Any lucid dreamers out there?

[kl.metacog]

Just watched waking life.

 

[krunkedout]

The instant I realize i'm dreaming, I wake up. I've controlled my dreams maybe a few dozen times in my life. With that being said, rem sleep seems to be a lot more active during daytime naps, and i remember a lot more of it. And if I wake up, I can quickly attempt to fall back asleep and sometimes start dreaming where I left off. So if you're practicing, consider a lazy saturday or sunday nap.



Edit: you mentioned landscape design. What zone do you live in? I've designed quite a few gardens now, and I realized if I were ever to move, I'd have to learn all new plant material. Lately i've been incorporating a lot more of native species. They're hassle free and generally take care of themselves, due to the fact that they're native. Later.

I live on the west coast. And what I meant by landscape design is I eventually want to run a few different experiments withe two lucid dreamers attempting dream telepathy. I think that the best way to do that would be to design the dream before hand, have both the dreamers study it and then enter it when they sleep. And by "design the dream" I don't mean dialog or actions I mean just purely the landscape that way both people will be seeing the same thing and interacting with similar objects. A lot of people throw off dream telepathy as a bunch of spiritual mumbo jumbo; but I think that it is scientifically possible, we jut don't know how yet. I suspect, however, that it would have something to do with quantum entanglement.

 

[uuku pi]

Dream telepathy works. First you must take control of the dream. You must know you are dreaming and not wake up. This took me a long time. The technique I used (after I stopped waking up) was to find my hands in the dream and look at them. I have never read anything about this ,nor do I know any science of this. I taught yoga for 25 years and have had a deep interest in the different way of knowing. Because of this practice sometimes I can see people I have never met(what they look like) It happened yesterday as I was having a conversation . I asked the person to send me a picture and it was what my mind had seen. I can not control it. I do not know if what I am saying really has anything to do with what you are interested in,but I know I have had conversations with people while dreaming that reflect what is really going on. Also my dreams often have answers to my life. Anyway this is all interesting to me

 

[mos3z]

hey krunked, i have had a little bit of lucid dreaming in the past.

I just had kava induced lucid dreaming the last 3 days.

You should try kava kauai vanuatu, it caused me to have lucid dreams, the unique thing also is that for the last 3 nights the dream continued where I left off from the night before.



Something else to try is sleeping more than you need to, it usually happens for me in the morning as i am trying to sleep in more than i need to.

 

[Ed!]

I've had some lucid dreams, though not intentionally. When that happens the oddest thing is that I am sometimes aware of more than one dream happening at once. There is the primary dream that's in the front of my mind that I can influence, and then there is a quieter background dream behind it with a totally separate set of events going on that I cannot influence, and then there is sometimes even a third even quieter dream beyond that.



It's the strangest thing. The disturbing part of that is that those background dreams are almost always angry, and I'm not in them.

 

[krunkedout]

Lately I've been experimenting with l-theanine. I take 500mg before bed and I have incredibly vivid dreams. I'm not lucid, (yet) but after waking up it's almost hard for me to believe that the dream was a dream; even when the plot of the dream is totally irrational. For example: the other night I dreamt that my ex was sent on a secret mission to the moon to fight off aliens that had invaded it. Completely irrational; but in the dream it was completely rational lol. I woke up and for the first few seconds I still thought it actually happened, I could hardly believe that it didn't happen! It made me think, we spend around a third of our lives asleep... A third!!! Just think of the time we are missing out on. What if we could change the world through dreaming; or at least create our own, better world that we share with close friends (yes, I'm talking about the theory of shared dreaming.) it sounds incredibly far fetched, I know. But I can't help being excited at the thought. I think with the proper dedication and preparation (pre-designing landscapes so that you see what your dream partner(s) see) and with some carefully administered drugs that will help increase brain function while still letting you sleep, like l-theanine, then who knows what's possible. Imagine a dream world kavalounge where we all meet and discuss and drink shells of kava?

 

[krunkedout]

Dream telepathy works. First you must take control of the dream. You must know you are dreaming and not wake up. This took me a long time. The technique I used (after I stopped waking up) was to find my hands in the dream and look at them. I have never read anything about this ,nor do I know any science of this. I taught yoga for 25 years and have had a deep interest in the different way of knowing. Because of this practice sometimes I can see people I have never met(what they look like) It happened yesterday as I was having a conversation . I asked the person to send me a picture and it was what my mind had seen. I can not control it. I do not know if what I am saying really has anything to do with what you are interested in,but I know I have had conversations with people while dreaming that reflect what is really going on. Also my dreams often have answers to my life. Anyway this is all interesting to me

this is incredibly relevant to what I want to accomplish; thanks for sharing! And feel free to share anymore interesting experiences you have!

 

[mos3z]

This isn't lucid dreaming, but my whole life I've had premonition dreams that come true and I can sometimes remember what is about to happen before it happens and explain it out loud. The funny thing is the dreams aren't anything important, my wife calls it 'lame esp' because its usually is something really lame that happens. It's pretty trippy when it happens though, like science fiction.

 

[Ed!]

(smiley: laugh)

 

[kl.nataliekobrapuke]

oi. hell yea i dream. i study toltec shamanism and their technique is to do something to awaken into the dream. ie: look at your hands in the dream. this will make shit get all heavy feeling and bring you into the dream itself. ive been working on this for a while now, just building my dreaming body but its tough. thus, i supplement with calea zacatechichi (mexican dream herb) as often as i can. the ally in that plant is very helpful to those who truly desire to learn to dream (and i dont say dream as in WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU WHILE YOU SLEEP but more like WHAT YOU DO CONSCIOUSLY WITH YOUR SPIRIT WHILE YOUR SLEEPING). anyone that fiddles with kava at all is likely aware of its propensity to cast you into a vivid dreamstate like a handful of ash into the wind. its a neverending war, though. one night itll happen effortlessly. the next, no matter how hard you struggle...no dice. any help would actually be much appreciated. thankx. and to krunkedout, im not sure if id be a suitable candidate for yer mission. id be super stoked to hear about yer results though.