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anyone else able to realize they are dreaming while they are dreaming.

justjoshingujustjoshingu Posts: 538
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
so i do this thing every now and then.
its something i learned as a kid, when i would have real bad nightmares.
but now it usually happens when i am physically exhausted.

but i'll be fast asleep and dreaming. and then somehow, whatever i'm doing, i will realize, this is a dream. i'm dreaming right now. and then i can change the outcome of my dream. i know its weird but i like to fly in my dream and once i realize i am dreaming, its the first thing i do.
its also really great because i can think of a problem i am having and think of it and mentally see what the outcomes are.

is it anyone else or am i just strange.
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    justjoshingu wrote:
    so i do this thing every now and then.
    its something i learned as a kid, when i would have real bad nightmares.
    but now it usually happens when i am physically exhausted.

    but i'll be fast asleep and dreaming. and then somehow, whatever i'm doing, i will realize, this is a dream. i'm dreaming right now. and then i can change the outcome of my dream. i know its weird but i like to fly in my dream and once i realize i am dreaming, its the first thing i do.
    its also really great because i can think of a problem i am having and think of it and mentally see what the outcomes are.

    is it anyone else or am i just strange.
    That happened to me a lot when I was younger.

    Does anyone else ever wake up right about when they are going to get it on with a really hot girl?.. I hate that. Happened to me a few night ago. I couldn't fall back asleep fast enough damnit!
  • ToolgardenToolgarden Posts: 88
    Go rent "Waking Life."

    RIGHT NOW!
    "Should I tell you my room is walled up? In what way might I leave it? Here is how; Goodwill knows no obstacle. Nothing can stand before a deep desire. All I have to do is imagine a door." -Schultz

    Trading stories with the leaves instead
  • redmosquito10redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    it's called lucid dreaming, and it's actually been studied a bit and is a very cool phenomenon. It's happened to me a couple times, and apparently you can train yourself to do this whenever you want, something about going into a meditative state before actually going to sleep or something. one of my friends is reading a book on how to do that for a philosophy class, and if it works i'll definitely try it
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    I can't do that but I remember my dreams pretty clearly
    and I've had dreams of things before they happen, like I had dreams about two different women I used to work with being pregnant, before either of them found out they really were pregnant.
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
    6-01-06
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    and Metsy!
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    I have experienced this. It's so weird.
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • justjoshingujustjoshingu Posts: 538
    redmosquito10 wrote:
    it's called lucid dreaming, and it's actually been studied a bit and is a very cool phenomenon. It's happened to me a couple times, and apparently you can train yourself to do this whenever you want, something about going into a meditative state before actually going to sleep or something. one of my friends is reading a book on how to do that for a philosophy class, and if it works i'll definitely try it

    i actually trained myself as a kid. like i said i used to have really bad nightmares and so i learned some tricks. i would have my favorite stuffed animal (simon) sit by my bed and focus on nothing but that as i went to sleep. if i had a dream where my stuffed animal showed up, and i wanst in my room i knew that it was a dream. then i could just keep trying to focus on it so i could take control of the dream. there were some other tricks i learned but that one really helped. as i grew up tho it got harder. but as i get stressed and my dreams get more stressful, i find myself using that technique to get control. it sucks when things are bad and you go to sleep only to get more anxious.
    mean people suck!
    but nice people sw****w

  • ZanneZanne Posts: 899
    I do this at times, but at other times it can be just the opposite where I find it very hard to come out of a dream into reality. It's frightening until you get your grip on your surroundings.
    Just me
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Almost all of my dreams are lucid to some extent. For the past year or so I have found it very difficult to get into the stage of deep sleep and tend to feel semi-awake most of the time, unless I am actually exhausted. This means I have quite a lot of control over my dreams. They are still bizarre and abstract in content though. Disturbingly so considering I am aware that I am dreaming.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • comebackwomancomebackwoman Posts: 7,271
    This happens to me most of the time. I'm usually aware I'm dreaming...and most of the times my dreams are about things that are going on in my life currently. Once I realize it's a dream I change it if I don't like where it's heading...or give myself special powers, etc.
    There's a light when my baby's in my arms :)
  • drtyfrnk29drtyfrnk29 Posts: 846
    I've done that a few times. Usually it will happen when I have a dream about falling from a high point of some kind. Once, I had a dream that I began floating higher and higher. At some point in the dream I got uncomfortable about how high up I was and that triggered that it was a dream. Bitch of it was I couldn't control it enough to get back down. I stayed up there for a long ass time.
    I'm so dangerous I smoke dynamite.

  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    I've done that a lot recently, although I have no control over my dreams. Another thing is, I dream... sort of from the outside, like I'm looking in as if it's a movie. I find that wierd.
  • Lukin66Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    every once and awhile now. Used to not even remember any dreams though.
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    I get this all the time! It's usually towards the time I would normally be getting up, and normally when the dream seems to good to be true! I can't tell you how many times I've 'won' the lottery or been front row at a concert waiting for PJ or someone else cool to come out; only for me to suddenly realise: this isn't real! The dream then only tends to go on for a few more minutes and I wake up.

    What's even more weird is that I can wake up, get up to go pee, then when I go back to sleep I can carry a dream on from where I left off!
  • Music For RhinosMusic For Rhinos Posts: 1,693
    Lucid dreaming is amazing.

    I have done it a few times. It can be quite difficult. Thinking about it a lot before bed and telling yourself "I'm going to realize I'm dreaming tonight" can help make it happen.

    At least that's what I've found works for me.

    When you enter the lucid state, you can do anything you want. Anything. And I have found what works is verbal commands. Simply say aloud the situation or place you want to be in or what you want to do and it will be.
  • turnedmyworldtoblackturnedmyworldtoblack Posts: 151
    this happened to me last night for the first time ever! very strange to see a thread about it...

    I was very nervous in my dream as I had been caught up by the police for murder (wtf?) and I came to this realization in my dream that I was dreaming and calmed myself down. It was pretty awesome.
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