Lucid Dreaming - Consciousness During Sleep.

OP, have you ever heard of someone waking up in a state of deep dreamless sleep?

There is a "void" that I call when I lucid dream that occurs and I have triggered it when passing through a mirror in a dream believe it or not. When I was younger, mirrors in dreams fascinated me because obviously you can pass through them into a "void" state, which always occurred for me at least when I ran and jumped through a mirror.

Totally fun, and I miss those old explorer days of doing random stuff like that. Now I just buzz around in the dream going "wow, it's a dream." and doing totally unproductive stuff, must be my age.

I was a far better dreamer from 15-24 years of age.
 
Many a year ago while dreaming, the car I was riding in went over a cliff... long way down.
I woke up with feeling of deep sorrow, having said, in the dream, "it's all over now".
And I kinda think that instance cured me of the fear of death.
 
I've been keeping a dream journal for the past two weeks, and I perform "reality checks" every now and then (but not as often as I'm supposed to). So far, no significant progress has been done, other than that I seem to remember my dreams in greater detail, the more I keep track of them. My ability to remember the dream seem to increasse exponentially, which is good, of course.
 
Many a year ago while dreaming, the car I was riding in went over a cliff... long way down.
I woke up with feeling of deep sorrow, having said, in the dream, "it's all over now".
And I kinda think that instance cured me of the fear of death.

I had a very similar dream once. I was a passenger in a car that went over the edge of a bridge, hundreds of feet above the ocean. It was a long way down, and the same thoughts went through my mind.

When we hit bottom, I didn't wake up. Just suffocating blackness for what seemed like a really long time. For while, I wondered if I was really dead.

I think I messed up my "wake up on death" reflex by intentionally riding out several "fatal" scenarios during actual lucid dreams, so now I get to hit bottom in most of my regular dreams too.
 
My favorite is when I'm traveling, and change from one thing to another while in motion.. plane to car to foot..
And on foot, I -glide-! Like on a hoverboard, but just shoes.. uphill, downhill, very fast. I'd love to move like that! :)
But then it becomes slogging through muck and mire... :(
I often have flying dreams, but I'm never flying very high - only a few feet off the ground. It often starts off just jumping, but the jumps get longer and longer...
 
Flying is great, and all...
But I can't be the only person who's turned a lucid dream into a sexual fantasy...

Or am I? :o
There is something that prevents sex dreams from being more fun than flying, at least for me. The intensity wakes me up every time, if the critical portions are approached.
 
This brings back some of my early memories when I started lucid dreaming at the age of 15 (now 39) so make that 24 years of exploring this fun sleep induced activity.

When I first started to fly, I admit I did the whole dog paddle or frog swim to get started at first. Eventually it was the classic superman pose with arms stretched out and we've all seen that. Eventually, I started to get more influenced by X-Men comics as I started to do the whole Magneto vertical hover and fly while standing. Then it evolved to teleportation.

All of these are merely self-induced limitations in an area where no-limits need apply. We are the dreamers of our dreams so surely we can do what ever our imagination can express.

For me, the fun and adventurous nature of lucid dreaming is why it has such an appeal. To this date, no man made technology has been able to replicate the virtual reality nature of a first-person lucid dream experience. Perhaps I've spoiled myself too much with exploiting this natural holodeck of the mind.
In addition to swim flying and superman flying, I have this weird one I think of as magic carpet flying, where my elevation is directly proportional to surface area my body presents. In my non-lucid dreams I am many times stuck in swim flying, wasting most of the time struggling for altitude.
 
I used to have "flying" dreams but I was never able to control the content. Went on for some months rather progressively. At first, I'd dream I was running, then I'd realize I was striding further than one "could" and was actually leaping unrealistically long distances.
Eventually,I was able to fly much like Iron Man does, projecting some sort of invisible force from hands and such. Fun! Haven't done it in years....

My wife says it's when she can't control her dreams that she experiences "nightmares".
 
I start to lucid dream when something in the dream is so stupid that it I can't let it pass. Sometimes this wakes me up too much and the dream starts to fall apart. It doesn't happen much at all, so I've only had real lucid dreams once or twice.

But anyway, there's nothing paranormal about this. The "paranormal" enters when people claim to be able to see the future in dreams, or insist that they can spend weeks in a dream (this perception is caused by creative editing, much like in movies where weeks pass during a few hours), or say they can communicate to other real people during dreams.

Good old lucid dreaming isn't paranormal at all.
 
One thing I'm hoping to start noticing inside context (for lucidity) is that my dreams seem to take place on a limited studio set. Buildings and locations are reused constantly even from one year to the next. It's getting to the point where I'm fairly good at navigating my dream world (at least, I imagine I am... though I have frequent dreams of not being able to quite remember how to get from point A to B, though both locations seem familiar to me).
 
I used to have "flying" dreams but I was never able to control the content. Went on for some months rather progressively. At first, I'd dream I was running, then I'd realize I was striding further than one "could" and was actually leaping unrealistically long distances.
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Done that too. Makes the trip to Bakersfield just a few steps, instead of 100 miles.
 
Never had one. Still not entirely convinced they're real, despite the links and anecdotes posted here.
 
Never had one. Still not entirely convinced they're real, despite the links and anecdotes posted here.
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I noticed this morning there's a phase in which the dream can be continued, or waking up more fully can be done.
 
Never had one. Still not entirely convinced they're real, despite the links and anecdotes posted here.

I'm as skeptical as they come and I have had at least two lucid dreams. No bulloney -- they were a dream inside a dream and I checked out with certainty I was dreaming before I engaged in the reckless behavior you can engage in when in a lucid dream.

I've been fortunate to rarely need medication in my life but I was influenced at these particular times.
 
Never had one. Still not entirely convinced they're real, despite the links and anecdotes posted here.

Dyed-in-the-wool skeptic here, too, and I've had a few lucid dreams.

Mine generally involve running, in which my stride gets longer and longer until I'm airborne, able to change direction mid-stride, etc. I've also jumped really high and had some control over the flight and landing. It's funny that even in the lucid dream, I'm trying to figure out the technique and physics of the flying maneuvers.

Like others here have posted, sex dreams tend to end with me waking me up before anything really good happens. Tough to remain "unaroused", so to speak.
 
the op confused lucid dreaming with sleep paralysis. With sleep paralysis you cannot move but are aware you are in a dream. Its all very scientific. Usually you will hear what you think are demons. In my case it was astarte and she wanted sex of course. The room was exactly the same as when I was away except the door was closed in the dream and when awake the door was open. What you guys are referring to for the most part are dreams you remember and as far as I know, most people have them. Hope I didn't kill the thread.
 
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I start to lucid dream when something in the dream is so stupid that it I can't let it pass. Sometimes this wakes me up too much and the dream starts to fall apart. It doesn't happen much at all, so I've only had real lucid dreams once or twice.

But anyway, there's nothing paranormal about this. The "paranormal" enters when people claim to be able to see the future in dreams, or insist that they can spend weeks in a dream (this perception is caused by creative editing, much like in movies where weeks pass during a few hours), or say they can communicate to other real people during dreams.

Good old lucid dreaming isn't paranormal at all.

It is as close to a genuine experience that a person can have which survives skepticism thanks to the fact that people do indeed have the "potential" to be conscious during physical sleep.

As for the time in dreams, I will have to argue that time does indeed stretch but there is certainly creative editing as you describe. In some of my short naps, less then 30 minutes I know for fact the dream content was much longer and can create the illusion of weeks, although when you condense it down it may appear like several hours within a half an hour.

This stretching of time is also reported with drug use, hypnosis, epilepsy and trauma. The brain effectively is a "reality rendering farm" and time merely is a digital product of the brain, so if it can cycle out more data under certain circumstances then it's quite possible for it to create the illusion of more time passing then clock time. I've had the experience numerous times and it's very intriguing when time in dream stretches.

For shared dreaming and precognitive dreaming, I'll confess to having those experiences too, and they certainly fascinate me. I've even had lucid precognitive dreams which really set in stone this interesting potential with dreams.

I'm sure I'll get the woo but I don't care, it is what it is.
 
It is as close to a genuine experience that a person can have which survives skepticism thanks to the fact that people do indeed have the "potential" to be conscious during physical sleep.

As for the time in dreams, I will have to argue that time does indeed stretch but there is certainly creative editing as you describe. In some of my short naps, less then 30 minutes I know for fact the dream content was much longer and can create the illusion of weeks, although when you condense it down it may appear like several hours within a half an hour.

This stretching of time is also reported with drug use, hypnosis, epilepsy and trauma. The brain effectively is a "reality rendering farm" and time merely is a digital product of the brain, so if it can cycle out more data under certain circumstances then it's quite possible for it to create the illusion of more time passing then clock time. I've had the experience numerous times and it's very intriguing when time in dream stretches.

For shared dreaming and precognitive dreaming, I'll confess to having those experiences too, and they certainly fascinate me. I've even had lucid precognitive dreams which really set in stone this interesting potential with dreams.

I'm sure I'll get the woo but I don't care, it is what it is.

What precognitive dreams have you had? For me I remember a war between angels and vampires and I had to chose sides. I chose the vampires. Hmm, nuclear war where I died but there were gods who were not affected by it. Fought a black dragon who disapeared into the earth when it died using a sword of truth.

I stopped having these when I turned 9'ish
 
What precognitive dreams have you had? For me I remember a war between angels and vampires and I had to chose sides. I chose the vampires. Hmm, nuclear war where I died but there were gods who were not affected by it. Fought a black dragon who disapeared into the earth when it died using a sword of truth.

I stopped having these when I turned 9'ish

When I was 15 years old, I started exploring lucid dreaming inspired by an article written in an Omni Magazine back in 1985 called, "Power Trips: Controlling your Dreams" by Stephen LaBerge.

The thrill of having my first lucid dream at that age baited me into the dreamstate and my interest was keen enough that memory wise, I was recalling a lot more dreams at night then before I took such an interest.

The precognitive aspect revealed itself slowly at first, my first precognitive dream involved a friend of mine where we were at a beach where I lived by a fire pit, some logs and we met two girls, a red head and brunette. I told him the dream at school because he was in it.

Months later we would be at the same beach, same fire pit and met these two girls there which fit the description of the dream. My friend came up to me and pointed out that it was exactly like I told him from the dream I had. I instantly dismissed it as coincidence although it did seem to accurately match a dream.

More of these types of dreams surfaced through out my school years. For the first year, I dismissed them all as lucky guesses, coincidences and at that time didn't even know what precognitive dreams where.

It was one diffinitive dream that turned my skeptisism into acceptance, but it was building up with more and more frequency of these types of dreams so when this one occurred, it was so cleverly presented that regardless of what I wanted to believe, I had to accept that somehow, some dreams were future events.

In this case I had remembered the dream in full detail before it came true. I was making note of the same people, the setting and even what was on TV. However, I recalled that one person was sitting with me and not where they were in real life, more so it was a she and she was also playing footsies with me.

Relieved that dreams could be very close examples of future events and not actually future events, I reviewed what I remembered and noted the difference. What I failed to consider was time, and that the event in the dream simply hat not synched up so when it did come true the person came over and sat on the couch with me and eventually played footsies etc.

That was the turning point for my denial to suddenly turn to acceptance. It was a very frightening time, these literal precognitive dreams scared me when they came true. I didn't like the experience but it was there and what little I did journal of my dreams, or ones I told people would later be confirmed.

Relative to death, I dreamed about my family dog dying on the table at the vet, my family was there crying and I was sad to see my father so distraught. At that time, I was now comphortable with this anomaly so I made sure to spend a lot more time with my dog as a result.

Months later, I would have a call at work and my dad told me the dog was having a heart attack and I needed to get to the vet's right away. I left work and drove there immediately and it was exactly the dream to the finest granular detail.

I had a dream that my cousin and his friend would die in a pick-up truck accident. I told his mother and my aunt about the dream. A year later on his way home for Christmas, he and his friend had a head on collision with a semi-truck driving in his friends pickup.

I had a dream where I was giving my neighbour CPR who was deceased. Her two children where there and I was so worried for them. A short chubby blonde female officer was there also.

Months later my son would come home and told me his friends mom was in a Coma, he was 11 at the time. I thought that was terrible and asked if she was at the hospital, he said no she was in a coma at home. I had never met her.

I ran to her place and went up the stairs, she was lying spread eagle between the bed and nightstand. Her son and daughter where standing there on the phone to 911. I checked her pulse, she was cold, no pulse. Took the phone and talked to the operator who instructed me to get her in position for CPR and give her CPR. She was already dead, probably over 30 minutes but I did anyways.

When the ambulance arrived I let the paramedics take over and walked down stairs where I met the blonde police officer and talked about the situation.

Dreams like that really sink in stone the reality of this type of experience.

There are many others but suffice to say, I have also had lucid precognitive dreams and those only further my interests in this potential. It seems to suggest that a natural progression for non-lucid precognitive dreams to become lucid precognitive dreams.

That pretty much sums up the experience. It often feels like Déjà vu but the memory that comes when the Déjà sets in stems from a past dream.
 

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