Homo-erotic dreams

[Zero]

Haven't read all the post but does nobody here control their dreams? Ever since I was 12 or so, I've been trying to keep myself aware of dreaming to ward off nightmares so I don't think I even had a chance to have a homo-erotic dream (Didn't hit puberty yet at the time) I doubt I would have had one. I'm not homo-phobic.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Ade
Ganja has a nice effect on your dreams, too

Ganja actually suppress the brain from going to REM stage. But what happens when a brain is deprived of REM state is, is that it bounds back and diubles the amount. Usually when you smoke pot and you have a really nice dream, its because you have been deprived of REM stages of sleep in the beginning (Sleep stages Cycles many times in one night). The result is much longer prolonged REM stage which may intensify your dream like state. It is all in the matter of timing. (If you can get intensified REM stage before you wake up) You gotta sober up before you wake up and be high enough long enough whiel sleeping to suppress REM stage.

Uh... not that I commit these illegal activities or encourage them

[Anodyne]

Originally posted by Calc II
Haven't read all the post but does nobody here control their dreams? Ever since I was 12 or so, I've been trying to keep myself aware of dreaming to ward off nightmares....

I've read about lucid dreaming etc. It sounds fascinating. I used to "train" it for some six months some time back, and somewhat succeeded a couple of times. But then I just stopped, like I forgot about the whole thing

An ideal state would be spontaneous lucid dreaming - every time you dream you realize you're dreaming. Of course, that might not always be nearly as fun as your ordinary dreams. But certainly mind-expanding.

[NeOmega]

cartoony 2001 movie.... called "Waking State" I think..... wierd movie, kinna boring but interesting.

[Viking Berserk]

i've been lucky not to have such terrible nightmares too

[Zero]

It still takes me some time before I come into lucidity, I am in a setting which I have to realize that is a dream. but I've had spontaneous Lucidity... Its rather bizzare... You close your eyes and then you start getting sleep and next thing you know you are lucid. Usually lucidity invloves me having sensation all over my body, though I can't really describe it as being a feeling. In truth though you can't go into lucidity as soon as you fall asleep (I think) It must just feeling like it since I dont remember anything while I am sleeping.

[Zero]

What is reall weird and works for me is to keep a digital watch near me.. I almost always dream about me falling asleep. If the digital watch flashes different number and makes no sense I know I am dreaming.

I have a habit of looking at my palm as well. I used to open and close my palm and close my eyes and chant while I was little. Now its so habitual I do this in my sleep. if I look at my palm I can tell if I am dreaming. Its kinda weird stuff but If you guys get into dream control its alot of fun. I always choose flying once a week or so. I always feel like im in a heavy liquid instead of air and Im slowly falling. Pretty weird stuff eh? anyway I digress.. sorry.

[Anodyne]

I remember the best sign for me to see that I am dreaming was to look at my hands -I don't know why, perhaps in a dream you don't usually see your hands or something... but I used to tell right away that I was dreaming when I just saw my hands.

Of course, even when your dreams are lucid, your thinking may not be so clear... at least in my lucid dreams I've usually acted like I was on drugs or something...so I was still not 100% "awake while dreaming"

[Viking Berserk]

sometimes i have managed to control it.
flying for example, used to dream alot about it before,
now its most shooting.

[Anodyne]

Now, what is weird, Calc II, is that I posted my "looking at my hands"-thing before reading your post about looking at your palm

[Zero]

Weird so you too eh?

EDIT: This post is short so Im gonna put more beef... How do you feel when you become lucid? Do you feel any sensation you cant quite describe? For me its mixture of bright light and sensation all over my body.. I just cant quite put it into word and I dont even know if it is what Im describing..Its all surreal.

I never walk when Im lucid... I float around all the time. I hate spending time going from point A to B

Also, during "white flash" (sign of lucidity) I get a habit of thinking to myself "It's so real". Then lucidity seems really real. Nothing distinguishable from dream to reality. Except I can control it (to some degree) I heard Lucidity is supposed to be real though, but I think me saying also convinces me to think its lot more realistic.

Your thinking isnt clear. You feel so... superior... and with full of wisdom... Dream control is such a weird thing... I recommend it to everyone. The thing is everyone probably had one. I remember having couple before I constantly had it. People just discard it as nothing or forget it eventually.

[Zero]

Sometimes its tricky too... even all these years I had close call of missing a lucidity everyday, just couple of month ago I was at a ex-girlfriend's house having dinner with here family when I realized she moved and Im still in her old house.. that and I never got her new address

[Anodyne]

Heh.. or stuff like thinking about why is your friend flying, before you realize that it's becouse he has wings...

[Zero]

I dont get many of those weird "talking to dog about meaning of life and finding solution" type of dreams. Most of them make alot of sense. Like dreaming about going to sleep is sooo weird for me but its almost a constant thing. Before I dream anything I dream me going to bed. This personally helps me alot.

BTW Clowns used to freak me a little bit when I was a child...
I dont have clown phobia or what ever that is though...

[Zero]

One more thing for Ade, what I used to do when I was a child is, if anything triggers you to think something is weird, coincidental or frightening, I used to shut my eyes tight open and close my palm many times and count in my head. Then after I feel satisfied I ask my self rapidly, 'am i dreaming, am i dreaming?' until I feel that nothing was coming after me. You might look a little stupid if your all grown up now though....