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The best feeling i've ever had was during a dream. I was sitting on the back porch of the house I grew up in, and in the distance I saw beautiful fireworks over the tree line. It was the end of the world and I was so happy. I definatly don't want the end to come, but I think it was more of a tansition period I was excited about. But I remember such a wonderful feeling of personal happiness. But your right about waking up in the morning and going back to bed. That's when you get the best stuff it seams.
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 Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here?  [Re: Yage]
#16139297 - 04/25/12 09:19 PM (1 year, 28 days ago) |
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I know that personal happiness your talking about after a dream...its indescribable. Its satisfaction to its fullest, its so warm. Its like ending a chapter in your life and it being the happiest ending, or something like that.
Its like your looking at your life in a higher-positive perspective and everything is just perfect. Like a happy ending to a real feel good movie.
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: Quest_ions]
#16139317 - 04/25/12 09:25 PM (1 year, 28 days ago) |
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When I was a child I had a reoccurring dream where it felt like I was in the middle east and I was being chased by someone. Over and over for years.
Lately Ive been having dreams about talking to people I have lost contact with over time.
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: Sham87]
#16139385 - 04/25/12 09:42 PM (1 year, 28 days ago) |
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Attaining lucidity takes a lot of practice. But the practice pays off because even with low success rates, practicing dream recall is very rewarding in itself. With proper practice you will start to notice a huge increase in the number of dreams you remember each night. Everybody dreams every night, it's remembering them that is the hard part.
It also became alot easier once i started practicing astral projection. Even when i'm not successful in projecting, i often find myself going from awake straight into the dream world with intense lucidity.
It blows my mind that so many people i talk to are so uninterested in their dreams or say they 'never dream'.
Everybody has to sleep, why not make the most of it?
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: theenigma]
#16140316 - 04/26/12 01:24 AM (1 year, 28 days ago) |
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It blows my mind that so many people i talk to are so uninterested in their dreams or say they 'never dream'.
Everybody has to sleep, why not make the most of it?
I would have to agree, if the average person spends 1/3 of their life sleeping, why not make the most of it?
I learned how to lucid dream when I was a child, about 5 or 6 years old, and was able to retain the 'talent' until I started smoking weed heavily in my teenage years.
Anyway, recently I've been taking a medication called Nuvigil which is prescribed for those who suffer from Sleep Work Shift Disorder, and taking 450mg at night allows me to stay awake for 72 hours at a time. It gets a little weird at the 48 hour mark, and I usually start to see peripheral hallucinations.
I take 2 Tylennol PM's when I know I can devote 12 or more hours to sleep/recovery, and this is what led to the false awakening/lucid dreaming loop.
I slept for 16 hours yesterday, and what felt like the better part of 9 hours was spent lucid dreaming.
The last time I was able to fly and breathe underwater, and literally augment the reality around me was when I was lucid dreaming as a child.
I know this post sounds scattered, but being able to lucid dream like this has made me so happy.
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: jadels215]
#16142895 - 04/26/12 05:06 PM (1 year, 27 days ago) |
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For the first time in 17 years of Lucid Dreaming, I was able to become lost within dream levels. It got the point where I believed I was awake, went through an entire day's agenda, and then go back to sleep while still Lucid Dreaming, to only begin Lucid Dreaming again.
If you were dreaming and believed you were awake, this is not lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is the awareness that you are dreaming. It's usually only when you have this awareness that you are able to actively affect what takes place in the dream(god your sig is distracting). Yes, you can have vivid dreams where you can leap and fly and are empowered but if you are not aware you're dreaming, you're usually just a traveler in an incredible world in my experience, with no real ability to affect much and again if you're not aware that you are dreaming you are not lucid dreaming.
Once you become aware you are dreaming you usually wake up, this is the biggest challenge. I am nowhere near mastery of it but I did have decent success several years back when I was really working on it. First, I kept a dream journal for about a year. This was very intense because it caused me to rapidly develop remarkable dreaming intensity, vividness and recall. I began to have profound nightmares, like being mauled by demon dogs with needle teeth or being dragged violently all along the walls and ceiling by an invisible force while I pleaded with apathetic observers to help me. I don't think a dream journal necessarily leads to this, it just intensifies things and I was having a pretty stressful time trying to make it on my own for the first time in my life
Then I moved to a new place and the dream journaling slowed and I began to practice so called "reality testing". This is when I began to lucid dream somewhat intentionally. The basic method is, throughout the day, constantly challenge yourself to prove to yourself that you are not dreaming. Don't just say, "duh, of course I'm not dreaming, I'm driving in my car". Instead go over the details of your day, which will be linear and clear and predictable, much unlike a dream. The concept is that if you make this practice a habit, you will start doing it in your dreams as well and I found this to be true. The tricky thing is not waking up once you realize you're dreaming.
On a side note, I'm pretty sure 5-htp can be conducive to sleep paralysis episodes, which are often associated with vivid creaming, though again there are still barriers between sleep paralysis and vivid dreaming and lucid dreaming. I've had the most visceral, unbearably real dream experiences surrounding sleep paralysis that were in no way lucid and actually had me at the complete mercy of the dream, begging for relief. Weird shit goes on to say the least. But I had my first sleep paralysis and associated bizarreness after trying 5-htp for a few days about 30-60 minutes before bed back in high school and continue to have it on and off since, sometimes with the aid of 5-htp, sometimes not.
Another side note, I believe pot will make it pretty difficult to achieve any sort of dreaming results with any degree of predictability, if it doesn't extinguish dreaming or dream recall altogether. I think when you first discover pot, especially kind bud, in your youth it can contribute to dreaming somehow, but in later years it will just squash it out.
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: jadels215]
#16865925 - 09/18/12 12:32 AM (8 months, 5 hours ago) |
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Sorry for bumping an old post but it's rare I hear actual personal stories(experience) on living in a dream for more than a few hours to days to months to years per se..
Sucks no one who posted had much relevance to the op at least along the lines of "living in a dream" .
I've heard ( not much) of people saying I've lived in a dream for weeks to years( perhaps it felt that long but exaggerated maybe) but I'm just curious to those experiences because I can imagine how fcuking tripping that would be , only to wake up in your bed and it's barely morning the next day or something after taking that kind of toll on your mind.
Ps. Did that threat about; before "breaking through" in a dream, it was a common to encounter this intimating man with black eyes and his stare is extremely intense and piercing.
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: Nofatchiicks]
#16866074 - 09/18/12 12:58 AM (8 months, 4 hours ago) |
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When I broke my ankle I was stuck in bed for a long time and I basically used the time to dream a lot! I found that if you wake up briefly then go right back to sleep you can pick up a dream roughly where you left off, and if you can recognize that you had just woken up from this same dream then you can go lucidd.
I wouldn't say i've been in a dream for days but there have been some where waking up is utterly confusing because I had been living this dream life for a bit
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: jadels215]
#16866274 - 09/18/12 01:45 AM (8 months, 4 hours ago) |
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I've had a lot of "lucid dreams" where I manage to realize I'm dreaming and hang on to my dream, but then I realize I can't really think of anything I would want to do in my dream, so I just wake up and go back to sleep.
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bryguy27007
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I've had a lot of "lucid dreams" where I manage to realize I'm dreaming and hang on to my dream, but then I realize I can't really think of anything I would want to do in my dream, so I just wake up and go back to sleep.
So wait, you're telling me that the laws of physics and reality don't apply, you can control and create your own world, and you can't think of anything to do, so you wake up? I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. You don't wish you had a super power or have never wanted to fly or conjure up a beautiful women to have sex with or travel space or talk to animals or do anything out of the ordinary or anything that you could even possibly imagine?
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: jadels215]
#16866472 - 09/18/12 02:31 AM (8 months, 3 hours ago) |
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I've had lucid dreams on and off for years now but just within the last month or so I've really started getting into them.
I usually just fly when I realize I'm dreaming and I've been stopping myself and trying to explore. I had one really AMAZING one about a month ago where I actually stayed in it for about 10 mins. I haven't had another one like that since.
I'll keep working on it though. I have a buddy that's working on it with me so we encourage each other.
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: bryguy27007]
#16866476 - 09/18/12 02:33 AM (8 months, 3 hours ago) |
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Very successful lucid dreamer. Could give great tips. However recently every now and then I get thrown into this nightmare. I control where I am but not what's going on. Playing hide and seek in an abandoned hospital with these scathe creatures. Pretty brave individual, but this dream leaves me waking thanking God it wasn't real. Even though I'm aware. Still the possibillity.
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: bryguy27007]
#16866491 - 09/18/12 02:38 AM (8 months, 3 hours ago) |
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Celestial Traveler said:
I've had a lot of "lucid dreams" where I manage to realize I'm dreaming and hang on to my dream, but then I realize I can't really think of anything I would want to do in my dream, so I just wake up and go back to sleep.
So wait, you're telling me that the laws of physics and reality don't apply, you can control and create your own world, and you can't think of anything to do, so you wake up? I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. You don't wish you had a super power or have never wanted to fly or conjure up a beautiful women to have sex with or travel space or talk to animals or do anything out of the ordinary or anything that you could even possibly imagine?
Lol no man, not really anymore. I have had lucid sex dreams before but they got kinda old. Besides that I dunno it's just like my imagination falls to shit once I realize it's just a dream.
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: jadels215]
#16866533 - 09/18/12 02:50 AM (8 months, 3 hours ago) |
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I have a lucid dream about once a month.
The feeling of knowing you have the power to fly and executing it is... it's the best feeling in the world.
I sometimes wish I would never wake up.
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Ive lucid dreamed like 10 times i think. Recently when i became lucid i was dreaming and in a room with some friends smoking weed. when i became lucid i was like hey lets all smoke some DMT. after smoking i had a really cool fractal pattern appear that was very much like the visuals in the first 30 seconds of a DMT trip. Then when i would of begun tripping in earnest instead i woke up feeling mindfucked  .
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: Mescalini]
#16866734 - 09/18/12 04:09 AM (8 months, 1 hour ago) |
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The weirdest dream I ever had: I was sleeping in the library at school. I woke up and left, on my way up the stairs I thought "damn my legs feel like they weigh a ton, I'm tired." Then I woke up in the library.
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: jadels215]
#16866812 - 09/18/12 04:58 AM (8 months, 54 minutes ago) |
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I lucid dream rather easily and pretty often. Been able to since I was a kid, ever since my aunt told me that it was possible to control dreams. Generally I'll have at least one every week to two weeks, and at times almost every time I go to sleep every day for a week. More often than not I'm semi-lucid, either in observe mode where I can sorta tell it's a dream but can't quite interact with the dream...and occasionally I find my self in what feels like a disoriented/tripped out mind-state and can't tell if it's just a dream or if it's "waking" reality and I'm just tripping really hard. I usually think someone dosed me and I'm completely out of my gourd when that happens, asking people in my dream if it's real and if they/someone dosed me  .
If I take a nap during the day or fall back asleep an hour or three after waking up I can slip into a lucid dream with ease. I can observe the hypnagogic imagery start to form, become more intricate, at times forming random images/places/landscapes that are fairly detailed. Then eventually develop into a dream. I just try to passively observe my self falling asleep, that's how I would describe it.
Some common things I do/experience in lucid dreams is exploring random places & dream-scapes. Sometimes it is as simple as a town of sorts, I can go into any house/building and walk through it. Sometimes it's a bizarre jungle on some other planet, where I can climb the trees that are hundreds of feet tall, jumping and gliding down in a wingsuit like fashion....or just falling straight onto the ground, it's a dream and I know I can't die  . Then making sexy time with the dreaded jungle females that reside on that planet.
At times the places I find my self are desolate and empty, agonizing emptiness . Other times it's a town with people walking about as if it was an afternoon down town. Sometimes it is a abstract dimension oh so reminiscent of DMT.
When I am fully lucid I've had crazy long in depth conversations with other people that I cross paths with in my dreams. Now what makes me go hmmm  , during these conversations with people in my dreams I actually have to think about what "I" am saying, but when they're talking I just listen. But my brain is actually making the dialogue between both "I" and this "dream person" , is it not?...wtf?
I also experience sleep paralysis somewhat often, and have achieved a few OBE/astral projections as well as it happening with out effort on my part during intense SP episodes.
I've sorta been an oneironaut since a kid, then I discovered psychedelics and 
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Re: Any successful Lucid Dreamers here? [Re: openmind]
#16866833 - 09/18/12 05:17 AM (8 months, 35 minutes ago) |
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TLDR believe in yourself and have faith in your memory. When you go to sleep, there is a point when you bounce into REM. If you can stop yourself right before you go into REM, you can bounce back and forth and control your unconscious thought. 
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