Lucid Dreams

[Brendam]

Ive been having extremly vivid and wild dreams lately.
One of them I was sitting in a chair at a pool hall with me friends and there was a candle on the table next to me. I wished that I could move it with my mind and then it moved... That kinda "woke" me up in my dream and I controlled it for a few minutes abstoluty facinated that I could do it... then I woke up so it just ended there. Ive been trying to lucid dream by constantly asking myself if I am dreaming... If its in a random time during the day or while im falling asleep. Ive only had a few lucid but the vivid flow like wine.

[Ikith]

Iunno if this is considered a lucid dream but one time I woke up and was snoring (GDI DIDNT KNOW I SNORED >.<) then fell back asleep instantly.

[Shade]

Iunno if this is considered a lucid dream but one time I woke up and was snoring (GDI DIDNT KNOW I SNORED >.<) then fell back asleep instantly.

Unless you were actually asleep and in a dream during this process and realized "hey Im dreaming", then no. ^^;

Some years ago, I developed ways of inducing lucid dreams for myself. I was pleasantly surprised to find that other lucid dreamers invoked similar methods as well. Though there are different methods one can use, and indeed I've used several of them myself, to achieve lucidity I found the easiest way for me was to force myself to "stay awake" while I entered my dream state. They call this Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream. What I typically do is let images go through my mind while keeping my body relaxed. The images appear out of no where (though they typically relate to things I've recently seen in the waking life) and seem to disappear into a dark vortex of sorts. Often times I get sleep paralysis, a feeling that still manages to give me a sense of dread (imagine being in a coma but being fully aware of your surroundings and not being able to do anything about it) accompanied by both auditory and visual hallucinations and tactile sensations (being touched by someone /cry). Eventually I enter my dream state where I am free to conduct experiments/scenarios of my liking.

It's fascinating stuff and I'm always trying to come up with new experiments to try to see the results of them in a dream.

I do that too. I very rarely get visuals though.. I get a very harsh buzzing sound in my head when I am at the overlap point between being awake/dreaming. When this happens I try to "pull" up and out... and my dreamself gets up and then Im dreaming. So basically all of my lucid dreams start in my room/house, but often it will be slightly different, mixing up how it is now with how I remember if from childhood. Then I go to a door or a mirror in the house, and use it to go somewhere else.

I never really get the creepy sleep paralysis type stuff, and Im glad of that. I always used to try to stay perfectly still, afraid of waking up fully, but eventually I did try to move once and found out that I really couldnt move anyway.

I havent gone dreaming in a long time though.. schedule hasnt really permitted it, and I got frustrated because I could get into the dream, but couldnt manage to hold it for more than a few minutes before I came awake again.