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

When I have a lucid dream I just tend to stare in amazement at all the detail around me, people, buildings, etc.

Hi JEllen!

I'll write a new journal entry this weekend...

I hope you're well?

my last flying dream became lucid. i have only had 5 flying dreams so far in my life, and they are wonderful and a bit scary. after the 4th, i promised myself i would be in control the next time i had one, and it happened! as i took off in the dream, i thought hey! this is it! and suddenly i was in control. amazing, cant wait for the next time!

That sounds !

I have them more often than truly lucid dreams... but my most vivid and most lucid flying dream did indeed occur while I was reading So Long... I was dead tired and it didn't seem like it took anytime after I hit the bed that I rolled out of it... but didn't hit the ground. There I was with my nose all but touching the floor in the gap between my bed and the wall. Taking the advice of Arthur Dent I was careful not to think too hard on the situation and slowly floated up to the middle of the room. Then I floated over to the window and oriented myself vertically. I wanted to float out but the windows were closed... That's when I took a leap of lucid faith that this was a dream and just closed my eyes for a moment and found myself on the outside next to the window... I then panicked a little and slammed back against the wall for a moment, got my bearings and then drifted over the town. I remember seeing an accident scene on the highway at the edge of town (I checked the paper the next couple of days but they've never been too thorough about goings on in our part of the county). It was brilliant. Most of the fun was just noticing all the details and recognising houses I knew from a different angle... above! I'm sure I would have freaked if I had seen a report of a crash in the paper though.

Icy: <>

I do often dream in the morning that I am up and about and getting dressed, but that, Icy, beats anything I've dreamt! (It's so annoying to have to shower and dress twice in a morning )

I also 'change' nightmares now and then, realising that I dream, and 'decide' to have a nicer turn of events. Not completely controlling the dream, but at least moving away from the scary bits.

Incidentally Lucy Dreams would make a good pornstar name.

>Incidentally Lucy Dreams would make a good pornstar name.

Have you ever done that 'thing' where you make up your own porn-name?
Just take your pet's name, and add the first word of your road-name to it.

You can do it for different periods of your life, too. For instance, when I was little, I would have been "Sweep Hazeldean", but now I am, aptly, "Sponge Downs".

Some explorers of inner space report interesting effects/experiences using binaural-beat audio generators to induce brainwave entrainment, producing EEG patterns associated with various "meditative" states...

Gnaural is a free, open source, multi-platform programmable binaural-beat generator: http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/




Piped through the speakers rather than headphones, certain patterns make Higgins sing!

"I do often dream in the morning that I am up and about and getting dressed, but that, Icy, beats anything I've dreamt! (It's so annoying to have to shower and dress twice in a morning )"

At least you showered... in my dream of getting up and setting off for college I was a dirty so-and-so and didn't bother.

Incidentally, how did the water feel in your dream-shower - anything out of the ordinary, like when I tried to turn the radio on, all I got was static and crackling?

that makes me kato abbey....bit disturbing!

my dreams have been very well behaved and orderly lately, think i'm getting there...

Lobo 15th just doesn't sound like a good porn name.

quite aristocratic tho'...
as a teenager i would have been dora york- sounds a bit stern- a dominatrix maybe?

Dora Yorke.... Too much of a spoonerism... think about it... the aura of a domiatrix would be ruined by having a name the punters can laugh at...

i had a dream last night, it wasnt lucid, but everything went right; in a shop, all my fave things, open purse and money appeared and increased; looking for mate, but ended up with lovely man from rl years ago..then mate appears, having travelled 90 miles to see me, with offer of cheap veg oil for ever.....bliss

I can't ever remember not being aware of my dreaming whilst I am dreaming, I.E., I always know I'm dreaming when I'm dreaming, except for a couple of ocasions which are probably down to overexcessive drug/alchol use on those few ocasions, where the next day I really wans't sure at first if the memory of the dream was a real memory or a memory of the dream Sometimes the dreams are mundaine things, and useually its pretty easy to disipher what these are; Acting through particular tasks/dutys I need to do in waking hours whilst asleep, helping gague the best way of doing them when it comes to do them for real. Others are just plain explicit and dirty, actually this is probably a good proportion of them Most if not all of my dreams can be lucid in so much as I'm vertually always aware Ii'm dreaming although a lot of the time its more fun to try and not control them too much, and let the full subconscious take control and send them off in what are often more intersting directions than the more conscious bit of the brain can muster up I get quite a lot of reacuring dreams, many of which have been with me for years and years, and which change and have gone on almost like a 'TV series' or soap opera of differnt parts, picking up the next time that given reacuring dream happens from the point when it left off, these are usueally a mix of lucid (controlled) dreaming and non lucid (but aware I'm dreaming) dreams. I've a couple of nightmarish dreams that go back to when I was quite young that I ocasionally have, and with these Im useually not aware I am dreaming until a very* famuliar part of the nighmare occurs, and I realise its one of the nighmares... When I was revising at university, I'd revise whilst asleep by writing test exam answers during sleep, which is really quite dull when you think about it No idea if it helped or not I can drift into a semi sleeping/daydreaming lucid state whilst awake too, often I'm quite creative (well compaired to normal) when I do this, though often I end up doing really very dumb things when I forget to fully wake up before moving off and say trying to walk thorugh a doorway or up the stairs If I wake in the middle of a dream, say to get up and pop to the loo or get a drink of water in the middle of the night, I'm always aware I've moved from dream to awakefulness, but can useually slip back into the dream once I'm back in bed

Could I ask you 2legs, do you dream in images?

Yep, full technicolour with 7.1 surround sound... yeh, always dream in pictures, visually, but then again I think visually as well, when I'm awake and doing stuff, anything, even making a cup of coffee, I automatically have images of what I'm doing in my head... if that makes sense... I see my sleeping/dreaming part of the day as much a part of the day as the waking part, its just another part of my life/who I am... Hmm... didn't quite put that right but it kinda makes sense

Okay I was just wondering if that was perhaps what made you aware you were dreaming.

Ooo, not thought of that maybe it is... I guess the 'seeing' 'immages' in my dremaing is more realistic/natural than my kind of 'picturing' things I'm doing whilst waking...