Lucid Dreaming

[Big Rig]

I have lucid dreamt many times but have just became aware that it has a name. It is a skill you can use it to explore the boundaries of your own agency and the limits of the universe

A lucid dream is any dream during which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming. During lucid dreaming, the dreamer be able to exert some degree of control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment

Lucid dreaming is your chance to play around with the extraordinary abilities buried in unused parts of your brain. Regardless of whether your are superhuman in real life or not, lucid dreaming is a way for you to put the deepest areas of your brain to good use while you’re sleeping. All the obstacles of reality can be set aside, as you make trips to the sun or the interior of the earth or test your craziest science experiments on your worst enemies.



from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-superhuman-mind/201212/lucid-dreaming-and-self-realization

At one point we were attempting to record sexual activity during lucid dreaming in the Stanford Sleep Lab. I was hooked up to electrodes and vaginal probes. My goal was to have sex in a dream and experience an orgasm. I dreamed that I flew across Stanford campus and saw a group of tourists down below. I swooped down and tapped one dream guy, wearing a blue suit, on the shoulder. He responded right there on the walkway. We made love, and I signaled the onset of sex and the orgasm to the experimenter. We later published this experiment in Journal of Psychophysiology as the first recorded female orgasm in a dream.


When you are conscious, be aware of the differences between your conscious state and your dreaming state and you will slowly gain mastery over lucid dreams. It is an acquired skill

 

[|2 /-\ | /|/]

How about connecting with other people through your dreams and seeing that person at work the next day knowing you dreamed about each other at the same time in similar dreams. The two dreams basically merge into one. Like a form of telepathy, and I am convinced it happens with many people and some are more aware of it then others. I think its something that happens subconscious and we can't control it.

http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/mutual-dreaming.html

Lucid dreams are nice but kinda lonely.

 

[MissCroft]

Most of my dreams are lucid. It sounds weird but I usually know in a dream that I am dreaming.

 

[AK-47]

I had a spontaneous OBE 15 years ago while in hospital.
I consequently tried astral projection. Its a cool hobby but I was never able to master it.

AP is very similar to lucid dreaming

 

[jcpro]

This stuff freaks me out. A couple of months ago I had a restless sleep and in it a voice said "Bob's dead". Loud enough to wake me up. Sure enough, my uncle Bob died that night. We were not even that close and he expired on another continent, even. Weird.

 

[rhuarc29]

How did a thread about lucid dreaming turn into a thread about supernatural telepathy?

I can count on one hand the number of times I've been aware I was dreaming while dreaming. And yes, you can direct the dream. It's difficult to maintain that level of perception though. Most often I wake up fairly quickly after making that insight or slip back into unconscious dreaming.

 

[jcpro]

How did a thread about lucid dreaming turn into a thread about supernatural telepathy?

I can count on one hand the number of times I've been aware I was dreaming while dreaming. And yes, you can direct the dream. It's difficult to maintain that level of perception though. Most often I wake up fairly quickly after making that insight or slip back into unconscious dreaming.

And why not, it's all weird. Woooo.... On to the alien abductions.

 

[Yoga Face]

when in a panic situation in a dream I will tell myself that this is a dream to control my fear

controlling the dream, like a cartoonist does to his characters, is a interesting concept

perhaps I will remember to try next time dream awareness occurs

I wonder if there are studies that correlate dreaming to creativity

to me, dreaming is your mind thinking thoughts you have been thinking consciously but doing so in a non sense fashion and people look for deeper meanings in dreams that are not there. Emperors have waged wars based on dream interpretations.

When the Cardinals convene to choose a Pope they claim they are guided by God, as popes do when in power, but never explain the form of this guidance. Some of this guidance has historically been dream interpretation. Scary.

but some meanings can be extrapolated from dreams

I saw a rather brilliant app programmer, in a doc about really bright people, say he always works on the app as soon as waking as sleeping gives him creative ideas




I have had nightmares where I fall and I wake up just before hitting the ground and dying ( interestingly, I have never died in a dream) When I look back on them it was a time when I had lost control with some sort of important situation. After having changed the situation, the falling dreams go away

 

[lucky_blue]

Do most people who have lucid dreams report the ability to fly around like superman? For me that was one of the coolest aspects, in addition to having full control over the dream.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33957717

My Lariam dreams
By Robert Lawrence
BBC News

There's been a call for the British Army to stop using a controversial anti-malaria drug, mefloquine - best known under the tradename Lariam. The Ministry of Defence and the NHS insist it's safe but some can suffer unnerving effects.
Savings from some temp jobs, living off a low-cost diet of baked beans for a year and the newfound ability to rack up a fat overdraft meant that by the summer of 1998 - at the end of my first year at university - I had enough money to make a month long holiday to Tanzania with a couple of former school friends.

Ahead of our trip we all bought our mosquito nets and sun cream and each visited the surgery to get the requisite jabs from the nurse.
Because the malaria risk was deemed to be high in the part of east Africa where we were visiting, all of us were also prescribed anti-malarial drugs.

Our previous trips to the tropics had involved taking a daily pair of proguanil tablets with couple of chloroquine tablets each week. But for Tanzania, the doctor explained that the mosquito parasites were apparently resistant to these anti-malarials so instead I would be prescribed mefloquine.

He mentioned the potential side effects but we didn't dwell on them.

We started taking the Lariam tablets a couple of weeks before flying out to Dar es Salaam and none of us noticed anything unusual.

We loved Tanzania and Zanzibar. We climbed Kilimanjaro, hung out on beaches, and kidded ourselves that we were immersing ourselves in the culture too.

Lariam pills


Most people who take Lariam do not suffer bad dreams

But soon every Thursday morning (we took the weekly pill on a Wednesday) was spent swapping stories about the hilarious, vivid, crazy - almost hallucinogenic - mefloquine-infused dreams we'd experienced the night before.
At least it was entertaining for two of the three of us who were affected - I felt rather sorry for my mate who was missing out on all the fun. And there was even a bit of sleepwalking and talking in my sleep for good measure.
Our dreams were lucid and odd. People turning into safari animals and inanimate objects transmogrifying into living, real people. At times dreams blurred into being awake.

Anyway, our month in Africa was soon through, we touched back down in the UK and the dull reality of summer temp work kicked in.

And for me, so did the darker side effects of mefloquine. We had taken it only for six weeks and were required to take another few weeks after returning home.

A long summer holiday as a student ought to be the days-of-your-life stuff - a time not to have any stress and for living without a care in the world.

But anxiety crept in to my life - feelings of foreboding and inexplicable nervousness about doing anything in public. The vivid and entertaining dreams felt long gone.
I landed another temp job quite quickly, but managed a single morning in the office before returning home sick. I didn't go back to work that summer.

In fact I barely left the house over the next few weeks. I was mildly paranoid and I was depressed. And it wasn't immediately obvious why.

There were terrible mood swings and feelings of utter helplessness over the following weeks. I was lucky to have supportive friends and family around me.

Eventually I went back to the doctor who I urged to look at the side effects - this was, of course, before the days of being able to use the internet to do heaps of self-diagnosis and share scare stories. The GP told asked whether I'd ever suffered from depression, which I hadn't. He told me to stop taking the Lariam immediately.
Gradually the side effects seemed to subside. And after a further six weeks or so, I had got back to college and got back to life as before. It was such a relief.

 

[|2 /-\ | /|/]

How did a thread about lucid dreaming turn into a thread about supernatural telepathy?

I can count on one hand the number of times I've been aware I was dreaming while dreaming. And yes, you can direct the dream. It's difficult to maintain that level of perception though. Most often I wake up fairly quickly after making that insight or slip back into unconscious dreaming.

They are connected as sometimes they allow us to reach a higher dimension through dreams and connect and communicate with one another though a spiritual connection.

By definition A lucid dream is any dream during which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming. So.e people take it further and connect with the spiritual world being aware through a lucid state.

Eventually humans will be able to communicate through a sort of telepathy through evolution like dolphins communicate though sonar especially since it happens so often and yes a lot of cases are subconscious. Maybe our brains do this subconsciously with only a few that are aware of it. I always pick up on it after the fact and never was able to do it conscious.

Don't limit a discussion because it it outside your box and realm of thinking. I have proof of this just like jcpro's example, however no sense in trying to prove to people. As long as we are convinced through repeated evidence is all that matters in the end.

I believe that dreams help us connect with the spiritual world and others and maybe even communicate with ourselves through time :hippie:

It is proven that there are more dimensions then 4, so what is to stop someone from traveling through time through a spiritual state. Matter is energy, energy is the spirit, it is what drives us. Energy can become matter just like matter can become energy. We are in constant endless motion and transformation.

Someone please pass a dutchie....

 

[**Sophie**]

You are blessed, I hope you know that

I have lucid dreamt many times but have just became aware that it has a name. It is a skill you can use it to explore the boundaries of your own agency and the limits of the universe

A lucid dream is any dream during which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming. During lucid dreaming, the dreamer be able to exert some degree of control over the dream characters, narrative, and environment

 

[bishop]

I have had lucid dreaming a few times in my life. Each time I realize it is a dream I get anxious because I do not want it to end, and because of that the dreams ends quickly. I always know my time is limited so I always ended up flying, seems the best use of the short time I have. It is really enjoyable.

 

[MissCroft]

I have had lucid dreaming a few times in my life. Each time I realize it is a dream I get anxious because I do not want it to end, and because of that the dreams ends quickly. I always know my time is limited so I always ended up flying, seems the best use of the short time I have. It is really enjoyable.

I find that even though I'll know I'm dreaming, I am still not able to control what happens in the dream. I am aware but still have no control. They say that takes practice.

If I am having a bad dream/nightmare I will tell myself not to worry and that it's just a dream and I'll try really hard to wake up saying "open your eyes, open your eyes" but it's difficult for me to do so.

 

[Big Rig]

 

[AK-47]

http://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_ss...+projection&sprefix=astral+pro,stripbooks,165