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Night Giant
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Hey guys,
I'm conducting some research and want to know if you could answer a few questions. I might have follow ups depending on what your answers are if you don't mind. Thanks.

- Do you regularly have lucid dreams?
- If yes, do you use reality tests or WILD's?
- If you use reality tests, describe the reality test you normally use.
- If you answered yes to 1 and reality tests to 2, did you have lucid dream in the past 24 hours?

Thanks again.

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Quote: "Do you regularly have lucid dreams?"

No, and never really tried either - value my sleep too much.

Quote: "If you use reality tests, describe the reality test you normally use."

I live, therefore I'm in a reality...

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By reality test do you mean like pinching yourself?

Also im similar to BB, I sleep so rarely I don't dream (haven't done in about 1/2 a year)

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Chris K
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I've had one lucid dream. I was actually amazing. It is the bizarest thing.

I had looked up about LDs etc. about a month before, but I had stopped trying.

It's so real I thought that it absolutely couldn't be a dream.

I asked my dad what day it was (I didn't want to ask something more blatant because I was embarrassed - no joke that's how much I thought it was real) and he just made a distinct but meaningless sound. Then I thought "Whoa, this is a dream" so I asked my mum what day it was and she said the exact same non-word. Then the adrenaline started pumping.

I remember reading that you shouldn't fly as soon as you realise because the excitement would wake you up. I just thought, screw that - I'm going to fly up the stairs.

I was really weird because I was kind of tentative about it at first so I sort of 'swum' up. On the way down I just sort of floated/soared and that was too much excitement and I woke up.

A good reality check is asking a specific question or trying to read some text. Like go on the forums, if the text is unreadable, then you're dreaming.

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I enjoy frightening dreams, and I must say that I dream almost every night.

Most of the time, if I run into a stumbling block, like for example if there's some monotonous or boring task I need to do, or a door that I can't open, I can step out of myself and direct the action. I almost always know that I'm dreaming, so I can speed up time to make the boring part over, or I can reverse time and try again a task that may have failed.

Extremely bizarre but I find that I almost always have complete control of the actions in my dream, and I can direct it. So no, I never need to use a reality test or something like that.


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bitJericho
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Quote: "- Do you regularly have lucid dreams?
- If yes, do you use reality tests or WILD's?
- If you use reality tests, describe the reality test you normally use.
- If you answered yes to 1 and reality tests to 2, did you have lucid dream in the past 24 hours?"


I very often do.

I usually just ask myself if I'm dreaming, and as soon as I ask I instantly know Usually though I get too excited after a short period and wake up I don't often have too much control in my dreams, but I do sometimes..


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BearCDPOLD
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I don't have regular lucid dreams, had a couple in the past few years, not a common occurrence though. Usually when I'm dreaming in the dream I'm doing something to distract me from thinking that it's a dream. If something weird ever happens I can usually go and check to see if something changed from what I recall and usually it hasn't so I dismiss it. Usually though I realize when I've actually woken up because I hear "beepbeep beepbeep beepbeep beepbeep" and I think "oh poo, another day of crap to do", and I don't hear the alarm clock often in my dreams, and I don't wake up with that kind of attitude in my dreams.

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Posted: 25th Apr 2005 17:56
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Once when I was younger the alarm on my digital watch went off while I was asleep and I spent ages trying to turn off the alarm inside the dream (I thought the watch I was waring was making the beeping) until I finally woke up.


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bitJericho
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Quote: "Once when I was younger the alarm on my digital watch went off while I was asleep and I spent ages trying to turn off the alarm inside the dream (I thought the watch I was waring was making the beeping) until I finally woke up."


Same here.. Often with the telephone too.. can't get to the phone in my dream, and it keeps ringing and ringing and I'm getting more and more frustrated... Knocking doors too..


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Van B
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I used to, at one point I was having lucid dreams almost every night. I did'nt know what they were, and never asked, I just assumed everyone had them. It's quite awesome to do that flying thing, I always had the feeling that it's a bit like weightlessness, like you can hurtle forward at great speed then swing around a lampost with perfect control - a bit like the dudes in Space Odyssey (sp?).


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Quote: "and I must say that I dream almost every night"


You mean you can remember that you dream almost everynight. Everyone dreams in REM sleep. We don't know exactly why, but we do. personally, i almost never remember my dreams, so i doubt i could tell you if i have had lucid dreams



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Quote: "i almost never remember my dreams, so i doubt i could tell you if i have had lucid dreams"


You would probably remember if you had a lucid dream - it's like waking up in the middle of a dream and realising that your concious and can change the direction of your dream. That's the thoery anyway, personally I was never able to do very much besides fly about the place, of course it has been some time, but I don't think we have the level of control that some would suggest - it's more like taking a partly-concious tour of our messed up heads.

One thing I do remember vividly is waking up and managing to stay asleep longer by 'avoiding' the rules. Like when you wake from a lucid dream, it's more like in the dream your falling asleep, you feel the tiredness in your eyes and can't 'keep them open'. It kinda feels like you've been awake all night when you wake up, very disorientating.


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Quote: "t kinda feels like you've been awake all night when you wake up, very disorientating"


well, probably cos your brain's been up all night, and thats the thing thats supposed to be resting when you sleep, so if you'd been thinking all night you'd be in the morning



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For some reason you have zero control over your speed in lucid dreams. (I walways fly/run/swim at the exact same speed)

Meh I haden't had a dream in a long time.

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define "Lucid Dream"

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Put simply it's when you realise that your actually dreaming and can 'take part' with some sort of conciousness, then usually end up flying or moving very fast - with me at least that's how they pan out.

A lot of people do it on purpose, like they'll check their watch every 30 minutes or so until it becomes a habit, then when they fall asleep, they check their watch and bingo, they change out of their dream state and into lucid territory. The name lucid does sound kinda sordid, and I imagine that is the case for a lot of people .

One day they'll make a pill that instigates it, then bye bye videogames - imagine going to sleep knowing you'll have a vibrant dream that your in control of. Get the scientists working on the 'lucid dream lozenge' technology immedietly!.


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Quote: "You mean you can remember that you dream almost everynight."


Yes--- 6 days out of the week I'll remember my dream. And if a lucid dream means you have control over it, then that's almost the only kind of dream I have. It's amazing! But maybe that's why I still get bags under my eyes when I sleep for 10 hours


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There is some kind of japanese technology that can make you have a lucid dream. Its expensive technology and in a prototyping phase I believe. Nonetheless very interesting.

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http://controller.logicstudios.net
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Last night I sat thinking about how I know I'm dreaming automatically when I ask myself.

I realized that I know I'm dreaming when I can't tell if I'm dreaming or not. So thus, if I have to ask myself, then I must be dreaming.


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If I've ever had a lucid dream I'll bet I went on a massacre...

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I had lucid dreams on a regular basis...i have them less frequently now, but I still have them. I don't relly have a reality test...I just know somehow that I am dreaming, then have fun.

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You guys ever had one of those scenarios play out, where you feel like you're in the movie, The Game? Where it's like you're figuring something out, almost like a videogame. I had that once, load of fun until I woke up and had to get ready for school.

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I often have really odd abstract thoughts.. and usually I'm concentrating on them so much that I don't get very good sleep on those nights... It usually happens though when I've been playing games for hours and hours, or something similar..


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last night i almsot had a lucid dream... i dreamed i was walking around the neighborhood late at night, and i thought, "Hmmm...this is odd... maybe it's a dream!" i asked someone the time, and they told me 1:34 A.M! i looked at a clock and it said same thing! thus, i concluded that this was real, and did not think it odd that my parents traded out the refrigerator for a soda vending machine.

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I think too loud at night that's why I can't sleep.

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most of my dreams involve being eaten....although i once had one in which I woke up in my dream, reaslised I was still deaming and then woke up again and agian and agian and so on. It was confusing.

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