(Jul. 29, 2013 2:34 AM)DiamondStar Wrote: [ -> ]REM Sleep also know as Lucid Dreaming is extremely rare.
I would find it fascinating if someone could have a nightmare while being in control.
It's called a nightmare for a reason, if you could control a nightmare it takes out the scariness you receive when in the dream.
Yeah, half the people that just said they lucid dream all the time, nice lying skills. Sorry but ive been trying for 8 years for several reasons. I find it extremely hard to believe that they do.
If I could control my dreams, I'd be extremely happy. If I could control my nightmares, I'd be ecstatic.
Yeah. I suppose it is.
my worst nightmare
I woke up in hell in my dream and when i was trying to wake up and i was getting choked it was very scary
That seems traumatic in the very least. I haven't slept yet but when I do *Dos Equis XD* I'll probably be able to give an update
EVERYONE WAS USING DRAGOOON!!! *Everyone screams*
Now for seriousness: Whenever I have a nightmare, I just curl into a ball and jerk my head backwards(In the dream), then I'm awake. Reality can sometimes respond to what you do in a dream so I think when I curl into a ball in my dreams, I do so in reality too. I'm guessing that my brain turns back on once I do this by "becoming alert" that my head just jerked backwards. Idk if this will work for you all, but it works for me so you can try it out if you want to. That skill got me away from that horrible Dragooon nightmare.
(Jul. 29, 2013 2:10 PM)ryukiba Wrote: [ -> ]What's lucid dreaming?
To be aware that you are in a dream, what is happening in the dream, and often to be able to control the dream
Ok thanks man
I've done that once
(Jul. 29, 2013 9:41 PM)DrPepsidew Wrote: [ -> ] (Jul. 29, 2013 2:10 PM)ryukiba Wrote: [ -> ]What's lucid dreaming?
To be aware that you are in a dream, what is happening in the dream, and often to be able to control the dream
Is this rare or something? Because I do this quite frequently.
It varies person to person but in most cases, yes. Grats Tri ^-^
Can't give you guys another, haven't slept yet XD
I can't remember a lot of my dreams (especially nightmares), but I remember one
So I was walking around the neighborhood and saw a creepy ventriloquist dummy staring at me with a knife and creepily said "Hi Adam". I quickly ran home and checked my room. And saw the doll again. And once again he said "Hi Adam". Really scared I went to the bathroom and closed the door. The light switch wouldn't turn on, but I was still like "I'm save". Then I heard something and saw something on the toilet. It was the doll and once again told me hi. I broke open the door and ran outside again. Some how I ended up at a mansion and everyone room I looked in the doll was there. Then he chased me through the mansion. I finally put him in the mansions furnance and watched him burn. I walked out the door all happy and then heard something say "Hi Adam". Turned around and saw the doll, with a scary look on his face. Then I woke up. This creeped me out for a while after waking up.
Sounds kinds like Chucky, I'm not a huge fan of puppets either man.
Holy carp that is scary.
I don't often have nightmares but when I do there are guns and people I care about getting killed. No biggie.
(Jul. 30, 2013 3:09 AM)*Ginga* Wrote: [ -> ]Holy carp that is scary.
I don't often have nightmares but when I do there are guns and people I care about getting killed. No biggie.
My loved ones are tortured and they enjoy me watching it to make me feel like I wasn't enough.
No biggie
HERE'S MY UPDATE: Okay so I mentioned earlier that I've become wary of mirrors. Didn't know I was sleeping but in the dream I woke up and went forward with my morning constitutional. After brushing my teeth, I looked op and inspected them. Assuming they looked fine I gave myself one last look and it blinked. My reflection, not me. I was astonished at the fact and brushed it off as nothing. Next morning I had my same routine but instead of that, he smiled at me then tapped the glass creating a water-like ripple.
"Fragile enough," he winked at me.
A few years ago, I had a really scary dream-
A quick explanation first-
My house is right next to a decently-sized woods. Our property is fairly large, being on the edge of a small-ish town, so our yard is fairly big.
I was in the middle of my back yard, at night, when I became acutely aware of some kind of danger. I didn't know what I was afraid of, all I knew was that it was coming from the woods and was not particularly friendly. As I began to run, in the walking-through-water kind of sluggish way you often move in dreams, I glanced over my shoulder and saw an enormous bear-wolf hybrid creature. It stood on two legs, had a body like a bear's but a long snout with wicked teeth. It also had unusual glowing eyes, which seemed to change color each time I blinked. I barely made it inside, and slammed the door behind me as the creature furiously pounded at the door and surrounding wall. Looking around inside, I saw that several of my friends had boarded up all the windows, and had fortified the house. Inexplicably, there was an armory with several guns, and our house's floor plan had changed significantly as well, adding a balcony overlooking the back yard as well as several other rooms. My friends and I resolved to kill the bear, seeing as the alternative was to get eaten by said creature. After shooting the monstrosity (it was over nine feet tall) several times and throwing all sorts of other improvised weapons and heavy objects at it, the creature exploded into dark purple smoke. We hurriedly repaired the extensive damage the bear had done to the house with wood that was lying around, and reorganized, posting a lookout in case another bear showed up. Soon, the lookout shouted that he saw something, and I hurried up to the balcony to see for myself. A shadow moved around past the back fence. Suddenly, a pair of glowing eyes appeared. Then another, and another, and another, and more and more until there were too many pairs of eyes to count. At that point, terrified, I woke up.
Wow, that last part was weird. Another dream
I was talking to some kids about 4D beys when suddenly My pants disappeared!
For my dreams, they sometimes leave off at odd points. I expected a follow up to the dream three posts up, boy did I get one.
The next morning I woke up (in the dream) And went to the mirror to brush my teeth before a run. I had my iPod in (The song was The Sharpest Lives by My Chemical Romance) and I was jamming, I raised my arm but couldn't move it past my chest. Confused, I opened my eyes towards my arm. There were two, one of them mine and the other lead back to the mirror. I shook out my earbuds, music still blaring and my reflection said, "Good song, top bad I finally gotcha."
As his grip tightened, I started to bleed. He was blunt and sharp, I was terrified. I punched the mirror, shattering it. The shards flew from the frame and I could hear my scream but it was broken and sounded furious. Midair, hands shot out of each share grabbing onto me and pulling me down. I got the fragments off and bolted out of my bathroom.
I turned left into the hallway and got closelined by two arms interlocked with eachother (two mirrors were across each other). They acted together and started pulling eachother out of the mirrors. I punched one of the mirrors and broke it too. The other had gotten out and sped towards me, I picked up a chair and swung in a wide arc but the other "me" caught it and tossed it away.
He began walking towards me and I woke up. I'm waiting for the next part if there'll be one
How in the world do you catch a thrown chair?!?
I'd grab one of the legs, sidestep and pull down.
I've had a chair thrown at me hah. But yeah, that's what I did about it
(Jul. 29, 2013 3:34 AM)DrPepsidew Wrote: [ -> ] (Jul. 29, 2013 2:34 AM)DiamondStar Wrote: [ -> ]REM Sleep also know as Lucid Dreaming is extremely rare.
I would find it fascinating if someone could have a nightmare while being in control.
It's called a nightmare for a reason, if you could control a nightmare it takes out the scariness you receive when in the dream.
Yeah, half the people that just said they lucid dream all the time, nice lying skills. Sorry but ive been trying for 8 years for several reasons. I find it extremely hard to believe that they do.
If I could control my dreams, I'd be extremely happy. If I could control my nightmares, I'd be ecstatic.
Yeah. I suppose it is.
I don't think lucid dreaming is what you really want. What you want is to stop having nightmares. Nightmares come from conflicts in your external life. The real solution to stop the nightmares is to resolve your conflicts and the nightmares will go away. Trying to control them won't help much... your subconscious needs to dream for a reason because it's trying to tell you something. If you have reoccurring nightmares with similar themes popping up over and over again, it's a sure sign there's a conflict that needs to be resolved.
Have you ever had a lucid dream before though? Even just once? Were you able to control the nightmare?
I lucid dream occasionally myself.
Btw, have you ever tried dream analysis? You should read this:
http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictio...rch=mirror
Oh I know what causes nightmares, if I can't control my many external conflicts, I can at least start with the little stuff.
About lucid dreams...really all you have to do is stay still without falling asleep in order to have them. When I was younger, my parents would have me in bed by 7, but I was never tired so I would lie motionless in bed with my eyes closed until I fell asleep. After about 20 or 30 minutes, you will be unable to move your body, yet you will be aware that you're asleep. I never understood why I was concious while sleeping & able to control my dreams at times when I was younger until I learned what lucid dreaming was.
I have nightmares about logging back onto this forum.