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How to control your dreams-Lucid dreaming ;Share your experiences!!

Hello Flood. Since this is rather old and split up due to the new posting structure- i have made a lovely pastebin for the guide which has updated sections and small changes to make it more pleasant to read. [url=http://pastebin.com/J0kkWq4v]Enjoy everyone[/url] [b]edit[/b]Sorry for the mass of grammar mistakes that occur below, I have yet to had a time to re-type this guide in a grammar friendly way. For the record this guide was made in February of 2011[b]edit[/b] Before you post hateful comments saying it isn't possible it is. [b]IT IS POSSIBLE TO CONTROL YOUR DREAMS [/b] This is a phenomenon called lucid dreaming and I have recently in the past week or so discovered this and had multiple experiences. A lucid dream is where you realise in your dream that you are dreaming and this can lead to you being able to do anything, your wildest fantasies including ,ahem ahem, If you wish to experience one or multiple of these dreams you will need dedication and want to perform a dream, I will list in short form beneath what is needed to be done to achieve LUCIDITY 1. HOW YOU SEE THE WORLD The first step is psychological and very important. You need to believe you can perform these dreams and you need to believe that the world around you could be a dream or not. You need to start to think of yourself as having a real body and a dream body that is a reflection of you (I imagine a coin on one side is the world as it is and the other my dreamscape) 2. DREAM RECALL You will need to improve your dream recall as if you have a dream that's lucid but forget it whets the point. To do this you will need to create a dream diary or log, this will be somewhere for you to record your dreams near your bed [u]immediately[/u] after waking. To successfully create this diary you will need to when you wake have the first thought you have to be 'what did I dream' this will lead you into the phase or mind where you remember what you did, you will remember backwards. Once you have successfully remembered key points jot them in your diary before you forget. Looking back upon your diary at a later stage will enable you to remember dreams and bring them back which in turn allows you to remember dreams better. . Example (exert from my diary)- I was running, there was a red wall, as I went to climb it the COD icon for climbing appeared, I am in a dream I thought, the world span around, (I now wake up) 3. REALITY CHECKS This is the largest step towards receiving your fist lucid dream. Every hour you will need to perform two of these or alternatively whenever things seem odd, (or even better do both), until you get into a habit of doing these, this is important as these cause you to realise you are dreaming and cause your conscience to kick in while your body is sleeping. CHECK 1- Try and push your fingers through your hand in a dream they should go strait through CHECK 2- if you wear a watch look at it turn away for a few seconds then look again as in a dream the time will of completely changed or gone fuzzy. CHECK 3-hold your nose and close your mouth then try to breathe, in a dream you can even if u block off airways (I should know this caused my first lucid dream) CHECK 4- if you have text infront of you looks at it then look back much like the watch or is the letters fuzzy or unreadable in a dream they often are. 4. WAKE UP GO BACK TO BED This is a technique I used to get my memory better for recalling. When you sleep you go into cycles of different strengths. Every 90mins you enter one where you are in REM (rapid eye movement) this is the stage where you have lucid dreams. Set an alarm, not radio, to wake you up 4 1/2 hours after you sleep this will be your strongest REM cycle. Remember your dream and fill your diary. Wait an hour (read or do anything before returning to sleep) when falling asleep picture in your head your last dream and you might feel like you are getting closer to it, you may of now entered a lucid dream. 5. PLANT IT INTO YOUR MIND It has been proven the more you think about wanting lucid dreams the more your subconscious (the part of your brain where you dream) will realise it should create them. This will help you get a lucid dream as if you want one you can get one. [u]warning if you want it too much you may have a negative effect, play it cool[/u] 6. REPETITION Before you fall asleep think to yourself, I will remember my dreams, or I will have a lucid dream (once you can remember them. think these when you are dozing off, just repeat them until you physically fall asleep. (Note. if u are experienced at how to get lucid dreams you can choose what its like by saying, I will dream about-what you want-) [b]ONCE YOU HAVE A LUCID DREAM [/b] Once you realise you are dreaming then be careful not to get too excited as this will cause you to wake up. In a lucid dream play it cool you can cheer after you record it in your diary upon waking. If you feel the dream fading then spin around as fast as possible on the spot and shout, I want more clarity, this triggers your subconscious into reiterating your dream, repeat this when you might wake [u]you are the limit[/u] you can do many things in your dream, perform magic, seduce your love or play halo without armour lock ;) you just got to believe you can do it, the moment you doubt you can do it is the moment your cant and this often leads to awaking [u]this is the way I got to lucid dream I hope it works for you if you want more detail please research more although I have placed the best techniques I have found[/u] WHEN YOU DO GET A LUCID DREAM DONT BE DISGRUNTLED WHEN YOU WAKE UP, YOU HAVE TO EVENTUALLY, LONGER DREAMS COME WITH TIME AND PRACTICE REMEMBER THERES ALWAYS NEXT NIGHT. [b]NOTES[/b] 1. It takes various lengths of time to get into a few dreams it took me a couple of weeks it can take months, don't give up keep trying LICUD DREAMS ARE WORTH IT 2.If you wake up you might not be able to move muscles for a bit, this is sleep paralysis, where you body stops you moving your real body by locking itself like a safe, wait or fall back to sleep and you will come to normal. 3. Believe in yourself, the only barrier is YOU 4. There is no harm from lucid dreams, but if you are having a stressed life you will have less lucid dreams, 5. If you're worried about a presentation or something, practice I in your dreamscape. 6. DO NOT MOVE WHEN YOU AWAKE, AS YOU WILL STIMULATE THE BRAIN CAUSING YOU TO FORGET TOUR DREAM. 7.follow these steps and you should in time enjoy a wonderful world. 8. Dieing in lucid dreams don't kill u in real life, its not real just a world created by your conscious to sort out random bits of information Please record your thoughts or amazing dreams you've had This is truly amazing and should be shared among everyone P.s tell people you know about your dreams this will hit home telling your brain you are determined to have these lucid dreams p.p.s sleep paralysis is a very rare and uncommon thing if it happens just swallow as this will cause your brain to restart its motor neurones and this will unlock your muscles p.p.p.s-yes inception did make a movie on this but I have been lucid since way before so have millions of people, I decided it would be nice to help others have these awesome dreams TLDR: follow the bullet points if you want to be aware you are dreaming and to fulfil your fantasies. Don't give up. And when you do get lucid dreams continue these techniques for more. [b]edit[/b] Title edited to prevent a seizure from the lack of grammar and use of capitals.[b]end of edit[/b] [Edited on 08.17.2012 10:29 AM PDT]
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  • After following these guidelines for a while I've had a few lucid dreams, but they've usually ended right after I realize I'm dreaming. However, two nights ago I had one that I had time to manipulate before waking up. It started with me at an ICP concert (I don't know why, I'm not even a fan), and I'm surrounded by juggalos. For some reason I want to get out, so I run through a nearby cave. It turns out the cave makes a u-turn and I end up on the other side of the concert. I then see a huge [url=http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120513001251/wolfenstein/es/images/f/f4/Cyberdemon.png]Cyberdemon[/url] marching towards me, so I hop over a nearby fence and run through some woods. When I look behind me and see that the Cyberdemon didn't notice me, I realize that I'm dreaming. I continue to run through the woods until they end, and then I run up a hill. At the top of the hill there's a ranch with a blanket of snow covering it. I see the sun setting in the distance, and when it completely recedes behind the horizon I make it reappear. Then for some reason I made a car appear near me. Seeing no use for it, I decided to teleport into a spaceship. After doing this I began to worry that I would get too excited and wake up, so I imagined the ranch again and teleported there. Then I woke up anyway. :( It wasn't very eventful, but I thought I would share my experience here anyway. I hope to have more exciting lucid dreams in the future.

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  • I really need to try this.

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  • Okay i think i had my first ever one last night. Not trying to it just randomly happened, it was the most realistic dream i've ever had. Was lying on my bench and though i should go to toilet, so i blinked and when i opened my eyes i was in the bathroom, i thought i just blacked out. It felt very wierd and it was very dark, i thought it might be a dream so i felt the brackets on the walls and the window sill to see if it was real, and it felt very real, i then slumped down against the wall and felt real dizzy, i then thought to myself if the toilet isnt in the right place then its a dream, so i had a look, and it was on the opposite side of the room. I felt very very shocked and woke up in my bed 0_0 All the things i could have done, all the places i could have been, all the things i could have been, i could have even had a freakin girlfriend. And i dreamed i was dizzy in the bathroom...

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  • Just recently i was able to put myself purposefully into a state of sleep peralisis. I layed perfectly motionless for 2 hours just thinking waiting for my body to loose any and all feelings. When i finally thought i had it and tried to move... I got no answer. Over the next 20 minutes as my brain restarted whatever bits are necessary for movement it was the best physical sensation i have yet to experience in my 18 years of life. like someone letting fresh air into a dead room or the life returning to a dead body... [Edited on 09.08.2012 12:17 AM PDT]

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  • Sometimes I really wish that I could plug a DRD (Dream Recording Device) into my head at night and review the contents as if they've been caught on a camera. There are so many interesting things that I see in exact detail that fade to a blur by the time I awake; so many interesting ideas that I could've used and events that I could re-experience. Heck, I bet it could possibly be an entirely new type of filmmaking, too. Imagine making a movie that doesn't require any actors nor a budget but stems from your own imagination while you're asleep. I dunno, I just wish that dreams could be like those home movies shot while I was growing up; something I could look back upon to see what I'd gone through in the past. But like time, I suppose, it moves on. What dream records I keep only give me so much of an idea of what the dreams were like.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Heyitsyou Would reading your OP over and over again help with this?[/quote] Yes it would. That's because normally reading over this would enter your short term memory and only 5% would be remembered. However if you read it more often there is a higher chance of the memory being encoded instead of being stored purely in short term-which only lasts approxiametely 18 seconds. If you do encode it into long term memory you will have a chance of dreaming about this as your brain will try to collate the information in dreams, leading to a chance of it appearing.

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  • Would reading your OP over and over again help with this?

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] WhaleFair [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] LSU FAN 360 You cant completely control your dreams like inception, Its more like a film reel than free will[/quote][/quote] Nope it is full control.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] LSU FAN 360 You cant completely control your dreams like inception, Its more like a film reel than free will[/quote]

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  • This is pretty awesome

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  • I think i seem more awake in my dreams recently, havent tried any methods or anything. I automatically remember my dreams, i hardly dream at all, maybe 1 every week and a half if that :/

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  • I've seen what would happen if I was granted unlimited power.

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  • Well my dream trip was quite the fun... What had happen was someone was following me, and everywhere that I went that person was there, so I eventually confronted that person, asked them why they were following me, and they told me that.. well they didn't say anything, words never came out. I then realized that I was dreaming and dismissed this man, by shooting him to the moon. I got a cinematic side view of him flying towards it. I started flying around, looking at places, keeping my cool, then suddenly, my dream altered the world, I became a little confused, I had this fear, that I was going to fall, I started falling, and then woke... Well I thought I did, I was just in another dream, and my friend came in to my room, but I payed no attention to him, because my mirror on my wall wouldn't show my reflection, and when I touched it, you could see a scary burnt hand, I broke the mirror and then it changed to a person, then I was aware again, and turned my room to a building that I saw in a movie that I had watched, and started exploring it. There were so many faces that were clear, it was almost like that I wasn't dreaming, I could hear people talking, music, traffic outside the window. I thought of weapons lots of swords, and I thought of zombies, then a massacre went on... It was fun, until I went into sleep paralysis. End of crap, that happened, but yeah, I am poo.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Tempus Irae I actually had one of these last night, but I probably wouldn't have realized I was dreaming if it wasn't for the fact somebody was wearing this [i]ridiculous[/i] hat. When I told them that this was a dream their eyes got kinda dead. Then I turned the hat into a sailor hat, and woke up.[/quote] Nice hat related dream. Good thing to notice, most people would just ignore it.

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  • I actually had one of these last night, but I probably wouldn't have realized I was dreaming if it wasn't for the fact somebody was wearing this [i]ridiculous[/i] hat. When I told them that this was a dream their eyes got kinda dead. Then I turned the hat into a sailor hat, and woke up.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bouncy potatoe Sorry if this has already been asked but can you use dreams you remember from like a year ago? I have great memory so i can remember them vividly.[/quote] Once lucid you can do literally anything. So if you remember it vividly you could re-enact it or make it better. I don't think it would work for dream recall though as i'd recommend using newer dreams to improve memory.

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  • Sorry if this has already been asked but can you use dreams you remember from like a year ago? I have great memory so i can remember them vividly.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TwistedDippy666 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Pukkarant [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TwistedDippy666 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MASTERMIND416 Suggestion, PLEASE REVISE YOUR SPELLING. It irks me on a completely other degree.[/quote] I will sort out the grammar spelling later, seeing as the OP was typed up about a year and a half ago i still haven't got around to it. [/quote] Why not copy and paste into word?[/quote] Funnily enough i did and its saved into word. Slight problem in the fact it always says innapropriate characters or something along those lines. "Contains characters that arent allowed". If anyone had a way to solve this it'd be appreciated.[/quote] There is an add-on you can download for firefox that purges all extended characters. However, afterwards you would need to go through the text and check to make sure it still makes sense. Plus, both firefox and chrome have built in spell checkers. However, for firefox you will need to download the dictionary for it to actually work. You can get this from the firefox addons site. A quick google search for firefox addons will take you straight to it.[/quote] Thanks, i found a website converter for the text. Have you tried lucid dreaming yet? How's it going?

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TwistedDippy666 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Pukkarant [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TwistedDippy666 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MASTERMIND416 Suggestion, PLEASE REVISE YOUR SPELLING. It irks me on a completely other degree.[/quote] I will sort out the grammar spelling later, seeing as the OP was typed up about a year and a half ago i still haven't got around to it. [/quote] Why not copy and paste into word?[/quote] Funnily enough i did and its saved into word. Slight problem in the fact it always says innapropriate characters or something along those lines. "Contains characters that arent allowed". If anyone had a way to solve this it'd be appreciated.[/quote] There is an add-on you can download for firefox that purges all extended characters. However, afterwards you would need to go through the text and check to make sure it still makes sense. Plus, both firefox and chrome have built in spell checkers. However, for firefox you will need to download the dictionary for it to actually work. You can get this from the firefox addons site. A quick google search for firefox addons will take you straight to it.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Pukkarant [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TwistedDippy666 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MASTERMIND416 Suggestion, PLEASE REVISE YOUR SPELLING. It irks me on a completely other degree.[/quote] I will sort out the grammar spelling later, seeing as the OP was typed up about a year and a half ago i still haven't got around to it. [/quote] Why not copy and paste into word?[/quote] Funnily enough i did and its saved into word. Slight problem in the fact it always says innapropriate characters or something along those lines. "Contains characters that arent allowed". If anyone had a way to solve this it'd be appreciated.

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TwistedDippy666 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MASTERMIND416 Suggestion, PLEASE REVISE YOUR SPELLING. It irks me on a completely other degree.[/quote] I will sort out the grammar spelling later, seeing as the OP was typed up about a year and a half ago i still haven't got around to it. [/quote] Why not copy and paste into word?

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MASTERMIND416 Suggestion, PLEASE REVISE YOUR SPELLING. It irks me on a completely other degree.[/quote] I will sort out the grammar spelling later, seeing as the OP was typed up about a year and a half ago i still haven't got around to it.

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  • Suggestion, PLEASE REVISE YOUR SPELLING. It irks me on a completely other degree.

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  • I'm definitely going to be trying this now. I totally forgot about this thread.

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  • After trying for about a few months now, I've always been able to realize I was in a dream, but I would usually wake up immediately. Last night I realized I was awake, and immediately started spinning, which somehow kept me in the dream state for longer. I woke up right after I stopped spinning, but quickly fell back asleep. Then, I entered a semi-lucid dream. I did not create the environment, but I recognized it as from another dream in my childhood. I was able to create a staircase and a door, and from there things got weird. I don't know if I did it on purpose, but I'm sure I did, since I've always wanted to have a nightmare that scared me. The door disappeared, but the doorway remained. Out from it crawled Slender Man (why I chose him, I don't know why, but it was probably the first thing that came to mind). He grabbed my leg and pulled me into the abyss, where I awoke. It was my first time actually controlling aspects of my dream, and it was awesome.

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  • Haha, this is truly amazing. I have tried for a week now, and finally, finally got one of these magnificent things to work. I find that the constant reality checks can help, get into a habit of doing them and eventually you will do them in the dream. My first dream was somewhat disappointing however. I remember I was down the street from my house, which I first thought was strange because I barely leave the house, I walk forward and then suddenly feel heavier, and realise I am wearing a suit of armour, at this point I realised I was dreaming. I then thought to myself, that the first thing to do, was to meet a character from a fictional universe, so I close my eyes, and being the zelda fan I am I somewhat blame my subconscious, appear on a platform by the windfish, he says some part of his speech, namely, verily it be the nature of all dreams to end, now let us awaken together, and the water came, and I awoke sadly. Still I am now trying for my second one.

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