Have you had a lucid dream?

Question

I think its amazing that some people have lucid dreams. I have loads of dreams, and i also keep a dream journal-i'm on my way to lucid dreaming.

Tell me what your lucid dream was like, and do you have them frequently?

Answer 1

I had one very interesting lucid dream just a few weeks ago where I was neither asleep or awake.

In my dream vision I was a little girl sitting in the back seat of a 1930's model car and the car was parked in front of a family style grocery store advertising prices for milk, eggs, apples and things.  I was begging my mother who was about 21 years old if I could go in with her while she shopped.  I promised I'd be quiet and not touch anything and that I would make myself invisable.  

Mom, as always, was in a hurry and wanted me to wait in the car as she didn't want anyone to see me.  At that point I was another "me" and floated above the begging child me and saw that the begging child was actually me today.  A large 50 year old woman and my mother was a petite 21 year old...she was the child and I was the woman!  I could see why she didn't want people to see me.  It was too strange for her to have to explain how she was only 21 but had a 50 year old daughter.  (My mother is 91 today.)

But I was thinking, "WOW!  Look at those prices!  I want to go in that store and see how much everything costs.  I could buy the entire store!  I could buy the entire town.  I'm really so wealthy.  Bread is only 3 cents a loaf and a dozen eggs is only a nickle!"

At that point I was still a 50 year old but I was still begging my mother to let me go in and promised her that no one would be able to hear me or see me.   I began to literally float in anticipation...all 200 pounds of me!  Mom finally agreed to let me go in if I would make myself non existant.  All three of me, the child, the solid 50 year old and the floating 50 year old, all began to stare and concentrate on a bright light and began to go to become invisable.  Then something screamed at me warning me to not go to that bright light.  It said  DON'T DO IT!  DON'T DO IT!  YOU WON'T EXIST IF YOU DO!  

I paniced and sweated in the dream and in real life.

Even after a cup of coffee and going to the bathroom in real time, I still smelled, saw and heard the sights and sounds of that dream.  I could still see my mother at 21 years old and the old store front.  I was shaken up as dream life and reality blended together too much for my comfort.  I knew I was awake because I had a cup of coffee and was sitting in a rocking chair, rocking like a maniac but really somewhere else.  It was very scarey...like losing my mind for an hour or so.

To recap for my own benefit:  I had promised my mother I would be invisable...quiet and no one would know I was there.  I was going to make myself not exist to please my mother.  I spent a long time pondering the meaning of existance, the possiblity of non existance and the worthlessness of money.  Money had a real sense of non reality; of non existance.  But worse, I was almost non existant too. (My mother didn't have me until I was 40 and I was a "mistake"...my brothers are old enough to be my dad!)

This could make a twilight zone show of some sort.  I exist and yet I don't exist...time, money and all the things we live for aren't even real.  Screamingly mysterious.  The best and yet the worst Twilight Zone Movie I'd ever seen because it was my own!  

It made me want to cry.  The worst part was not being able to tell anyone about it because it was too weird.  People would think I was crazy.  When I finally did tell someone, they asked if I was on medication...and they were serious.  No, I'm not taking ANY medication.  I'm really mentally okay but I'm a little shaken up.  I feel a little like those thousands of people who swear they've been abducted by aliens and everyone swears they are crazy.  I guess I can say, I've time traveled.  I don't really know what to think.

Thanks for asking.  I got a lot off my mind.  Even weeks later, its still a mysterious, spooky memory.  It helps to have a reason to write it down.

To answer your question more directly, I usually do dream where I'm at least two people...one doing the action and the other watching.  The watching me always tells the acting me what to do and what to look out for...like I'm my own guardian angel.  This recent dream was more spectacular because the watching me changed into the acting me when I started staring and going toward that light to become invisible.  That's whats so spooky.  The spirit of me got wrapped up in the dream/vision too.  That doesn't usually happen.  The watching me usually stays in control is is extremely wise...the acting me is quite stupid.

Answer 2

It's a weird feeling to be able to control your dreams; it's scary, really, because you are in  a different realm when you're sleeping and dreaming.

My lucid dreaming started 3 years ago when I suddenly stopped dreaming of unpleasant and frightening events like being attacked by wild animals, not being able to get home, walking to school and discovering I had forgotten to put any clothes on, etc.

  I don't know why the bad dreams stopped.  My dreams are now pleasant.  They involve being in the present and also the past.  Nothing is abnormal; I'm just always in my home or in friends' and relatives' homes, even if some places don't exist anymore.  We sit in our back yards or patios together.  Sometimes we cook and eat, have guests for celebrations ( there are no strangers; I know everyone).

These dreams are so exhilirating to be interacting with loved ones, even those who are now deceased.  My biggest thrill is seeing my parents (also deceased).  I watch my mother making dinner and the foods she's cooking are also vivid.  The next day, I  can remember everything she cooked and the bowls and pots and pans she used.  My dad is in & out just like he used to be.  If he is not near me,  I can see him through the window, working on his car, etc.

So you can see why I want to prolong these dreams.  It always happens before daylight in the mornings.  I wake up so disappointed because my dream is interupted.  I realize that I am awake & in my own bedroom, but I concentrate really hard on going back to sleep & going back into my dream.  Every time, I am able to to get back into the same dream and take up where  I left off.   I realize that I'm dreaming and also that I'm not sleeping deeply.  I make this go on, just as I want it to, until it's time to get up.

Like I said, weird, but it's not a problem for me.

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Answer 3

Dream- my bff morgan went to chicago and she got a cell phone and sent me pics of her doctors appt. and txted me while she was there

Reality- My bff morgan went to chicago and used her moms cell phone and sent me pics of her doctors appt and txted me while she was there.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~... have had many other CRAZIER DREAMS but i cant remember them exactly... i need to keep a dream journal!

Answer 4

yeh i do this too! nearly all the time! i'm always aware that im dreaming!

Answer 5

Is that when you can control what you do in your dream? I would love to be able to do that, looking forward to reading the answers you get on here and see if I can pick up any techniques!

Answer 6

I've had a couple but not many. One I remember having involved me being back at school. It's hard to explain the feeling you get when you realise you're in a dream; I noticed one or two things weren't 'right' and that's when it kind of just clicked. So I ran around carelessly, content in the knowledge that I was in a dream. Unfortunately I don't really remember the others, and none of my lucid dreams have been the more fun ones (I have frequent 28 days later/star wars type dreams where I rain death upon zombies with a katana, those would be GREAT lucid dreams...). I'm currently experimenting with etheric projection, I feel it's possible to separate myself from my physical body I just have to keep trying. That is supposedly connected with lucid dreams, in that they can be considered a form of out of body experience that can be done deliberatley but as I've never managed to successfully initiate one on purpose I'm trying another path.

Answer 7

One technique to promoting lucid dreaming is that just before you fall asleep you think about a common object. You imagine this object in your mind, like a glass of water or an apple, something like that. When you begin dreaming and the object suddenly shows up in the dream you realize that somehow you are dreaming by recognizing that you selected that object as a touchstone. It's best to keep the same object, night after night. Be patient. Might take weeks.

Answer 8

i often have semi-lucid dreams - that is, i can change things in the dream, but it's hard to keep everything how i want it.

e.g. i get a 'character' to pick up an object, but when i try to change something else in the dream, they drop the object again

or...i move one person away from the blast radius of an explosion, and their companion slides into the radius.

in the dreams where i'm not trying to change things, i am always aware that i'm dreaming. things that happen in the dreams are so wacky that they couldn't be real, but even the realisitc parts, i just know they aren't real (even if i wish they were)

good luck with your dreaming.