I had a dream where I knew I was dreaming.?

Question

But I woke up before i could do anything fun.

what does this mean (if anything)?

and more importantly, how can I get this to happen AGAIN?

Answer 1

Believe me , I've tried. I had this great place in a dream once, I,ve thought about this place, daydreamed about it, but cannot seem to incorporate it into my night dreams again.

Answer 2

When i have a lucid dream, i think of astral travel.  Ive heard all the stories about astral travel, but how would you know if it wasnt just a "lucid dream"?

SOOOOO

When i have a lucid dream, i try to get to a phone and call home.   How freaky would it be, your spouse/ partner/ brother or sister answers the phone only to hear your voice, but they can see you in bed.

Probably way off, and impossible. but if anyone tries this  let me know

Answer 3

This phenomena of the mind is called lucid dreaming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream

When you first hear about it, or dream lucidly, and want to have more, you will "not" be able to control your dreams, just by chance, or by doing everything you do during the day, or before sleeping, that you did before acknowledging the existence of them. There are actually many ways to harness the ability of lucid dreaming.

http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream

The above instructions are all correct, and I agree with them completely, for I have had experiences in their activation.

I would say that number 4 is the best one to do.

I did not have this list when experimenting with lucid dreams. I did however, use a self repeated reminder every few minutes, a couple hours before hitting the sack, that "I was dreaming."  Even though I was in reality, the repeated phrase would take up part of the total memories for the day, and be played out with in the dream, thereby causing a LD.

The reason you can not experience all your dreams (more than 20 a night) is because your conscious (That is your long-term-memory, or mass memory) is not fully aware, or working at its full potential, due to this dreamless nights do occur often for the average folk.

Becoming aware of your dreaming, at first will wake you up, most, if not all of the time. Why? When your brain gets a signal that you are aware or, your conscious is functioning properly, bang, your brain will think, on its own, to wake up the rest of your brain.

If you can control that sensation, cover the instructions to incur a lucid dream, you will have power over your dreams, and can do what ever you want, depending on how long you have lucid dreamed, and what level your at, in controlling your dreams.

You may want to know why I quit lucid dreaming. There are two reasons,

1. While lucid dreaming, I would think I was awake, wake up in another dream, and think that was reality, then, a few minutes later, wake up again, and so on and son on. Loop dreams are no fun, and I have no clue how to control something so unexplainable and devious.

2. If we were meant to lucid dream automatically, we would have evolved to do so. The brain requires sleep, awareness of memories, is not sleep, it is work for the brain!

Also, you can end up with psychosis, something I found out just tonight. Being abundantly imaginative, and illogical, can damage the part of your mind, that is rational.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychosis

Those are the precautions, the fun part is doing the exploration and controlling your entire mind, or stored memory. This includes making any settings you want, flying, being on the front-line, just plan fun stuff. But remember like tobacco, too much, for a long time, can kill you.

Answer 4

The meaning varies. To get it to happen again, think of that dream upon going to sleep. I already did it because i am really enjoying it.

Answer 5

http://www.dreamviews.com

http://www.lucidity.com

"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi,

"Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton,

"The Masters and Their Retreats," Mark Prophet.

Answer 6

I love those dreams.  if this is the first time it's happened to you, the next time it happens, you might be able to control it.  I have breathed underwater, but my favorite is flying - those are the BEST - flying through the woods in autumn!

Answer 7

Most likely- you will always wake up before you gain physical control of your mind. What seems like 5 minutes in a dream is like 4 hours real time, so by the time you realize you can move, you can't

Answer 8

What you have experienced is something called "Lucid Dreaming", a dream where you are fully conscious that you are dreaming.

Supposedly the best way to dream like that again is to be fully aware that you are falling asleep, like in the W.I.L.D. Method. During the exact moment when you fall asleep you must be aware that you are about to dream and that self-awareness can drag over into your dreams.

Check out my sources below for different ways of inducing a lucid dream

Answer 9

omg i had one of those dreams too but i was able to do anything & everything ive ever wanted.. real trippy i want to know how to do it again too