sometimes dreams become a freakish reality...
look at nightmare on elm street
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sometimes dreams become a freakish reality...
look at nightmare on elm street
There is an old Chinese story of a Daoist Called Chuang Tzu.
He was sleeping one day,
And on wakening he said to a friend that he couldn't tell if he was a butterfly, dreaming he was a man.
Or or a man waking from dreaming he was a butterfly .
cool.
Was anyone able to lucid last night?? I didn't :( Maybe its because I was semi-drunk and I heard when your on the influence of any thing its harder to have dreams..
i have pulled off lucid dreams before... but i was unsuccessfull last night... the dream was much to ordinary, an i didn't realise it untill i woke up!
i'll try again tonight!!
erm....i've had that too a few times, but I never felt a presence of some sort :lol: ........I was scared though....but I think that's pretty natural.Quote:
Originally posted by hobbes@3 June 2003 - 04:42
Here is more on sleep paralysis..My Webpage
My favorite one is being in bed and having people at a carnival milling through my room and through the fabric of my bed.
All that other stuff about a presense and other worldliness is just crap from people trying to make something divine out of a weird mental experience.
I didn't get to lucid last night...didn't try either, I was too tired....maybe today
For the rookie dreamers, here are my points for checking if you are in a dream.
1. Books make no sense.
2. Do you wear glasses/contacts, can you see without them in this dream
3. Are things where they are supposed to be, or where they used to be?
4. Are you smelling anything. Pick up something and smell it.
5. Ambient sounds, usually lacking in dreams.
6. Pain, pinch yourself.
7. For me, lights never work. This means "scary" dream.
8. Also, does your door swing open, despite locking it?
9. Are you talking with famous people.
10. Are you finding a dollar, then five, then 10, then money all over?
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Originally posted by Eddie Izzard
Why do you never dream normal things, like going to the shop to buy a Mars Bar?
It's always things like "you're being chased by aliens with big elbows and hairnet rays of death"... And then you go to a psychologist and he tells you it means something really mundane like "your parents didn't love you as a child" or something.
I bet if you went to a psychologist and said "I dreamt that I went and bought a Mars Bar" he'd go "Aha, this means you're a martian with big elbows and you have a hairnet ray of death.....
I once dreamt that I was doing my paper round. Then I woke up and was really pissed 'cos I had to do it again for real and David Coulthard wasn't going to give me a £5000 tip this time... :(
I don't understand these people who say books make no sense.
Whenever there's books in my dreams, I can read them. They're in English. And they're usually very interesting. ;) And I usually remember what they said when I wake up.
:ninja:
That's why you rule BookWorld, MN.
ok if you have the ability to do these things in a dream, then obviously you are already able to think and are therefore aware that you are dreaming. normally in a dream you cant really think, to that extent neways. usually you are just observing something thats happening, even if you are in the first person point of view, and you can feel emotions such as fear. i dont think id ever get to a lucid dream, although it seems so tempting! :PQuote:
Originally posted by hobbes@3 June 2003 - 20:24
For the rookie dreamers, here are my points for checking if you are in a dream.
1. Books make no sense.
2. Do you wear glasses/contacts, can you see without them in this dream
3. Are things where they are supposed to be, or where they used to be?
4. Are you smelling anything. Pick up something and smell it.
5. Ambient sounds, usually lacking in dreams.
6. Pain, pinch yourself.
7. For me, lights never work. This means "scary" dream.
8. Also, does your door swing open, despite locking it?
9. Are you talking with famous people.
10. Are you finding a dollar, then five, then 10, then money all over?
:blink:Quote:
Originally posted by clocker@4 June 2003 - 05:55
That's why you rule BookWorld, MN.
I didn't know I ruled BookWorld.
:devil: Time to establish an absolute monarchy. :devil:
:ninja:
i dont some stuffs like cardboard props in mine, not as in 2d but i could have a drink of jibberish and book and posters dont have writing or pictures on but i know what they are and what there reason is.Quote:
Originally posted by MagicNakor@4 June 2003 - 04:53
I don't understand these people who say books make no sense.
Whenever there's books in my dreams, I can read them. They're in English. And they're usually very interesting. ;) And I usually remember what they said when I wake up.
:ninja:
LOL...i read the article one of you read about Lucid dreams...then that very night I had one, I was being chased by someone when I realized that this dream had already occured...I was in a dream...that I now had control of...then my damn clock went off <_<
Whever i try to read something in a dream its random letters and blurry and makes me confused and i dont know what im doing.....and......You all know u wanna have XXX in ur dream :lol:Quote:
Originally posted by MagicNakor@4 June 2003 - 04:53
I don't understand these people who say books make no sense.
Whenever there's books in my dreams, I can read them. They're in English. And they're usually very interesting. ;) And I usually remember what they said when I wake up.
:ninja:
Mmmm...no...not really. If I wanted that, I wouldn't have to dream about it. ;)
The last "book" I read in a dream was about Lenin. I think I'm thinking too much about the Russian Revolution. :unsure:
:ninja:
hey i think i might have tip
if you dehydrate yourself before you goto bed then you sleep longer, i think thats why i can stay in them and i sleep in cos i dont drink much
Lucid dreams are intresting, yeah. I sadly have an extreme case of ASP = Awarness During Sleep Paralasys. Few times everyweek my mind wakes before my body does - which is still paralysed in sleep mood - so I struggle to move and can't, often I can hear all going on arround me and aware someone is beside me so it is like im trying to move or scream to get someone to wake me, but I can't. Often this plays in my dreams too, I live an experience of dying and I need to alert this person but can't. God it's horrible.
However, it is easy enough to live lucid dreams you just have to think the night before about it then usualy it shall play in dreams. keep
practicing.
ps: A good test to see is to try walking through a wall or something impossible like that. Flight is a rarity, usualy symbolised by a sense of your mind having no "burdens" a quality we suffer to not have. DONT try and pinch yourself, often although your body may be paralysed to stop you sleep walking, but sometimes your fingers have sensation and you will wake yourself up.
I usually pick up my Far Side or Calvin and Hobbes compilations. The first few jokes are usually ok, but as I read on they become more confused and definitely not funny.Quote:
Originally posted by MagicNakor@4 June 2003 - 05:53
I don't understand these people who say books make no sense.
Whenever there's books in my dreams, I can read them. They're in English. And they're usually very interesting. ;) And I usually remember what they said when I wake up.
:ninja:
The thing that gets me is when I hear music I have never heard before, and it sounds good. If I could wake up and write it down, would I have a hit on my hands?
i had a dream where i wrote a really good song. then woke up and realised i left the radio on
i used to have nightmares this fat guy i hated from school used to throw hard (cricket sized) balls at me in a large assembly hall/sports gym surrounding.
rather strange childhood i admit, but what the hey...
This topic reminds me of the stuff I read by Carlos Castaneda (post-hippy)
He described several techniques to reach out-of-body experiences and
dreamcontrol .
According to his books it took him a lot of years (and mushrooms :D )
to accomplish this.
For myself :I like freedom in dreaming but realise the process serves also to get rid of
subconcious cobwebs in your mind. :sleeping:
I do it all the time. It started as an accedent, and I began to explore. There are times I can "change the channel" when I see something comming I do not want to mess with. A psychotrickerest would have a feild day with that statement. Usually, I will simply hover above my dream self and watch what is going on. Some times, I stay in the dream becaus I enjoy the sensation. It is possible to feel all the senses in these dreams. Skweeky is right, though, it is not as restful as regular sleep. Unfortunately, I can not seem to stop doing it if I realise, even for a second, that I am dreaming.
hmm, I am shrooming this weekend :D Maybe that will play a good role in my lucid dreams.