Lucid Dreaming - A useful skill?

When I was little, I used to dream that I could fly and that I lived with the Ninja Turtles (usually not in the same dream). They were so vivid that when I woke up, I tried to fly. Over the last year, I've had two that stand out. One was myself watching a guy doing a girl up the butt. I woke up feeling dirty and somewhat depressed because I didnt know where it came from and wondered if I was becoming a pervert and if sex had become merely an animalistic act in my mind. It was disturbing.
The other was myself with a shotgun and trench coat in a room full of guys in black. Suddenly, they wanted to kill me and bullet time kicked in. I killed three of them before I woke up.

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Damn, I can't do this Lucid Dreaming stuff! I've been keeping a dream journal and looking for dreamsigns and everything, but it's just not heppening. Am I doing it wrong?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I´m always too excited when I have a lucid dream. I just push me outside again and wake up. ^^

An acquaintance of mine is a very talented lucid dreamer, also wrote a huge essay on her homepage about it. I

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I had a lucid dream about my father on monday. Keep in mind that I haven't seen him in well over a year, and I haven't spoken to him since December. All I did was make him damned sure what I thought of him, and I wound up waking up yelling...

I had a very brief LD this morning, too - I woke up and drifted back to sleep, and I was on a raft on a river through some kind of tropical forest. I dipped my hand in the water, and it was dry when I removed it. Was pretty cool.

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I've only had one lucid dream in my entire life... But I have had plenty of controllable dreams. As far as I was aware, lucid dreaming allows you to pick and choose everything about your dream (at least, that's the definition I heard), but controllable dreams leave you in random dreamscapes with a basic level of control over your actions. For instance, the other night I dreamt I could fly but no one would believe me. Although I could control when I flew, how high I managed to get and so on, I couldn't make people believe and I couldn't choose who I spoke to or where I was.

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Originally Posted by Mobius One

Damn, I can't do this Lucid Dreaming stuff! I've been keeping a dream journal and looking for dreamsigns and everything, but it's just not heppening. Am I doing it wrong?

I know that http://www.warpmymind.com/ has a couple of MP3 track hypnosis thingies that may help. Some people have reported success on them, others haven't.

Another tip is to read your dream journal before you go to sleep, because you (usually) tend to dream about what's in your mind at that moment, so if you're thinking about dreams, you might have a chance there.

Also I need to get back into trying the lucid dreams thing again. ._>

Also if it helps anyone:

http://www.ld4all.com/

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I've had several lucid dreams, but I haven't been able to get them regularly. Mine were usually about flying, and it is a blast. In the most exhiliratiing lucid dream I've ever had, my goal was to build a hot-air balloon. However, I needed to find parts. When I realized it was a dream, I thought, "I don't need to find parts, I'm the boss here!" And I looked down at the ground and created the parts I needed by willpower. It was awesome.

I will continue my quest to regularly LD tonight...though I have had no luck in a long time.

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I've had a few lucid dreams but I was never able to stay lucid very long. Probably because I was so nervous that I'd wake up.

I'd either go back to dreaming or wake up. I got frustrated when I'd become lucid but wouldn’t' have full control over the dream. I'd try to materialize things but it wouldn't be what I wanted or nothing would appear. I didn't try for too long though. But the technique I was using was to will yourself to remember all your dreams just before you go to sleep every night. So I did that and it worked, I'd wake up after EVERY dream and remember it. I found I had several dreams a night. The next day I felt like I didn't have any sleep at all. Anyone else experience that? I couldn't stand to do that very long. But I started to have lucid dreams occasionally out of all the dreams I had to wake up to remember. I gave it up soon after. If there's other techniques besides that one that would work I'd try again.

I've had realistic dreams to the point where I could feel the sun on my skin and the sand inbetween my toes. I usually have partial control in those kind of dreams but didn't know I was dreaming. Once I was in the middle of a huge battle with hordes of monsters. I could cast magic and I was blasting them, that was pretty awesome.

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Originally Posted by XSO

I know that http://www.warpmymind.com/ has a couple of MP3 track hypnosis thingies that may help. Some people have reported success on them, others haven't.

Thanks, I'll try it out. I know that one of my dreamsigns is that I'm at work/ seeing people or things from work in my dream. Unfortunately it's hard to recognize that I'm dreaming even when I see work-related stuff because I'm always at work when I'm awake anyway! I can't say to myself: "Hey, I shouldn't be at work right now, I must be dreaming!" because I'm ALWAYS at work.

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I think you have to note less common details.

A very popular dreamsign of mine is riding an elevator. Okay, this is nothing to easily notice in a dream, but my elevator always behave strangely. Going sidewards, shooting up at insane speed, falling down, falling apart, stopping between levels or at levels I´m not supposed to be.

Escalator are also strange - going in loops or ending in nowhere. But I didn´t have them in dreams for ages.

Another one is driving a car. The thing to watch out for is that steering is incredibly unexact and the breaks have next to no effect.

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Ive had them once or twice, but not much lately. :/

normally if i think about something as i fall asleep i will dream about it, and i will know im dreaming and be able to control it.

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I think one of the weirdest lucid dreams I have had, was a dream in a dream in a dream. That had to be the worst morning to wake up, because I woke up and went to school 3 friggin times!

It was really weird, cause I get up and go to school, and then when I get there, it's apparent I'm barely wearing any clothes, and I'm freaking out, so I like, pinch myself or something, and wake up.

Or so I thought, I went out of bedroom and proceeded to get ready for school, get there, and I forget what exactly happened, but it was so friggin weird, I pinched myself, and woke up again!

Finally I was able to get to school for real. I was ruined for the day though, felt so tired lol.

As for how useful they can be, I once had a dream where I found a long lost game in my house. When I woke up I went there to look for it, and holy crap if it wasn't there! I was like, useful!

I was speaking idiomatically.

Now I know when when I'm dreaming these days. I practically dream every night. And when my sleep is interrupted, I fall back and try going back to the last scene of my dream. The funny thing though is that most of my funniest dreams were supposed to be nightmares... which I guess I caused the turning point.

But sadly, I barely remember anything except that the dream existed.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I really would like to have frequent lucid dreams. I can only ever remember having 2 as a child. One was very light-hearted whereas the other one was horrifying. They were both exhilarating.

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