Lucid Dreams

[Atheist]

I had my first one for a few years last night. I met a very attractive, slim but curvy, young blonde and once I had explained that she was in a lucid dream we got on very well together! Very strange experience, and I find it difficult to know what enables such states of mind.
Does anyone else here have such dreams?

[pat2604]

I have vivid dreams every night and most seem very real. Actually about three every night and they don't make any sense. I've had them since childhood. They are much more exciting than my real life and usually feature people who don't exist in real life. Many are nightmares!! I would love to sleep soundly and feel refreshed in the morning.

[Atheist]

Pat; are you able to realise that you are dreaming, and then to take control of your dream?

[Sqad]

Yes, I have dreamt every night of my life, lucid dreams but I awaken totally refreshed.

As a teenager a common dream was that I could fly, sometimes by taking off from the ground and sometimes in a Spitfire.
Other times I dreamt that I could breath but just woke up in time before I passed out.........didnt bother me.

In the very early twenties would dream that I as asked to diagnose a medical condition....I couldn't and woke up in a sweat.

Mid-life.....a recurrent dream was that I was told that there had been a mistake and although I had reached Consultant status, I had to go back to Med.School to retake my finals.

Later, like Atheist, met a luscious blonde in a hotel booked in and after buying the champagne, couldnt remember which room she was in LOL

Never had scary nightmares.

[Sqad]

Couldn't breath.

[wolf63]

I sometimes go through periods of lucid dreaming and also sleep paralysis.

With lucid dreaming, I am not aware of changing the direction of the dream but I say to other people in the dream world that it is only a dream and not serious.

I don't usually sleep well, I sleep in short cycles of 90 to 120 minutes. I am sure that must affect dreaming but I don't know how.

[Atheist]

I haven't had a nightmare for many years. But have any of you had dreams where you were aware that you were dreaming, and could then control your dream?

[Atheist]

wolf, thanks for your reply. It's interesting that you can talk to people in your dreams and explain what's going on. I can occasionally do that, but I can't always control what happens next. I wish I had even more control and get some feedback from my dream characters. Do yours ever give you interesting info?

[pat2604]

Yes i often do. Especially with bad dreams. I think I am screaming to wake up my partner so he can wake me up, but he tells me the screams are only funny squeaky noises. I can also half wake up and then go back into a light sleep and direct the dream where I want it to go if the dream is enjoyable.

[Atheist]

pat, can you ever have interesting discussions with your dream partners?

[Sqad]

Been thinkin:

As a child, perhaps 11 or 12 years old I went through a phase where I had nocturnal seminal emissions which would stain the sheets.
I wasn't masturbating but grandma said that if I didn't stop she would tell grandad I tried to explain that I couldn't help it but she was less than sympathetic.

[wolf63]

I never have 'conversations' in my dreams but I seem to realise that nothing bad will happen as it isn't real.

[Atheist]

wolf, do you never talk to people in your dreams? Not at all? I'm sure that I do; often speaking French to my French neighbours. Not good French, but we get by. Sadly, none of my French lady neighbours turn up.

[david small]

Same thing happened to me sqad. My father took me aside for a ‘word’. I hadn’t a clue what he was on about.
I didn’t even know what ‘playing with yourself’ even meant. Apparently my mother was distressed while washing my sheets. I went away nonplussed, he went away suspicious.

[Atheist]

wolf, I think I also realise that it isn't real; that's what gives me the confidence to admit my true desires without fear of consequences.

[Sqad]

david......such a situation is quite common.
Grandma didn't tell Grandad and luckily it settled.

[pat2604]

I can have deep conversations with people who I remember very vividly when I wake up but are people I have never met. I can walk underwater and levitate or fly. I went through a period when I was actually dreaming that I was a vampire, but i didn't want to be a vampire!! I didn't ever bite anybody in these dreams!!

[pat2604]

I think my dreams just indicate that I'm a mad woman!

[pat2604]

Funnily in dreams my fluent French comes back to me, but goes when I wake up. Insincere why?

[Atheist]

pat; I never walked underwater, but I used to fly (often in a sort of helicopter or aeroplane). One of my favourites was really odd - my office chair would whizz along with me on it; leaning left or right would take me left or right. Leaning forward would accelerate and leaning backwards would brake.
The brain is a truly marvellous machine, that it can conjure up all these inner experiences without any external stimuli.

[Sqad]

Atheist.......we always had one of these in the house and grandma swore by its contents

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