Getting woke up from a dream AT THE BEST PART

I'm amazed that there's so much info on a technique I've been using for years. Even more that it has a name. How many times can you love the Internet?

I dont really dream, but I had the weirdest dream last night. I dreamt that I was both watching called Reanimator (like what they talked about in American Beauty). Except it was starring Kirk Cameron and Terry Bradshaw. It was in first person view, like I was Kirk Cameron. Anyway, it started out by me (Kirk Cameron) getting a hotel room with my girlfriend (who was some generic actress chick) and Terry Bradshaw. Then some shit went down and Bradshaw got killed, in a car accident I think. Then he woke up and killed my girlfriend, and started chasing me.

.... yea.

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Originally Posted by arjue

well, LD'ing is technically just like any other dream, so I guess only in the REM stage. People say that you can practice real things in lucid dreams and get results, but I've had no luck. I guarantee you though if you pick up a guitar you'll play something cool and different (try and remember it when you wake up!). Besides, there are far more fun things you can do. One thing you can do to lengthen your dreams is inducing false awakenings.

If you feel yourself starting to wake up (ie not due to an external influence), Often creating a vivid physical sensation, such as spinning around on the spot as fast as you can or rubbing your hands together like crazy will make you awaken inside another dream (ie, induce a false awakening). It has something to do with a conflict between your senses in the dream and in real life, and because the dream senses are more dominant, your brain decides to keep you unconcious for whatever reason. The problem with false awakenings is that often people are fooled into thinking they've really woken up, so they lose all lucidity. This is why its good to have reality tests available close to your bed, such as a digital alarm clock (for some reason, they almost always display fucked up jargon).


With LD'ing, in most cases you aren't a "god" off the bat, infact most people can't do much outside of real world activities to begin with. You have to concentrate and put an effort in to get things to work. I still haven't got the hang of flying because my dream environment is always too small (hard to explain). I can do these awesome leaps though.

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I hope that isn't actually waking up. You shorten your life if you conistently don't allow the REM stage to end.

The dream within a dream, was the scariest moment for me as a child.

I was dreaming that I had a bed in the forest and a giant creature was knocking down trees, while coming to get me. In my dream, I woke up with the covers over my head. I pulled the covers off and my whole room was a forest. The whole fright of the situation, woke me up for real. It was quite a shocker, for me as a child.

Hm, I guess I never thought of it as dreaming with in a dream. But as a kid I would wake up and think I was seeing stuff all the time. I would wake up and think my room had a bunch of bees in it, and I could not fall asleep because I was worried about the bees. Or I would think that there were people in my room, and since I was sleeping in my underwear I would be all self concious and try to cover up more than I was or something. And sometimes I would be really bothered by it and have to get up and turn on the light and prove to myself that they were not there.

It was never like I thought a pile of cloths on a chair was a monster, I would be like bees flying around the room. Or mice or something. My parents said I used to sleep walk a lot as well. Like I would knock on their door asking to get a ride to my friends house because we were late, or I would like walk down into the living room and turn on the TV really loud. And I had no idea about any of it.

I imagine lots of nerds have bad dreams. When I was in about the second grade, this was right after we moved, I had seriously bad nightmares. My mom got worried and took me some where for test and shit and they determined that I was lonely (I just moved, OMG SHOCK WTF Iron was lonely !?!?!?!).