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This doesn't surprise me. I haven't had a nightmare since I was a little kid. I don't recall ever knowing I'm in a dream while dreaming, but whenever something bad happens in them like a monster attack, I always happen to be carrying some kind of really big gun to get me through it. Maybe it's because of all the Doom I played?
Interesting. I have only rarely had lucid dreams, but I can certainly remember changing the events of more than one of them--on one occasion I sort of rewound an event and then replayed it, changing its outcome to a different one--but for many of them I was not fully aware that it was a dream or that I was actually bending the dream's reality to my will.
A couple of nights ago I had a lucid dream that I consciously ended; I "woke up" in a bed, ostensibly wide awake in my real room, but I soon realised I was actually having a nightmare and the bedroom didn't even resemble my own. I had had enough of the nightmare so decided to shake my body violently (in the dream) in order to affect my real body and wake myself up. I'm not really sure how much more aware of the real body a person is while experiencing a lucid dream--or even whether I actually was shaking my real body by doing this or just willing myself to wake up--but it certainly worked as expected.
Unfortunately, a lot of information on the web about how to induce or control a lucid dream is comprised of New Age pseudo-spiritual nonsense about "Divine Consciousness" and whatnot rather than actually useful information.
Post edited May 26, 2010 by Arkose
Want me to tell you something?
Most of my dreams are videogames. And I lose the game
Oh, my dreams... That's some crazy shit
Yeah I noticed this as well. I very quickly realize it's a dream and then just mess around. I no longer really get nightmares either since I just treat it as a game and fight back. Zombies? No problem! I take a baseball bat and hit them over the head.
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Arkose: Unfortunately, a lot of information on the web about how to induce or control a lucid dream is comprised of New Age pseudo-spiritual nonsense about "Divine Consciousness" and whatnot rather than actually useful information.

Hey, there's nothing nonsense about New Age spirituality! Did you see The Men Who Stare Goats? Awww yeah.
So I could have a hot, night-long love affair with Penelope Cruz in my dreams if I wanted? Hum, that's interesting stuff, indeed :-D
Post edited May 26, 2010 by KingofGnG
So if i wanted to .... I could dream about to hot twin drow chicks doing each other.Hell yeah. Then after wards they want to have fun by leting me do both of them?Hell yeah where can i sign up?
I've had lucid dreams since I was a kid. It's good to be in control ;)
I sprained my ancle last year after kicking a giant rat to pieces in my dream. Damn that wall...
Anyways, i think there is some truth in this. Gamers like to control the environment and interact. And what better way to do this then in a dream. Had lots of lucid dreams, and they are really something to remember. And the dreams where i'm flying are just mindblowing.
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Tantrix: Want me to tell you something?
Most of my dreams are videogames. And I lose the game

Damn you and The GAME I just lost... once again
KingofGnG and Drowsdoit, you CAN actually dream anything you want once you realize you're dreaming. The trick is not waking up when that happens and try to stay in control.
Even though you know you're dreaming, I can't say it's your conscious self in control of the whole thing, just as if you were awake. You feel a certain kind of freedom, a "do whatever you want" attitude and once you wake up, it doesn't really feel like you were "awake" or calling all the shots in the dream, you still feel like you were detached from the whole thing.
I've been having nightmares lately where I get mugged, but that's a pretty big worry for me right now, since violence is a bit on the rise on my country and a general sense of insecurity is sort of evident. I usually end up defending myself on the dream and making it out alive, though the safest thing to do in real life is give the guy your wallet and get out of his way.
Luckily, I've never had premonitions in my dreams. Once I've had a nightmare, I can go right back to sleep in an instant, since I'm pretty sure it's not going to happen and the whole thing was bogus.
Most of my dreams are also full of crazy shit, like a three fingered extra blue arm growing out of my elbow every time I bent my arm. If dreams have any meaning in the real world, what the hell did that mean?
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El_Caz: KingofGnG and Drowsdoit, you CAN actually dream anything you want once you realize you're dreaming. The trick is not waking up when that happens and try to stay in control.

Not waking up is all I care about. I don't really want control of my dreams because then they would lose that oh-what's-going-to-happen-next movie feel. However I'd rather be late for work than wake up from some of the dreams I've had!
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El_Caz: Most of my dreams are also full of crazy shit, like a three fingered extra blue arm growing out of my elbow every time I bent my arm. If dreams have any meaning in the real world, what the hell did that mean?

You want to watch more old spider man cartoons and you want to see the blue man group.
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El_Caz: KingofGnG and Drowsdoit, you CAN actually dream anything you want once you realize you're dreaming. The trick is not waking up when that happens and try to stay in control.
Even though you know you're dreaming, I can't say it's your conscious self in control of the whole thing, just as if you were awake. You feel a certain kind of freedom, a "do whatever you want" attitude and once you wake up, it doesn't really feel like you were "awake" or calling all the shots in the dream, you still feel like you were detached from the whole thing.
I've been having nightmares lately where I get mugged, but that's a pretty big worry for me right now, since violence is a bit on the rise on my country and a general sense of insecurity is sort of evident. I usually end up defending myself on the dream and making it out alive, though the safest thing to do in real life is give the guy your wallet and get out of his way.
Luckily, I've never had premonitions in my dreams. Once I've had a nightmare, I can go right back to sleep in an instant, since I'm pretty sure it's not going to happen and the whole thing was bogus.
Most of my dreams are also full of crazy shit, like a three fingered extra blue arm growing out of my elbow every time I bent my arm. If dreams have any meaning in the real world, what the hell did that mean?

Only one way to try this out.Go to sleep and then bend the will of my dreams to my own will and get laid with two hot looking drow chicks.