Can you lucid dream?

[Swede]

When I'm dreaming and a bad storm comes up,flooding etc, I realise I'm dreaming (these were real nightmares). I then control the dream and do pretty much anything in it.

[volstork]

1. I rarely have nightmares, but as

I realize a dream is taking a bad turn, I wake myself up before things get too freakish.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Yes. Generally it involves Christopher Meloni.

[Swede]

3. Is that the big Italian on Iron Chef America?

That guy can cook!

[Midlodemocrat]

5. LOL. No, the hottie on Law and Order SVU.

[LeftyMom]

18. I have a friend who would kill for that power.

Can't really blame him. Christopher Meloni is damned hot.

I think it's time to bust out the Oz dvds.

[rcrush]

4. I always wake up before the good part.

Or something happens in the dream to distract me from the good part and then I wake up. Dreaming pisses me off sometimes.

[KittyWampus]

6. Yes, and I've had dreams about stuff I had no way of knowing which turned out to be true

and also prophetic dreams (where I told close friends who then verified)

[Roon]

7. I dreamnt about 9-11 for years before the attack

Not planes smashing into buildings, but huge jumbo jets are only 100 feet off the ground..Then I would see a huge fireball and I could feel the terror. Haven't had that dream since the attack.

[redqueen]

8. I've only done it once.

My first thought was 'I want to fly', so I started flying, and woke up almost immediately. x(

[u4ic]

9. Yes, I can control them

I've had some very interesting dreams over the years. :evilgrin:

One of the first times I recall realizing I was dreaming was when I was a teen, and there was a giant tsunami headed towards us. Everyone was panicking and rushing for higher ground, and I tried to calm everyone by saying "don't worry, it's only a dream..."

[InternalDialogue]

10. To a point.

Years ago I used to have terrible nightmares. I read up on lucid dreaming and did some journal work and exercises. One night, I had a dream where I was getting shot, and all the prep work I did finally kicked in and I stopped the bullets (actually, I don't know if I stopped them "Matrix"-style or if I just let them hit me but not hurt me).

Since then, I haven't had a problem with nightmares, although my control of dreams is limited to halting terrorizing scenarios and making myself fly when I start out falling.

[DarkTirade]

11. Not in normal dreams

but if I wake up and go back to sleep, sometimes I get stuck in this weird half-dreaming state, where I'll replay my last dream but change things. It's very bizarre. Then again, since I only remember the dreams that I wake up in the middle of usually, maybe it happens to me more often than I know. :P

[CBHagman]

12. Every so often, yes.

On more than one occasion I've recognized that I was dreaming. However, I can't recall how much I was able to control the outcome of the dream. Apparently some people are able to discipline themselves to control their dreams. Most of the time, it seems things are just happening in my dreams without logic or order or visible control.

[tismyself]

13. yes

But the strangest thing ever was I used to be able to connect with an old friend in dreams, he knew it and I knew it too. We got to the point of meeting in dreams deliberately.

[TK421]

14. I have had recurring dreams (nightmares?) sometimes they make me sit

bolt upright in my bed they are so bad, but I haven't had those in a while. I've never had the feeling like I could control them, though...and they didn't make any sense.

[nomorenomore08]

15. Maybe. I can never really tell whether I'm "controlling" my movements/actions or not.

Sometimes things will happen in a dream because I thought of them, like if I imagine somebody peeking in the window, and then all of a sudden they're there. I've also done things like pointing guns at people in my dreams, but once again I can't tell if it's voluntary on my part.

[quakerboy]

16. at times, yes.

I rarely recall having dreamt at all, but when I do, If i have the luxury of sleeping as long as I want, I will often wake up, then go back in, only with control of the dream.

[harmonicon]

17. sometimes, but not usually

If I realize that I'm dreaming and think about controlling it, I lose focus and then wind up in some other dream and get pissed off.

Far more often, I know that I'm dreaming, but can't change anything, and it's still completely horrifying. My dreams aren't about disasters and things... they're usually about weird emotional personal situations, which some times scare me awake.

I have entire invented worlds in my dreams - some I return to... it's a strange place. Ugh! why did you have to make me think about this right before bed??!

[RagAss]

19. Since I was a kid, I had the ability to stop a dream for a "commercial break"...

just like TV. Never fails and has always kept nightmares away. I suggest you try it.

[RandomThoughts]

20. If

Life is but a dream, then yes :)

ok funny play on concepts.