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I wonder if the induction of lucid dreams could become a commercial endeavor? Viewing it as an alternative to technological virtual reality, people would start buying products which induce dreams instead. Companies would subsequently market and patent items which enhance visual experiences in dreams. The future is daunting.
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Coming from a religious background, I believed that I was being possessed to explain the lack of control over my body. I even hallucinated an "evil" "form" coming towards me before my body locked up and I felt tingles. So ~weird~ terrifying being able to scream without your body doing anything.
Sleep paralysis is mortifying if you don't know what you're dealing with. I can completely understand how that's been the source of many people believing in possessions over the centuries. Most of my paralysis episodes didn't involve the "evil presence" people often talk about. That is, until a recent one less than a year ago, where I woke up with a giant "invisible" spider on my chest It's terrifying to be in this s…
Just throwing this out there. I've had hundreds of lucid dreams and it's the most amazing experiences I've have in my life. It takes practice to 1) figure out you're dreaming with some level of reliability 2) learn to take control 3) train yourself not to get too excited so you don't wake yourself almost immediately. I believe the first step is to train yourself to recognize a dream. It becomes easier once you've don…
Are you still getting all the benefits of REM sleep if you are kick-starting some other parts of the brain to become conscious? Have they done any fMRI studies on this phenomena?
Two way communication is theoretically possible by measuring eye movements and signaling back with light flashes, but not sure its been done.
And yeah I have a feeling it affects sleep in some way, especially because being lucid for long periods of time tends to wake you up randomly at night
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Learning to lucid dream is basically giving yourself a sleep disorder on purpose. Having done this deliberately in the past and had some fairly wacky side-effects, I think it's worth people considering the negatives if they style trying to induce lucidity.
Having done this deliberately in the past and had some fairly wacky side-effects Such as?
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I'd say you likely haven't lucid dreamed, because it's a you-really-know-it feeling. You realize you are dreaming "Oh, I'm dreaming right now. I'm lying in my bed, and dreaming this place", and you can decide to do things - but you also have to be careful not to become too lucid and wake yourself up (usually I do this by calming myself down) and not to fall into a "real" dream (I find that spinning in circles makes y…
I had a dream where I was in my bedroom and noticed that it was arranged in an old way that I had since rearranged a month ago. I suggested to myself that I was in a dream and tried to wake myself up. I woke up into yet another dream where the room was in its current arrangement. I woke up shortly after for real this time, into reality. I woke up to the sun beaming through the window into my eyes. Maybe I was more lu…
I'm afraid not.
I've never dreamed. Or at least I've never had any recollection of dreaming upon waking. I wonder if this would make it so that I could dream, or remember that I dream (if I do dream)?
One night, right before bed, make the mental note that you need to remember your dream when you wake up. Maybe even write yourself a reminder on your phone or post-it note. When you wake up, seeing the note might help you remember what you dreamed off. Maybe the first time you still won't remember, but I'm sure after a few nights you probably finally will remember your dream.
If you do remember your dream, have a piece of paper close by and write it down immediately, otherwise you might forget about it after your shower.
Just throwing this out there. I've had hundreds of lucid dreams and it's the most amazing experiences I've have in my life. It takes practice to 1) figure out you're dreaming with some level of reliability 2) learn to take control 3) train yourself not to get too excited so you don't wake yourself almost immediately. I believe the first step is to train yourself to recognize a dream. It becomes easier once you've don…
This sounds wonderful. I've only had a couple of lucid dreams and am currently trying again to be able to invoke them. I am starting by keeping a dream journal again, which I did consistently during the time I had my few lucid dream experiences. At the same time I have to fight the urge to record every single dream throughout the night because I don't want to break up my sleep. I only record what I remember upon wake…
I don't do a certain reality check, but I've been lucid dreaming on and off since early teens so I just notice sometimes. Most often when I remember noticing its because I look away and things are different when I look back
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Its pretty clear to me at least. I can sometimes remember the moment I figured out I was dreaming. With some great ones being jumping through a closed window and off a skyscraper.
That seems terrifying. How do you separate that experience from the real world if you're say standing on the edge of a roof or bridge? How do you know _for sure_ you're dreaming and it's ok to jump?
Just throwing this out there. I've had hundreds of lucid dreams and it's the most amazing experiences I've have in my life. It takes practice to 1) figure out you're dreaming with some level of reliability 2) learn to take control 3) train yourself not to get too excited so you don't wake yourself almost immediately. I believe the first step is to train yourself to recognize a dream. It becomes easier once you've don…
More of a pre-lucid dream question... can you dictate the content/topic of your dreams? That would be some powerful stuff - virtual reality of another kind.
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I guess the experience is agreeable to you? I have lucid dreams sometimes, and something about it is very unsettling to me. I sometimes have non-lucid nightmares where I can feel myself losing my mind, with uncontrollable visual hallucinations and a sense of falling apart mentally. I also have nightmares where I wake up from a dream, only to realize I'm still dreaming, over and over again. Somehow the lucid dreams I…
Almost always exceedingly wonderful, better than anything 'IRL'. Except for lucid nightmares which seem to start out as regular nightmares anyways. Sometimes I'm able to overpower the nightmare and go fully lucid, other times I can't and its horrible. Way worse than a regular nightmare because I'm fully aware of whats happening. Its definitely unsettling at first. I started lucid dreaming by chance at ~11 so I guess…