h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A few years back, I had lucid dreaming down! Every dream was lucid! The problem with it, I found, is you have to know that it is a dream, but if you say "This is a dream" (or even think it too loud) you tend to wake up. You have to kinda know it's a dream without explicitly saying it... or for me at least.

That's how I know I dream in colour. I realised I was dreaming, and looked around and it was in colour. Of course I promptly thought "I dream in colour!" and woke up.

Some wierd dreams I've had recently:
I had this one where I was snorkelling, and then I went home and went to sleep and dreamed I was snorkelling. So I was dreaming that I was dreaming that I was snorkelling...

I've had this recurring dream where I'm on a school trip down to a river that runs through our town, but now there's this big volcano next to it. We use a flying-fox to get over the volcano, and then we're walking down the boat ramp to the river to swim across, but there's an old cooled lava flow across it. I start to walk across it, but the black crusty stuff on top is too thin and it breaks and I'm up to my knees in Lava. My feet start getting a bit too warm, and then I wake up...

Anyway that's all for now.

=)

Its disturbing but all my lucid dreams have to do with falling. And sometimes I hit the ground before I wake up. The whole concept of a lucid dreams is awsome. A dream that you live. You see vanilla sky? Great flick. But anyway can all poeple tell the difference between their lucid dreams and their regular dreams, because I know sometimes I can't.

Dorian

Best dreams ever are flying dreams. Stretching your arms out, straining your muscles as hard as you can, and then, taking off.

Fantastic!

Of course, as soon as you realise you're dreaming, you plummet downwards...

Isn't that an extention of Murphy's law. If you look really close you will see how much that guy influences your every day life. Just think the next time something intesseting happens, think about what was missing yesterday, and plug in the missing variable, and if tomorrow you have the same situation the outcome will be the same as yesterday.
Ummm did that make sense?

Dorian

Erm...no. Sorry, didn't get that.

I've never thought too much about my flying dreams - I just enjoy them when I have them, and keep trying to pretend I'm not really dreaming.

I once had a strange dream where I couldn't lift my arms or legs. As panic rose, I began to wake up and realised I still couldn't lift my arms or legs. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't move the sheet above me. Eventually, I woke up enough to realise I was lying face down, pressing against the mattress...

But thats not a lucid dream.

Dorian

Hmm... all my "flying" dreams, it's kinda like I'm on the moon - low gravity. So I can't really fly, but I can jump really far, and if I kinda kick my legs and "swim" with my hands I can stay up quite a while... In fact, most of my dreams are like that. Or like it's underwater. If I try to run my feet just slip on the ground like if you try running in a pool...

*Says to anyone who's still listening*

How old were you when you had your first lucid dream? I think it's something you learn to do in childhood - for me it was a mechanism for escaping bad dreams.

I had a recurring dream, and I always knew I was dreaming because it was so scary I couldn't forget it! There was only one way to wake up, though: run (in my dream, that is) into my parents room and curl up in a ball in the corner of their room. This always induced that 'tipping' feeling, bringing me back to the safety of my bed.

Gosh, those dreams were scary.

I haven't flown in a while now - but it was always something I could do at will. I always seemed to have complete control over it and knew what I was doing.

I start walking and then run a little. This is all I need to do to fly and I don't even have to flap my arms.

I haven't flown in a while now - but it was always something I could do at will. I always seemed to have complete control over it and knew what I was doing.

I start walking and then run a little. This is all I need to do to fly and I don't even have to flap my arms.

'all my "flying" dreams, it's kinda like I'm on the moon - low gravity. So I can't really fly, but I can jump really far, and if I kinda kick my legs and "swim" with my hands I can stay up quite a while...'

YES! That's how I fly, sort of. But when I do it it always seems kind of unexpectedly natural-- I'll think "Oh, I've been able to do this all the time, how silly of me," and do it. It's not so much taking off or swooping around or flapping around, but as the sensation of losing the link to gravity, always with an eerie sensation of "Oh, riiiight".

Lucid dreams-- I've had a few. I remember one really, really clearly. I dreamed I went to a swimming pool, and part of it wasn't built yet; instead, for some reason, they'd installed a massive meat grinding machine that sucked unwary swimmers in. I thought, "This is ridiculous. No swimming pool would install a huge meat grinder in their building. This HAS to be a dream-- Wait. Oh wow. It actually is, isn't it?" Then I turned to the lifeguard and said, "This is a dream, isn't it?!", like he'd done something naughty without telling me. He said, "No! No it isn't!" and looked panicky, like I'd uncovered some terrible secret and was the first to realise the truth (seen the Truman Show? Somewhat like that). In defiance I wanted to hurl myself into the meat grinder. I threatened "I'll do it!" some other lifeguards and swimming pool managers and so on appeared and said in slow voices that I shouldn't, rather like how someone might try and persuade a suicidial man to get down from the top of that building. But I did it anyway. I woke up instaneously. I was only 10 or so when I had that dream, and it's stayed with me forever since, clear as crystal.

Did you feel anything as you entered the meat grinder, the instant before you woke up?

What was your heart rate like when you did wake?

To be honest, it was fine. I just sort of slid down this slide thing that was connected to the meat grinder and thought, "Well, this should be interesting." When I woke up I thought, "Phew-- so it WAS just a dream. I would have been in a bit of a pickle if it wasn't! I would've looked silly as well." Then I went back to sleep. *shrugs*

Nightmares are definately the best to lucid dream.

Dorian

I had a dream 2 nights ago where i was on the top of a building and was going to bungee jump off of it. In my dreeam I was too scared to jump...but I felt a slow realisation that It was a dream and that I couldnt hurt myself if anything went wrong. I decided that I had to jump because Id never be brave enough to do it in the real world...so i did! It was the most amazing feeling I have ever felt. I dont remember any of the dream before it...only that bit. After I had dropped and as I began to bounce back up I woke up...but it felt soooo good!

Mo

You should see vanilla sky.

Dorian

hmm???

I always forget it was just a dream and I'm still convinced I can fly after I've woken up. This is not a good thing. And you should watch Obre los Ojos (open your eyes) rather than Vanilla sky as Cameron Crowe has really knackered up a really great movie there.

shouldnt it be Abre los ojos? ¿Hablas Espanol?