Ask The Experts - Daniel Love and Rebecca Turner
Hi everyone
Daniel Love (long time lucid dreamer, creator of the CAT method and author of the book Are You Dreaming?) and I are putting together a new (possibly monthly) feature for the World of Lucid Dreaming website called "Ask The Experts".
Readers are invited to post their lucid dreaming related questions here and we will select the best and answer them as candidly as possible on the website. We feel it would be good to provide two different opinions, from both a male and female perspective, from differing backgrounds in lucidity.
Feel free to post below, and phrase your questions as clearly as possible for the best chance of publication. We will use your forum name and location to identify you in the feature, or a real name is preferred if you choose to leave it in your post.
We will let you know when we have enough questions for the first issue and publish a link to it in this thread, where it will become a permanent feature of the website.
Thanks for your contribution! Rebecca
PS - To learn more about Daniel Love and his background see our interview at: http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/daniel-love-interview.html
Hi everyone
Daniel Love and I are putting together a new feature for the World of Lucid Dreaming website called "Ask The Experts".
Readers are invited to post their lucid dreaming related questions in this thread and we will answer them on a first-come-first-serve basis, as candidly as possible, in the feature which will be published on the main website. We feel it would be good to provide two different opinions, from both a male and female perspective, from differing backgrounds in lucidity.
Please phrase your questions as clearly as possible for the best chance of publication, as we will have to eliminate any which are unclear, not phrased as a question, or prohibitively long in nature. We will use your forum name to identify you in the feature, or a real name is preferred if you choose to leave it in your post.
Thanks for your contribution! Rebecca
PS - To learn more about Daniel Love and his background see our interview at: http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/daniel-love-interview.html
PPS - For links to all the Ask The Experts features so far visit: http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/ask-the-experts.html
"We can only dream of faces we've seen in the past, whether we actively remember them or not. The brain cannot invent these."
do you agree with this quote?
I have ADD, meaning I cant concentrate long. This really is a huge problem considering my Lucid Dreams. I've been at it for almost 2 years now and had only as little as 8 succesful ones :?
you have had 8 so it is possible, now think really hard and start to make them probable.
Thinking in probabilities is abstract and should suit your attention span and be easy. You need to use your strengths
I am fascinated with dream characters. I have met a bunch and some of them are self aware. They think and act on their own regardless and despite my own awareness of who I am, and that I am dreaming. I can ask questions and interact with them and they respond like real people and I don't 'put words in their mouths' and they seem like self aware, thinking beings.
I wonder what both of your take on it is, and any theories why or how that happens.
It's not the most concise question and the answer can take up a whole book! :lol: But I am curious about it and if you want to use my real name it is Michael Scannell.
My official question is: Why do some people you meet in lucid dreams have a self awareness separate from your own?
My question would be: What is the longest time in lucid possible (in real time) and are there many people suffering from too much lucid dreams? What could cause it?
Because I'm one of them, and read about only one other so far. I have seen lucid dreams for about 3-4 years almost every night, and when the dream start I sometimes end up sleeping like 16-20 hours(which of like 8 hours of normal sleep first) and feeling very exhausted and out of this world when I wake up. Sometimes I'm covered in sweat too. I never studied any information consciously, my lucid dreams began when I had sleep paralyses and learned to control them by myself. Nowadays I usually wake up during the night (3-4 o' clock), and when go back to sleep the lucid dream starts immediately and lasts until I get rid of it. I'm able to wake up myself if I want to, but usually the dreams are just way too nice (though also burdensome) so I sleep way too much and get the feeling not getting any real sleep and it affects my life.
(I'm sorry for the long text. I'm not been able to find any information about this issue.)
Hello, I've been having these dreams where I'm aware of everything around me as if I woke up but I can't move. I feel like I'm trapped in my own body, can't do anything about it and I fell very,very scared. I can't be woken up while this is happening (my dad tried to wake me once because my phone was ringing but he couldn't and I saw all that happening). I have no control over when this occurs nor when to wake up. Is this lucid dreaming or something else? Please help,thank you
Did you ever heal yourself or others using lucid dreaming? If so, how was it?
Do mental disorders or differences (example: Asperger's Syndrome) affect the ability to dream and how?
Caspi wrote: "We can only dream of faces we've seen in the past, whether we actively remember them or not. The brain cannot invent these."
do you agree with this quote?
No. I met my friend's mom's friend's fiance in a dream, a few years before any of us ever met her in real life. I remember the dream clearly: It was in a dimly lit version of my friend's old apartment at a small round table they had, she was wearing a green plaid long-sleeved thick shirt and jeans, sitting in a chair with her left shoulder facing me, and she introduced herself as "John's friend".
Eventually a few years later after they had moved to a neighboring city, (that I had never been to before they moved), John met her while walking his dog and they stayed together for a long time until she died in a car wreck. :-( When I first met her in real life I thought "whoa hey this is that lady!".
Something that upsets me about the original dream, is that she was wearing similar clothes, sitting in the same direction and had a similar air about her, when she told me goodbye the night she left on her journey that ended in the car wreck.
So unless time wraps around from the start to the end and loops, I don't agree with the idea that we can only dream of faces we've seen in the past.
I'm new here so I'm not exactly sure how this whole thing works but I have a very very important question that no one can seem to give me an answer to and I was hoping you could help me! Like 95% of the time when I'm dreaming it's like a lucid dream, I know its a dream and blah blah whatever. I can control what I'm doing and nothing else. But when I have my dreams I can actually feel them and they're so real that I doubt myself a lot both in dreams and reality, I'm constantly questioning "Am I dreaming or is this real?" And the dreams will give me real physical pain!? Once, a few years ago, a had a dream that I had fallen off of a very tall building and as soon as I hit the bottom I was screaming bloody murder because every single piece of my body hurt like I'd just been crushed. It hurt so bad that I couldn't move, I vomited on myself twice and I stayed out of school for two days because the pain was so bad that if I tried to move I would pass out and a lot of my limbs wouldn't move at all no matter how hard I tried. Another time, I had a dream that I was walking through the woods and a man grabbed me and he bit down on my neck really hard and when I woke up the spot where he had bitten me ached like in the actual shape of a bite mark. These dreams are very VERY scary and they're so real it's unbelievable. I can feel, touch, hear, see and smell everything that's going on and it's so bad that I can't even tell the difference any more. Just now, about 40 minutes ago, I think I woke up from what I'm assuming can only be a dream. But it was so real that I think it might have actually been real, like I really do. I was laying in bed and I heard rustling on the other side of the bed and I ignored it thinking it was probably my laptop charger sliding off the edge of the bed or something but then I heard a really low and dark and kind of like, raspy laugh right next to my ear and I freeze up. At this point I'm terrified and I'm closing my eyes really tight thinking to myself "oh god please let this not be real please don't let this happen go away go away go away" and after about a minute of doing that I loosen up a little because I think he's gone but then I feel hot, wet breathing on my neck and I tense up again and then it wraps it's arm around me and it's holding me really tight. His skin is warm and damp like he's sweating and he's so bony and disgusting and I could smell his breath and it smelled like rotten meat and i could feel him breathing and it made me so sick to my stomach that I threw up in my mouth multiple times. He's so close to me I can feel his chest rise and his sweat is making my shirt damp, I'm so scared I start screaming and I know that I'm really real life screaming because I can feel it coming out of my throat and I know I'm wide awake I'm screaming for my mom to please help me please come help me but she doesn't come because she's sleeping so I laid there crying for a good 20 minutes while this skinny sweaty dead smelling disgusting thing holds me close to him and breathes down my neck and I'm crying so loud and the only reason it stopped was because my dog opened my door and I guess it "woke me up" but I have wet spots on my shirt where his chest and arms were pressing against me and my throat is sore from screaming and my eyes are puffy from crying. I want to believe it's a dream but I'm scared it might not be? I know it sounds stupid but it's so real. All of my dreams are like this, why? Please can someone help me, I've been wondering this for years and no one can give me an answer, it's awful and it keeps me from doing things I need help! Please, please help me! These are scary and painful and everyone else blows me off like what I'm saying is a joke! :cry:
Hello Rebecca and Daniel,
My question is in bold below. I started lucid dreaming to have a few very personal questions answered from the awareness behind the dream. I have been trying to do this since January 2013 and a couple of weeks ago I finally was able to speak to the awareness.
Shortly after realizing I was dreaming, I walked up a hill and shouted, “Lucid dreamscape!?” A voice boomed back, “Yes. What would you like?”
I started by saying, “Does…”
The voice cut me off and said, “Yes.”
“Does <insert the rest of my very personal question here>?” Again, I heard, “Yes.” I slowly began to wake up. The answer of yes to my question was the answer I was hoping to hear, but I did not think it was the case. That being said, I did mean to ask the question that I did. It kind of just came out of me. Personally I wanted other questions answered first. As of right now, I have no way of verifying the truth of the response.
I have not been able to have a profound lucid dream like this since, if only because school has been way more stressful than usual this term. My question is as follows: Even though I already thought the answer would have been no, is it possible that I was hearing only what I wanted to hear? Or does the awareness behind the dream only tell you the truth?
Thank you for any help you may provide, Bluebishop, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
I've had two dreams where I achieved Lucidity and in both of them I used my new "powers" to change something. I would wake up soon after though even though I did not feel too excited or try to wake up. How can I better stabilize my dream and keep myself asleep while maintaining control?
Hello,
Two days ago I first ever tried lucid dreaming via the MILD technique, it immadiately worked on the first night, over one yearI couldnt remind any dreams, back in the past I could remind every dream and as a child I also were able to lucid dream, I wanted to try it again, the first time I quickly became non-lucid out of excitement, but the next night I couldn't even remind one dream.... So I tried next one again... And again not even a normal dream stayed in my mind, I do around 50 reality checks per day, I try to meditate and I began to write a dream journal, in the evening I visualize my dream scene and an object that is meant to remind me of dreaming, often during the day I ask myself if I am dreaming and tell myself that I will have a lucid dream tonight, but somehow nothing happens anymore :(
I had trouble sleeping the last two nights because I wasn't really tired, I often woke up, tried to sleep but I only fell in a somehow light state of sleep...
Is it possible it has something to do that I go to school?
I really don't understand it so I ask for help :-(
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hi there
I have been able to use and understand lucid dreams. I have created everything I can think of in a lucid dream to the point I cant think of anything else I can do or learn from. I started about 5 years ago to naturally go into non-lucid dreams and when it was interesting and different, I then become lucid. I have noticed however over the years my dreams becoming ever more sparse with fewer and fewer things in them. I was wondering what do I need to do in order for my dreams to become full of action again? thanks sam
Been having semi lucid dreams for a while (Maybe one or two experiences where I've had complete control) even though I had no intentions of doing it at all. I have never really tried to lucid dream, but I have had many related experiences. Almost every night I doze off and pass though different things that lead me into something kind of like lucid dreaming with no intention of it actually happening, this includes ignoring an itch or not moving at all. I found, though, when I'm overly tired and almost asleep, I think of something, and whatever I think of first I will dream about. I usually think of something stupid and I wont want to dream about it, so I attempt to wake myself up within the first second or two of that dream(which is close to impossible). My whole body goes completely numb and I know i'm conscious but i cant move. I usually end up forcing myself to wake up and when i do i am covered in sweat and heavily breathing. So whenever this happens I try to move around in my bed (hopping this will stop any repeat of what just happened) but no, the exact same thing happens and I got to force myself up again. The only way I can stop myself from having these experiences is by going to the washroom, forcing myself to stay awake for a certain period of time, listening to music and going on my phone or anything electronic.
I just want to know what the hell is going on lol? I know what I'm experiencing is not lucid dreaming because I actually never get to a dream part, but its sure not like any of the joyous experiences anyone else claims they are having.
Thanks for your questions ;)
We have enough now and will start writing our separate responses.
Will post again with the feature soon!
My question:
Which method/technique of lucid dreaming have you had the most success with?
Hi Rebecca my name is nabil . This is a really amazing website you have . Never thought i would find someone so into dreams as myself. just as far as i can remember ive been having dreams everyday well since i was about 14 really. I found it very amazing when i read in your forums that youve had lucid dreams at least 7 times in one week , needless to say probably everyday ? And speaking to your conscious . Mine has spoken to me but ive never had a face to face conversation ! Ive learned in lucid dreaming confidence is a huge issue with control , believing you can will allow you to. But to you im probably an amateur because im having problems having complete control , Like reading a book . i read somewhere and a friend told me that you cannot read in dreams because of some restarted reason . I read on your forum that that part of your brain is shutoff . Ive read things before but it takes such a large amount of focus that the dream sometimes ends if i try to hard . What have you read ? I lost interest in my dreams because i just sounded crazy around my friends talking about them when half of them dont even dream once a month . And honestly they just started to scare me , just the fact there was not a lot of research in something so ........ Odd? And for as long as i have been dreaming ive never had a out of body experience that i can remember tell recently . I know you can perceive whatever in dreams but to just fall threw my roof back into my body and wake that very moment . What are some of your views on the matter
Mulitiple times i have had a false awakening, did my reality checks and became a bit lucid, but i did everything you suggested to increase my lucidity (spinning around, rubbing my hands, telling myself im in a dream..) and it didnt work :-( also, every time i have these false awakenings i seem to be trapped in my room and not be able to teleport or even leave the room... its quite annoying. So what exactly is this that im experiencing?
Sorry for the long reply its just been bothering me a lot and i have not a clue where to find the answer ;P
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Hi Daniel and Rebecca! My first lucid dream experience that i can remember was, when I was about 4 to 5 years old. I can still remember my dream. It was de first time I could choose to fly in my dream. Ever since I've had a lot of lucid dreams. First I couldn't control them. I was just "aware" that I was dreaming. My nightmares were terrible, and every time I tried so hard to wake up. When I was about 8 years old I learned more and more to control my dreams :) I'm 19 years old now, and I'm studying psychology. My question is: Is the capability to have lucid dreams inheritable? And how is it possible that some people can do it so easy and others try so hard without a lot of success? Thanks for your time :)
Why must your mind manifest scary images during REM Atonia? Why don't you see a little girl playing with a skipping rope, instead of demonic figures?
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gvlego wrote: Do mental disorders or differences (example: Asperger's Syndrome) affect the ability to dream and how?
I have Aspergers and dream and LD fine.
If anything if one has Aspergers and LD ends up being a real want, as Aspergers people can obsess about their special interests, having Aspergers could in fact by helpful as one will then be thinking about it much of the time.
Note with my Aspergers Im unable to fantasize at all in my head.. but that dont affect me from doing stuff like WILD.
corn55 wrote: I'm new here so I'm not exactly sure how this whole thing works but I have a very very important question that no one can seem to give me an answer to and I was hoping you could help me! Like 95% of the time when I'm dreaming it's like a lucid dream, I know its a dream and blah blah whatever. I can control what I'm doing and nothing else. But when I have my dreams I can actually feel them and they're so real that I doubt myself a lot both in dreams and reality, I'm constantly questioning "Am I dreaming or is this real?" And the dreams will give me real physical pain!? Once, a few years ago, a had a dream that I had fallen off of a very tall building and as soon as I hit the bottom I was screaming bloody murder because every single piece of my body hurt like I'd just been crushed. It hurt so bad that I couldn't move, I vomited on myself twice and I stayed out of school for two days because the pain was so bad that if I tried to move I would pass out and a lot of my limbs wouldn't move at all no matter how hard I tried. Another time, I had a dream that I was walking through the woods and a man grabbed me and he bit down on my neck really hard and when I woke up the spot where he had bitten me ached like in the actual shape of a bite mark. These dreams are very VERY scary and they're so real it's unbelievable. I can feel, touch, hear, see and smell everything that's going on and it's so bad that I can't even tell the difference any more. Just now, about 40 minutes ago, I think I woke up from what I'm assuming can only be a dream. But it was so real that I think it might have actually been real, like I really do. I was laying in bed and I heard rustling on the other side of the bed and I ignored it thinking it was probably my laptop charger sliding off the edge of the bed or something but then I heard a really low and dark and kind of like, raspy laugh right next to my ear and I freeze up. At this point I'm terrified and I'm closing my eyes really tight thinking to myself "oh god please let this not be real please don't let this happen go away go away go away" and after about a minute of doing that I loosen up a little because I think he's gone but then I feel hot, wet breathing on my neck and I tense up again and then it wraps it's arm around me and it's holding me really tight. His skin is warm and damp like he's sweating and he's so bony and disgusting and I could smell his breath and it smelled like rotten meat and i could feel him breathing and it made me so sick to my stomach that I threw up in my mouth multiple times. He's so close to me I can feel his chest rise and his sweat is making my shirt damp, I'm so scared I start screaming and I know that I'm really real life screaming because I can feel it coming out of my throat and I know I'm wide awake I'm screaming for my mom to please help me please come help me but she doesn't come because she's sleeping so I laid there crying for a good 20 minutes while this skinny sweaty dead smelling disgusting thing holds me close to him and breathes down my neck and I'm crying so loud and the only reason it stopped was because my dog opened my door and I guess it "woke me up" but I have wet spots on my shirt where his chest and arms were pressing against me and my throat is sore from screaming and my eyes are puffy from crying. I want to believe it's a dream but I'm scared it might not be? I know it sounds stupid but it's so real. All of my dreams are like this, why? Please can someone help me, I've been wondering this for years and no one can give me an answer, it's awful and it keeps me from doing things I need help! Please, please help me! These are scary and painful and everyone else blows me off like what I'm saying is a joke! :cry:
Hi, I was reading your post in the help section to Rebecca. Ive no idea how she will respond to your post (she may be left not knowing how to respond to it as your questions are hard for most) , I hope you or rebecca dont mind me responding.
Sounds like you may be energy aware and hence your issues with dream things even after you wake up. Still feeling where you were hurt in the dream etc
The following is what many and many schools of thought know and believe.
We are rather complex beings, our bodies consist of various bodies
- physical
- etheric (which is like a copy of our physical body but its in its energy form)
- astral (formless, which people use in OBE and shape it with their beliefs)
- mental body (which we use when dreaming etc, it carries all the energy of our thoughts and thought forms)
- the soul body etc
Our various energy bodies interact with one another in combination.. thou very rare it is even possible to get something called repercussion happen (damage to the physical body from a dream or thought. A famous kind of this is stigmata where people manifest the wounds of christ. Others may actually manifest bites and markings from their dreams ..be it from things in their dreams or just from their own thoughts onto thier physical skin and body.. I once had my arm marked and swell for almost a week from being cut by a sword in my dream/astral. These things are not unusual among psychics and occultists.
When you dream, one can get damage to other bodies as what goes on in any of these bodies can affect your other bodies but usually people as they arent energy aware, usually cant feel this going on and hence arent aware of it. Psychics and energy aware people often are thou as they feel it and may even see it. They arent looney but experiencing a different reality to most.
I think that is what may be happening there with you and also causing you the confusion of what is real and what isnt. Living in a reality which isnt purely physical, can be quite confusing esp if you are young like I suppose you are.
You can use your own thoughts to help heal yourself from your energy injuries and to fix the damage being done to your own auric energy bodies (layers). You can also use the energy of your own thoughts etc, to help keep these things away from you whether they are your own thought beings (things of energy created by your own thoughts) or other things.
You may be feeling vulerable and a victim to all this, but you do not need to be. We are all more powerful then we realise. The ability to feel things is a gift.
It hurt so bad that I couldn't move, I vomited on myself twice and I stayed out of school for two days because the pain was so bad that if I tried to move I would pass out and a lot of my limbs wouldn't move at all no matter how hard I tried
Next time something like that happens, pray to whatever you believe in to protect you and then get yourself a good healer who can feel and work with energy (make sure you feel good about the person before allowing them to work on your energy field.. if you dont, dont allow them too as there are some not good people around too). Many people out there if you look in the right places can fix things like this and hence you do not need to be taking days off school due to it once you find someone who can help. (sorry the sites I used to know with good ones...shamans, lightworkers, energy healers, psychics to fix things like this arent around nowdays).
If you cant find anyone, you can try to send me a pm and I'll try to work with you to help yourself but be aware Im very busy and hence not always around this site, often away for long periods. (I'd prefer if you find a good healer to be able to work with you and teach you how to help yourself, sounds like you are really needing it).
best wishes to you.
Hi everyone
Issue #1 (December 2013) of Ask The Experts is now available online! http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/ask-the-experts-december-2013.html
Our answers started becoming quite in-depth, so we only covered 4 questions in the first issue. I think that's actually turned out for the best, though, because it means we can really get to the meat of the issue.
We'll keep running this feature every month. So while we do already have questions lined up for January 2014 (and February in fact), feel free to keep posting them here and we'll address them in turn. The sooner you post your question, the better.
Thanks for your contributions and making this feature possible!
I posted my question on the 29th of November..
When will it be answered?
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Creator wrote: Why must your mind manifest scary images during REM Atonia? Why don't you see a little girl playing with a skipping rope, instead of demonic figures?
Which is more representative of your fears: A little girl skipping rope or demonic figures?
I have seen a comment earlier that the brain cannot come up with something new during dreaming. That is simply not true, I had lots of dreams of things I never saw before in my life, ever.
A more scientific proof is of August Kekulé ouroboros dream in 1862 from which he created the benzene structure. A very simple dream of a snake grabbing its own tale, combine with his scientific knowledge making a breakthrough of significant scientific value. And that was just daydreaming.
Are there known techniques to tap into the dream world as an source of inspiration? To art, problem solving, etc.?
lucidinthe sky wrote:
Creator wrote:Why must your mind manifest scary images during REM Atonia? Why don't you see a little girl playing with a skipping rope, instead of demonic figures?
Which is more representative of your fears: A little girl skipping rope or demonic figures?
But why fears?
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Fear is the doorway through which scary things pass, whether they be "demons" or any other frightening thing. Fear is what manifests such entities. My experience has been that if you want to overcome demons and any other kind of perceived darkness, first overcome your fears and they will be gone.
Generally, people who experience SP (although the experience is rare) will often have a lot of fear because they don't know what's happening to them. Fear is a cycle, you manifest what you are afraid of, it's frightens you, which reinforces it, etc.
Hi!
Few questions :)
Which lucid dreaming technique should I use when I have medicine that don't let me have lucid dreams? I had a very vivid flying dream few days ago, but I took medicine much earlier that day, before going to sleep again. What do you suggest? Should I cotinue that kind of routine and take those about 8 hours earlier before going to sleep again? What kind f techinque would be best for me? :)
And I have a remee mask also, I know that I sleep about 7 hours 45 minutes a night, when should I program my remee to wake up at night? I mean when is the best rem cycle to wake up? And which binaural beats go together with remee the best? I think this is something you can't read anywhere since there are not that much info about remee on this site...
What about long term hypnosis for lucid dreaming? What should I use in the hypnosis script?
Thank you very much!
Lara
sometimes we dream that we are lucid dreaming how can we realize differences? :?: which reality check do you recommend to use? :?:
Creator wrote:
lucidinthe sky wrote:Creator wrote:Why must your mind manifest scary images during REM Atonia? Why don't you see a little girl playing with a skipping rope, instead of demonic figures?
Which is more representative of your fears: A little girl skipping rope or demonic figures?
But why fears?
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I think ones ** strongest emotions** will often manifest in dreams not necessarily fears, it could be something happy too if its carried a strong emotion to it.
A little girl skipping rope isnt something which makes a lot of emotional impact on most...not an image strongly imprinted in our subconciousness... doesnt hold a lot of great meaning to most of us.
The subconciousness also uses dreams to also heal things or work things out including fears but that could just as easily be dreams of sorting school or life stuff out or whatever (still doesnt have to be necessarily fear).
Rebecca wrote: Hi everyone
Issue #1 (December 2013) of Ask The Experts is now available online! http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/ask-the-experts-december-2013.html
Our answers started becoming quite in-depth, so we only covered 4 questions in the first issue. I think that's actually turned out for the best, though, because it means we can really get to the meat of the issue.
We'll keep running this feature every month. So while we do already have questions lined up for January 2014 (and February in fact), feel free to keep posting them here and we'll address them in turn. The sooner you post your question, the better.
Thanks for your contributions and making this feature possible!
Hi Rebecca.. I loved the following part
"Or let's go all-out: ten eyes down the left, eleven eyes down the right, a giant nose and a mouth coming out of the nostril. I'm confident I've never seen that guy before. So at face value (sorry) the quote is disprovable." :lol:
Can you use lucid dream to tap into some past memories? I read this on another site: "There was this one lucid I had (the entry has long ago been deleted) where I went exploring, and came about this old house. There was this lady there who I didn't recognize, but she said she used to baby sit me. When I woke up, I asked my pops about the lady, and when I described her, he said I was pretty much spot on. The dream itself wasn't mind bending, but the fact that I was able to remember someone who I don't remember at all in waking life was pretty amazing." In other words, are dreams like a huge memory bank of your whole life and everything you've experienced and can you relive them? -Shane
What is the number one key to lucid dreaming?
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I know that when you're dreaming and you look in the mirror you can't see yourself or you look funny or something... But when you are lucid can you see yourself clearly? If so could you use this to like, give yourself a haircut and test things out that you can use in waking life? I would like to try this so i know what style hair i would suit but you can use this to do different things as well :)
Some say that lucid dream closely correlates with astral projection. so if mastering lucid dreaming can astral projection be manifested?
I have been having much success with dream recall. My problem is this: I have conversations with people in the dream state. However, when I wake up, I believe that I actually had these conversations in the "waking" state. After thinking about the conversation a while, I realize that was part of a dream that I had. It gets confusing. Did I actually have this conversation while "awake" or in a dream? The line is getting blurred. Does this make sense to anyone? Is this normal?
Hi. My name is Gerald. My mother had an old indian doll that she had given me. At one point I placed it in a storage shed in my backyard. We were renting that place and when we decided to move, I discovered the doll had gotten wet and rotted. I threw it in the trash. I always told people about that doll, as it was very old. I told some relatives I wished I still had it. This story I repeated every now and then over the years. One day many years later, I was telling my mother I wished I still had that doll she gave me. To my utter amazement she said she never gave me the doll. I said yes you did. At that point she went and got it and showed me the doll I never owned. This must have been a dream which became reality to me. That was a few years ago and I had forgotten about it until today. I was talking to my uncle about an apartment he rented when he lived in Dallas that was furnished. I remember him telling me that when he got ready to move, the apartment owners did not rent furnished apartments and he needed to remove the items when he left. Well he told me today that yes, the apartment was furnished, but he never told me that he was told to take the items with him. I guess this was another dream. I sometimes wonder when I,m talking to people, if I am relating an event that happened or if it was just a dream. I even stop conversation some times because I,m not sure whether it was real or a dream. Can you shed any light on this?
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My question is this;
Sometimes when I'm lucid dreaming I tend to have blackouts. They last for about five seconds. I'm sure they are not a signal that the dream is about to fade because most of the time I get back into the same dream after having one. What causes these blackouts and how can I prevent them from happening?
P.S - They tend to happen even after I have grounded myself and stabilized the dream.
This is my second official question and it actually has nothing to do with lucid dreaming. I'm asking this question on behalf of one of my close friends.
I have a friend who has a ' Sleep Talking ' problem. Her conversations in sleep include short ineligible excerpts as well as full-fledged animated telephone calls. Moreover if you talk to her during this time, she has a tendency to reply quite truthfully. They have a frequency of happening once a week or so. They are not quite severe but have a downside which is that she can't keep any secrets as she sometimes blurts them out during sleep. (Before anyone says that she shouldn't keep any secrets and be truthful all the time, I would like to remind him that everybody likes to have their own secrets.)
So what is your advice for her on how to overcome this or at least on how to prevent saying things she doesn't want to say during sleep? (Apart from seeing a sleep specialist. It isn't a severe problem.)
P.S. She doesn't sleep-walk or sleep-eat. She is 17 years old and keeps a strict sleep schedule and leads a healthy lifestyle. The sleep-talking problem is not a recent one and she says that **her father also used to sleep-talk. **
I've researched a lot on lucid dreaming. I've tried to find the possible dangers. Few books say-"lucid dreaming for a long time/in depth will weaken your barrier between reality and dreams." If this happens we wouldn't know the difference between false memories and the actual ones :( This is very dangerous right? :( And some books say-"lucid dreaming leads to multiple false awakening which at one stage will make you go bonkers" Is this actually posible? :?: If you prove that these are myths(via scientific approach ) you'll get
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I've been having a recurring nightmare of being chased and killed by a killer with a knife. How do I heal this nightmare? I became lucid once in this nightmare and I was so afraid of being killed and forced myself to wake up even though I knew it was a dream. It's so scary and traumatic. How do I heal a nightmare?
Can this situation be called lucid dreaming?
I've woken up, and trying to get back to bed. I've just remembered that I can do lucid dreaming after waking up and going to sleep again. While trying that, one of the signs is sleep paralysis right? I could feel electricity flowing, the feeling that when one part of your body is going numb. Then I can't move. And also I hear a sound. But rather than the rain stuff they call sound, it is like a ping sound. Just like the sound from an old cellphone, the one that makes morse code stuff ring tone.
Then I opened my eyes I think in the dream and somewhat gray, the place is blurry and I couldn't move my body. But when I could move it, in my it feels like my soul or something get out of my body. But I can hardly move and hardly keep my state (Lucidity I think) stable, I got up just like a man pushing himself from the bed. But I didn't saw my body. But I also somewhat hear people from the outside.
I stood up and looked at my hands, still everything is still gray and blurry. Then I did a reality check. Pushing my finger to my hand, and yet it didn't go through. Can this be called lucid dreaming or am I close to creating a lucid dream state? I know I'm not in a dream in a dream state, because I've done that many times, in where I've had many false awakenings.
I seem to remember alot of dreams a night. I would say at least 5 dreams or more. I know I'm dreaming, I know that when I try to fly and I do, I feel safe because the world isn't real. I can almost do this every night at least once. What does this mean? I'm so new to this Lucid Dreaming concept and I have yet to find anyone with similar experiences. My main concern is, is it a problem to recall so many dreams, and why do I remember so much of them?
I have come here in need of help. I have chronic sleep paralysis that has occurred almost every single time I sleep as far back into my childhood as i can remember. Many times multiple episodes in one night. Also, I cannot remember a dream as far back into my childhood as I can think that has not been a lucid dream. Up until I was told otherwise, I had always assumed that lucid dreams were the norm. Research into my real issue of damn sleep paralysis led me here to the world of lucid dreaming. I am 24 years old and have episodes of sleep paralysis almost every single time I go to sleep. As a child, it was multiple times per night, I quickly taught myself how to deal with them, over time everything became routine but none the less still extremely annoying and they are an experience I would really care not to have. This has caused me to develop some serious sleeping issues, and as i have gotten older the really really bad episodes of sleep paralysis, the ones that last the longest and continue on and off throughout the night come in waves, with maybe a few days of good sleep and then a week of paralysis episodes. I learned pretty quickly that using substances like alcohol, weed and sleeping pills will keep this from happening. I have also heard that for those trying to become lucid during dreams attempt to actually induce sleep paralysis on themselves to reach this. That is where I thought that someone here could maybe help me, i cant continue down my current alcoholic path to avoid these experiences, connecting them with something positive like lucid dreaming seems like the most promising idea. The only issue is lucid dreams are my regular dreams so there in lies the issue then. Any suggestions would be really helpful, it seems as I get older, even though the paralysis episodes may spread themselves out, the intensity is just continuing to grow. I will probably avoid sleep tonight because now it is in my mind and probably wont be a very fun night haha. I can't express the level of gratitude I would have for any suggestions or help given. Thank you.
is it possible for a lucid dream to be longer than reality, for example: if your sleeping for 2 hours could that mean you could have a lucid dream for 2 days?
Hello - I had an experience that I can't quite figure out. I've never had anything like this happen to me before....
I fell asleep on the couch - and from my understanding, my relatives came in and were having a conversation with one another next to me. I could hear their exact conversation - and I guess I placed that into the dream aspect unintentionally. (I do have history with lucid dreaming, but I've stepped away from it recently) Instead of the living room - the setting was a car dealership, and I was responding to both of them. (however they were not responding to my answers/comments directly in the "dream" either.) I was giving very detailed thorough responses. This lasted the entire length of their conversation (which was quite long - at least 15-20 minutes they said). When their conversation ended, I woke up a little after it, and was very confused. I asked if I had responded at all to what they were saying - and I was told that I had not said a word and was "sleeping." I confirmed what they were saying and it was spot on.
This is really confusing - a "dream" state - where I was able to dream up a completely different environment/setting that was not lucid dreamt. (including wind that moved those multicolored flags at the dealership )...but I could accurately remember external information?? I'm really unsure of what happened, and I cant seem to find any good information on it - so I ask you for help/opinions. Please and Thank you!
I've also experienced seeing people for the first time in a dream before actually meeting them. One morning I told my girlfriend about a girl who'd come to visit in my dream. I'd never met this girl. But about an hour later, the doorbell rang, I answered, and it was HER, in every detail, from hair style and color, right down to the small wrinkle above her upper lip.
One thing I've noticed though, when seeing things or people for the first time in a dream, is that when later meeting the real person or place, you can find you've misinterpreted a lot, or the person's size is quite different. One time, the golf course I'd seen in a dream with many white balls flying, turned out to actually be an empty mowed field next to a busy tennis court, with white balls flying. And the girl I mentioned above, was so short in real life, and small boned! In my dream, she'd been even taller than me, with matchingly bigger features.
I've been looking up the WILD technique because I feel like it would be a good technique for me to try someday, but something that's really bugging me out is all that I'm hearing about sleep paralysis. I know that all the hallucinations and such are all just in my head, but I still have a feeling that it will still creep me out nonetheless. Like is there something I can listen to during the whole process like brainwave entrainment(adding in an additional question here, is there some type of age restriction on these type of things? I'm 16.) or anything similar, or is there something I can do before I start this technique to rid of this fearful feeling? Please share any advice, thanks!
Oh my goodness. We have a lot of catching up to do with this Q&A. I'm going to temporarily lock this thread until we're up to speed -- please feel free to post your question in the relevant forum category instead.