Lucid Dreaming

[_moksha]

I have a lot of dream sleep. I would gladly trade some of it for the deep sleep of younger days.

[_Brackite]

Hello,

I have had some Lucid dreams before. However, I have been unable to recall anybody from the dead within the lucid dreams that I had. I have tried to have an Out of Body experience, but I haven't really had one of those yet.
Here are a few of the list of "Differences" between Lucid Dreams and Out of Body Experiences (OBE):

Comparison of Lucid Dreams and OBE


LUCID DREAM

A. 50%-70% incidence in general population.


OBE

A. 14%-25% incidence in general population.



LUCID DREAM

B. Occurs only during sleep.


OBE

B. Occurs usually when awake.



LUCID DREAM


C. Dreamer can consciously program the dream.


OBE

C. OBEer is a passive, objective observer.

(Out-of-Body Experiences vs. Lucid Dreams:)





I very much agree with both A. and B. about both Lucid dreams and Out of Body experiences, However, I do basically disagree with C. about Lucid dreams.

Firstly it is not always possible to control the dream when lucid. Lucidity is merely conscious awareness of the dream state. A consequence of this is usually total control over your own actions, and sometimes control over wider aspects of the dream.

Secondly, lucid dreamers have to be objective observers for the most part, otherwise they risk becoming reabsorbed into the dream scenario and losing conscious awareness.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

Awww now that is cute. I once was like that hehehe.

Are you saying you used to try stuff like this back in the good 'ol days but now you are too "mature"?

No, what I mean is, the way Ezias talks. The insight and the poetic-ness. I was once very much like that.

I'm not too mature to try stuff like that. I try to get other people to do it too to see if we can meet, but they don't seem to manage lol.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

I fell asleep with my eyes open once and had the dream world superimposed on the real world. Time was distorted, because I don't think I was in this state of mind very long but it seemed like several events took place which took time. I don't remember the dream now much, but it seemed so real at the time that when I woke up I thought the things that were in my dream had actually happened in the room in which I was sleeping with my eyes open.

I have also had sleep paralysis, where I wake up consciously before my brain does. My brain is unable to communicate to my body what I am trying to tell it, and I feel paralyzed, and numb. Other family members exerience this too. I feel like I am falling sometimes, I am in a dream world while awake. Rick Strassman theroizes that this is due to DMT being released in the brain naturally.

I can do that, in fact I do do that all the time. I'm mentally ill though lmao.

I hate sleep paralysis. I got that constantly as a kiddo, it usually followed a hallucination or waking up from a nightmare. I couldn't scream or anything for what felt lie forever.

I also hallucinate which sucks, but I'm used to it really.

Personally, I think it depends on your life experiences. I was dreadfully scared of things that didn't exist as a child and I did everything I could think of to get them out of my mind.

The other night I had a dream that lasted so long that I slept through the entire day and woke up thinking I got up early then I realised it was the evening after wondering why someone was calling during the night. The dream was about the end of the world and it kept restarting from someone else's point of view. It was creepy.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

This might make me come across crazy. But meh...

I once made myself have a lucid dream from an awake state where I came out of my body both physically and in my mind, but not actually me, the spiritual non mass part of me and I raised my body with my hands and I was flying up with my body in my hands, my body was asleep and I lay it on a floating piece of stone and there was lots of light around me, and whenever the real world interrupted, the brightness got duller and I'd drop, so I had to re raise myself and put myself back on the stone to be emotionally healed. It was so strange because it wasn't like being in the sky or anything like that. It was all about energy. And it helped because when I awoke, the pain I felt inside had gone and I felt physically healthier, like I had just been for an MOT/service.

It was awesome.

[_Dr. Shades]

I also hallucinate which sucks, but I'm used to it really.

You hallucinate? How often, and what form do these hallucinations take?

[_Imwashingmypirate]

I also hallucinate which sucks, but I'm used to it really.

You hallucinate? How often, and what form do these hallucinations take?

Yes I do. I have hallucinated since I can remember and it is completely random. I can go weeks without seeing anything and I can have bouts of them which can be quite annoying. They take the forms of mainly visual and occasionally auditory and sometimes both at once. And rarely smell, but that has become less frequent as I got older and I have two recollections of being touched. They mainly occur when it's night time but I have had them during the day also, just not as frequently.

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[_Imwashingmypirate]

That's good that you like it. It scares the crap out of me, I don't realise that it isn't real until I stop screaming, although I have had ones where I have sat and watched them or tried to understand them. I kinda know what you are talking about, however that stuff scares me, because when you let it through you get scary stuff too. It's more to do with going deep into your subconscious than some other universe. I spend nights trying to block out the feeling of other people trying to talk to me. It freaks me out. I have had occasions where I have walked and talked in my sleep with my eyes open and my mum has had to usher me back to bed.