Lucid Dreaming

[crazy_billy_bats]

sometimes dreams become a freakish reality...

look at nightmare on elm street

[guolung]

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.

[sk8punk151]

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..

[pyromonkey]

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!!

[Skweeky]

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.

erm....i've had that too a few times, but I never felt a presence of some sort ........I was scared though....but I think that's pretty natural.









I didn't get to lucid last night...didn't try either, I was too tired....maybe today

[hobbes]

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?

[Lamsey]

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...

[MagicNakor]

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.

[clocker]

That's why you rule BookWorld, MN.

[Z]

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?

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!