There are two versions. In one, things roll on their own but I have control to a degree. I can make the dream last longer. Much like how Stephen King writes his stories, the story writes itself but I can feel my influence to advance it further but it is still surprising. Most of my dreams are like this.

The other is where, I can control myself fully but not the dream world. This one is more realistic.

I use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihF_aXi-Huk for second types.


For second type, this is how it ends. Realism is scary. :shocking:

No way. We do not understand the brain nearly well enough to do this.

I've never has a Lucid dream before. I have tried this for many years but unsuccesfully. I guess I'll just have to try harder.

Am I the only one to wake up pretty much immediately upon realizing that it's just a dream?

Found this with a google search.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MElU0UW0V3Q

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11635625

They both say it could be possible to record people's dreams, so maybe eventually.

Sounds like Sleep Paralysis.

I just read up about that, and its weird I know when i'm dreaming I've know I'm dreaming when I'm dreaming. I always have.

I had a reoccurring lucid dream last night. I was in a room that looked like it came out of Portal, and there was a faceless, legless, and armless Japanese ghost woman that kept coming through the walls and picking me up with her mind. I would be swarmed by other faceless, legless, and armless Japanese ghosts, but they did not touch me, they just got so close to me that I began feeling claustrophobic. Eventually, all the ghosts would walk back into the walls and there would only be the first ghost woman in the room with me. She would then pick me up and leave me suspended until the Grim Reaper arrived, at which point she would put me down so that he could reach for me. When he extended his hand, I would tell him to f-off, and then I would wake up.

What was interesting about this dream was that I was completely without control up until the Grim Reaper arrived, then I could take control of myself to tell him to leave and wake myself up.

After that, my dreams consisted of my track teammates putting my coach in a headlock, being in the ghetto on a rainy day and being shot by a drive-by, and being defenseless in a sniper battle with unknown silhouettes.

I am very very practical and I try to keep a scientific approach of things. But with dreams sometimes I have strange case. Thrice, I dreamed of plane crashes and told to colleagues and family 3-4 days before it happens. I usually did not tell my dream but they were so vivid and I was having the feeling of being an observer of real thing. There was even the smell of burned flesh in one. I was in Abuja and I saw a big explosion, ran in the bush to see a blue plane crashed with burning bodies everywhere. 4 days later, the ADC plane crashed in Abuja. Another time, it was a plane crash in the tropical water with red seats. The next day, there was the plane crash in Comores.
I just mentionned this because last night, I made another strange dream like that, a medium sized airplane with cardinals on board was crashing in a temperate country (the landscape was looking like Ireland). I hope it is not another one.

About lucid dreams, I am very careful about it and I keep saying this is a different process than dream. Dreams are an automated long term memory refresh process. A bit like a defragmentation of the HD. You cannot control that. You can influence which part of the memory will be refresh by thinking about it just before. But you cannot control the process. Having the illusion of control is different from having a conscious control.

Very rarely do I realize that I'm dreaming but last night I did. When the Top gear presenters turned up at my wedding I knew I was dreaming, but then I saw something that made me realize I was crazy and of course this 'dream' was real. So I never got to mess around and fly and stuff.

Tonight I'm going to snap out of my dreams and attempt to spawn a small cat to start with and if successful I'll move
on to bigger things like flying

@ Makandal
If I hear of an airplane crashing in Ireland... I'll be scared

Glad to see this topic is still active. So has anyone discovered a way to do it yet? I needs to play dream Skyrim badly! LOL.

Grah, me too brah.

I hope someone who has mastered lucid dreaming posts here soon.

Hell yes, man, hell yes. I heard that you had to think, "this is a dream", but I can'!!

I had a lucid dream last night and I died instead of my son, I cried for an hour when I woke up.

All my dream are nightmares bliviongate: I haven't had a good dream in almost two years. I'm getting really sick of it, if I try to dream of something else it just goes back to the same-o-{beep}ing nightmare...I WANT MY GOOD DREAMS BACK :swear:.

If you're that desperate, read up on http://www.dreamviews.com/content/. It's not something you can master overnight though, but over time you can make them happen significantly more, and with more control over them. There are certain supplements that also help with dream vividness, recall, and lucidity. There's even a technique ("DILD") that allows you to go from a calm resting state straight into a lucid dream mid day (I've done this once, was pretty crazy). Lot's of information over at Dreamviews, I highly recommend it for anyone interested in lucid dreaming.

Been trying everyday, or night whatever.
I get pretty close, up to the transmission part where I go into sleep paralysis and I lose my senses where I'm sure the dream will start any second now, then everything just stops...

Also, could this possibly help with my revision? I understand the subconscious picks up far more things than our conscious, does that mean I could tap into that information within the dream and learn there if I ever get skilled in lucid dreaming?

I tried lucid dreaming last night, but everytime I started to slip into a dream I'd immediately realize I was dreaming and wake up. Happened about 3 times.

Any tips on how to keep sleeping

I'm not that desperate. If I was I would be making a dream journal. I'm just want to experience it at least once in my life, right now all I have time to do is think about Lucid dreaming and listen to lucid dreaming inducing tones.

Just try and stay calm. You'll eventually get used to it after it's happened enough and you won't be so surprised to realize you're dreaming. There's a few http://www.dreamviews.com/section/staying-lucid-13/ for stabilizing your dreams after attaining lucidity on the Dreamviews board that you might find helpful.


I'm a bit skeptical of those aural tones, though some do claim they work. You might try melatonin supplements. Besides being a natural sleep aid they increase dream vividness and may help you attain lucidity as well.

I don't trust those tones either. I read the comments section before listening, if anyone says they had a nightmare I don't listen to it. Most of those tones are pretty creepy and hard to listen too. I was able to listen to one, but it didn't work maybe because it was only 10 mins.

I think I had a very short lucid dream actually. I dreamed of waking up as I would normally do and then I remembered to do a "reality check" since I had seen it eariler on wikipedia, one of which was looking at your hands and then at the floor or something. I can't reemmber how it looked, all I know is the floor wasn't how it should be and I was gonna look at my hands but I woke up when was about to look at them :sadvaultboy:

P.S: One of those reality checks was looking at the mirror, your reflection was probably weird or scary...hmmm suddently I don't feel like doing that anymore :spotted owl:

Lucid is... weird. It's like you live in two worlds, one that is this world and the other one being the dream world. In the real world you're just another person, but in the dream world you are a god! Feelsgoodman.jpg

This is actually why I am trying to lucid dream. I've actually had a lucid dream before about a year ago about Oblivion. I was walking around the game world, like I was actually there and the coolest thing about it was it wasn't game graphics it was real life. It was so real I could smell the fresh summer breeze and then the awful stench of crab as I saw a mudcrab come towards me. LOL it was the best thing ever, I had a feast of mudcrab in that dream. It tasted like chicken, lol.