response 5 of 28:

Jun 13 20:04 UTC 2002

that is correct brighn, lucid dreaming is being 'awake' in your dream.  anyone
out there ever use it for fun?

response 7 of 28:

Jun 13 20:11 UTC 2002

I had lucid dreams for quite a few years when I was a kid. I was aware
I was dreaming, yet could fly, and when things got sticky I would
tell my companions that "this is only a dream", in the dream. If I
*had* to make sense of this (since I don't think dreams mean anything
in particular), I would say I came to do this (it is too much to say
I learned to do it) to deal with frightening dream events. It certainly
served to remove the fear from what otherwise would have been nightmares.

response 9 of 28:

Jun 13 20:40 UTC 2002

        I think there's a middle ground, where you are
        dreaming but you're not fully asleep, where your
        dream becomes more like a fantasy.

response 11 of 28:

Jun 13 21:07 UTC 2002

that's most;y the only time i lucid dream, too .. when my dream gets out of
control and i tell myself to wake up, or in some cases, i'll jump off a high
place which will also wake me up.

sometimes i fall into a dream but am still aware of things happening in the
room where i am sleeping. this was useful in high school, when teachers would
call on me to answer a question to try and embarass me. they eventually just
let me sleep. but i wouldn't consider that lucid .. just light sleeping.

response 13 of 28:

Jun 13 21:48 UTC 2002

Funny enough I make use of the same escape route as oval.
In my case I am being hunted by zombies.
Even when I can get hold of rocket launchers or similar terminator 
stuff, the remain relentless. When things are at the brink of getting 
out of hand I tell myself to wake up.
Works like a charm. Mr. Krueger won't affect me in that prospect.

Other versions of dreaming include me being in the mixed up state 
between sleeping and waking. Most often with music playing on the radio 
or so. I have tried to sing along with songs in the dreams and I seem 
to ben incapable of producing any sound. It saddens me deeply in my 
dreams. Later I realize the song was playing on the radio (cause I wake 
up) and I reckon I must've suffered from the wellknown dream state 
paralysis.

response 15 of 28:

Jun 13 22:32 UTC 2002

        I rarely have 'nightmares' but sometimes I get these
        extended frustrating dreams, where there is some
        activity or goal planned and things *just keep on*
        delaying it and delaying it. That's wierd.

response 17 of 28:

Jun 14 02:40 UTC 2002

I think the funniest almost-lucid dream I had was when I was a kid. I thought
I was dreaming, so I told someone in the dream to pinch me. But it hurt when
he did, so I figured I was really awake. Except I was dreaming.

response 19 of 28:

Jun 15 00:19 UTC 2002

well first off i am happy that their is an item on agora about lucid dreaming.
because i have been experiencing lucid dreaming for a long time now. i have
been dreaming and i know i was dreaming and i was able to affect the situation
in some way whatever i was doing. i am happy that i am able to get my feelings
out on this subject.

response 21 of 28:

Jun 15 00:44 UTC 2002

Wow. I'm glad to see the interest in this item, thank you all for the replys.
I sad in the beginning that i would tell you about a girl who was telling me
about her Lucid Dreaming she could experience after I got some replys, so I'll
keep up my end of the deal. But, it isnt like what you have all described.

I guess you could say that what she did was Lucid Dreaming, but it was
intended, and very strange.  She also did it with someone else.  They had some
of telepathy connections or something when they did it. Kind of like an out
of body experience while dreaming, i guess. They couldn't do it all the time,
but once every few weeks it would work, and they could only get it to work
that often if they tried almost every day, and if they didn't try it at least
that often, then the probability of it happeneing was less.  And it was by
no means what most would call a dream, but more a nightmare.  

She said the trick was that you have to be completely connected with someone
psychologically, meaning feelings, emotions, past hardships causing mental
anxiety, etc. But what made it difficult to do was the fact that you had to
intend to do it, and the reason they couldn't do it all the time was that you
had to both fall asleep at the same moment. What happened next is very
surreal.

They werent pleasant dreams, at leat not in my opinion, but she seemed to
enjoy it.  It is kinda like a freddy krueger type thing.  She would know that
it was a 'connection' by the world they entered, similar to a desert.  The
sky was always changing color, but so slow that sometimes you almost didn't
notice. At first everything was peaceful, she could talk to her friend and
walk about the land, but after a while the colored sky would grow dark, like
night, but light didnt fade, only the sky.  Then she knew the 'hunt' was on.
They had a killer in the dream. I don't remember what his name was, but she
descibed him as an evil albino. Almost mexican, short, pudgy, handlebar
mustache, long white hair, and blood red eyes.  He wore a sombrero, and
carried some type of weapon, and each dream he had a different one, but some
times the albino had no weapon, it depended on what he wanted to do.  HE was
there to kill them, and they had no way to stop him, in the dream they were
completely defenceless except for running in fear.  She told me that no matter
how many times they 'entered', the fear couldn't be gotten used to, so they
ran for thier lives.  He would chase them, laughing and looking for them, they
would find places to hide, but he knew their minds, so finding them was easy,
you really couldn't hide.  Then, he would grab one and tortore them, while
the other watched.  Remember, they were in the same dream together.  After
the torture, the other was taken and killed i.
They were always a different type of murder, and this i can quote from here,
cause when she said it i got scared a little..."He kills us different ways,
strangling, shooting, electricution, stabbing, decapitation, drowning,
burning, suffocation, and my personal favorite, being buried alive".  I told
her that she was nuts.  But she said that Lucid Dreaming, real Lucid Dreaming
is something that isnt for everyone, but even so its still just a dream. I
personally have never experienced anything like it, or want to, but i think
that she had alot of truth to what she was telling me.  She was young, 19 at
the time i think, and her 'connection', her boyfriend was like 24. I seems
like some type of cult to me, but i have never heard of this since.  

The strangest part was that when they awoke, being dead in the dream was what
awoke you, they were able to talk about the dream word for word with each
other cause they dreampt it together.  
WOW...
Everyone here is probaly think im wierd, but i hope not.  I dont want to ever
try this. I just wanted to see if anyone has ever heard of this type of
dreaming.  I am really curious about your replys on this, and please be
serious.  oh yeah, excuse the grammer and typos. thanks.

response 23 of 28:

Jun 19 01:45 UTC 2002

i have a friend who's an animator and spends endless hours animating
characters to repetative cartoon music, and sometimes has cartoon nightmares.
he says the environment is realistic but some animated catoonobject will be
trying to kill him. i often wonder what people with interesting jobs dream
about.