Have you ever known you were dreaming while you were dreaming?

Question

have you ever known you were dreaming while you were dreaming

Answer 1

Yes- it's called Lucid Dreaming.

I don't know if you want more information because you didn't ask, but here you go anyways:

WHAT IS A LUCID DREAM?

Lucid dreams are when you become aware that you are dreaming, and henceforth can control your own reactions, as well as the environment, and, effectively, the dream itself.

HOW TO BECOME LUCID:

There are three major ways to become lucid:

-Go to sleep and realize you are dreaming during your dream by training yourself to always be on the lookout for "dream signs" (more later)

-Go directly from awake to dreaming by continuously concentrating on lucid dreams until you fall asleep

-Wake up while in the middle of a dream (any multiple of 90 or 100 minutes after falling asleep,) then concentrate on where you left off and fall back asleep

REALITY CHECKS:

Most people who want to lucid dream like training themselves to do "reality checks" around thirty times a day. A reality check is when you look around for impossible or improbably things, pinch yourself, and try and do things that would be impossible if you weren't dreaming.

I personally find this a bit pointless, because there is always a vague hazy feeling during a dream, no matter how realistic it feels at first. If you focus on concentrating on your surroundings to see whether you are feeling that hazy feeling or not several times a day, you will get into the habit of doing that in your dreams.

CONTROLLING A DREAM WHEN LUCID:

To prepare for becoming lucid, you should have a couple easily-remembered goals of what to do- that way when you become lucid, you won't be completely overwhelmed. Flying is a popular one.

Start by controlling your own reactions- talk to the dream characters maybe.

Once you feel comfortable with that, try giving yourself an impossible or improbable ability. The key trick is to believe what you want to do is possible. If you jump off a building in a dream and expect yourself to fall, you won't fly. But if you imagine a pair of wings sprouting from your back and carrying you off, you might manage.

Then, once comfortable with that excersize, you can try influencing things or people around you in similar fashion. Imagine the house turning into a mansion, your sister turning into a cat, or your enemy bowing to you and declaring your superiority, believe it will happen, and, above all... practise!

Answer 2

Yeah it's called lucid dreaming.

Answer 3

Yes, and I dream in color, and I can read and do math in my dreams. Some people say it's not possible; well, it is. Also I have been shot dead in my dream. Too many war movies.

Answer 4

I used to have more lucid dreams when I was a kid. As I get older I'm seeming to lose control of my dreams but sometimes I still realize that I'm dreaming. I usually can't change them though. I just have to watch them play out.  

Answer 5

Yes.  Usually during nightmares- I tell myself its a dream & to fly away.  I also know when I dream about bathrooms that I'm dreaming & tell myself to get up & go potty.

Answer 6

ya, Lucid Dreaming...

But that's one of the possible reason that people fall into sleep and couldn't wake up, although no scientific proof.