Lucid dreaming

[brewer]

At my age I hope that I don't start guiding the dreams into the toilet. I don't think I'd like the results.

[emjay]

At my age I hope that I don't start guiding the dreams into the toilet. I don't think I'd like the results.

Do I take it you're skeptical of them?

[brewer]

At my age I hope that I don't start guiding the dreams into the toilet. I don't think I'd like the results.

Do I take it you're skeptical of them?

Nope. Just don't want to start peeing in the bed.

[emjay]

Do I take it you're skeptical of them?

Nope. Just don't want to start peeing in the bed.

I don't whether something like that could happen. As I understand it, while you're in REM sleep - where lucid dreams take place - you're body is paralysed in some sense to stop you acting out your dreams, unless you sleepwalk or whatever. But I don't know much about that.

[brewer]

Nope. Just don't want to start peeing in the bed.

I don't whether something like that could happen. As I understand it, while you're in REM sleep - where lucid dreams take place - you're body is paralysed in some sense to stop you acting out your dreams, unless you sleepwalk or whatever. But I don't know much about that.

For men, nocturnal emissions occur during REM, peeing not that much different.

[emjay]

I don't whether something like that could happen. As I understand it, while you're in REM sleep - where lucid dreams take place - you're body is paralysed in some sense to stop you acting out your dreams, unless you sleepwalk or whatever. But I don't know much about that.

For men, nocturnal emissions occur during REM, peeing not that much different.

Right, good to know.

[Ben Davis]

Try lucid nightmares. You're pretty sure your dreaming but doesn't make that vivid twisted chasing you any less terrifying. I don't like dreams anymore..

Nightmares are the reason why I have lucid dreams. As a child, I had really terrifying dreams from which I wouldn't/couldn't awaken. As a defense mechanism, I learned to control them pretty quickly, I can tell you! It soon developed so that almost every dream that I remember is lucid. That's still true to this day.

[Whateverist]

I've had lurid dreams. Unfortunately I've slept through most of them.

[Nine]

Nightmares are the reason why I have lucid dreams. As a child, I had really terrifying dreams from which I wouldn't/couldn't awaken. As a defense mechanism, I learned to control them pretty quickly, I can tell you! It soon developed so that almost every dream that I remember is lucid. That's still true to this day.

I've pretty much always had them, they started off as just lucid and a bit confusing. Then became lucid and bad, lucid then panic. Eventually got really good at controlling them and had a ton of fun. Like you say, all of them were lucid aside from the odd one or two. But a few years back I had a big bout of depression and started losing control of anything beyond myself in the dreams and getting lucid nightmares. Now I can't stand dreaming at all. Just constant bizarre dreams and lucid nightmares.

[Excited Penguin]

I finally had my first lucid dream last night. I tried emjay's method of relentlessly repeating to myself, before falling asleep, ' I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming...'. It was a last resort kind of thing but it worked. So thanks so much =)).

I didn't do much though. I was really pshyched to be lucid dreaming and I was pretty relaxed and all but either I can't remember all of it or I didn't engage enough with it and I lost the lucidity. I guess I was a little too serious about it or something. I tried to fly a little, just so I could test it out and then I ran around rooftops a bit to figure out what to do next. That's where I can't remember anything about what happened next - maybe I just woke up. I do remember I had other episodes of dreaming last night where I wasn't lucid, though.

It's crazy how real it feels.