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Lucid Dreaming


I've always loved lucid dreams and all that, and four or five months ago I ended up starting to practice stuff that would allow for them to appear more often. So I wondered, does anyone else find lucid dreams to be interesting? Do any of you have any cool experiences with them, and do any of you actively do stuff to try to get them more often?
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I'm too mentally weak to lucid dream but I have enough weird dreams as it is so
this kind of stuff does interest me a lot, but I never actually tried any of the methods that I was able to find. it doesn't help that I rarely dream at all either, though that's probably also my fault
I get a lot of lucid dreams. However, ever since I turned five, my brain puts limits on what I can change in the dream. The most common example is I can only change things about the dream in a certain area. There are five exceptions I can remember. The first was the dream where all the characters, who were supposed to be manifestations of all the different parts of my brain, tried to convince me that I was dreaming so I became lucid and could escape from a recurring nightmare my dream character was having where the elevator malfunctioned in a local science museum. I didn't believe I was dreaming until the very end of the dream. The part of my brain who caused lucidity, who was D.W. from the Arthur series, did multiple things that are supposed to show whether or not you are in a dream, but the things didn't convince me until at one point she dragged me to the exit of the science museum so I could see the void of the area my mind hadn't created yet though the clear doors. The second dream is actually already documented on this site in the collective dream journal thread which I assume this thread is replacing, but I'll give a short summary. This dream is pretty much an escape the room game. I knew I was dreaming, but I couldn't change anything. (By the way, the way I change things in my dreams is by imagining a PowerPoint presentation explaining everything that happens in the change.) It was full of puzzles, most of them revolving around the mechanic of every time I did something that would normally wake me up, I stayed in the dream, but something in the dream was different. The way I finally woke up was by breaking a ridiculous rule my parents, who denied to the end that it was a dream, had set. The particular one I broke was "No books in the basement." In the third dream, I once again couldn't change anything using normal means, but instead of trying to wake up changing one detail, I could reset the entire dream with the same characters and setting, but with a completely different plot by touching a portable phone charger called "The Key to the Eternal Abysmalness." This is also the only dream I ever had in complete black and white. The fourth dream isn't even technically lucid. Me (Bowser Jr in the dream; this becomes important later), Rosalina, and my real-life grandmother were going to a zoo that I had been in in an earlier dream in the night. Some evil power (I think it was Mewtwo but I don't remember) was using the zoo as its base, and had removed all the animals. At some point in the middle of the dream I became "lucid" to another dream world that I thought was the real world. I had to sleepwalk to a dream journal and sleepread the entry of the dream I had earlier in the night set in the same zoo to save the dream characters. The fifth dream's weird spin on lucidity has happened to me multiple times, but I only remember the one dream. Me and my family were in an MMORPG version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. My brain made every excuse possible to make the evidence of it being a dream not be valid. It greatly abused dreams within dreams to make things make sense, and at one point suddenly made Breath of the Wild a VR game. Also, even though it has nothing to do with the rest of the dream, I have to mention that the headline, "Scandal grows around Donald Trump Jr. revealing he is secretly the actual president." On how to get weird lucid dreams, every one of the dreams I've mentioned happened either the night after a day when I watched a dream-related documentary or a night when I wasn't sleeping in my regular bed.
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Yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation...
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It's 50:50 for me.

On one hand a great lucid dream is a really good experience.
On another, sometimes my lucid dreams quickly turn into sleep paralysis. One of the worst experiences I've had was having an awake body but still dreaming. I don't know how this is even possible since dreams are often related to REM sleep (rapid eye movement sleep) but I swear one time I was already preparing breakfast and mixing my coffee but my head was still continuing the "story" of the dream I was having the previous night.

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Originally posted by ThePat545
I'm too mentally weak to lucid dream but I have enough weird dreams as it is so

can relate fam. never had any lucid dreams but oh boy my brain can generate some really fucked up stuff sometimes
Now I'm curious to hear the weird stuff Pat & Mat dream about.
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Hi.
Originally posted by Wind Fish
Now I'm curious to hear the weird stuff Pat & Mat dream about.

Mat and Pat more like MatPat amirite

anyway I don't remember much of what I dream like anyone else but last week I had a dream where I basically ditched my house at night and overall fucked with people

I'm an asshole in my dreams lol
Originally posted by ThePat545
Mat and Pat more like MatPat amirite

anyway I don't remember much of what I dream like anyone else but last week I had a dream where I basically ditched my house at night and overall fucked with people

I'm an asshole in my dreams lol

Well, I mean your brain has to let out your evil side somewhere. Dreams are the perfect place for that.
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Hi.
Originally posted by Wind Fish
Well, I mean your brain has to let out your evil side somewhere. Dreams are the perfect place for that.

True that. Most psychologists and psychiatrists who studied dreams, like Sigmund Freud or Carl Gustav Jung, theorised that dreams can be formed from repressed desires and self. I suggest you read this article for more information. I would've gladly also linked this one, but unfortunately it's only in French :/

If you really want to know what weird shit the three-pound blob of fat in my head generates, I could give you the text file where I write all of my dreams, but unfortunately you couldn't read it as, again, it's in French :|

Fun fact: all of Jung's work is the basis for Atlus's Persona game series
well I guess I want to screw around with people but I wouldn't think to ditch my house to do it that's what the internet is for lmao
I don't think I've ever had a lucid dream where I fully realized that I was dreaming, but I've had times where I got close to and it usually just either wakes me up or makes me pseudo-aware of the situation (as in I am aware something is not right but I'm always unable to remember the real world).

I've had sleep paralysis before, very very rarely though (thankfully), but two times were particularly terrible. One I was sleeping and about to get shot in my dream (more of a nightmare) and found myself unable to move or speak, the only thing I could move was my head, I kept trying to move it and say something and eventually I woke up.

The second one is when I was about to fall asleep but had to wake up for some reason I don't remember, I could tell that my perception of reality was screwed up because nothing made sense anymore and I could swear I saw some very strange alive shapes near the ceiling and the wall, but I wasn't able to do anything. Slowly my eyes returned to normal and so did everything else. Before anyone even dares say the word "aliens" I will say that 1. no, 2. it looked more like something from a horror game, 3. people with sleep paralysis can see hallucinations while they can't move and 4. no, just no.
Originally posted by Mathos
]True that. Most psychologists and psychiatrists who studied dreams, like Sigmund Freud or Carl Gustav Jung, theorised that dreams can be formed from repressed desires and self. I suggest you read this article for more information. I would've gladly also linked this one, but unfortunately it's only in French :/

If you really want to know what weird shit the three-pound blob of fat in my head generates, I could give you the text file where I write all of my dreams, but unfortunately you couldn't read it as, again, it's in French :|

Fun fact: all of Jung's work is the basis for Atlus's Persona game series

It's a pity the language barriers exist. Then again, who's to say you couldn't translate some of your favorites to share with us.
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Hi.

Lately I've been having quite a few lucid dreams myself. I usually have them when I go to take a nap, and lately I've been managing to get multiple ones in a nap with practice. Basically throughout the day I try to think about if I'm dreaming or not, and so I end up questioning that when I'm dreaming, leading to lucidity (when I actually think about my surroundings I have an extremely sharp sense of what's real and what's not).

My only issues are that my dreams sometimes just end without any reason (not even because of something I did), and that I sometimes have trouble controlling the stuff in my dreams (like controlling how things work, as well as what locations and people appear). I would guess that part of my brain doesn't believe in me enough, so I'd guess I need to practice more to build confidence.

Every once in a while I get sleep paralysis, but after a while of learning about this stuff I ended up realizing that sleep paralysis is ultimately harmless (it's just the body shutting itself before a dream). I've actually started looking foward to it, because a dream almost instantly follows once the feeling ends. I've never had any hallucinations or such when this happens, idk why really though
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