Have any of you had a lucid dream -- one in which you are aware you are dreaming?

Did anyone have repeated lucid dreams or were able to induce a lucid dream... Asked by Thannisan 51 months ago Similar questions: lucid dream aware dreaming Science > Psychology.

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Yes I can't remember too much of it as it was when I was quite young... I was in some desert type place and I was going to be beheaded. I was asked if I had any last wishes and I replied that I didn't because it was only a dream. The person asking at me laughed at me and tried to convince me it was real but I kept insisting that it wasn't.

Eventually I don't think I was beheaded (or that it got close to that) and I woke up. A friend of mine has semi lucid dreams where he flies... he knows he's dreaming because he's always at the top of some crazy rock place that he would have never climbed to. At that point he realizes that it can't be real so he decides to fly... of course, this is just what he's told me, and he is a bit arrogant, so maybe he's making it all up?.

Yes, but... I’ve had many lucid dreams. Usually when I have one the first thing I do is try to fly (or look around for attractive women). Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.

The problem is that when you’re awake enough to realize that you’re dreaming, you’re awfully close to actually waking up. But long ago I read about a technique that works quite well: if you feel as if you’re about to wake up, spin yourself around in your dream. That almost always changes the scene and keeps the dream going.

One time I remember having a remarkably boring lucid dream. I started by looking around for some girls, but there was no one and nothing around. Just because a dream is lucid doesn’t mean you necessarily have total control!

I couldn’t fly, couldn’t do anything - I was just stuck on the street outside my grandmother’s house. I wanted to wake up, because there was nothing to do - but I couldn’t. I remembered the old story that if you die in a dream, you wake up.So I went out to the street and put my head on the pavement.

I was hoping for a car to come by, drive over my head, and wake me up. But there was really nothing going on - not a car to be seen. Eventually I got up and tried to kill myself by running head-first against a nearby telephone pole.

But I couldn’t quite maintain the momentum; I kept pulling back at the last minute, or missing the pole somehow. It was a long, long, boring time before I finally woke up. When I was very young I used to have lucid nightmares.

I’d wake up in terror, fall back asleep, and the nightmare would resume. Eventually I read somewhere that drinking a glass of water when you’re woken up from a nightmare makes it very likely that the nightmare won’t continue. That worked well for me.

Of course, it’s also a good idea to go to the bathroom if you need to, when you wake up from a nightmare (lucid or not). There are techniques and products sold to increase your ability to attain lucid dreaming. I’ve thought about them, but somehow the idea of putting so much effort and money into constructing a fantasy world seems wrong.

I’ll admit that that’s ironic, since I play roleplaying games for fun, but that’s how I feel (and at least RPGs are social, unlike dreaming). I enjoy lucid dreams when they come, and maybe when I’m older I’ll try to make them happen, but for now I’ll live my life for the times that I’m awake. Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream -%3EPeter's Recommendations Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming Amazon List Price: $19.00 Used from: $9.95 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 54 reviews) Lucid Dreamer Amazon List Price: $22.50 Used from: $8.20 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 12 reviews) I haven't read these (nor any books about lucid dreaming), but these are the most popular ones with Amazon's users.

Yes every now and then It is almost always triggered by a dream that is so terrifying to me that I have trouble coping with it. In a couple of those instances I am able to think in-dream, "wait a minute, this is just a dream. This isn't really happening, and I don't have to XXXXXX if I don't want to".

And I'm able to take an action or two to remove myself from the scary scenario and move into a more neutral, comforting area. Usually this only lasts for a "dream minute" or two. And then I wake up for real.It happens maybe once a year or so on average.

I've never been able to intentionally induce one though. They just happen. PenguinSage's Recommendations Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming Amazon List Price: $19.00 Used from: $9.95 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 54 reviews) .

The tumbleweed dream. I have been dreaming this same dream as long as I can remember; I know I dreamed it as a young child, and it's never really changed. I'm standing in the middle of a vast, flat landscape (not an unusual beginning for someone who grew up in the pancake-land of the Texas Panhandle, believe me).

There is nothing to break the landscape in any direction as far as the eye can see; it's just an endless expanse of scrub flats out to the horizon. Suddenly, from out of the distance to my right, I see a large tumbleweed bouncing along across the land. It's not heading in my direction, just moving along from right to left.

Before it reaches the mid-point of the landscape, a few more tumbleweeds appear and roll along right behind the first. The longer the dream continues, the more tumbleweeds there are rolling by in front of me. They're sort of in the middle distance--not remote, but not threatening me in any way.

If the dream continues long enough, I see a virtual wall of tumbleweeds clogging the landscape all across my range of vision. Now the weird thing is, while I used to find this dream terrifying, these days it's almost the same as "sleep. " I expect it.

I have the dream maybe 3 times a week. It never varies, I never get hurt, and there's never any progression, at least none that I can remember. A damned boring dream, when you get right down to it, although that thought never occurs to me in the dream.

I have become cognizant of the fact that "oh, here's the tumbleweed dream again," but it doesn't wake me up or send me running after something slightly more exciting to dream about. After all these years, I can almost give names to the tumbleweeds. I never move in the dream; I just stay rooted to one spot, watching that steady buildup of tumbleweeds rolling along.

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Yes, fairly frequently, in fact... And I've found that if I don't like the way the dream is going, I can somehow re-direct it. I sort of partially wake up and think it in a direction then go back to sleep. Very interesting, especially the feeling of both being part of what was going on in the dream AND feeling like I was drifting over or around what was happening, watching, at the same time.

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