Is it possible to control dreams?

[Glanerd]

Is it possible to control what you dream? Over the past few nights I have had a horrible dream about my girl leaving me. It's my biggest fear. Is it possible to dream other things?

[streetracer]

You should check out the film Vanilla Sky, it's pretty much all about controlling your dreams. Also, head over to Wikipedia or Google and type in Lucid dreaming. Basically, Lucid dreaming is a dream in which you can control what is happening. Very interesting concept, and some sites even have instructions on how to lucid dream...

[Japisee]

Yup, lucid dreaming is basically saying in your dream "Well fuck my ass, I'm dreaming. I can do whatever I want". Some simply can't or have a hard time having them while others (like me) have them often.
I tried some training techniques a few years ago and they do work. Also some audio sessions of some dude work as well. On a certain moment the guy on the sessions said "on the count of 10, you're going to fall asleep" and sure as hell, he counted down and when "10" was spoken it seemed like the room was spinning and I was leaving my body.
Wierd things but very interesting.

[Glanerd]

That gives me an understanding of it, but how do I do it?

[The Shy Child.]

Lucid dreaming is when you are dreaming but you are aware that your dreaming so you start having some fun with it. Thats all lucid dreaming is. It's easy to do. All you have to know is the difference between dreaming and being awake. I am kinda interested in it myself.

A well-known dream-induction device is the NovaDreamer, designed in 1993 by experienced lucid dreamer Craig Webb, now an international speaker/trainer and executive director of The DREAMS Foundation. The NovaDreamer has been discontinued as of 2006. However, a newer version is being worked on, but as of now is not available.

If you can develop your dreaming skills to be able to do whatever you want in your dreams, you can do it anytime with this device when it gets released.

There is a cheaper device. The REM Dreamer is a cheaper and more widely available version of the NovaDreamer. It has one motion sensor in the right eye that is best at recognizing horizontal movement of the eyes. When it picks up the eye’s movement it goes through a series of flashing LED lights that filter through into the person’s dream and triggers lucidity. Combining this with MILD can be incredibly effective.

There is methods you can do to tell you if you are lucid dreaming or not. Try to stick your finger through the pam of your hand. If it goes through then your lucid dreaming.

That device I talked about is like the playstation 3 except the screen is in your head and it only has one game that has millions of customization options.

[Glanerd]

This (http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream) looks like it might be worth a try.

[Kodo]

I've had some lucid dreams and sometimes I really put forth a lot of intention, but for the most part they don't happen a lot. For some people it comes naturally and for the rest of us I think we have to train to do it. I can intend to really hard before sleep, and in the mornings I can remember my dreams well. The hard part is remembering while I'm dreaming it never seems to happen ;)

[Glanerd]

Thanks for the Title Edit bro.

What does it feel like when yo are in one?

[Japisee]

Like you're in this world, only there are no rules. It's literally the biggest sandbox game ever. It's such a rush to realise that you're in a dream, that it's easy to wake up from it.

[.LiLe.]

Past week I've been dreaming of my friend getting jumped or me sky diving. I control it by waking up:), people say dream is only 3 seconds, but I beg the differ, last night my dream was like 2hours:\.

[Glanerd]

I don't wanna control it by waking up though. I want to have it like a Sandbox game.

[Xan]

All i've been dreaming is about smoking or doing drugs.

I think it's a good time to start crack

[TwistedArachnid]

The most important thing to remember when you lucid dream is not to get too excited. I know when I've done it, if I get too happy I'll feel myself start to wake up, then it's like 'ok, stop and calm down' and you can normally keep dreaming.

A lucid dream though when done, is pretty much like real life. You have your thoughts and stuff, except when you think a bit, you can change things around how you like. It helps to think and kind of visualize and BAM!

I always stagger into it on accident. Like I'll be dreaming and 'oh this is a dream!' But I always heard to train yourself to fall asleep, wake yourself up like 30 minutes later, stay awake for an hour, then go back to sleep, remembering that you're sleeping. Also, when sleeping, try to read or something. Your mind uses a different part when dreaming, so reading or numbers will be screwed up. And I've heard that having a sound play softly for a few seconds can alert some people. Like you know how when you sleep with the TV on sometimes you'll hear it in your dreams? Or someone calling your phone? Well set something to play for a few seconds while sleeping, and it'll pop into your dreams and some people then have the ability to go 'oh I'm dreaming I remember I set that!'

I could try to find some stuff if you have anything else you're curious about. I used to have a buncha sites on this. The human mind always interested me awhile back.

[Japisee]

Yeah, doing a 'reality check'. During the day, say to yourself "I'm not dreaming" and look at text on something, like TA said. Then do it again. You'll notice that the text didn't change, so you're in reality, you're not dreaming.
If you do this often, it'll become a habit and chances are you'll be doing it in your dream. So if you say "I'm not dreaming" and look at some text, and then do it again, it's possible that the text has changed thus making you realise that you're in a dream.


edit: I'm pretty sure I used this (http://www.dreamviews.com/index.php) site a few years ago.

[Glanerd]

Thanks Jap!

[Despirited]

I watch the movie Collateral a lot, and one night before I went to bed I watched some of the movie. I feel asleep when the movie was still playing. I believe I had a lucid dream, It was that part in the movie were Max wrecks the cab. I woke up in the dream in the wrecked cab and I started climbing out of it. No one was around I like wtf, this is some cool dream I started to walk around the wrecked cab, and I was like "Wow" Then I heard a siren then a police car comming down the street I started walking towards the police car, and the cop got out and he charged me and I decided to charge him back, and soon as I made impact on him I woke up really hot, covered in sweat. I had one dream that someone pushed me out of a airplane, then I figured it was just a simple dream, and then I woke up.

[The Shy Child.]

I watch the movie Collateral a lot, and one night before I went to bed I watched some of the movie. I feel asleep when the movie was still playing. I believe I had a lucid dream, It was that part in the movie were Max wrecks the cab. I woke up in the dream in the wrecked cab and I started climbing out of it. No one was around I like wtf, this is some cool dream I started to walk around the wrecked cab, and I was like "Wow" Then I heard a siren then a police car comming down the street I started walking towards the police car, and the cop got out and he charged me and I decided to charge him back, and soon as I made impact on him I woke up really hot, covered in sweat. I had one dream that someone pushed me out of a airplane, then I figured it was just a simple dream, and then I woke up.
Yeah, happens to most people. The trick to keeping control while your lucid dreaming is knowing that your in a dream as soon as possible, the more you o it the better you get at. All you do is try and read some text or try and stick your finger through your hand, if it goes through, you will suddenly know your dreaming and don't freak out and get excited. Just act normal like you've done it a million times and that your used to it. You will stay dreaming and you will be in control of your dreams.

You may read things on websites like it takes time and a lot of patiance. The reason they say that is because they want to sound like experts to the people that have just started. People lucid dream without even meaning to. They will be dreaming and they will see people flying or they may be flying through the air themselves, they will know that it is impossible for them to be flying so they go "oh, I am dreaming, wow" and they get all excited their brain gets stimulated enough to wake them up.

[Staffybull97]

Sometimes I have dreams where i'm in a "Freddy vs. Jason" situation. Just last night I fell asleep on my couch and I had this dream where I was fighting an Ultimate Fighter, and we have this coffee table that has a metal leaf design in between the bottom of the table and the top on each of the four corners, but it sticks out, and I fell off the couch and the that metal leaf part went right into my kidey. It hurt like hell, and now I have a big blue bruise there. One time I recorded myself when I slept, and I was talking to my brother in this one dream and I kept saying "how did you get here? Why are you here? You can't be here? So, how'd you get here again?", but it was in a smart-ass kind of tone, and when I woke up I took my recordings and played them back, I sounded like a fricken moron!!:D:D

[Glanerd]

I tried it. It didn't work out for me.

[V-Gamer]

I often have surreal dreams, where they seem so real that it even raises your heart beat to a hard thump. Though, when I'm in these dreams, which I often remember, I can't control what happens. Sorta like I'm in a movie, were I'm the main character and I see what he sees, just that I have a strict story that I stick to, with random weird shit that happens in-between. In my opinion no, you can't. Everyone's different, so who knows, amirite?

[Japisee]

V-Gamer, what you're describing is just a normal dream. :P

[V-Gamer]

lol I have no clue.

[Glanerd]

I guess I'm gonna keep trying. I have yet to feel anything different though.

[Oxymoron]

Have you ever been lying in bed and then all of a sudden you get this falling sensation then you quickly wake up with a jolt...shit gets me everytime!

[Glanerd]

Yeah, it wakes me up every time.

[Tyler]

The other morning, i guess around 8 oclock, i guess i was dreaming, because i dont have an alarm system in my house.

my dog was laying in my bed with me, and she was curled up between my legs, and all of a sudden
I heard this jolting alarm (something from MGS when someone spots you!) and my dog jolting up, running off my bed and barking like crazy, and a shadow at my door. Then i actually woke up, and acidently kicked my dog.
So, it was like i wasnt sleeping, but turns out i was.

It's weird.
And it happend in the morning, Thats even weirder.

[Kodo]

was this a lucid dream?

awhile back I was talking with friends about what it would be like to go back to school but keep the mind i have now.

well this morning i was back in first grade! and it was hilarious and fun because I got to see first grade versions of my friends, they were all so little and had weird hair, and I saw old teachers too. the thing is that I still had my older mind. i walked in the classroom and tried to find a seat but their was none, then the teacher sat me down. some of my friends were doing funny things, like one of them had on sunglasses and huge hair and another kid was wearing a g-string. i pulled out of my pockets my cellphone and keys, and i started freaking out because they shouldn't have been there. i thought "oh no, i wanted to be back in school and now it came true! how do i get out?" i tried to calm my breathing but this revelation was enough to wake me up.

so, does that mean i was lucid dreaming, since i realized i didn't belong in that world? it just didn't last long enough because i panicked and thought i would be stuck there.

[Japisee]

Were you 100% sure that you were in a dream?

[Kodo]

no, i never said to myself "this is a dream". the most i got was "this isn't real, i'm 21 i'm not supposed to be in first grade"

[Tyler]

With my dreams, i go with the flow, i never interupt them.
What's the point on screwing with a dream, if you alter your mind, what will happen if you never altered it?
;)

[jim_genius5]

This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming) Wikipedia article is amazing!! I remember having at least one successful lucid dream when I was a kid. The rest of the times were some attempts of interfering with the dream but I end up waking up and doing it in real life. I'm gonna attempt to initiate one so, so is there any risk of dying when attempting lucid dreams? :D

[FG]

@ Glan... go here, to control the dream:

www.Twing.com/search?sc=ps&qt=control+dreams

[Glanerd]

Thanks FG.

[ElephantGuts]

Oh, I wish I could have the advanced level of lucid dreams where I can control it. The things I would do...

I once sort of had a lucid dream, sure enough it was right before waking up. I was still in the dream I was having, but all of a sudden I realized I was dreaming. I think I was telling someone in the dream that I was dreaming, but I couldn't really control anything.

[Shadow Conception]

I've only lucid dreamed twice or thrice in my life. I remember one clearly, even though it was like 6 years ago.

That's nuts for a dream.

[Holster]

Hmm, it's weird you must be able to control yourself to wake up if like you have one of them dreams where you fall of a building or something and you wake up before you hit the ground, it's happened a few times where i've woke up then. there must be something that makes you wake up..

And nah i've never had lucid dreams, it would be interesting to try though.

[guilty.by.association]

Past week I've been dreaming of my friend getting jumped or me sky diving. I control it by waking up:), people say dream is only 3 seconds, but I beg the differ, last night my dream was like 2hours:\.

Yeah the other morning i woke up at 11 and thought fuck it and went back to sleep. I had a dream that was really long, if it was a movie it would of been a standard 1.5 hour movie, but i woke up and looked at the time and it had only been 3 minutes, does anyone know how this happens?

Or you will sleep an 8 hour night and dream during that time and when you wake up you feel like youve been dreaming the whole 8 hours.

How long do dreams really last?

[FG]

Yeah the other morning i woke up at 11 and thought fuck it and went back to sleep. I had a dream that was really long, if it was a movie it would of been a standard 1.5 hour movie, but i woke up and looked at the time and it had only been 3 minutes, does anyone know how this happens?

Or you will sleep an 8 hour night and dream during that time and when you wake up you feel like youve been dreaming the whole 8 hours.

How long do dreams really last?

" How long do dreams last" good question:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq/part1/section-7.html

[X-reS]

I usually have acouple each month. They vary though. I can always control them, but the amount of detail I see isn't always the same. Some are kinda foggy while others are hard to tell if your dreaming or not. I remember when I first started having them. When I realized what was happening I usually get really excited and wake myself up.

[victim]

I've had countless times when I have thought to myself, "I am just dreaming", although I have never attempted to control the dream.

Also, when I dream, it is always in third person. I look at myself from somebody else's perspective.

[guilty.by.association]

I go between first and third person in my dreams.

I get weird dreams too where ill walk into my mum's house but the inside of the house is set out like my dad's place. That stuff happens to me all the time, also one person will be talking to me and when i look back at them a second time they will of changed to someone else's face. It's so stupid, but in the dream i think its normal because i never go "hey wait a minute your face just changed lulz i'm dreaming".

[Johnny-Z]

Hmm, I have tried to controle my dreams but I usually end up waking up pretty soon after I try to controle my dreams.

Also it is weird because a dream can be a good dream but as soon as somebody uses violence in my dreams I wake up straight away.

I have got to say one of the weirdest dreams I have had was one were I wake up in my dream because I hear screaming, so I get up to investigate and notice my parants are dead! I see the killer coming towards me with a knife held up above his head towards me, as the killer steps closer to me I try to scream but I have no voice! Nothing! The killer than stabs me then I wake up straight away in shock! :eek:

Also I had a one off dream, it was so life like! Our house was been broken into, my mum gets up to fight off the intruder, suprisingly enough my mums now ex-boyfriend diden't even wake up! (knowing him he would of liturally killed the intruder in real-life) my mums exact words were "go brake into somebody elses house you d*ckhead!"
Infact that dream was so life-like I even asked my mum the next morning weather the house was broken into which the answear was no. Bloody weird dream

[[KFC]-ScharK]

Johhny-Z, I've had that same thing happen to me before. Something bad was going to happen, and if I just could scream it would be okay but I couldn't. I don't remember the dream quite well, but it's happened numerous times. I just for the love of me couldn't scream! It freaked me out and when I woke up was so happy to be up and out of the dream.. I've had nightmares but when I have a nightmare and I can't scream or say anything it scares the living crap out of me because I think it's real at the time. Towards the end I start to realize it's a dream and then a few sec. later I'm up.

[fusion376]

@ Glan... go here, to control the dream:

www.Twing.com/search?sc=ps&qt=control+dreams


Pretty much cool stuff.

[Glanerd]

I always wake up after every time I try. I don't think I am going to be able to do it.

[LordLeverette]

Hey, this might be a little off topic, but why is it that when something happens to you in a dream.. you wake up? The other night I had a dream that ended when I randomly got shot in the chest (It was actually a great dream, too, but it had to end when I got shot :\ )

[blaze0785]

The one and most dreams i hate to have is the ones when it get's hard to breath like when i slepped the other day and i was dreaming and then it got hard to breath then after about 10 secondd i woke up and found myself with my face barried in the pillow i hope i never have these dreams again they really get annoying when you can't breath in your sleep.

[wwecruz]

Hey, this might be a little off topic, but why is it that when something happens to you in a dream.. you wake up? The other night I had a dream that ended when I randomly got shot in the chest (It was actually a great dream, too, but it had to end when I got shot :\ )

Me too. As soon as my dream had started, I slipped on a rug and before I hit the ground, I woke up.

[Tyler]

I was talkin to my girl on the phone last niight.
and i hung up around 3 in the morning.
So i wake up at 11 with my hand to my ear and me talking.
Like wtf. LOL
I was like, wait a second, i hung up with her, and my phone isnt in my hand!

[Staffybull97]

I have dreams where I'm falling off a cliff or something and like right when I start to fall I wake up. Some people actually die because they don't wake up fast enough (or sometimes they don't wake up at all) before the hit the ground in their dreams. That would be really weird to die for real in a dream.

[Thomas B.]

When I dream, I usually know I'm dreaming. Its weird. But then I can say "hey, I don't want this or that or whatever. I can control whats in it".

And staffybull, I've heard that. If you fall from a really high place in a dream and die, you'll die in real life (i think)

[wwecruz]

I have dreams where I'm falling off a cliff or something and like right when I start to fall I wake up. Some people actually die because they don't wake up fast enough (or sometimes they don't wake up at all) before the hit the ground in their dreams. That would be really weird to die for real in a dream.

When I dream, I usually know I'm dreaming. Its weird. But then I can say "hey, I don't want this or that or whatever. I can control whats in it".

And staffybull, I've heard that. If you fall from a really high place in a dream and die, you'll die in real life (i think)

Please explain the dieing part, because it doesnt make any sense.

[Thomas B.]

I know its weird, but I've heard it somewhere. Google it.

[bank job 9]

i had a dream not 2 long ago where i thought i woke up and i looked at my phone probably to check what time it was and this whole time i was hearing a screechy sound but it sounded distant then i looked at my phone and i noticed this grudge like figure in the reflection of the screen then...Bam!!! i thought i was getting possessed! then the screechy sound became freakin' loud! like if the grudge figure was screaming in my ear! then i tryied calling for my grandma but i had no voice! then i woke up and walked out of the room.
creepy shit.

[wwecruz]

i had a dream not 2 long ago where i thought i woke up and i looked at my phone probably to check what time it was and this whole time i was hearing a screechy sound but it sounded distant then i looked at my phone and i noticed this grudge like figure in the reflection of the screen then...Bam!!! i thought i was getting possessed! then the screechy sound became freakin' loud! like if the grudge figure was screaming in my ear! then i tryied calling for my grandma but i had no voice! then i woke up and walked out of the room.
creepy shit.

That sounds scary.

[Staffybull97]

Please explain the dieing part, because it doesnt make any sense.

Ok, here's what happens when you have dreams like you feel like your falling. Ok, you start to drift off to sleep and you feel like your falling off of a high building, a high cliff, ect. You usually jerk awake from your sleep right as you start to fall. Some people don't wake up when they are falling in their dreams and not only do they die in their dreams, they also die in real life. It's like jumping out of a plane and your parachute fails to open, your gonna die right? Same thing in a dream. The wake-up mode inside of you doesn't go off and you don't wake up. Your parachute is like your inside wake-up mode, if it fails to operate, you die. You hit the ground, you die. That's just it.

[wwecruz]

But I know people who've seen them selves be killed in dreams, and I google'd it and many people have said they've lived through it. Besides, if you don't wake up, isn't it a coma?

[Staffybull97]

But I know people who've seen them selves be killed in dreams, and I google'd it and many people have said they've lived through it. Besides, if you don't wake up, isn't it a coma?

Yeah, they probably only lived through it because they didn't hit the ground. You'll most likely die if you did hit the ground.

[wwecruz]

But dreams are not real. I fail to see how they can physicaly hurt, or kill you.

[Staffybull97]

Maybe I can't explain it right. I know it can happen though.

[[KFC]-ScharK]

Last night I tried to go to sleep much earlier then I normally do to get on a normal schedual, and I only slept about 3-4 hours. That whole time, I didn't feel like I was in much of a "deep" sleep, but I dreamt like crazy. I had like 3 dreams that seemed relatively long and I remember the last dream was crazy.. it was Danny Way playing himself in a video game with crappy graphics like the N64 but the game was similar to Tony Hawk (not skate.) and he did a crazy trick into a bowl shaped like in those Vans contests, and he did a trick with a donut popping up and covering his body like a hoola hoop. And everyone went crazy and we were all talking about it in mIRC haha.

But, the thing I don't understand is, why would I dream so crazy with such little sleep? Is it because I was about to wake up? I thought you needed to be in a deep sleep like REM to sleep. It didn't feel like a deep sleep what-so-ever. And I know, there would of been no way to control it as it was like a computer screen the whole time. I didn't see myself and couldn't haha.

[Tyler]

Maybe I can't explain it right. I know it can happen though.

Maybe i can try.
Some people can die in dream's.
How?
Some people will be dreaming about falling off something extremely high, and people will actually be standing on the edge a building and not relieze it.
It's kinda like sleep walking, but committing suicide also.
It's just something of the human mind that works that we humans havent figured out yet.

P.S; I was talkin to my girl again, and i fell asleep when i hung up again, and the same thing happend. :confused:

[Staffybull97]

Maybe i can try.
Some people can die in dream's.
How?
Some people will be dreaming about falling off something extremely high, and people will actually be standing on the edge a building and not relieze it.
It's kinda like sleep walking, but committing suicide also.
It's just something of the human mind that works that we humans havent figured out yet.

P.S; I was talkin to my girl again, and i fell asleep when i hung up again, and the same thing happend. :confused:

Thanks Tylerwisniewski. I thought when you dreampt of falling from extreme heights, when you hit the ground in your dreams, you die in real life also. I didn't know you were also sleep walking to an extreme height.

[Tyler]

Well, it could be that way, too i guess.
Like i guess you know how your heart races whenever you wake up.
Imagine not waking up and your heart races too fast and just stops.

[BlazingEvanator]

i only have dreams when i can control it when their really weird. I remember one time i killed the whole world so i was like "i need a button to save the world" sure enough a button appeared and i saved the world. it makes absolutely no sense.

[Vortigern]

I took control of a dream last week for the first time. It was another one of those whacky dreams I have, it had something to do with a company in Germany. As we were preparing to drive out of the building, crashing the gate, I remember thinking 'Why the hell is that guy driving the car, it's my dream, I'm gonna drive it'. The next moment, I feel myself completely in control, and I couldn't care less about the car. Haven't had any similar experiences afterwards, though.

[John JJ]

I wish I could do this. My dreams are so screwed up it isn't ever funny :/.