dreams all the time.

There was this particularly funny one, where I was dreaming that I was in a red room with white clothes on, and then suddenly I snapped into lucidity and decided to have a little fun.

So I made myself dream that I'd gone insane and I scream, "TOO MUCH MICHELLE BRANCH!!" while curling up into the corner in a fetal position and rocking myself. Meanwhile there are about two other "me"s--I don't know, twins? Mirror images? I conjured them up but I don't quite know what they are--hanging around outside the door, wondering whether they should come in.

It was kind of fun being insane :D.

And then there was another dream where I ran into someone at Las Vegas and (completely aware that I was controlling my dream) started stalking him. Ahahaha. And I made him sign my guitar, too!

And guess how he showed up in the first place? Because I made him! :lol:

I am not in the least bit disturbed that I was using a very unusual dreaming skill for poking fun at myself, and having it too. LMFAO.

And I'd do it again, if I got enough sleep to have dreams I could remember :).

[AlleyCat]

I had a dream my missing cat who I still miss it doesnt seem like its been 4years 6months maybe, that he came back through the catflap and jumped up on the bed I was so happy I was crying it felt so real I could feel his weight and his furr and then I saw my pet mouse tina who had died the year before run across the floor and I had this horrible stab in my chest of hurt that this was a dream and then everything froze except me I started screaming "NO!" and crying then I got pulled back out of the dream so it was like they were on a tv screen and then it faded away I woke up crying I hated that dream...

[mtpathy]

theres two ways that i have learned to lucid dream,but neither method
is any more accurate then the other."bout 30% of the time it works."
#1 i lay down in bed and meditate and within my mind "visual meditation"
i repeatedly get up out of bed and follow the path i have layed out for
just this occasion,at the end of this path is my scrying mirror i look into
it,then i follow that path back to bed,see myself laying there in bed,lay
back into my body then sit back up and follow that path again repeate till
you project.
by the way, the path i have layed out is various "marker" stones.i tend to
decorate my house in amythest,quartz,geods which makes up that path.
#2 is learning to become concious in your dream by seeing something in
your dream that couldnt ever happen in real life. and using that as the
realisation of "im dreaming"..
sounds really easy but its harder then it sounds..
most of the time when i lucid dream i get put in these really weird situations
where i learn these weird lessons...
like repeatedly pushed off a cliff till i learned how to fly..
i had a dream that only become lucid when i was drowning,and a fish told
me that if i breathed really slowly that i wouldnt drawn....and i didnt lol.
i had a dream that this really pretty girl brought this monster over to see me
but the monster scared me so i punched him..then he went crying and she
yelled at me,i followed both of them through a few rooms,just to turn the
corner and get punched back by the monster.
ive had dreams about this guy "well ive never seen the guy cause he talks to
me behind things, but his shadow shows me how to take animal forms.
sometimes i have scarey dreams of being chased by a monster or something
but that never lasts very long cause i usually dont run away from the monster
but run to the monster and hug him.

[aislin_ryann]

Lucid dreaming is fairly easy for me. I didn't know until a few years ago what it really was, but I have been doing it for years. Nothing really stands out in my mind. Especially not today. Soo sleepy..... *looks for pillow and all that is found is cubicle walls and court files-SCREAMS!*

*edit* Woowhooo! my 500th post!

[RunningRiot]

I love lucid dreaming because it's like an uncharted playground. I usually have them where I jump out of a window, use my will power to fly or make objects move, and the other night I had one where I broke a window with an axe.

[Morrigan_Wolfwind]

I've never really had LUCID dreams, but occasionally I HAVE been aware that I was dreaming. Like in my rather depressing Lemony Snicket dream. And my Gerard Way dream, which was quite the opposite. And my Daniel Radcliffe dream. (Please note, these are in reverse chronological order.)

Although, knowing that I was just dreaming made me just a little sad about my Gerard Way dream because it was really nice.

[darkwiccan]

I've had lucid dreams before, but mostly as a self-defense. I'll dream that I'm in danger and something will happen to me and I'll instantly gain control and reverse the action. I've been able to put up steel walls, fly away in a instant, and relocate myself to another place and time. Maybe stress in dreams can make one gain control in order to survive whatever scenario may be causing us harm. Anyone ever expericance this?

[AvalonsBlueRose]

I would say that I lucid dream about 90% of the time. I've been doing it for a very long time, but I didn't really have a "process" until I started studying Paganism. Someone else mentioned they act on a little test of reality, and that's how I do it. If I can float, I know it's a dream and run with it.

It's really awesome and I use it as a tool for creatively. I've turned myself into different writing characters and brought myself into their worlds first hand. It's also very fun to be able to get some entertainment out of sleeping! :)

Has anyone else noticed even when you're lucid dreaming, you still can't control the other characters in your dream and sometimes what's going on around you? And also, if you talk to other people and tell them it's just a dream they will absolutely not believe you? I find that so funny, but it's a tad fruserating when trying to act out a certain idea. But then I've had this problem many a time in real life creative endevours too! :D