Lucid dreams.

[Flycut]

I had one of the most vivid dreams this weekend that got me thinking.
I have managed to control a dream a couple of times as a younger man but not this time.
I knew I was dreaming and tried to tell myself to wake up but I didn't.
Kept dreaming for a while puzzled as to why I couldn't wake up.
A little scary but very intriguing. I didn't try to control the dream in any way but wish I had.

Have any of you guys ever been able to control your dreams?

[Jeff]

Have any of you guys ever been able to control your dreams?

Not that I am aware of, but then again I rarely get to the dream state these days.

[JParis]

I remember so few of my dreams and even those that I do remember are generally just snippets of a thought that as the day moves on, gets losts to wherever those things go...


For years I swore I didn't dream....as I learned more, I also learned that everyone dreams but not everyone remembers much...

I have trouble sleeping any way many nights...I try to go to sleep and my brain decides it's time to problem solve the meaning of life I think...but then I do wake in the middle of the night with some pretty good ideas to solve current issues or problems on occasion...

Control a dream? Hell, can something be controlled that you don't have any recollection of?

[Flycut]

It seems to come in waves for me.
Many factors come into play.
2 major factors are stress and alcohol.
I haven't had had a drink in 2 weeks and this new machine has my mind in constant overdrive.
I sleep like a rock and dream like crazy.

[RobertELee]

Flycut got into the mushrooms last night

[Flycut]

I can go nuts without any help thank you very much.
I've need high 3 or 4 times in my life and that's enough.
My stoner friends are jealous of how much it affects me.

[Del.]

I'm lucky to remember a bit of a dream prolly once every 5 or 6 months.
Yet i do sleep light....

Bet you dream in French. 😆

[Brad St]

Years ago this was a common topic for me and some folks. One of the tricks we tried was to tell yourself as you laid down to sleep that you were in control. You had to say it, not just think it.

From there it depended on your dream. If it was re-occurring and you wanted a different outcome you again told yourself what you wanted to do.

Now, if you were to ask me if it worked....I can't recall.

Good luck to ya if you can do it.

[gcode]

I used to sometimes sit up in bed from a dead sleep knowing with total certainty,
that I'd made a programming error at work... and 9 times out of 10 I had made that mistake
and was able to fix it in time.

[Brian]

I don't know if this qualifies as a "lucid dream" or not, but a longtime (39 years!) mentor/friend died a couple of years ago, and I did have several dreams where Peter and I were working on something together....in one instance, I remember thinking to myself that it was important that I stop what I was doing to help PJ, because he was.....well, he was dead. As soon as I thought that, heard myself "say" that to myself inside this dream, I woke up! It was quite odd!

I'd had several dreams where Peter made an appearance in some fashion in the six months since he died, and just chalked it up to my brain trying to come to terms with his death.

[beej]

From time to time, I have dreams of a surprise visit with some loved one who has passed away. I always wish those dreams were lucid. they never are, and I always hate waking up from them.

[Brian]

It's interesting to hear others describe how much thinking and problem solving they accomplish while sleeping/dreaming, too! I sometimes think that daytime/waking hours is the active part of that process, and nighttime/dreaming is when you kinda set it aside and let your brain sorta take over on its own.

Or showering!

[RobertELee]

I used to sometimes sit up in bed from a dead sleep knowing with total certainty,
that I'd made a programming error at work... and 9 times out of 10 I had made that mistake
and was able to fix it in time.

Hope you adjusted your time card for that off-shift work you were putting in.

[Flycut]

Years ago this was a common topic for me and some folks. One of the tricks we tried was to tell yourself as you laid down to sleep that you were in control. You had to say it, not just think it.

From there it depended on your dream. If it was re-occurring and you wanted a different outcome you again told yourself what you wanted to do.

Now, if you were to ask me if it worked....I can't recall.

Good luck to ya if you can do it.

Another trick that I have practiced is to make a conscious effort to check clocks twice while I am awake.
When you are dreaming and notice certain things it will become a reflex to check a second time.
If something changes abnormally the second time you check you might realize you are dreaming.
I remember the time I checked the clock in my dream last night was 3:15 pm and knew something was off because I had missed da whole day of work. 

[Flycut]

I remember nightmares when I started in this trade.
I machine would crash and I would hit the emergency stop button and the machine would keep crashing.
I would go to the back of the machine and turn off the breaker and the machine would keep going.
That is worse then the falling out of a plane dream.