The way i started having lucid dreams was almost the same way as Flyboy217. I used to have alot of really bad nightmares, so one day i decide that if i was gonna have a nighmare, i would try to wake up from it. The way i did it was different. First I would have to come to the realization that i was in a dream, then when i wanted to wake up, i would close my eyes in the dream world and count to 3, on the count of three i would open my eye and i would open my eyes to the real world. It was a weird sensation. After that, i could realize when i was in a dream and instead of just waking up when i wanted to, i would just try to change the dream. I could just change the entire setting and everything. But every once and a while the dream would almost try to take control again. Like someone would start cahsing me or something and i would run. THen i would have to realize again that i was in a dream, and then i could change wat was happening.

Have you guys every had a dream that some else had aswell? One day i woke up and remembered my dream, i told it to mhy sister and my brother, and to my amazment, we all had the same dream. The weird part was that we were all in each others dream. It was like we were all in the same dream at the same time. It wasn't an exciting dream tho. We were at a train station, and there was an icecream store, so we bought icecream.... that's it. lol. It seems i have alot of messed up dreaming experiences.

Does anyone know if there is any difference between lucid dreaming, and astral projection?

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Originally posted by GelatinPufF Does anyone know if there is any difference between lucid dreaming, and astral projection?

Yeah there's a huge difference. Lucid dreaming is a scientifically validated phenomenon where you are aware in your dreams. Astral projection is where your "soul" supposedly reaches some sort of "ethereal plane." The latter is more akin to what are called OOBEs (out-of-body experiences), except in OOBEs you're in the real world. The connection is that many people say that you can reach astral projection/OOBEs from lucid dreaming, and they feel almost the same. This is also why most consider them hogwash. But the jury is still out

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Originally posted by Striderg Have you guys every had a dream that some else had aswell? One day i woke up and remembered my dream, i told it to mhy sister and my brother, and to my amazment, we all had the same dream. The weird part was that we were all in each others dream. It was like we were all in the same dream at the same time. It wasn't an exciting dream tho. We were at a train station, and there was an icecream store, so we bought icecream.... that's it. lol. It seems i have alot of messed up dreaming experiences.

Amazing, someone who's actually (claimed to have) had a shared dream! Have you had more than one?

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Originally posted by Flyboy217 Yeah there's a huge difference. Lucid dreaming is a scientifically validated phenomenon where you are aware in your dreams. Astral projection is where your "soul" supposedly reaches some sort of "ethereal plane." The latter is more akin to what are called OOBEs (out-of-body experiences), except in OOBEs you're in the real world. The connection is that many people say that you can reach astral projection/OOBEs from lucid dreaming, and they feel almost the same. This is also why most consider them hogwash. But the jury is still out

Well here's one study that proves likewise


How lucid dreamers conceptualize their "non-waking experience" is a function of their general knowledge. Alternative modes of conceptualizing the lucid dream experience include the notions that one is undergoing an "out of body experience" (OBE) or an "astral projection" (reviewed in DeGracia, 1997). The forms taken by one’s reference to state depend on one’s semantic framework. So, the semantic component of the statement "I am dreaming" reflects a knowledge structure conceptualizing the experience as a form of dreaming. A reference to state can just as easily take the forms "I am having an OBE" or "I am having an astral projection". As one of us stated previously: "…lucid dreams and OBEs [and we will add here, astral projections] are necessarily distinguished by only one essential feature: how the person interprets the experience at the time" (LaBerge, 1985, p. 234) In other words, these are not phenomenologically distinct categories of experience but are alternative conceptualizations of the intrinsic variety present in lucid dream experiences.



http://lucidity.com/VOLDE.html

no that's the only one, my dreaming kinda stop. It was almost a phase, i don't dream at all almost anymore

i read on erowid that Calea is a dream herb for faciliating lucid dreaming.

several online herb shops sell it. i bought some to try.

Im having nightmares, so now I dont sleep much

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Originally posted by {b.s.e.} I get a rush of nightmares.

what you mean by "rush"

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