Epic tales, mastering the universe, or just reading a good book next to a fireplace?
I’ve gotten there a few times, and in my semi-dream state I did a bunch of work and cleaned my house. So imagine my disappointment when I woke up and none of that was actually done 😔
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I don’t have nightmares any more, last one was when I was a kid and I drop-kicked some shadow monster person, just weird dreams where my brain will chip in a go “hang on that’s not how it works”, equally I don’t have ultimate control like I consciously decide what I dream about it’s usually just life with the weird filter turned on.
I remember my last bad dream. (many years ago)
I was running from some sort of skeleton things through a back alley. One of them caught me and we started fighting. In the struggle I managed to pin it down and yelled “Why are you chasing me?”
It stopped struggling and looked and me somewhat bewildered. “Because you were running.” It tried a few times to scare me into running but I refused, so we just sat there and had an awkward conversation. Turns out my sleep demons are just as weird as I am.
Like playing a video game with God mode on.
Unfortunately the more things I alter in the dream the more likely I am to wake myself up.
It’s the coolest thing I’ve ever done. Flying around like spiderman, sex with anyone. Listening and creating the craziest music. If you are interested in learning how to do it (it’s a skill you can develop). You really should try. But damn, it’s hard keeping up the skill. Plus the first few times you realize you are in a dream you wake up which sucks. Im out of practice doing reality checks so don’t do it as regularly as in my prime. But I still get em every now and then. The hype is real. It’s amazing to do.
It’s the only safe refuge in this world of sour tears
You have to go with the flow as too much distribution and excitement wakes you up. Seems the biggest focus is keeping awareness but not too much. Best thing that works for me is to expect what you want in the next location and travel there. You also figure out how to force yourself awake if you get an unpleasant dream.
In the very, very, very rare moments that happens to me it always feels like everything is speeding up super fast and I can barely hold control for longer than a few seconds before waking up.
I’ve never had full control, but there have been many times I’ve realized I’m dreaming, nudged the dream in a preferred direction and then swiftly let my consciousness over the dream fade so it could continue without interruption.
The more control I exert on my dreams, the more likely I am to consciously blink and actually blink myself awake. Gentle nudges in the direction I want to dream is the only path for me.
I don’t remember the last time I had an actual dream at night. I just black out and wake up in the morning.
You almost certainly have multiple dreams every night. You have just trained your mind to see them as insignificant so they just go away like the color of the eyes of the last waiter you had. If you would like to remember your dreams there is a lot you can do to let your brain know you want to again.
I think some people have a dream diary.
Does that help?
I learned about lucid dreaming from an old book I found when I was 18, and I began practicing. Because flying has been my passion since I was 5, I focused on that.
At first, I would run and take long leaps, like I was in low gravity. After a few weeks, one leap would keep me about 6 feet above the ground until I wanted to drop back down. I’d remain vertical with my arms relaxed at my sides, and just lean a bit for direction. About a year after I began flying every night, I could lay down and then close my eyes while making one push off the ground with my right foot and I’d be immediately at tree line. I loved flying through my neighborhood and the city, hovering over streets, visiting the houses of my friends, sometimes popping in to see them.
My dreams were in real time, so it was late at night and they were almost always asleep. It felt like an out of body experience.
I’d learned from the book how to make recurring dream threats your friend, and I befriended the wolves that had terrified my dream life at least once a week for over ten years. It was an incredibly empowering experience.
After a few years, I was in a lost time in life, and my dream flying reflected how out of control I was. By then, every time I laid my head on my pillow, my right foot reflexively tapped and I was off. But now, I was shooting straight up faster than a rocket and zipping beyond the moon in just a few seconds. I started panicking that I’d “lose my earth tether” and never be able to find my way back. I believed that I needed to return to my body in order to wake up. So now going to sleep was a threat in my mind. It took weeks to de-condition myself to stop flying.
In retrospect, I should have taken control, but my day life had really gone off the deep end and I think this is how it manifested. I haven’t practiced lucid dreaming or flying since I was 28, but I miss that exhilaration of zooming at tree line in a place I loved.
I’ve only managed it once, flying around a featureless void, exulting in the feeling of control. Then a fistfight, again with a featureless opponent. It felt like controlling the dream to that extent and not waking up took a lot of brain power
So in the beginning all you see is like “low-resolution” which gets polished as the skill grows?
I assume so, it takes constant effort and practice to be able to do it at all though, that was over 10 years ago now when I was in my first year at university, I haven’t had the time to dedicate to it since 😅
I can’t say I can control what I dream but occasionally I’m aware that I’m dreaming and then I feel like I’m much more in control of the situation because I know nothing bad can really happen.
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