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Glad to see this thread alive and kicking still!
Hopefully someone here will have a shared lucid dream. That's right, one where you meet up with someone else in a dream!
Lucid dream count this year: 2
Jan-28-2004 21:02
Silky Johnson
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I have lots of lucid dreams! I am the dream guru! Ever seen the movie 'Waking Life'? Rent it! You'll love it!
Jan-28-2004 21:04
Pete Mitchell
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these are the best experieneces ever.only happen to me once in a blue moon but anyway.they are unreal...
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Jan-28-2004 21:25
Flyboy217
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quote:
Originally posted by jennypie
I have lots of lucid dreams! I am the dream guru! Ever seen the movie 'Waking Life'? Rent it! You'll love it!
Saw it. A little too flaky for me, if I may be so bold. A lot of the characters in the movie spouted pseudo-intellectual philosophical nonsense (which I guess you'd expect...). That was disappointing. But the movie was still kinda cool to watch.
How often do you have lucid dreams anyway?
Jan-29-2004 00:28
crchingtiger
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this thread reminded me of vanilla sky...
crazy movie...so good...
but yeah, i can lucid dream...
usually it will be because i've woken up in the middle of a really crazy one so i proceed to fall back asleep and continue the story...
one night when i was sleeping, i was fully aware that i was dreaming...
so in the dream, i decided to do whatever the hell i wanted because i knew i could...
i'm in a lot of near death situations in my dreams but i usually try and mastermind my way out of them
i can frequently continue the dreams i've already have...
sometimes it happens spontaneously, too...
like i've dreamt a dream 2 days in a row...but then other times, i'll have a dream, forget it, but sometime later...whether it's a month, year, etc...it will come back...
this is y i get deja vu all the freakin' time
Jan-29-2004 00:37
Silky Johnson
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quote:
Originally posted by Flyboy217
Saw it. A little too flaky for me, if I may be so bold. A lot of the characters in the movie spouted pseudo-intellectual philosophical nonsense (which I guess you'd expect...). That was disappointing. But the movie was still kinda cool to watch.
How often do you have lucid dreams anyway?
I'll agree with the pseudo-intellectual nonsense bit. I just really identified with the part where they talked about learning how to lucid dream, and that it happened after you become aware that you are dreaming. I realized this a long time ago, prolly when I was about 8 or 9 (I still remember the dream too), been having lucid dreams ever since. Sometimes I have them more than others, it just depends on how I feel about the dream (some are better to "watch" than to participate). So I'd say I have at least one lucid dream every 2 weeks or so.
Jan-29-2004 01:11
Flyboy217
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Originally posted by jennypie
I'll agree with the pseudo-intellectual nonsense bit. I just really identified with the part where they talked about learning how to lucid dream, and that it happened after you become aware that you are dreaming. I realized this a long time ago, prolly when I was about 8 or 9 (I still remember the dream too), been having lucid dreams ever since. Sometimes I have them more than others, it just depends on how I feel about the dream (some are better to "watch" than to participate). So I'd say I have at least one lucid dream every 2 weeks or so.
Sweetness. When I was 4 or 5, I was having nightmares and decided to do something about them. I told myself that since MY brain generated them, that I should be able to do something about it. My first attempt was pretty rudimentary... yelling "WAKE UP!" inside the dream. Amazingly, it worked. I say "amazingly" because the challenge in the first place is to get to a point where you can consciously choose to say/do something. I guess since I'd never considered that an obstacle, it was easy to overcome. Been having lucid dreams ever since. In a good month I'll have 5-10, but recently they've been falling off
Jan-29-2004 01:48
teegee
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oh man my honors psychology project this semester is on dreaming in general, incl. lucid dreaming. Its wicked hard to study though, because everybody has their own ideas on what happens and why. Why do y'all think we dream? heh maybe i can include this suff as case studies in the paper
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Jan-29-2004 02:22
Flyboy217
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Originally posted by teegee
oh man my honors psychology project this semester is on dreaming in general, incl. lucid dreaming. Its wicked hard to study though, because everybody has their own ideas on what happens and why. Why do y'all think we dream? heh maybe i can include this suff as case studies in the paper
Wow, excellent. To me, the question "why do we dream" is a misguided one. It's no more easily explainable than "why do we have qualia (awareness)?" I believe it was Carl Jung who claimed that we dream perpetually, and only at night is our consciousness quiet enough to experience it (correct me if I'm wrong here).
One of my friends, also an accomplished lucid dreamer, says he believes this theory. He occasionally for fun blacks out (apparently it gives him a huge rush to wake up...). But while he's under, he experiences dreams quite vividly.
Why we dream about what we do is a more interesting question (to me) than why we dream. Of course, that's easily overcome by dreaming about what we want to... the topic of this thread Who says there should be a part of your mind that you're not in control of?