Lucid Dreaming

[Grandor]

I practice lucid dreaming or hag or Astral projection for about 9 months and at first it was scary. Flying over my body and looking at it. But when you get hang of it it will give you ultimate fun.

If you like Lucid Dreams you could try pyrokinesis, telekinesis, aerokinesis... all that when you are awaken. PM me and I will give you links to sites with lesions how to learn these skills.

I'm sorry but how is this possible? Dreams are hard to explain but their explained sort of like memory being carried from short term memory to long term memory. It's a neurogical response, anything of that nature like astroprojection, in my mind, just a bunch of a bullshit.

 

[Andy6000]

I'm sorry but how is this possible? Dreams are hard to explain but their explained sort of like memory being carried from short term memory to long term memory. It's a neurogical response, anything of that nature like astroprojection, in my mind, just a bunch of a bullshit.

hey you said 'in my mind' at least, I was about to make a comment about how you're such a great... you know I even forgot what it was. I don't think you can per say actually astroproject or whatever, but you can have a lucid dream and imagine you sleeping there, after all, you know exactly where you are, probably how you were laying down when you went to sleep, everything else is details that aren't important. Now, seeing shit like what's going on down the street while you're asleep and 'astroprojecting', that seems pretty impossible!

 

[Grandor]

but you can have a lucid dream and imagine you sleeping there, after all, you know exactly where you are, probably how you were laying down when you went to sleep, everything else is details that aren't important.

Then that's just memory, not astroprojection. Because I can remember where I am, what time I went to bed and what position I was in when I first started sleeping.

 

[Andy6000]

Then that's just memory, not astroprojection. Because I can remember where I am, what time I went to bed and what position I was in when I first started sleeping.

Wow. How totally different then what I just said. Lucid dream does not equal astroprojection. That was the point. I just said it's plausible for someone to believe they were astroprojecting in that sort of situation.

 

[SteelReserve]

Lucid dreaming is scary! I started to sleepwalk!

 

[LordEliwood0009]

I actually had one a while back. It was daylight, and I first started out in my living room and seen my old cat tied to the fence post, attacked by bees. I hurried up and ran outside. I picked up my cat and flew up high to escape the bees, as I picked her up the leash vanished completely out of my will to save her. As I landed again, the bees decided to mess with me, but their stingers actually broke just by touching my skin. I rushed back inside and healed her right before my dream ended.

strangely enough, I didn't even use any techniques like that, and there was no hag at all either. And I fell asleep at night, so how could it be a memory thing? My cat does not even have a leash or was ever attacked by bees.

 

[Vinderex]

I've had some really weird and some really awesome dreams, only a few though.
I think I'll try this tonight. I love it when I dream, but I hardly ever do; I can't remember the last time actually.

 

[Hisuwashi]

Think I had a lucid dream last night. I was swimming in a river, and could hear the birds singing very clearly, and feel the water against my skin. I knew in the dream that I was only dreaming. I think that may be how I can tell it was a lucid dream?

The problem was that I wasn't in complete control of myself though...

 

[Malachi]

strangely enough, I didn't even use any techniques like that, and there was no hag at all either. And I fell asleep at night, so how could it be a memory thing? My cat does not even have a leash or was ever attacked by bees.

Hmmm, maybe it's a memory from a past life?

 

[Mitch]

I have like about 20 dreams that i keep having throughout my lifetime and there almost always the same exept that i choose what happens in my dream. Like one is where im being hunted in a forest and than i climb the tree and than i jump about 200 feet from tree to tree and end up in some dessert and than some little urban place where i jump a 300 foot wall and then theres this orb or something and everytime i go to take it i die somehow.
Its always in a diffrent location and no matter what i do i cant have it!
I WANT THE ORB DAMMENT!!!
I have had a dream like this for about 7 years now never got the orb....
I also have lots of dreams where i remember that i dreamed it before inside the dream and it allows me to lucid dream sortof.....



SO WHATS EVERYONES KEWLEST DREAM YOU HAVE EVER HAD?
I SHOULD MAKE A THREAD ABOUT THAT...
I think i will heres the link....
(waiting to be made)

 

[Beadly_Dastard]

I've had lucid dreams, but sometimes I KNOW I'm sleeping, and i can actually SEE my room, but when i try to get up, i feel pressure thats MUCH stronger than me, and i can't move, and i try and try and try. until i can manage to wake myself up. it's very strange and frightening, i always wake up exhausted when i have those.

EDIT: after re-reading some of the post, i realized this is called the "old Hag" as far as i know the effects are exactly the same as those i've had, and yeahh it's scaryt as hell, i always freak out when i have those

Hmm.  Try playing Tetris for about 15 minutes before going to bed.  While in bed, think of Tetris as you attempt to fall asleep.  My hypothesis is that the hypnagogic hallucination caused by Tetris will override the possibility of encountering "The Hag".

Conversely, if you find yourself immobilized by Sleep paralysis, concentrate on playing Tetris, and don't try to think of anything else but Tetris.  With any luck, you enter a state of lucidity, allowing yourself to flee from your paralysis.

As a side note, if you really do experience Sleep paralysis regularly, i would love to read your experiences in a dream journal.

 

[Diegoale2000]

I've been through the old hag quite a few times. first time I was a child, and it's possibly one of the most HORRIBLE things that can happen, not being able to move as you "wake up" and trying until your muscles are tired and sore.
My last time was in 07 sometime around August.

I clearly remember them, being in my room, I could see my family walking by (the door would be open) and I was gonna get up, nothing, no movement, so you start freaking out, you get scared and you try to scream your lungs out, NOTHING.

I never saw "the old hag" or a monster or any ominous figure, but I've been through it's effect, sleep paralysis.
sometimes when i think about it at night I fear that it'll happen in the morning, then i can't sleep hahaha XD

 

[Venetia]

It mostly happens when extremely fatigued, or if you nap. Sleep paralysis.

I "woke up" from a nap a few weeks ago and it was just awful. My brain was totally awake, and I could hear everything around me, but I couldn't move a muscle or open my eyes. Then I started to hear a whole group of people talking as if they were like 10 feet away--I can't explain that, since I live alone with my husband, and was all by myself in the house.

It felt like it was happening for hours, but it couldn't have been any more than like 5-10 minutes, since it was only like a 30 minute nap on the couch. I halfway started to wonder if I was paralyzed or blind.

Then, silly thing, I thought about the movie 'Kill Bill', where the Bride sits in the P*ssy Wagon and says, "wiggle your big toe". So then I kept repeating in my head, 'Wiggle your big toe. Big toe, wiggle for me.' Then it wiggled! A moment later I completely snapped out of it and was able to move.

Thanks, Quentin Tarantino XD

 

[JonoSasson]

Ha nice!

I've never experienced Sleep Paralysis before, by the sounds of it, I should be glad. I'll have to remember to "wiggle my big toe" if I ever do though

This lucid dreaming happens to me really often. I have two cats and a dog, and one of them usually makes a noise loud enough during the night that I am shocked awake. From that point on as I try to get back to sleep, I have control over what I'm doing in my dream. It is really quite an amazing feeling. The only bad thing is that whenever I'm getting to the best part, my cats (it's always my cats and never the dog) manage to wake me up again.

Lucid dreaming doesn't take as much effort to do (at least for me) as some people have said (like mobing your index and middle finger, saying stuff to make you enter this state). It's fairly common for me to enter a lucid dream because of noises that wake me up, then simply getting back to sleep. I think you have to be extremely tired though, like the only thing you want to do is go back to sleep.

Perhaps give that go, if you're sensitive to noises while asleep.

 

[Grathea]

I occasionally have lucid dreams, but when I realize that I'm lucid, I get kind of excited and wake up. I haven't tried this method, though, so I'll have to have a try at that tonight.

I also have a strange recurring dream, which I hope I can try and deal with through lucid dreaming.
Basically, I'm in a room that looks kind of like it's part of a hospital. All the walls are made of brushed metal. I'm lying on a bed. What I'm wearing varies, but I'm usually in a white robe. Strange, I know. It seems perfectly normal in the dream, though.
I get up off of the bed, and wander through the halls of the building. There are no windows, and there is absolutely no-one there. Everything is absolutely quiet.
Eventually, I start to hear a noise. It's coming from somewhere. I try to go towards it, grabbing a wooden pole from a storage room to defend myself. I come to a closed door, the only one I see in the dream. Holding the staff in my left hand, I reach out for the handle. Here, the dream changes to looking at me, instead of being through my eyes. The door starts to open, and a bright light is cast onto my face, and the wall behind me. My eyes open in shock and incredulity, and then the dream ends and I wake up in a cold sweat.

Can't wait to lucid dream and try and find out what's behind the door.

 

[JonoSasson]

Your recurring dream sounds like it's been influenced by far too many movies. But good luck with progressing it. Tell us how that goes for you.

 

[Vampiriclayer]

can't believe i haven't looked through this thread yet. Here's some FAQs on lucid dreaming: http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html

 

[Cruelty]

apparently some dude invented some weird thing you put over your eyes when youre sleping, and it detects rapid eye movements and tells your brain that you're dreaming. viola, lucid dream. i want one tbh.

 

[Vampiriclayer]

So when you Lucid Dream, it's like you're awake but not?

 

[Cruelty]

yeah. youre aware that you're dreaming, and in control of what goes on in the dream. really cool stuff, hasn't happened to me in years.. it used to happen all the time then it jsut stopped :{