Lucid Dreaming.

[June1]

I have a friend who does this occasionally does this. I think I did this once, but I've never really concentrated on it. I have, however, made myself think about something before falling asleep to ensure that I dreamt about it. It worked!

Has anyone here seen the movie, Waking Life? There's a very interesting, philosophical, and creepy discussion about lucid dreaming. I saw this movie in philosophy class.

[Harlan]

Western culture:

https://www.lucidity.com

Eastern cultures....research Tibetian Dreaming.

Something to consider: getting hung up on dreaming is another distraction on the path to enlightenment.

[cvkid]

I have lucid dreams all the time. In the last one I was getting attacked by huge demon like creatures, I realized it was just a dream and turned them into "paper demon creatures" . They kept coming, so I started ripping off arms and heads. They tore just like paper would.

[snackinabox]

Yay for the person who mentioned Waking Life!!

Awesome movie...you gotta be either philosophical or stoned to get it though Nah it's awesome...very trippy indeed, presents some really cool ideas.

[dtstiachi]

Lucid dreaming is interesting.

I have had a little bit of experience with it, and soon I hope to try it out further.

[honour is life]

does any one no how to trigger lucidity from a normal dream? or do you have to realise that its not real?

[honour is life]

sorry about the double post but i have just thought... have any of the people who have been able to achieve a lucid dream had an OBE? (out of body experience) or been able to trigger one?

[Oopgrub]

I'm aware of the term. And I love learning about the mechanics of the mind and dreaming in particular.

You can trigger a lucid dream by setting a timer or something before you go to sleep, so while you're dreaming you see a flash of light or something, and you remember what its from.

[Skeptic 2004]

Went to ld4all.com and actually did some the things they suggested for lucid dreaming. Wow! I had my first lucid dream a couple nights ago, and it was really neat. The funny thing is, I don't remember what happened prior to me becoming aware that I was dreaming, but I do remember everything that happened afterward. I was having a normal dream (which I don't remember in detail), but in the middle I realized that something wasn't quite right. Then, I became aware that I was having a dream (I even said in my dream, "I'm having a lucid dream!"). From that point forward, I was able to control time. A dude dropped a glass bottle, and it shattered. I rewound time to watch it come back together and fly back into his hand. It was pretty cool. I did all sorts of other things too, but manipulating time was just incredibly fun. At one point, I got tired so I said, "I'm going back to sleep". The world disappeared, and I don't remember anything that happened after that.

I highly recommend trying out the dream techniques in ld4all.com. I'm living proof that they work!

[elila]

I've never had one- but I'm able to remember a lot of my dreams which is pretty cool.

If I did have one, I think I'd take more chances than I do in reality. Maybe do extreme MA stunts? I dunno...