Does anyone know how to lucid dream? I thought that dreaming was completely out of my control, and the only time I had truly lucid dreams was when I was feverish. But, I just read an article which talks about the advantages of lucid dreaming and said that it was something you could learn to do, but it did not say how. So, does anyone practice this? Know how to practice it, or has come across helpful articles or books talking about it?

I currently hate sleeping, I only sleep about 3 hours a night because I feel like its a waste of time. I hardly ever remember my dreams I'd much rather zone out in front of a tv for a couple of hours then go about my day. So, I was hoping this might help.

Last edited by gmilf on Apr-03-2011 at 02:48

Seriously dude? use the goddamn search, we've already had at least 2 threads about this in the past few months.


Anyway, you have to practice remembering your dreams to begin with. Keep a notepad beside your bed so that when you wake up you can write down your dreams immediately upon waking.

The more you do it, the more "conscious" you will be in your dreams. You'll start to notice recurring themes, images, symbolism, etc., which is what will help you to be aware that you're dreaming - and then you can start to actually control what's going on.

nope, nothing popped up in the search.

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Practicing meditation and concentration exercises while you're awake also helps you to get more in tune with your subconscious, and will help you to tap into both your conscious and subconscious minds at the same time. Which is basically what lucid dreaming is.

I meditate from 30min. to an hour a day, and I feel like that replaces a lot of the sleep that I should need. But the meditations are never as cool as dreaming I'm batman who has to sleep with catwoman or something weird like that.

I have this one dream since I signed up for a climbing team in 2006 where I am climbing this solid sheet of ice, I mean, it goes on for ages. And I eventually fall, of course. But, I fall into this hot tub where people are congratulating me on a good climb and these gorgeous chicks are all over me, but I just want them to shut up because I'm a shitty dead climber. every time I have this dream I wake up sort of depressed and I don't want to do anything that day.

Lol. I found lucid dreaming came pretty naturally to me. I still remember dreams I had as a toddler. The first time I had a lucid dream was actually quite terrifying - as soon as I became "conscious", everything shut off (I don't know how else to describe it). Like the space I was in went dark, and all the imagery around me disappeared. It was scary as fuck but I remember saying to myself "DON'T WAKE UP!" I literally had to concentrate to make it all reappear again. It was like painting a picture from the memory of a photograph.

Last edited by Silky Johnson on Apr-03-2011 at 03:02

ohhh, I just had a dream like that. well sorta, I became aware that I was asleep but I couldn't really interact with the dream past that moment, I just watched. It did occur on a day that I meditated right before sleeping because I was stressing about school. Maybe that's the key to it.
What is it called when you are half awake and half asleep. Are those night terrors? Because, I used to have dreams that people were breaking into my house and I would wake up in the morning with my back against my door.

I would suggest starting with researching dream symbolism/dream meanings - along with keeping a dream diary. Start to dissect and analyze your dreams and see how they relate to your waking life. You have to actually understand your subconscious before you can manipulate it.

you'll struggle to ever be able to lucid dream gmilf. you believe in so much nonsense IRL that you'll never be able to tell your dreams from reality.

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Just downloaded Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners [Kindle Edition] by sigmund freud.

Is this the type of book I should read? Or one of those dream guide dictionaries.

I'm highly skeptical that there is some language to understanding your subconscious through dreams. The idea that a bid or a pig or a whatever means the same thing to everyone does not take into account different life experiences or perspectives.
However, having said that. I do think that someone who studies these books and learns that a butterfly means x or a coffin means y might start to dream like this, because they have learned the language so to speak. And if that's the case I want to read a book that will tell me that fear of failure is represented in dreams by a bj and stress about school is represented by me being crowned emperor of earth.