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By Spiracle on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 - 02:10 am: |
being aware of the fact you are dreaming allows for greater control of your dreams.. there are ways to train yourself so that you will be able to know that you are dreaming.... i've usually had good experiences with this..but one time i realized i could do anything in my dream.. fly, eat twenty coconut cream pies.. whatever..and it was boring.. cause i could have whatever i wanted.. since then i haven't tried having these kind of dreams...cause sometimes it's not as fun being in control and having everything.. but just wondering about anyone else's experience with this... |
By Just Visitor on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 - 03:06 am: |
But not me. I've got this really irritating habit of dreaming a bit *too* lucidly (or maybe it's not lucid enough?). Either way, when I become aware I'm dreaming, I keep thinking "Wow, I should fly or eat twenty coconut cream pies", stuff like that...but nooooo, I ruin it everytime by thinking, nope, that couldn't happen, that's impossible. For example, the last lucid dream I had was simply me sitting in a lawn chair staring at a really nice metal pole for a loooonnnnngg time. No pies, no flying, no communing with the aliens. Me. A pole. Staring. What does that say about me? No, on second thought, don't answer that. I probably don't want to know. Mmm.. coconut cream pie. |
By Sorabji on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 - 09:37 am: |
At the end of that incredibly long shift her husband was driving her home. She panicked during this drive because she started dreaming while still awake. She was seeing horses and tractors and houses flying onto the road in front of them, and she kept yelling to her husband to watch out for the road hazards. I wanted to experience that sensation of dreaming while still awake, and I believed someone who told me that if you stay awake long enough eventually your mind just has to start dreaming. But somehow I never got that far. I stayed up for around 80 hours, and got as far as creating what seemed to me to be a perfectly coherent alphabet. I read it outloud to myself and spoke several of the words created with it, and made plans to create rules of grammar and curse words and slang. But this was not really what I had in mind. And that alphabet got lost with some other papers. When I was a kid my sister and I spoke an invented language that only we understood. The only words I can remember from that secret language are "No curia, bullsnitch." Which basically meant "No shit, dumbass." |
By Spiracle on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 - 11:37 am: |
a pole? man..i have to go read that again.. that cracks me up..thanks for starting my day off with such a laugh..but yeah..you'd think they'd be so great cause you can do anything.. but i had one onetime were i just sat on a hill andi knew i was dreaming but i sat on a hill.. and i thought , 'oh..so this is a dream eh?' but that doesn't compare to sitting in a lawn chair staring at a pole..that's wonderfull.. oh well..maybe they are *too* lucid... sorabji... that sounds like fun..how'd you stay up that long? i get a headache just staying up for half that time and then i usually get sick from being so worn down...how'd you do it??? coffee wears off after a while i'd think... |
By Jim aka PajamaBoy on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 - 12:14 pm: |
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By Jeffrey Scott Holland on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 - 03:27 pm: |
I have lucid enough dreams as it is - ever dream of reading a book? An entire book? So that when you wake up, you realize that the book must still be in your head somewhere if you could only extract it. Same with music. I've actually had some luck with remembering melodies I've dreamed I was playing on the piano, and then quickly getting out of bed and playing it while I still remember how. They're never the amazing, deathless masterpieces that I think they are while dreaming, though. The dream novel would doubtless be a disappointment if I were to be able to view it. Then again, the plot for Stevenson's "Dr.Jekyll And Mr.Hyde" came to him in a dream..... |
By Sorabji on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 - 03:50 pm: |
During that winter term I stayed up for more than 36 hours about 4 or 5 times. The first 24 hours are always the hardest, then you get your second wind. I really don't recommend it, either, under any circumstances. Especially "all-nighters," though I guess if it doesn't kill you and it's free then the side-effects beat those which come from other highs. I never understood high-school and college kids' fixation with proving they'd studied super-hard simply by going at it for 24 hours straight. Wilt Chamberlain used to say he got by on an hour or 2 of sleep a night during the months he built his own house. But I guess even an hour or 2 is different from none at all. |
By N.b. on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 - 07:10 pm: |
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By R.C. on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 - 08:54 pm: |
I think dreams are just mental housekeeping. The mind's way of empyting it's cache files of a zillion ideas yr brain touched on during the course of the day. (And why the hell does my computer store the URL's of every site I've visited in that damn Temp. Internet Files folder anyway? I didn't ask for that feature!) I have only ever remembered abt 10% of the dreams I've had in my lifetime. Which probably means I'm borderline psychotic or something. But the one's I did remember upon waking were always significant in some way/vs. being just the mind's personal movies. The last dream I remembered was about 4 days ago -- something that's pushing me to turn it into a story. Which hasn't happened to me since 1992 -- dreaming a story. But those dreams are always very different/in terms of presentation. Very vivid & detailed/ almost hyper-realistic. I remember everything -- smells/colors/ voices/background music/lights & shadows/sensations -- which is why I can't help writing them down. But I doubt they really 'mean' aything. And I think I was drunk when I had that last dream a few days ago. For some reason/my hearing gets more acute when I'm inebriated/so I don't sleep as soundly. Or maybe it's just becuz I keep having to get up & pee. |
By Dave on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 - 09:49 pm: |
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By Asti on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 12:24 am: |
I have dreamt of my mother a few times and they were very peaceful and I definetly tried every trick to keep them "alive". Then there was one night a few years ago that I know it wasn't just a dream of her, though it was a dream-like state. I have gone over this night numerous times and you still can't convince me that it was "just a dream". Dreaming is Mental Housekeeping? Probably 99% of the time, it is (...and CAN someone answer why these URL's are saved on the comp??) but what do we call that 1%? Psychic or pyschotic? I have had some dreams where, WOW, if it came from mental housekeeping, I better get help! *LOL* |
By Sleepy on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 12:51 am: |
to me, lucid dreams is terrifying it is when you are half awake but still dreaming and you can't break out of it i remember one night, i was coming from a dream, i could see i was in my bed, but everything had a reversed look, like polarized photographs, if you know what i mean. the edges of things were white. i thought i was dying. i couldn't get up, i couldn't wake up. once i was in this suspended state, where i felt like i was lying in the bed in my parents' room back in our old house. at the same time i could hear, out the window, a voice calling "Wanda...come on Wanda" i knew i couldn't be in my parents' old room, but somehow i couldn't get back to my apartment for awhile... finally i woke some more, back in my bed and indeed someone was in the driveway, callling for his girlfriend next door who wouldn't let him in. Her name was actually Yolanda... being asleep and not being able to breathe, like you have a very bad flu, and you know you need to wake up and move around but you can't... |
By R.C. on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 01:15 am: |
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By Dave on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 01:39 am: |
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By Spiracle on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 01:54 am: |
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By Liquidtruth on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 01:09 pm: |
it's terrible, that limbo existence where you're waiting to be able to move again. makes youreally understand how quadripelagics(sp?) feel, except that i know that eventually i'll get out of it. there are some times that i panic, tho. anyone else experience this? also, the french view of dreams as "little deaths" is accurate, but it also goes for the stages before dreaming. i've been afraid that i was going insane. i can see my reality in my bed, in my room - but i hear vivid voices and see frightening and stark images around me. maybe that's when my brain is awash in a chemical composition similar to that of schizophrenics. dreams while asleep, hallucinations while awake and sober, drug-induced trips, existence with a mental illness -- it all goes back to the awe-full enigma of the 5 pound jellybags in our skulls. |
By R.C. on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 01:53 pm: |
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By Markus on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 02:09 pm: |
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By Dave on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 04:07 pm: |
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By Golden Boy on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 05:12 pm: |
anyone dream in color... i found that i can control my dreams..kind of like having a remote control in my dreams..if it aint going my way then i just change the situation so that i can enjoy the dream, though there are times i can't control it and they usually turn into nightmares that can be pretty friggin scary...and that will be the night that i wake up often trying to escape it... weird.. |
By R.C. on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 06:07 pm: |
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By Christopher on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 07:48 pm: |
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By Jeffrey Scott Holland on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 09:17 pm: |
Food seems to be a more effective way to fuck with my own mental state, more so than recreational drugs or sleep deprivation.....I'm allergic to MSG anyway, so if I want to trip all I need do is scarf down a bag of Doritos....Fasting for a couple days is an amazing high.....so is giving up sugar cold turkey - John Lennon said kicking sugar was harder than when he kicked Heroin. I gave up all sugar in any form, including milk (contains lactose - milk sugar) for two weeks recently and it was just as WSB describes kicking Heroin - the third day was hell but after that you enter a clearing in the forest and everything seems crisp and clear and sharp and I felt like I was a kid again. I'm back on the junk food now, but I still feel better than I did prior to kicking originally. Hot spicy stuff like Tabasco, Cholula, and Mongolian Fire Oil is very mood-altering to me, and bring about some bizarre dreams if eaten shortly before bedtime. Bell peppers give me very deranged, sexual dreams. |
By Sorabji on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 09:34 pm: |
an intro is here so build you own. why do i find myself thinking of the Orgasmatron? |
By Spiracle on Thursday, March 5, 1998 - 10:39 pm: |
i've done that as well..waking myself up.. i'm pretty good at it now..if i have a bad dream..i'll prying my eyes open in the dream.. it takes a while....eyes usually seem to be cemented so tightly shut though.. r.c. 'welcome for the link..those were just little lower case o's...you could do 'em too i bet..there is a fixed font on this page ya know? o<o>o o<o>o |
By Christopher on Friday, March 6, 1998 - 12:51 pm: |
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By Dan on Saturday, March 7, 1998 - 03:50 pm: |
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By Richard on Monday, March 9, 1998 - 10:50 am: |
Regarding dreams in which you seem almost awake, but can't move or wake up: I once read that the when you sleep your body releases some hormone which generally prevents you from moving. That's why you don't move too much while sleeping, especially when dreaming. When you wake up, another hormone is supposed to counter-act the original one. Sometimes it doesn't quite work, which leads to dreams in which you are almost conscious, but can't move. Or so this artice I read claimed. Wonder if it's true |
By Ill skip the fluoroscopy thanks... on Monday, March 9, 1998 - 12:45 pm: |
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By Golden Boy on Monday, March 9, 1998 - 02:18 pm: |
They probably treat us like some piss stop on the long highway that is our galaxy. Here they are flying around the universe meeting some cool life forms that we will never see in our lifetime, and here we are squabbling over race relations, presidency woes, world hysteria, environment, et. al. If you could fly through the universe exploring new life, and learning new reaches of the galaxy would you want to land on earth and explore??? What the hell do I know about that??? |
By Dave on Monday, March 9, 1998 - 05:32 pm: |
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By Golden Boy on Tuesday, March 10, 1998 - 09:55 am: |
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By Pretty Girl on Tuesday, March 31, 1998 - 09:17 pm: |
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By Stupid Girl on Wednesday, April 1, 1998 - 12:12 am: |
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By Hannah on Wednesday, April 1, 1998 - 07:11 pm: |
Ricky: Lucy, I'm home! Lucy: AAhhh, Ricky! Heh heh, I laugh at myself for being an idiot. |
By Stupid Engineer on Thursday, April 2, 1998 - 12:28 am: |
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"For many years I have had a sleep disorder known as sleep paralysis, which is fairly common, I've been assured by doctors. In my case, it seems to be triggered by excess fatigue or excess chemical stimulation, such as when I drink coffee late in the day. I had the problem most severely when I was in college and drinking coffee as a way to stay awake and study. I usually have what is called sleep-onset sleep paralysis. As I am drifting off to sleep, I suddenly lose the ability to move. It literally happens in a snap - sudden, complete atonia of the muscles....When paralyzed, I can't open my eyes or lift a finger. Alarmingly, I'm still conscious. It's particularly troubling on a plane, a train, or a bus, because I can hear people talking around me but cannot move, and may have well been zapped by a paralytic raygun. Sometimes I have trouble breathing. To stop these attacks, i have to shake myself awake by moving my legs as best I can. The whole thing is quite disturbing....The doctors said my on-off switch for waking and dreaming isn't quite normal. My body thinks it needs to go into the dream state--and the muscles become atonic--before the brain is fully asleep. (One thing that I learned is that when a person dreams, his or her body is paralyzed, an ancient adaptation meant to prevent a person from acting out the particulars of a dream. Sleepwalkers have a defect in that system). "Making the situation all the odder is that during the paralysis it is common for a person to experience auditory or visual hallucinations. I've never seen anything--no alien sightings--but I've had auditory hallucinations of people entering my house or coming into the room. THere is also the sense that the paralysis is caused by these intruders. It is hard during the paralytic experience to keep the neurological cause in mind. Rather it seems that some Other, some Entity, is doing it. In past centuries these entities were assumed to be spirits, such as succubi or incubi. In our day and age they are assumed to be aliens." --Joel Achenbach, Captured by Aliens |
and i dont think that there are dream guide's or spirits guids I think people who have lucid dream are people who have been able to touch a relm that other people can't reach. a relm that is protected by people who have the abilyty to have lucid dreams but don't know it. and i belive that theres a higher relm of beengs that control our dreams and yous these unowing lucid dreamers to cotrol the dream world. try lelling some in your dream that thay are allso dreaming see what happends. when ever i tell some one in my dream that thay are allso dreaming these people who i call the dream keepers or agents come after me and try to wake me up. give it a try |