AlienGirl
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Sun Jan-31-10 12:46 PM
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Lucid dreaming and dream-within-a-dream: anyone else ever do this? |
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I just woke up from a really great dream that had some surprising features, and wonder if anyone's heard of or done this before.
The dream started with me going to bed, falling asleep, and beginning a secondary dream within the first. In the secondary dream, I was on the set of a documentary in Africa, watching lions. I was thinking how interesting it would be to pet one of the lions, and then suddenly I realized that since I was only dreaming this, I could! I called the lions over to me and had them head-bump and rub against me like domestic cats. Their fur was more dense and wiry than a domestic cat, and felt "dusty." As I was dreaming this, I was aware that I was asleep and dreaming. Eventually I woke from the secondary dream into the primary dream, of just being in bed, and I tried to say something, but was unable to talk because I couldn't move my mouth. This made me aware that I was still asleep in the real world, so I woke up for real.
Now, I've had lucid dreams before, and I've had dreams-within-dreams before, but I haven't ever heard of a dream-within-a-dream becoming lucid! Has anyone else here ever had anything like this happen, or know of a case where it happened?
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Sun Jan-31-10 12:56 PM
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Sometimes I do it so often, it freaks me out and I really don't sleep well. :scared:
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Mon Feb-01-10 02:24 AM
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2. I used to be able to Lucid Dream |
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It didn't come naturally to me, but I read about them and trained myself to have one (relity checks, etc). When I finally had one, it was wonderful! The thing that amazed me the most was the feeling of touch. Like touching a tree and feeling its roughness, touching glass and feeling it smooth and cool.
Sadly I could never control the dream for more then a few minutes, and after a while I stopped trying. Then I whad one which lasted for a long time. It felt so good that I tried to get to have another one, without success(so far)
What you describe sounds really cool! The closest I came was having a false awakening. I'd love to have that experience!
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Mon Feb-01-10 01:43 PM
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4. False awakenings bother me, especially because the first thing I have to do in the morning is pee! |
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Mon Feb-01-10 08:53 PM
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16. THAT is another problem. |
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If my bladder is trying to wake me up, I start dreaming that I'm either looking for a bathroom or going many times in a short period through the dream and feeling the relief of going. Luckily, I've awakened in time when that happens.
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Mon Feb-01-10 03:14 PM
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13. Can you tell me what books/articles you read? nt |
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Mon Feb-01-10 02:26 AM
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3. Can you really be sure you're not still dreaming? |
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merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily...
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Mon Feb-01-10 01:44 PM
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5. Pretty sure! All my reality checks say I'm not |
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Of course, I could be wrong.... :scared:
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Mon Feb-01-10 01:51 PM
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6. I've been trying in the last couple of nights |
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I've read that you can teach yourself to do it. I recently lost someone dear to me, and I also learned that my wife is terminally ill. From time to time my deceased friend appears in my dreams, and I wanted to have some control over this. Just last night I decided, as I was nodding off, to dream about my friend. Sure enough, she appeared in my dream, but it wasn't a lucid dream. I'm hoping I can develop this so that I can spend time with her again, even if it only feels real.
Someday I'll lose my wife, and I want to hang on to our time together if I possibly can. I know it sounds silly, but reality is just a matter of perception, and if a dream is all you have, it will do.
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Mon Feb-01-10 01:51 PM
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7. I often have lucid or directed dreams. |
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Edited on Mon Feb-01-10 01:55 PM by denbot
I was nearly killed by a gunshot as a teen. For years afterwords I would have terrible nightmares as soon as I fell asleep. In my dreams I would try to get myself to wake up. Finally, during one recurring dream as I was falling to my death I made myself fly..
After that little by little I was able to direct the direction of the dream, or at least my actions in a kind of "do over". This is especially true in my serial dreams, which have reoccurring story lines, and locations.
Now sometimes I would wake and remember thinking during my dreams that it would be "better" for the story line to go a certain way, and it does.
I don't do this all the time, but it is frequent.
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Mon Feb-01-10 01:52 PM
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I've been having some really strange, vivid dreams lately. I can't figure out if I've always been having them and am just remembering them lately, or if this is something new.
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Mon Feb-01-10 02:06 PM
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9. I lucid dream a lot, but never what you describe. |
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BTW, the old saw about if you die in your dream, you die for real is not true. In the bad old days of the Cold War, I used to dream quite a bit about being on a battlefield in the midst of nuclear war. Every time I got killed, my POV would shift miles away. What do you think about that? :nuke:
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Mon Feb-01-10 02:13 PM
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10. I've not only had dreams where I die, I've had ones about being dead and trying to remember my life! |
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I've also hit the ground in falling dreams and had plenty of "end of the world" dreams.
It sounds like your POV shift was a good mechanism for your mind to keep the dream going after the "death."
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Mon Feb-01-10 02:27 PM
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11. Only when I have a really bad fever. |
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But it's something else, huh.
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Mon Feb-01-10 03:12 PM
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12. I've had lucid dreams before but not a dream-within-a-dream. |
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Thanks for your post! I think in our society we devalue dreams.
Dreams can tell us a lot.
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Mon Feb-01-10 07:00 PM
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14. I once dreamed I couldn't sleep. |
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I woke up exhausted.
This sounds like something Steven Wright would say but it's true.
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Mon Feb-01-10 08:51 PM
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15. I once had a lucid dream... |
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Edited on Mon Feb-01-10 08:57 PM by AsahinaKimi
But I had to wake up,.. I was being chased by Art Bell's bumper music, right down Mel's hole. Thank goodness for Richard C. Hoagland, he saved me from tripping over the face on Mars.
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Mon Feb-01-10 09:09 PM
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Edited on Mon Feb-01-10 09:12 PM by Baclava
I too taught myself to have waking experiences in my dreams.
Or maybe that's just how I perceived it.
I go back to familiar places, roads, buildings, cities...that exist only in my dreams, and yet are so real.
And yes, I and have flying dreams too - real ones too, where I say, "I want to fly" and off I go ...fully aware of the absurdity of it.
Sometimes I morph into a batlike creature and attack the innocents - oh what fun that is.
And the mall scenes - oh yes - "Make all the girls kekkid"
Yeah baby - been there, done that.
Dying in dreams is kinda spooky, but after you've driven off as many cliffs and bridges as I have, you get used to it.
{edit} Ask me anything.
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