I've had many dreams where I thought I took over the dream. When I was a child. and I had nightmares, I used to become 'aware', and if I said certain code words, an opening would appear in the floor. When I jumped in, I would fall to my bed, and wake up.

My ? is, can you really be concious in a dream? Or, is that experience just part of the dream - no more under your control than the flying turtle, or talking hamburger?

Can we really know?

We can, I've done it so much that I got bored with it, when you're my age you need your sleep. Dr. Stephen LeBerge is the guru of lucid dreaming and his techniques work. You just have to be patient and practice. Here's his website
www.lucidity.com
There is a lot of debate over whether an out of body experience is really a lucid dream ?????
either way they tend to be fun

When I was younger I used to have these nightmares and I could literally change the surroundings of my dream to whatever I wanted and I would make my dream fun and happy again.It was so cool but I haven`t done that for ages and dreams are just dreams or are they??????.........

Lucid dreams are amazing, but they don't happen often enough....or last long enough. I have been in the situation of trying to ascertain how close I am to waking up, which would suggest that they are more than simply mental constructs developed by the brain to sort out the stresses of the day ! I also remember walking through a forest glade in a lucid dream, and all of the colours were really vibrant and clear....far more than in a normal dream (which destroys the pathetic theory that all dreaming is done in black and white).

I don't know if I am having lucid dreams by definition, but I definately control myself and have emotional feelings in my dreams.

yes, you can definitly take control over your licid dreams, but you need to be confident that you are dreaming and from now on you control it. They are very real and sometimes, I think most of the times they surprises us so much that we don't even have time to think about them. But if you frequently have those dream try to be aware and say to yoursel, this is a dream and i am going to control it.
But one thing you can do is ask yourself: what does this dream is telling me? I do believe that dream is one way your subconscious mind talks to you.

I've always wanted too have a lucid dream , i'll go to that site & will check it out
If I could actually have a lucid dream that would just be priceless

Anyone who spends too much time dreaming will wake up someday, old and disoriented, and wonder how there life had passed them by.
If Moe ever obtains lucidity , Moe will focus this on reality. let it be called lucid waking. Life is too short to be walking around with your eyes closed.

I have lucid dreams at least once a week and I find them most enjoyable. I am aware of the fact that I am dreaming yet I can't - or don't want to - influence the content of the dream. In many of my dreams I am able to fly effortlessly. It seems very real at the time and I seem to have full cognitive functions yet I am aware that I am unable to do this while I am awake. A few night ago I was having a lucid dream - meaning that I was aware that I was dreaming - but I thought that my "real" body was sleeping on my late Uncle Bob's couch. I struggled to wake up so I wouldn't embarrass Uncle Bob. When I did wake up, of course, I was at home in bed feeling a bit foolish.

Indeed that would have terrible conseuqences for my waking life!

I started this topic, and I am still wondering...

I know you can remember the lucid dream. I know you remember having control... and I know there is a memory of concious thought...

however, like a dream where you dreamt you woke up - yet you didn't really wake up - cant a lucid dream just be an illusion, where you dreamt you had control, really it's no different from other dreams?

I have had lucid dreams where that happened. I dreamt that I needed to wake up because I might freeze to death if I didn't. I "woke up" and found myself sleeping on a park bench in the middle of winter. At this point I was no longer aware that I was dreaming. Then I found myself at a cold homeless shelter regretting my entire life. This was at a time when I was doing some work for the homeless. When I did wake up my room was freezing. Remind me to close the window before bed.

Nick-


Are you going to have to be followed around??? Something tells me that you can lay it on thick, and have to be watched or you could spiral completely out of control, if left be....


Reese

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I love lucid dreaming. I find that I'm able to fly and also make things fly towards me that I want (like an object that I don't want to pick up from far away). Basically, I have the force in my dreams, and if I dont like something that I'm experiencing, I say to a character in my dream, "I'm dreaming right? I can change that?" and even the characters agree with me and tell me I'm dreaming. I've also had dreams where I've told certain people that I want them to show up for the next few nights, and they have. Pretty cool. Oh yea, I also have a very strong sense of myself in these dreams, like I'll look down at my body and pay close attention to my sensations and then compare them to real life sensations. In the moment they seem indestinguishable.

Hey Reese! As one of my previous posts seems to have damaged my credibility so badly I shan't post again. As ludicrous as my claims seem, I stand behind them 100%. Take care! Nick

I really love it that I have lucid dreams, it's always made me feel a bit special for some reason, even though I know loads of other people do it.

As a very small child I had really bad nightmares all the time, and I couldn't wake up. Then somehow I started to be in control. I remember one dream where a big slimy monster was coming up the stairs, and I yelled at it that it was my dream and I wanted it to go away. I concentrated on what I wanted, and it happened, and then I spent the rest of the dream flying

I have also had a recuring dream where my little sister was in a swimming pool with a shark. I knew it was a dream but still felt compelled to save her, before allowing the shark to eat me so I could wake up (which also shows that the whole die in a dream, die in real life thing is bunkum!)

I dont have as many lucid dreams as I used to and that really annoys me, because I'm not very brave in real life and I used to love having this alternate world where I could do anything - no consequences

If I could learn to have them again I'd be SO happy...