How can I have lucid dreams?

[CaptainBastable]

Last night I had a dream. I was at a party with friends, we were eating, drinking. The night crept in, it got darker, we were outside in the garden, we were inside the house laughing. A girl from my work turned up, a girl I find fantastically, instinctively attractive. My heart leapt, the night moved on, more food, more touching, people splitting off into smaller groups, couples, eyes flicking and lingering. The girl drifted into my groups, her glances were for me, suddenly we were alone outside, suddenly she was provocative, knowing, stretching. My heart raced, my cock stiffened, my hands began to explore her unexpectedly offered body.....

And then I woke up. I woke up. Surely I can get back to sleep? Surely I can get back to that party?! Surely I can linger in this beautiful place and shape the path, explore all the things I want to do...No. No. Thrice no.

Bugger.

I love dreams. I think they are an amazing part of being alive, of being human. And I am massively curious about lucid dreaming because of the possibility of having some control and direction in the dreaming experience.

But is lucid dreaming really possible? How can you do it? And does it enhance dreaming, or kill it?

Any thoughts or tips welcome. Thanks

 

[StrangeView]

Would that be Captain Oswald Bastable?

 

[CaptainBastable]

You're the first to pick up that reference Strangeview I just read The Warlord of the Air and loved it.

 

[StrangeView]

That was my introduction to Mr Moorcock, many years ago

 

[shmily]

I have an Essential Oil that I diffuse - called "lucid dreams" - usually incur very vivid and remembered dreams . .

 

[Penuche]

It's possible, but practice makes lucid dreaming easier. IMHO the main thing is to only partly wake up before you go back in.

 

[CaptainBastable]

That was my introduction to Mr Moorcock, many years ago

Don't know how I've missed him this long. But now I've got that great feeling when you realise how much else he's written, that there's so much more to explore

 

[CaptainBastable]

It's possible, but practice makes lucid dreaming easier. IMHO the main thing is to only partly wake up before you go back in.

Thanks Penuche, so you have had lucid dreams?

 

[CaptainBastable]

I have an Essential Oil that I diffuse - called "lucid dreams" - usually incur very vivid and remembered dreams . .

Thanks Shmily, I'll look online for that oil. Also curious about your vivid and remembered dreams...

 

[geronimo_appleby]

i tried this several years ago.

it took a few weeks to get a result, however.

but, if you're not just looking for a quick fix - 'cause you ain't gonna get it - set an alarm on your phone or watch, or whatever, for every thirty minutes. the time isn't critical, you can do it say four or five times in a day if you want to. then, when the alarm goes off, ask yourself 'am i dreaming?'

then, once it's almost what you might call habit and you start to ask the question with no prompting, just keep on doing it.

'am i dreaming?'

eventually, hopefully - as happened to me - i asked he question and found i was in the middle of a dream. with practice it's possible to 'manipulate' the dream to your liking. but be warned, the first few times it happens and you realise you're dreaming in a lucid state, you'll prolly wake up straight away!

by-the-way, the alarm seting as a prompt is meant to be done during the day, or when you're awake! not during the night. you try it that way and you'll end up fooked!

 

[Penuche]

Thanks Penuche, so you have had lucid dreams?

Occasionally, yes, but IMHO there's no great value or usefulness to it.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Occasionally, yes, but IMHO there's no great value or usefulness to it.

not my experience.

 

[Penuche]

not my experience.

Fair enough. What do you do with it, then?

 

[Bramblethorn]

Occasionally, yes, but IMHO there's no great value or usefulness to it.

I used to get bad nightmares, so lucid dreaming has been VERY useful for me. When things start going in an unpleasant direction I can either abort the dream or reshape it to something better.

Unfortunately, I can't give any helpful advice on how to do that.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Fair enough. What do you do with it, then?

i'd say controlled the dream, but 'controlled' isn't the right word. surfed might work better.

i dunno how much stock to put into the experience, but i've spoken to a great grandmother i never knew in life.

'course, it's just a dream.

 

[Penuche]

i'd say controlled the dream, but 'controlled' isn't the right word. surfed might work better.

i dunno how much stock to put into the experience, but i've spoken to a great grandmother i never knew in life.

'course, it's just a dream.

The thing is, I'd probably use pathworking or a light trance to get to where you got with lucid dreaming because, for me, it's easier to get in and out of.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

The thing is, I'd probably use pathworking or a light trance to get to where you got with lucid dreaming because, for me, it's easier to get in and out of.

i get too stiff to meditate thee days. and i mean that in an arthritic way.

 

[Penuche]

i get too stiff to meditate thee days. and i mean that in an arthritic way.

Lie down? Let me guess, you nod off if you do.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Lie down? Let me guess, you nod off if you do.

of course i fuckin' nod off!

 

[Penuche]

of course i fuckin' nod off!

No of course about it, grandad! I do a lot of trancework and visualisation while lying down, and seldom fall asleep!

 

[geronimo_appleby]

No of course about it, grandad! I do a lot of trancework and visualisation while lying down, and seldom fall asleep!

grandad, eh? is that any way to show respect for someone who's fought in wars for your freedoms?

yoof of today, i'd kick their feckin' arses, etc.

 

[Penuche]

grandad, eh? is that any way to show respect for someone who's fought in wars for your freedoms?

yoof of today, i'd kick their feckin' arses, etc.

Give over - I refuse to believe you even experienced the end of sweet rations.

Decimalisation, maybe...

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Give over - I refuse to believe you even experienced the end of sweet rations.

Decimalisation, maybe...

i remember, vaguely, spending an old thrupny bit, the one with edges on it. must have been 1970 because we emigrated to australia in '71.

and fyi, there have been several skirmishes since WW2 that i may have been involved in. if you're in your 40s, you ain't so far behind me.

 

[Penuche]

i remember, vaguely, spending an old thrupny bit, the one with edges on it. must have been 1970 because we emigrated to australia in '71.

and fyi, there have been several skirmishes since WW2 that i may have been involved in. if you're in your 40s, you ain't so far behind me.

I was going with what have been officially listed as wars (even the 1980s situation with the Falklands/Malvinas was merely a "conflict"). AFAIK hardly any of those since WWII and involving the British Army have been fought for the freedom of anyone in the UK </pedantic hairsplitter>

2 Gulf wars, I will grant you, but AFAIK they weren't for the freedom of anyone in the UK. The same goes for military involvement in Bosnia etc.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I was going with what have been officially listed as wars (even the 1980s situation with the Falklands/Malvinas was merely a "conflict"). AFAIK hardly any of those since WWII and involving the British Army have been fought for the freedom of anyone in the UK </pedantic hairsplitter>

2 Gulf wars, I will grant you, but AFAIK they weren't for the freedom of anyone in the UK. The same goes for military involvement in Bosnia etc.

merely a conflict?

okay, i'm not going to say any more on this. you didn't mean to, i'd hope, but you've over-stepped the mark.

outta here.