Dreams

[chimp3]

Are wet dreams lucid dreams. If so, I haven't been lucid for a long fucking time. I'm guessing that they were just wish fulfillment dreams.

Lucid dreams are practically your own Virtual Reality. It's really hard to train to have them whenever you want though.

I refer to lucid wet dreams as "freebies'.

[Bob Kelso]

I don't typically remember my dreams, save for the three recurring nightmares I have.

[Athene]

Lucid dreaming's quite easy for me to accomplish, though once the initial novelty wore off, I stopped finding it particularly fun, useful, or exciting. The dreams certainly never seemed real to me, and I never woke from a single one feeling as though I'd actually slept. I don't bother with trying to control my dreams anymore, unless I'm having one that's especially sorrowful and distressful. 

I prefer to let my mind rest, and to allow my subconscious to "do it's thing" in working out whatever needs working out. It can't do that if I'm constantly attempting to maintain the concentration and focus required to fly, bang my way across several continents as an international woman of mystery, or destroy shit with telekinetic powers/ mastery of martial arts/ advanced alien tech and weaponry.

Or re-live/re-write events of a past that I can't actually change.


I suppose it's okay as a lark, though.

[Regina]

I've never had a lucid dream. I'd be scared if I did, that I'd lose control and kill myself

My "dreams" are usually very weird, because they're incoherent. They tend to just be a montage of fleetingly brief scenes and images that I can't make much sense of.

Although occasionally I do get vivid ones that I wake up from and feel that relieved "oh thank goodness that was just a dream!"

I did one of those dramatic "sit up with a scream" awakenings, this one night. Can't remember much about the dream, but I woke up to what sounded like a bomb going off and to this day I'm not convinced the noise wasn't real. It might have just been a train tbh, I do live with a train track at the back of my garden and like to sleep with the window open.

[RozKek]

I've never had a lucid dream. I'd be scared if I did, that I'd lose control and kill myself

My "dreams" are usually very weird, because they're incoherent. They tend to just be a montage of fleetingly brief scenes and images that I can't make much sense of.

Although occasionally I do get vivid ones that I wake up from and feel that relieved "oh thank goodness that was just a dream!"

I did one of those dramatic "sit up with a scream" awakenings, this one night. Can't remember much about the dream, but I woke up to what sounded like a bomb going off and to this day I'm not convinced the noise wasn't real. It might have just been a train tbh, I do live with a train track at the back of my garden and like to sleep with the window open.

You don't die irl if you die in your dreams, if that's what you mean.

[Excited Penguin]

I've never had a lucid dream. I'd be scared if I did, that I'd lose control and kill myself

My "dreams" are usually very weird, because they're incoherent. They tend to just be a montage of fleetingly brief scenes and images that I can't make much sense of.

Although occasionally I do get vivid ones that I wake up from and feel that relieved "oh thank goodness that was just a dream!"

I did one of those dramatic "sit up with a scream" awakenings, this one night. Can't remember much about the dream, but I woke up to what sounded like a bomb going off and to this day I'm not convinced the noise wasn't real. It might have just been a train tbh, I do live with a train track at the back of my garden and like to sleep with the window open.

I once had a dream(I guess it might've been a nightmare, I don't know exactly how to classify it). 

I was sitting in a dark hallway, an elevator entrance nearby. The elevator was active, it was presently ascending to my floor. 

I was hearing a sound like dragged chains that I, for some reason, even now associate with an elevator, even though I think elevators are mostly quiet(aren't they?) and don't make any particular noise. Maybe I'm thinking of an older version of an elevator, something I saw once somewhere or in a movie or something.

 Anyway, I'm about to reveal the scary part of all of this. The lift doors opened and a figure like a ghost came out and just jumped at me through the darkness, screeching, all the while eerily illuminated and floating perfectly above the ground. It was the perfect horror scene, really. Just as it was about to land on me, I awoke, of course.

 Here's the scary part. I was still hearing that crazy sound, the elevator working. Those dragged chains. I made sure I was awake, I pinched myself, I sat up, nothing worked. I kept hearing it for like 12 seconds or something, but for what seemed like a lot more than that at some level. I was freaking out, so I just instinctively shaked my head, even though just as I was doing this I was sarcastically thinking to myself Yeah, that'll work. And it did work. The sound just faded out of my hearing, even as I was shaking my head left and right.

Fucking crazy, I thought to myself, stayed up for a while to make sure I wasn't dreaming or anything like that, then went back to sleep.

[RozKek]

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 I've never had a lucid dream. I'd be scared if I did, that I'd lose control and kill myself

My "dreams" are usually very weird, because they're incoherent. They tend to just be a montage of fleetingly brief scenes and images that I can't make much sense of.

Although occasionally I do get vivid ones that I wake up from and feel that relieved "oh thank goodness that was just a dream!"

I did one of those dramatic "sit up with a scream" awakenings, this one night. Can't remember much about the dream, but I woke up to what sounded like a bomb going off and to this day I'm not convinced the noise wasn't real. It might have just been a train tbh, I do live with a train track at the back of my garden and like to sleep with the window open.

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I once had a dream(I guess it might've been a nightmare, I don't know exactly how to classify it). 

I was sitting in a dark hallway, an elevator entrance nearby. The elevator was active, it was presently ascending to my floor. 

I was hearing a sound like dragged chains that I, for some reason, even now associate with an elevator, even though I think elevators are mostly quiet(aren't they?) and don't make any particular noise. Maybe I'm thinking of an older version of an elevator, something I saw once somewhere or in a movie or something.

 Anyway, I'm about to reveal the scary part of all of this. The lift doors opened and a figure like a ghost came out and just jumped at me through the darkness, screeching, all the while eerily illuminated and floating perfectly above the ground. It was the perfect horror scene, really. Just as it was about to land on me, I awoke, of course.

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 Here's the scary part. I was still hearing that crazy sound, the elevator working. Those dragged chains. I made sure I was awake, I pinched myself, I sat up, nothing worked. I kept hearing it for like 12 seconds or something, but for what seemed like a lot more than that at some level. I was freaking out, so I just instinctively shaked my head, even though just as I was doing this I was sarcastically thinking to myself Yeah, that'll work. And it did work. The sound just faded out of my hearing, even as I was shaking my head left and right.

Fucking crazy, I thought to myself, stayed up for a while to make sure I wasn't dreaming or anything like that, then went back to sleep.

That last paragraph made me think, have you ever experienced hypnagogia? I've experienced it once or twice and it was awesome. I woke up but I was really tired but I wanted to be awake at the same time. So I tried waking up however I fell asleep, woke up, fell asleep, woke up etc in a very very short period (5-10 sec) I was basically shifting or transitioning between being awake and sleeping. During that time I could see irl although it was a bit vague i.e not very clear as if I squinted a bit however at the same time I saw a vague dream. I was driving an old mustang without a roof in 3rd person through an infinite one road highway, really odd. It went on for 5-10 sec then I woke up. It was an odd but fun experience.

[Excited Penguin]

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I once had a dream(I guess it might've been a nightmare, I don't know exactly how to classify it). 

I was sitting in a dark hallway, an elevator entrance nearby. The elevator was active, it was presently ascending to my floor. 

I was hearing a sound like dragged chains that I, for some reason, even now associate with an elevator, even though I think elevators are mostly quiet(aren't they?) and don't make any particular noise. Maybe I'm thinking of an older version of an elevator, something I saw once somewhere or in a movie or something.

 Anyway, I'm about to reveal the scary part of all of this. The lift doors opened and a figure like a ghost came out and just jumped at me through the darkness, screeching, all the while eerily illuminated and floating perfectly above the ground. It was the perfect horror scene, really. Just as it was about to land on me, I awoke, of course.

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 Here's the scary part. I was still hearing that crazy sound, the elevator working. Those dragged chains. I made sure I was awake, I pinched myself, I sat up, nothing worked. I kept hearing it for like 12 seconds or something, but for what seemed like a lot more than that at some level. I was freaking out, so I just instinctively shaked my head, even though just as I was doing this I was sarcastically thinking to myself Yeah, that'll work. And it did work. The sound just faded out of my hearing, even as I was shaking my head left and right.

Fucking crazy, I thought to myself, stayed up for a while to make sure I wasn't dreaming or anything like that, then went back to sleep.

That last paragraph made me think, have you ever experienced hypnagogia? I've experienced it once or twice and it was awesome. I woke up but I was really tired but I wanted to be awake at the same time. So I tried waking up however I fell asleep, woke up, fell asleep, woke up etc in a very very short period (5-10 sec) I was basically shifting or transitioning between being awake and sleeping. During that time I could see irl although it was a bit vague i.e not very clear as if I squinted a bit however at the same time I saw a vague dream. I was driving an old mustang without a roof in 3rd person through an infinite one road highway, really odd. It went on for 5-10 sec then I woke up. It was an odd but fun experience.

How doesn't that make you want to have lucid dreams all night long?

Tbh, this thread is the first place I ever met a person who thought lucid dreams aren't all they're cracked up to be.

I haven't ever had hypnagogia, but I'm extremely interested in it because of my overarching LD interest.

[Foxaèr]

I honestly rarely remember my dreams.

[Edwardo Piet]

Nightmares aren't so bad. Dreams that are shattered, they're the worst.