Anyone here ever had lucid dreams? The idea of a lucid dream (a dream which you have conscious control over) really interests me. In fact, I think I may have had a few, but I'm not really sure.
Sometimes at college I'll end up falling asleep in class (which I'm sure some of you do, too 😉), and sometimes I'll dream. These dreams often have a really strange "unrealness" about them... not the same as regular dreams.
For example, the colors in the dream will just explode, and the depth of the image really pops out, where as most of the time it's rather... "flat". Everything becomes razor sharp, much more so than vision in real life (Especially since I'm myopic 🙂). Sounds also become much clearer, and I even get some sense of touch, though not usually more than that. It's often at this point that I "lose" the dream and lose vision entirely, although I'm still have random thoughts for a few minutes, after which I usually wake up.
From what I've read of lucid dreaming, the vision-exploding thing is a quality associated with lucid dreaming, yet apparently the dreamer becomes self-aware during the dream. This hasn't happened to me. It's still like I'm watching the script unfold, although I seemingly have control over it. I say "seemingly" cause when I wake up, the whole thing seems like an acted-out illusion - I never really had any control at all.
Aren't things supposed to seem like "real-life" when you become lucid in a dream? They don't to me, or maybe I just haven't gone all the way yet. I really have no idea 🙂 It sure doesn't feel that way to me. It still feels like the person I am in the dream, is another person. It's not really "me".. I'm not really awake or aware at all.
What I have noticed is that my dream character often says that he knows that this is a dream and that he is really sleeping in class. He also is sometimes worried about doing things in the dream, because he's afraid that my body is doing the same movements in real life. (It's happened a couple of times that I fall in a dream and suddenly wake up with a reflexive kicking motion) Lucid dreams occur because you KNOW you're dreaming. But the thing is, even when my dream character talks like that, it still feels like a character. Even if I'm looking out of his eyes, it's like I'm just watching and taking in the sights 🙂 The really strange thing is that this only happens when I fall asleep in class!
Just today, that "lucid" quality emerged and the whole dream suddenly changed, and I sort of realized things were "different". But I was still following the script 🙂 I was in a futuristic looking city, when I came to a long bridge over the river. I walked for a couple hundred feet, then decided to look back and take in the view of the city, because I was wondering how it would look. I was expecting towering buildings but was surprised. After that I didn't want to walk anymore, so I tried to "create" a motorcycle (you're supposed to be able to create things in lucid dreams right?) Well that didn't work 🙂 But a few seconds later, all these guys on motorcycles zoomed past me and one of the guys gave me a motorcycle. Except it was really a bicycle. So I was like "wtf".. but when I started pedeling I was going like 100 M.P.H. Messed up...
Okay, that's enough ranting 🙂 So has anyone else here had a lucid dream before? What was it like? Do you often have lucid dreams? I wanna hear all about it 🙂
Sometimes at college I'll end up falling asleep in class (which I'm sure some of you do, too 😉), and sometimes I'll dream. These dreams often have a really strange "unrealness" about them... not the same as regular dreams.
For example, the colors in the dream will just explode, and the depth of the image really pops out, where as most of the time it's rather... "flat". Everything becomes razor sharp, much more so than vision in real life (Especially since I'm myopic 🙂). Sounds also become much clearer, and I even get some sense of touch, though not usually more than that. It's often at this point that I "lose" the dream and lose vision entirely, although I'm still have random thoughts for a few minutes, after which I usually wake up.
From what I've read of lucid dreaming, the vision-exploding thing is a quality associated with lucid dreaming, yet apparently the dreamer becomes self-aware during the dream. This hasn't happened to me. It's still like I'm watching the script unfold, although I seemingly have control over it. I say "seemingly" cause when I wake up, the whole thing seems like an acted-out illusion - I never really had any control at all.
Aren't things supposed to seem like "real-life" when you become lucid in a dream? They don't to me, or maybe I just haven't gone all the way yet. I really have no idea 🙂 It sure doesn't feel that way to me. It still feels like the person I am in the dream, is another person. It's not really "me".. I'm not really awake or aware at all.
What I have noticed is that my dream character often says that he knows that this is a dream and that he is really sleeping in class. He also is sometimes worried about doing things in the dream, because he's afraid that my body is doing the same movements in real life. (It's happened a couple of times that I fall in a dream and suddenly wake up with a reflexive kicking motion) Lucid dreams occur because you KNOW you're dreaming. But the thing is, even when my dream character talks like that, it still feels like a character. Even if I'm looking out of his eyes, it's like I'm just watching and taking in the sights 🙂 The really strange thing is that this only happens when I fall asleep in class!
Just today, that "lucid" quality emerged and the whole dream suddenly changed, and I sort of realized things were "different". But I was still following the script 🙂 I was in a futuristic looking city, when I came to a long bridge over the river. I walked for a couple hundred feet, then decided to look back and take in the view of the city, because I was wondering how it would look. I was expecting towering buildings but was surprised. After that I didn't want to walk anymore, so I tried to "create" a motorcycle (you're supposed to be able to create things in lucid dreams right?) Well that didn't work 🙂 But a few seconds later, all these guys on motorcycles zoomed past me and one of the guys gave me a motorcycle. Except it was really a bicycle. So I was like "wtf".. but when I started pedeling I was going like 100 M.P.H. Messed up...
Okay, that's enough ranting 🙂 So has anyone else here had a lucid dream before? What was it like? Do you often have lucid dreams? I wanna hear all about it 🙂
