Drug induced lucid extended dreaming.

[Cainkane1]

Ok we all dream. I read once where a man was giving a lecture on Anthony Burgess when he had a stroke and he dreamed he had gone back to Vietnam, he dreamed there was a place where people walked into a room white and came out black and cows that gave blue milk.

I once had a lithatripsy and I took roxicet for pain. I drempt that aliens had landed and that the aliens were trying to blend in with humans. I was scared but was told that the aliens efforts to blend in were absurd that they were not dangerous and that they seemed harmless. I einde this dream with a snow white alien child in my lap. The child had black unblinking eyes and a round black mouth. No nose. He felt like a bag of feathers and I felt sorry for it. I was telling him and the adult aliens that they would become celebrities and that we were glad they were here.

Good dream. Anyone else have a similar experience?

 

[quarky]

I would never take a drug, even for major surgery.

 

[Tony]

Was this really a lucid dream? Did you control what happened in the dream? Were you aware that you were dreaming?

 

[Gate2501]

I normally wake up 5 or 6 times in the 9ish hours I spend in bed every night. I almost always have at least one lucid dreaming hour. When you have a lucid dream, you can control yourself in the dream as if it is real life.

Mine have rules that have been in place since I was a child:

-I can jump super high, but I can't fly.
-If I run with my arms(on all fours), I can go very VERY fast.
-Guns never work, and striking only works half the time. Your best bet is to grab them by the ankles and smack them up against something hard.

I have also noticed that lucid dreaming is quite different from being aware that you are dreaming. When I become aware that I am dreaming, I gain no extra amount of control and quickly awaken.

A technique I use to enter a lucid dream purposefully, is to lay in bed and imagine myself pulling up out of my body into the dream. It really only works in the morning when I have maybe 1-2 hours left in bed, but I can pull myself into the dream version of my bedroom. Unfortunately I almost always go in to the dream knowing that I am dreaming when I use this method. I wake quickly.

ETA: After thinking about it some, I do feel that I am aware that I am dreaming. It starts when I feel like reality isn't quite right. I start to control the dream, and a progression begins that ends with my realizing that is definitely is a dream. That is when I wake up.

 

[ExMinister]

All my lucid dreams happened without drugs.

 

[wasapi]

I've only had a very few lucid dreams, and none on drugs, but they were great and seemed completely in my control. In the dreams I was aware I was dreaming, choose to fly, choose how high, where, what to see, where to land and then when to wake up.

Julia

 

[Cainkane1]

Was this really a lucid dream? Did you control what happened in the dream? Were you aware that you were dreaming?

I was asleep and I couldn't wake up. I was vaguely aware that this was a dream but I had no control of this dream as far as I can tell.

 

[Bikewer]

To my understanding, "lucid" dreaming indicates some knowledge that you are dreaming and some ability to control the dream.
Not just mere clarity or a feeling of reality.

Years back, OMNI magazine did a reader survey on the subject, and found that at least 20% of respondents claimed at least occasional lucid dreaming.
My wife does it, it's when she can't control the dream that she experiences "nightmares".

 

[TubbaBlubba]

-I can jump super high, but I can't fly./QUOTE]

Really? Interesting, I always found flying easy while lucid dreaming.



I've found it more difficult to make people or things appear in lucid dreams as I've grown older. Don't know why.

 

[ExMinister]

I would never take a drug, even for major surgery.

How about open heart surgery? Amputation of a limb?

 

[Gate2501]

Really? Interesting, I always found flying easy while lucid dreaming.



I've found it more difficult to make people or things appear in lucid dreams as I've grown older. Don't know why.

Interestingly, I was able to fly(sometimes) when I was much younger, jumping has always been my go-to method of moving around though. It is as if the more I experience the lucid dreaming state over the years, the more difficult it becomes to do outrageous things or summon up locations, objects and people.

This might be a really weird thing to mention(and maybe deep down I am some sort of sicko?), but I act really terrible much of the time when lucid dreaming... I go off on sexual conquests with unwilling partners, and violent rampages about town. Hurting/killing people and destroying various buildings and vehicles. I also tend towards more extreme sexual acts that I certainly wouldn't enjoy were it real and I was awake. It is like this almost every time.

Is this something that happens to most people who lucid dream, and they just don't talk about it?

 

[TubbaBlubba]

This might be a really weird thing to mention(and maybe deep down I am some sort of sicko?), but I act really terrible much of the time when lucid dreaming... I go off on sexual conquests with unwilling partners, and violent rampages about town. Hurting/killing people and destroying various buildings and vehicles. I also tend towards more extreme sexual acts that I certainly wouldn't enjoy were it real and I was awake. It is like this almost every time.

Is this something that happens to most people who lucid dream, and they just don't talk about it?

That's exactly what I do while lucid dreaming. I think it's what most people do.

 

[jakesteele]

In my considerable experience with drugged dreams, awareness dreams and actually lucid dreams (in control and can interact, control and consciously respond) I find the three to be fundamentally different.

Drugged dreams are wild and crazy and bizarre but no control, in fact I don't even have conscious awareness in them.

Aware dreams are the ones where I become aware I am dreaming but am pretty much frozen in place with no control. For me, this is where scary nightmares come from.

Lucid dreams come without drugs, full awareness and the ability to consciously create, interact with and control to varying degrees.

There are techniques you can use to induce LDs. Try reading Lucid Dreaming by Steven LeBerge.

 

[Trakar]

-I can jump super high, but I can't fly./QUOTE]

Really? Interesting, I always found flying easy while lucid dreaming.

Same here, though the two are usually related, exaggerated jumping and running are common, the flying comes from "remembering" how not to fall. First you control falling to merely drift down, and then you learn how to miss the ground and fall/drift in different directions,...I know, sounds rough, but it makes sense in dreamland!

 

[Trakar]

That's exactly what I do while lucid dreaming. I think it's what most people do.

Seriously!!?!

Not a part of my dreaming experience at all, lucid or not. But then I have rarely had any dreams that involve sex or violence at all, at least not that I remember. Even my nightmares do not involve graphic violence, they are more sinister and foreboding than anything else.

 

[quarky]

I recommend a drug free lucid dream world.

You could get a 'd.u.i.' over there.

 

[TubbaBlubba]

Seriously!!?!

Not a part of my dreaming experience at all, lucid or not. But then I have rarely had any dreams that involve sex or violence at all, at least not that I remember. Even my nightmares do not involve graphic violence, they are more sinister and foreboding than anything else.

I guess some of us are just more honest to ourselves than others.

 

[ExMinister]

I guess some of us are just more honest to ourselves than others.

Nope. Not part of my dreaming experience either.

I just get demons and creepy dark spirits is all. Sometimes I get haunted houses and spider webs and floating evil faces. I'm sure that's much healthier.

ETA: Too bad I can't blame them on drugs, now that I think about it.

 

[Trakar]

I guess some of us are just more honest to ourselves than others.

If being honest with yourself includes thinking that there's nothing unusual about regularly having aggressively violent dreams about assaulting other people, then I guess that's not a level of "honesty" I've achieved yet.

 

[Trakar]

Nope. Not part of my dreaming experience either.

I just get demons and creepy dark spirits is all. Sometimes I get haunted houses and spider webs and floating evil faces. I'm sure that's much healthier.

ETA: Too bad I can't blame them on drugs, now that I think about it.

About the only "peculiar" dream aspect I ever get are the Doppelgangers, the one's where there are people or animals that look like the one's I know, but they aren't. I get sinister impressions and feelings about their motivations but I can't say that I recall ever having any really bad experiences. I tend to either wake up or realize I'm dreaming and take control of the experience, whenever dreams first start to indicate that they are going dark. but, mostly my dreams are, minor variations of my normal daily routine, often with interesting and enjoyable little twists, but nothing extraordinary.