Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Dreams

Lately the topic of lucid dreams has been coming up more and more between my facebook wall and other sites I have noticed. As most of you know lucid dreams are when you are physically aware you are dreaming and as such have control over your dreams. Think of the movie inception, this would be a good comparison to get you thinking in the right direction. While this is an extremely interesting it is not a common thing for people to be able to have lucid dreams.

There have been a couple pictures floating around the internet of the past few weeks describing how to have lucid dreams but even these are not a sure thing. The basic technique is to lay on your back and lay completely still for 20-30 mins until your body enters sleep paralysis. Keeping your arms at your sides the most important thing is to stay perfectly still, your body will send you signals to change position or have an itch and you must ignore these. If you are successful in staying awake when your body enters sleep paralysis you will be able to open your eyes and as soon as you close them a dream will start. With some practice you should be able to realize your dreaming and eventually control your dreams.

I have personally tried this method several times with no success. I am not a person that often remembers dreams anyway so I don't think I am a good candidate to have lucid dreams. The few dreams I do remember are often as soon as I wake up and then I forget them within a matter of a couple minutes.

Dreams in themselves are very interesting and throughout history people have tried to decipher the meaning behind them. Back in ancient times people believed dreams were from god and those that could "interpret" them were held in very high regard. The allure of dreams today to me at least is for the time that you are dreaming it is your reality. Dreams have no limits anything and everything can happen and they are a very interesting view into your own subconscious.

When you think about something a lot in a day it can carry over into dreams. While I have had that when stressing about a test or something along those lines dreams can also be really random. I have had dreams with people from high school I haven't seen or had contact with in years and they somehow show up in my dreams. It confuses me how people I haven't even thought about in months are showing up in dreams. I don't really know if I personally believe that dreams mean anything but they are interesting nonetheless.

The biggest draw for I think everyone to lucid dreaming is the ability to be able to do anything. The bounds of dreams are limitless and you could stage wars to zombie apocalypses in the safety of your own subconscious. Hope you guys enjoyed and thanks for reading. I will post more later in the week hope to see you back then.

25 comments:

  1. Interesting Read liked it A lot. :)

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  2. I've tried lucid dreaming with no success either. good post.

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  3. dude ive had ONE and only ONE lucid dream before and it was fucking awesome. banged a hot chick just because i thought about. the trick is dream recall. when you wake up, remember EVERYTHING about your dream from that sleep

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    1. I usually dont remember most dreams at all lol.

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  4. I've also been seeing a lot of things about Lucid Dreaming on the web. I really should try it out, might as well tonight!

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  5. I've tried to lucid dream before, did not work for me lol. Some people say you have to work at it for a while to actually get the hang of it. (I only tried once)

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  6. Just started blogging, should be interesting at least judging by this (first blog I've read). Lucid dreams I've always been interested in. They just seem like a way to make up for lost time in the day, an extra time to learn stuff.

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  7. I've tried those lucid dreams too but it'll never work to me

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  9. Lucid dreaming is a very difficult thing to control. I began researching it after I had sleep paralysis repetitively and I've managed to get a few things done but nothing significant. I am heavily interested in this field though and I still try to dream lucidly a few times a month.

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  10. Lucid dreaming is really fun sometimes. Sadly, it sucks when you wake up.

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  11. I sometimes get dreams inside of dreams.

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  12. i noticed these "how to lucid dream" pictures few years ago, but i was always too scared to try it. i have a very big imagination. also my friend tried it and it worked but the dream was freaky as fuck he said. so no for me i think, heh

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  13. Given the choice, what would you dream about?

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  14. I abosolutley love lucid dreaming, I actually feel more rested on less sleep.

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  15. Inception... great movie. Lucid dreaming is an odd topic and I've never done it but... I'm sure anything is possible. Lol.

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  16. I have tons of lucid dreams, and quite often. I must say, it is not really worth what it is made out to be, as you often times will wake up randomly mid dream or it will cause you to just feel utterly exhausted the next day. On the point of random people and things coming into your dreams, a lot of scientists believe when you are asleep and dreaming your brain is going through everything stored and actually may bring things you haven't thought about in a while out.
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  17. I've had lucid dreams maybe 3 times in my entire life. It usually entails my sleeping for upwards of 13 hours which i don't really like to do anymore.

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  18. I attempted to achieve a lucid dream once... I failed.

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  19. I can kind of semi lucid dream but I wake up if I think about what I'm doing too much, seem to always fail with reality checks..

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  20. our brain has a built in defense mechanism that makes us forget our dreams as soon as (or in the first 5 to 10 minutes after) you wake up in order to keep us in reality (real world)
    cool post :D

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  21. I have only successfully gotten into a lucid dreaming state, like once. Ever, but it is amazing.

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