Before I forget and the next night passes...

[Kuciwalker]

It isn't drifting off. It is, I open my eyes, I see my room. I close them and I'm in the dream. I open them, I'm back in my room. I'm completely in control of my body.

[Pekka]

skywalker, that I can't do. If I make the decision to open my eyes, then it's gone. I close my eyes and might have a small taste of the dream, but I'm unable to capture it again. It fades away and is harder and harder to remember. Can't get any details.. and then I just give up.

[Kuciwalker]

I never "do" this - it just happens to me, usually when I'm sick or have been having difficulty getting to sleep that night.

[Kuciwalker]

There's another interesting and possibly related thing that happened to me recently. I couldn't sleep, and I was just thinking about thing in bed, to try and go to sleep. This continued for about six or seven hours (before I got sleep medicine and actually fell asleep), and I thrashed about a bit, getting tangled in the comforter, but I realized later that I'd almost been in a trance, and I'd actually rested about as much as I did sleeping. It was like an awake-dream.

[Wittlich]

Sky, i would think that that's a good example of a fever-reinforced deamstate, and though it's almost (as far as I know) impossible to control - it's still a form of a restfull speep-cycle, but to to make it a lucid dream would be vertualy impossible.

[JohnT]

Eh, whenever I have a bad dream, I always think "this sucks, let's wake up." And then I awake. Is that what you're talking about?

[Pekka]

JohnT, Oh that's another loop I get into! When I have a bad dream and realize it just a dream, I kind of think 'well this nightmare is perfect if I can't wake up now'. And then I try to wake up, and it just doesn't work! But soon after that I'm doing fun stuff and not having a nightmare so it's all good.

[Space05us]

I hate having nightmares, they start then I just tell myself "**** that", wake up for a second, and then back to sleep I go. I rarely have a full nightmare, its too bad though because I like the adrenaline rush I get from them.

[DaShi]

I prefer to sit back and enjoy the show. However, last night's dream was ****ing annoying. I was a defense attorney for a murder suspect. For some stupid reason my cocounsel wanted the defendant to take the stand and for me to question her. I told them that we didn't have a case theory. There weren't even any opening statements for me to work with. They looked confused. So I got up and asked my first question, "Please state your name for the court." The defendent, who was a Chinese student at my school, responded with, "Yes."

I'm glad I taught my last classes for the semester today.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Wittlich
Actually, I've manipulated my dreams quite a few times. It makes for a VERY enjoyable sleep session!

Me too

Bad guys toasted, flying off into the sunset with the beautiful damsel I rescued.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by JohnT
Eh, whenever I have a bad dream, I always think "this sucks, let's wake up." And then I awake. Is that what you're talking about?

Not really. It's like "this isn't happening. This is happening istead."

Once I had a dream where a hot babe and I were trapped inside a haunted house. I knew that we had to get out before sunset, or something really bad is going to happen. However, the front door was blocked and there were no windows, and the sun was setting quickly. Suddenly I realised that, "If I can't go through the door, I can go through a wall instead."

So I just bashed a great big hole in a wall, and carried the babe out of the house, into the sunset (corny, I know ).

[Inverse Icarus]

i don't think i've ever consiously controlled a dream, though i have many. could be interesting to try.

any tips? how far can you stretch it? can you introduce new people into the dream, and completely change it? i don't often dream of my father, and when i do it's usually not a good dream. do you think it's possible to either change a dream with him in it, or introduce him into another dream?

i'm going to google a bit.

[DaShi]

Why are geeks so obsessed with controlling dreams? Are their real lives that bad?

[Flip McWho]

Since you are a deep sleeper, lucid dreams are probably few and far between....but I would bet that you've had lucid dreams in the past.

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Ummmm yeah I might have. Is lucid dreaming defined as in controling your dreams because I've never been able to control my dreams at all, of course I've never tried.

The earliest dream I can remember is from many years ago. I think something like 6 or so years. I was on a kinda barge thing leaning on the railing watching the statue of liberty go past for some reason. Everything was in that drab colour of military styles and guess what I was a WWII styles uniform and there was a tank that I could see in the middle of the barge. Very weird . Musta been a sleep following a WWII movie or something.

[Inverse Icarus]

yes. now go away.