Do you dream realistic dreams (Lucid Dreams)?

[FierceFeli.]

First of all, What is it? (source Wikipedia):

A lucid dream is a dream in which the person is aware that he or she is dreaming while the dream is in progress, also known as a conscious dream. When the dreamer is lucid, he or she can actively participate in the dream environment without any of the limitations that otherwise would feel natural to persons who incorrectly believe they are in the "real" waking world. Lucid dreams can be extremely real and vivid depending on a person's level of self-awareness during the lucid dream.

I dream theese kind of dreams every night, I feel physical pain in the dream and I am able to control them while I sleep. Pretty fun to have my own dreamworld in one way. You can meet anyone you like and do whatever you want. No limitations. My favourite thing to do in my dreams is to fly.

Do you have realistic/lcid/controllable dreams? And what is your favourite thing do dream of/do as you are dreaming?

[Finvarra]

I had a Lucid Dream the other night.
I Got a thorne in my finger.
When I woke up my finger was pulsating.
;o.o
It kinda scared me.

[Amray The II]

Do wet dreams count? Or do they go into a whole different catergorie? They feel real enough.

[SSDynamite]

Ohh I do that I think. I'm totally aware that it's a dream but I still can't wake up :/ it's dodgy.

[Happi Giraffe!]

Yes, i got one a while ago. I remember thinking, "oh, i'm in a dream" and spent the rest of that dream trying to wake up.

[Mmmmmmmmmm]

Do wet dreams count? Or do they go into a whole different catergorie? They feel real enough.

So true. And my dreams are about as real as Harry Potter.

[DeeviousDemon]

haha had the worst dream ever....last night...haha..broke up with my boyfriend...and woke up feelin grumpy and blue!!! lolol yea i didnt really break up with him... >_<

[Eris]

It happens every now and then, though I largely prefer the garbled nonsense I normally dream.

[Music Fiend]

i have them almost everynight. it's scary how realistic my dreams are.

like, last night, i drempt i was at work with Selena. At work, i like to hang out with her and the other girls in the corner, listening to them gossip..or one will end up hitting on me. so, the fact that i was over there with her in the dream didn't help in any attempt to discern it from reality. only, we were alone. and she puts her hands at my cheeks, and we start making out. she breaks the kiss to say, "tell me if anyone comes". and continues. my eyes are darting and i am amazed that i like it and her so much.

but then..my mind tells me, and knows, that it's a dream. while i am still dreaming, eyes closed. and i mumble an expletive, and try to fall asleep again. fail. that's how it always is. xD

i've had a few dreams about people on AF that have seemed real.

i have good things happen to me in dreams, and then my mind breaks the new..and i curse for the life of me. it sucks.

[Amray The II]

I remember once having a dream which I knew was a dream. I wanted to wake up but I couldn't. Very realistic. I kept thinking "wake up, wake up" but it was hopeless. Then I opened my eyes and thought "Finally!" only to realise that I was in a school which I had never been in before and thought...."Ah crap!!! I'm still in one!" After that at one point I even tried flying out of my dream on a little peddled helicopter that I spent about 2 seconds building. I did manage to wake up in the end..(obviously)

[Diocletian]

Anpanman.I'm gay for Anpanman.I sleep the episodes.IT is such a cute creature.ANPANMAN!


SWEET BEAN PASTE MAN!

[xcloudxstrifex]

I have had one of those before it's awesome!

[~*Layla*~]

I had this one dream that I was getting chased around the city by a killer! And the killer was my own brother but when he was about to kill me I woke up!
Scary dream! O_O

[Monstuurrrr]

OH MY GOD IS THAT WHAT THEY'RE CALLED!? Duuuude!! I love having dreams likes those!! I try to take advantage and think something in my head like a really nice car, then it just pops out of nowhere! So cool! It's like I'm playing God by making things appear as I want them, I sometimes say "J-Lo" and next thing I know I'm totally making out with J-Lo!! It's so realistic, I can feel like it's all real and it's crazy!! Then there are the times where I feel pain in my dreams and it feels pretty realistic which is also crazy.. But the sad thing is, when I have those dreams and I realize it I tend to wake up like right away! It sucks because I know I'm in a dream so I want to keep dreaming, but for some reason I just wake up most of the time, maybe it's because I close my eyes and try to imagine something and that what wakes me up, I don't know, but next time I have a lucid dream, I'll try to keep my eyes open and not close them in my dream. d=P Then think of making out with some hawt celebrity chick. Haha, I'm a dude, can't blame me. ;D

[wolfgirl90]

Most people don't have lucid dreams all the time. But there are things that one can do to increase your chances of having a lucid dream and prolonging the amount of time that you spend in that state.

To increase your chances of having a lucid dream, you can write your dreams down in a journal. I do this everyday. I actually didn't start doing this to have lucid dreams (I do this to recall any Otherworldly messages that are often sent in dreams...its a Wiccan thing) but I noticed that the side effect of doing so increased the amount of lucid dreams that I had. Recalling your dreams helps you and your mind become aware of the dreams that you are having and allows you to gain more control of them.

To prolong your lucid dreams (which seems to be a problem for some of you), the first thing you can do is to not get excited about it. If you go "Oh my God, I'm lucid!!", then your brain is going to sense this excitement and you are going to wake up. This may seem hard, but when you realize that you are lucid, try to calm down. Then, try to grab something, hold on to it and imagine the sensation you should feel. This allows your dream to become more vivid without shocking your brain (you are "tricking" your brain into believing that you are "awake").

Kajiwara, what you were experiencing was a special type of lucid dream (actually, semi-lucid dream) called "false awakening", where a person dreams that they have awoken, only to end up dreaming again. The body is usually at a very heightened state and dreams can be very vivid to the point that you can have heightened reactions in your dream.

False awakenings can help you get lucid dreams but they can also dampen your chances at the same time. You can help if you give yourself a "reality check" (checking to see if you are in a dream) every time you wake up so that you will do the same thing in your sleep (and therefore become lucid each time). They hurt your chances because you lose awareness of dreaming during a false awakening, as you believe that you are now awake but you are not. You may be in control but you do not realize that you are dreaming (that's way these dreams are usually "semi-lucid").

[Haoie]

^ She has the right idea.

Anyway, those dreams are a nice chance to work out unresolved issues.

[Varcertez]

When ever I fall asleep and dream, I am aware that I am asleep and in my
bed. But at the same time I never feel any motivation to do anything within
my dream. If something starts to happen, I'll just follow along with it no
matter what might happen (a couple of times I have been faced with an
impending doom of some sort).

Then there are also the times when nothing will happen at all. I remember
once where all I did was sit in a wooden chair in an empty room, constantly
staring out of a single small window that showed me a twilight sky.

I also feel compelled to quote Lovecraft for whatever reason...

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"When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of Spring's flowering meads; when learning stripped Earth of her mantle of beauty, and poets sang no more save of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward-looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone away for ever, there was a man who traveled out of life on a quest into the spaces whither the world's dreams had fled.

Of the name and abode of this man little is written, for they were of the waking world only; yet it is said that both were obscure. It is enough to know that he dwelt in a city of high walls where sterile twilight reigned, and that he toiled all day among shadow and turmoil, coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not on the fields and groves but on a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair. From that casement one might see only walls and windows, except sometimes when one leaned out and peered aloft at the small stars that passed. And because mere walls and windows must soon drive to madness a man who dreams and reads much, the dweller in that room used night after night to lean out and peer aloft to glimpse some fragment of things beyond the waking world and the greyness of tall cities. After years he began to call the slow sailing stars by name, and to follow them in fancy when they glided regretfully out of sight; till at length his vision opened to many secret vistas whose existence no common eye suspects. And one night a mighty gulf was bridged, and the dream-haunted skies swelled down to the lonely watcher's window to merge with the close air of his room and make him a part of their fabulous wonder.

There came to that room wild streams of violet midnight glittering with dust of gold; vortices of dust and fire, swirling out of the ultimate spaces and heavy with perfumes from beyond the worlds. Opiate oceans poured there, litten by suns that the eye may never behold and having in their whirlpools strange dolphins and seanymphs of unrememberable deeps. Noiseless infinity eddied around the dreamer and wafted him away without even touching the body that leaned stiffly from the lonely window; and for days not counted in men's calendars the tides of far spheres bore him gently to join the dreams for which he longed; the dreams that men have lost. And in the course of many cycles they tenderly left him sleeping on a green sunrise shore; a green shore fragrant with lotus-blossoms and starred by red camalates...."

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Wow.. long post >.<

[Mysti Queen]

I don't always have lucid dreams, but I've had a couple. Most of them were too cute. Like, I've dreamt before about being with someone that I love and I can actually feel him touching me. It's so weird. I've also had a dream were I was stabbed and I felt pain in my side.

One time, I also had a dream that I was fighting someone and I fell into a pool and I was drowning. I actually felt like I was drowning and I felt like I was going to die. But then in my dream, one of my cousins came and pulled me out of the water.

Those dreams can be kind of scary if they get out of hand, but if I can control them, then they can be the greatest thing. You can meet anyone, real or not, alive or not, and live out your fantasies. I love it. <3

[wolfgirl90]

I don't always have lucid dreams, but I've had a couple. Most of them were too cute. Like, I've dreamt before about being with someone that I love and I can actually feel him touching me. It's so weird. I've also had a dream were I was stabbed and I felt pain in my side.

One time, I also had a dream that I was fighting someone and I fell into a pool and I was drowning. I actually felt like I was drowning and I felt like I was going to die. But then in my dream, one of my cousins came and pulled me out of the water.

Those dreams can be kind of scary if they get out of hand, but if I can control them, then they can be the greatest thing. You can meet anyone, real or not, alive or not, and live out your fantasies. I love it. <3

Those dreams are not quite lucid, as you were not in control of the actions that happened to but they were semi-lucid. However, even semi-lucid dreams can be very vivid and realistic and having these means that you are actually close to having fully lucid dreams.

The weird thing is that our brains accept everything that we see, even in dreams, as real. Even if you dream about horses flying around during a chocolate rainstorm, your brain will interpret this as being real. If you are in deep sleep (to the point of being semi-lucid or more), the sensations you experience in your dream can feel as if they are actually happening to you. That is why you can sometimes feel the touch of another person or the pain of being injured in your dreams. Your brain basically has no choice but to accept what is happing to you as being real as a survival mechanism and will send sensations accordingly (it would be really bad if your brain had to decide whether or not you were actually being stabbed in real life or if its a dream!).

[stop_rewind]

I love lucid dreaming! Being in charge of everything that happens in your dreams, the possibilities are endless. Very good for problem solving things in real life by simulating it in your own little dream world!

[Mysti Queen]

Those dreams are not quite lucid, as you were not in control of the actions that happened to but they were semi-lucid. However, even semi-lucid dreams can be very vivid and realistic and having these means that you are actually close to having fully lucid dreams.

The weird thing is that our brains accept everything that we see, even in dreams, as real. Even if you dream about horses flying around during a chocolate rainstorm, your brain will interpret this as being real. If you are in deep sleep (to the point of being semi-lucid or more), the sensations you experience in your dream can feel as if they are actually happening to you. That is why you can sometimes feel the touch of another person or the pain of being injured in your dreams. Your brain basically has no choice but to accept what is happing to you as being real as a survival mechanism and will send sensations accordingly (it would be really bad if your brain had to decide whether or not you were actually being stabbed in real life or if its a dream!).

Yeah, it's semi-lucid. It's like in some parts, I can control what's happening. In other parts of the same dream, I can't. I really hate it when I want to run in my dreams but I can't move. It's so annoying. Maybe I'll try to have a lucid dream tonight. Though sometimes so many things happen in dreams that it's hard to control what I think even sometimes. I remember once in my dreams knowning that I was dreaming. But I didn't do anything and my dream ended pretty much at that part.

[Alicaryn Silentread]

I don't think I've ever had a lucid dream, but I'm aware of talking in my sleep and have even woke up talking aloud.

I do however have these dreams of everyday normal life, and then it actually happens in the future. Its not extravagant or like "omg i can c da future. :B" but I'll remember dreaming that a friend of mine said this sentence at this place and when it happens I'll have that good ol' Deja Vu feeling. But the dreams are very vivid even if they haven't ever happened before. o_o; It's slightly creepy when I finish my friends sentences or find myself giving the exact same response I gave to them in the dream. x.x;

(Sorry if that sounds complicated rofl.)

[kleyrxD]

yes. but not always...i mostly dream about me running to somebody i dont really know..

[███]

I can't recall having a dream that wasn't lucid.

[zorarock]

(Thanx wolfgirl90 I needed to know how to stay asleep)
Ya I had one but it faded when I realized it. I've also had ones where I don't relize it till I wake up then I'm like DANG!! I could of controlled that!!!!