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I have never quite understood if I have ever lucidly dreamed before, but your description of holding your nose and breathing sparked a memory from when I was younger in which I would go swimming in the neighborhood pool. Everything would be real until I would go underwater and breath like a fish. At that point my dream would get all kinds of bizarr and be an underwater world. I miss those dreams. They were so real that when I woke, I would often test to see if I was special and could actually breath under water, like in the bath tub, etc. Lol, I forgot about all that...

yea i heard somthing like if you jump in a dream, you might hang in the air and extra second or less,

also i heard try looking at your watch for reality check, i always wanted to i still havent, but i'll do my best starting from now on

omid17 wrote:yea i heard somthing like if you jump in a dream, you might hang in the air and extra second or less,

also i heard try looking at your watch for reality check

i always wanted to learn lucid dreaming i still havent, but i'll do my best starting from now on

so should we try to remember are dreams too?

omid17 wrote:yea i heard somthing like if you jump in a dream, you might hang in the air and extra second or less

Oh man, the scene where everyone's floating in the hotel: that reminded me so much of lucid dreaming. In one lucid dream, I decided to try to fly. I jumped up, and I simply floated above the floor and didn't land--just like in the movie. During that hotel floating scene, I leaned over to my girlfriend and whispered, "I've had that dream before!"

i tried to lucid dream last night

some interesting results but im not sure

these are the things i remember

1) a lot of the times it felt like i was half asleep, half awake...halfway aware that i was in my bed, halfway in a dream

2) i may have been dreaming that i was awake, which resulted in a kind of mental fatigue

3) i kept waking up throughout the night, or maybe i was dreaming that i was waking up, because i kept trying to hold on to my consciousness of the process

4) the amount of time i spent sleeping felt much longer than it was....i woke up at 7, thinking that it was already 11

5) at one point, i was very annoyed with a person in my dream and made them disappear

6) at times it felt like I willed myself to enter a deeper dream state, or a completely different dream, if i felt i was unsatisfied with the one i was in at the moment

hey everyone! an interesting thread you got here.
i want to know more about lucid dreaming. but I am having second thoughts about it. you see, when was a child i had this dream of childlike drawings of people, only outlines of them in a paper, where the insides of the outline are shaded black. some of them big that i associate with adults,and those small i associate with children, where i believe i belong, in my dream.

about two years ago, i lost my boyfriend in a sea mishap. until now, his body is not found. for the three years that we've been together, i never dreamt of him. not until after the tragedy. and until now, i am always wishing that somehow he would talk to me in my dreams. he never speaks in my dreams of him. he would either be smiling or not recognize me at all.

if i would get to know to do lucid dreaming, then maybe i could make him talk to me. but it would all be useless, bec i know its only me.

anyway, i love inception. its consuming 3/4 of my waking time for the past 5 days. and im on team reality!

talli wrote: 3) i kept waking up throughout the night, or maybe i was dreaming that i was waking up, because i kept trying to hold on to my consciousness of the process

Many of these are likely "false awakenings." You need to do a reality check every time you wake up. Eventually you'll do a reality check during a false awakening and become lucid.

carwashguy wrote:

talli wrote: 3) i kept waking up throughout the night, or maybe i was dreaming that i was waking up, because i kept trying to hold on to my consciousness of the process

Many of these are likely "false awakenings." You need to do a reality check every time you wake up. Eventually you'll do a reality check during a false awakening and become lucid.

so what, like, count my fingers?

talli wrote: so what, like, count my fingers?

Pinch your nose with your mouth shut. Try to breath. If you can't, you're awake. If you can, you're dreaming. Works every time.

More recently, I had a dream and woke up in my room because my neighbore was making a ruckus and going to a party. I could see the car outside and a bunch of friends were cramming into the car. My neighb then said that she wanted to double check if I wanted to go. She came bursting into my apartment and I could hear her. Then I woke up again but I couldn't move. She was at the end of my bed asking me if I wanted to go, but I was startled, feeling completely freaked out that I couldn't move if I wanted to. I was completely at the mercy of my neighbor (creepy even though I trust her and is a friend). At that moment she shook me as I was struggling and I woke up once again, this time for real, no doubt about it. All of the dream within a dreams was really creepy, but mostly the fact that I couldn't move when I wanted to, I guess because I was trying to wake up into reality kind of at the end of a nightmare, but my subconsciousness wouldn't allow it for a couple seconds. A lot about the setup of my room was identical but the parking lot outside my bedroom window had been completely a mesh of different places that I had lived in prior, so it felt real to me at the time. I don't think I ever had full control on what was happening within the dreams though, so not sure if it was lucid dreaming per se.