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Lucid Dreaming and Your Last Dream (pg. 3)
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| DarkFall01 |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
as for the subject of deja vu, a friend once told me that if you experience deja vu quite often, it means your life is balanced and going in the right direction. |
Good, cause I have a deja vu like every day :wtf: |
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| lücid |
| quote: | Originally posted by DarkFall01
Good, cause I have a deja vu like every day :wtf: |
she was also a crackwhore, but i figured i should leave that little detail out. :p |
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| Sunsnail |
| I get that deja vu feeling every week or so. I'll be sitting in class, and then everything just stops, and i'm thinking "did I dream this before?" |
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| DarkFall01 |
| quote: | Originally posted by lücid
she was also a crackwhore, but i figured i should leave that little detail out. :p |
:nervous: :whip:
:stongue: :p |
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| kush paintings |
Arbiter I would highly recommend taking B6 vitamins, as they help increase the vividness of dreams, and would probably help you dream. I am only saying this because you are missing a significant part of life. Don't take it in excess, however, as there are somewhat serious side effects mostly having to do with neural responses.
As for why don't you realize you are dreaming. I have never had problems dreaming, but have only attaind lucidity once, and when I did I became to excited and woke up. I guess we accept the absurdities that arise in dreaming just as we accept the less obvious obsurdities of every day life, after all how shocking can something be in a dream as it is a construction of our own mind. |
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| trance85 |
I guess I've had control of my dreams a few times, not much though, I never put too much thought into it though. But I've experienced deja vu alot from things that I've seen in dreams ("dreams are windows into the future" as they say :D ), mostly just minimal things though, never anything significant.
But I never considered it as being special I figured all people dreamed like this and such :conf: Oh well. |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by kush paintings
Arbiter I would highly recommend taking B6 vitamins, as they help increase the vividness of dreams, and would probably help you dream. I am only saying this because you are missing a significant part of life. Don't take it in excess, however, as there are somewhat serious side effects mostly having to do with neural responses.
As for why don't you realize you are dreaming. I have never had problems dreaming, but have only attaind lucidity once, and when I did I became to excited and woke up. I guess we accept the absurdities that arise in dreaming just as we accept the less obvious obsurdities of every day life, after all how shocking can something be in a dream as it is a construction of our own mind. |
Thank you for your suggestion, unfortunately I had already attempted increasing my daily pyridoxine intake up to 200mg without any success recalling my dreams. My present hypothesis is that the obstacle to the recollection of my dreams is the extremely slow rate at which I awaken from my sleep. Even when I have employed the assistance of friends and family to attempt to awaken me as quickly as possible, they have reported great difficulty in successfully bringing me to a state of consciousness sufficient to attempt to recall my dreams in less than two minutes. I suspect that by this point, any short-term memory of my dreams would have been forgotten and replaced with memories regarding my more recent sensations of fatigue and whatever stimuli have contributed to my awakening.
I am unsure that our acceptance of absurdities in our dreams and our acceptance of absurdities in our waking lives are as analagous as you have suggested. In a dream, it would seem that one would lack the continual reinforcement of ideas that might otherwise seem absurd throughout one's lifetime. Furthermore, many of these absurdities may have been accepted during infancy or early childhood years at which point we most likely lacked the frame of reference by which to view them with the skepticism that would seem logical to a more mature individual.
More promising from my perspective is your suggestion that because it is our minds which have constructed the images and events we experience in a dream it would be strange for our minds to be surprised by those same concepts it created. The question would then seem to be: if our minds are sufficiently dichotomized such that they are able to create imagery and then not be aware that they have created that imagery, they how or why would they be sufficiently coordinated so that the aspect(s) of our minds which are perceiving this imagery are not surprised by its potentially absurd content as a result of the fact that it was precisely our minds which are responsible for this content? I don't believe that I have sufficient information to attempt to answer this question, but perhaps you or someone else possesses some insight into this unusual relationship between the, one might say, "conscious" and "unconscious" aspects of our minds. |
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| PhilBaXteR |
I wish I could learn to lucid dream, I believe I have achieved it a couple of times. I love dreaming, my dreams are very vivid and occur every single night. Ive read about ways to teach yourself to lucid dream and to train your mind by writing down your dreams when you wake up... all interesting stuff! Cant seem to do it though lol
Im going to sleep now actually :D |
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| Evil_Gnome |
I just watched that movie "Waking Life" and it was weird. There was some deep to think about in that movie. I enjoyed it a lot.
As to lucid dreaming, I have been trying to get into it recently. I am starting to remember my dreams a lot more clear. It was really awesome. |
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| Camwin |
Right, i'm going to my mates tomorrow and asking if i can watch 'Waking life' besides he's been asking me to watch it anyway :D
For some reason i can control myself to fly, like if i'm thinking i want to fly i will, but it's kinda hard.
like you really can't concertrate too much on it or else it won't work, a "don't think it feel it" type thing :p
But once you've got it it's real trippy but ing awesome. |
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| lücid |
| i really didn't enjoy Waking Life. maybe i was too tired/sober, but it just bored me. it was to the point of being so "deep" that it just sounded pretentious. the animation was cool but i still had to turn it off halfway through the movie. |
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| djkoolaide |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ibizadreamer AG
I wish I could force myself to dream being with hott girls and not worrying about anything :( |
+1 |
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