03-14-2006, 11:28 AM | #21 |
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I tend to have very odd dreams alot, usually quite freaky in the sense that someone's trying to hurt me... I'd like to master lucid dreaming so I don't get these dreams, but I've never been able, even when I realise I'm dreaming, to change the events.
I had the most bizzare, disturbing dream last week, but I'm not sure how to explain it.. Basically, someone, unknown and unseen, was threatening to kill me unless I complied with him... Then everything went black.. That was probably the most frightening dream I've ever had, mainly because it was so vivid. When I was younger, I dreamt that I was on an escalator in a shopping centre, and when I got off it, I was in a dingy cafe type room, but there was no exit or possible way out. Still remember that, even though I was quite little when I dreamt it, and I've always wondered what it meant... |
03-14-2006, 11:32 AM | #22 |
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I believe I asked about it on the Forums once in the past, but nobody answered then.
How would you lucid dreamers know that you are in control of your dream as opposed to, you know, only dreaming that you are?
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03-14-2006, 11:58 AM | #23 |
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Not everyone has those types of dreams, you really know when your controlling the dream, you have to have one to understand the feeling.
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03-14-2006, 04:03 PM | #25 |
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The only crazy dream I have ever remembered ended with me being abandoned by my family at night in a McDonalds car park then the McDonald staff told me ill be taken car of by this Giant Clown playing a banjo....
the clown came from this ornament my gran had...but that one was playing a guitar
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03-15-2006, 12:13 AM | #27 | |
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I'll share a few.
The coolest dream I ever had was around eight years ago, I think. I was in this kingdom where the king was trying to catch me. So there were soldiers all over the place, and I was hiding under tables and the like. Anyway, it was around this point that I realized I was asleep. And I didn't know how to wake up! (If this happened today, I'd probably just try to open my eyes.) I was terrified. So I asked this "village elder" type how I should wake up. He pointed to a nearby mountain, and said, "If you climb that mountain, you will wake up.". So I started walking up the mountain. This wasn't exactly difficult because it was a smooth path spiraling around the mountain. But before I got to the top, the king's soldiers caught up! I started running, and I got to the top... and instantly I woke up. In past years, most of my dreams are either based on videogame experiences or can easily be translated into videogame experiences. Case in point: A few weeks ago I had a very interesting dream. The first half was pretty ordinary stuff, involving friends and family and a space ship to take to a certain very dangerous place. Well, after a nonsensical quest, whose details I have forgotten, I managed to take the ship (I don't remember how- I might have stolen it), which looked most like the rocket ships in Flash Gordon (the original serial). I took off. And at this point, the dream became a bona fide side-scrolling shmup, in which I moved from right to left. I was doing well, until I reached a boss, and was killed. ...and woke up. It was around 2 AM, I think. I went back to sleep. And had the same dream again. It played out in the same way, except that now I knew exactly what I had to do to get the rocket ship, so I worked more quickly and managed to get it with less trouble. Then, the side-scrolling shmup. I didn't want to lose again, so I decided to experiment. Instead of moving to the left, I started to move up. The farther I went up, the more the view zoomed out, until eventually I was looking at the entire planet on which the game took place from space. The levels were marked clearly by little yellow dots with very iconic illustrations next to them. And it was at this point that I remembered that it was, after all, a video game, so I took the Revolution controller (Hm.), pointed it at my destination, and pressed A. The rocket zoomed down. This little cheat didn't bring me all the way to the end, but it did warp me to the last level, so I was able to get to the end with less trouble. Then there's the dream involving flying, of course. It was pretty straightforward, except that I recognized the area I was flying over as the setting for another dream. Flying is so cool. Where are all the bird sims? Here's the last one, but it'll take some explanation. It was back when Gush Katif (an area in Israel) was being abandoned. My mother is quite an activist, and she regularly went there to visit and show support before the population were thrown out. I never went, because I preferred to play games and watch TV shows at home. But there was always that nagging question: "What if Gush Katif really is a place like no other? What if I'm missing out on an adventure?" Childish, of course, but I'm sort of desparate for Myst-like exploration, living as I do on a street which loops back around to itself. I had a dream right before the "evacuation" of what I might be missing. I walked to Gush Katif from Jerusalem (I found a shortcut. ), and found that it was indeed like nothing else I'd ever seen. When I woke up, I realized that that dream would make an incredible videogame, so I wrote it down on my blog, adding bits to flesh it out just a little bit more. Here is what I wrote. It's pretty faithful to the dream, but I don't remember which parts were added in and which were in the dream. Quote:
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03-15-2006, 12:38 AM | #28 |
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I seem to only be dreaming ordinary, boring dreams. Familiar people, my own surroundings nothing exciting.
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03-15-2006, 04:16 AM | #29 |
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I actually vaguely remember some crazed dream I had last night about stealing a whole load of sweets that were also money while everyone involved was double-crossing everyone. A couple of hours later that's all I really remember, though (other than a rather neat timing ploy that I really ought to use in a story one day).
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03-15-2006, 04:24 AM | #30 |
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I had a really strange but quite cool dream last night, but it was in two parts. In the first part, my best friend took me to a seaside town, and we were in this massive sweetshop. I'd found my favourite kind of sweets (jelly belly) and they had a spring collection with my favourite flavour, the now defunct peppermint, in this set. However, then my friend decides it time to move on, and we go to this little indoor waterpark.
The second part saw me at a different friend's birthday party, and we were at some kind of wierd theme park (I've had a few dreams about theme parks and rides before, almost always those that don't exist, but this one took the biscuit) There was a ride that was based on a tree, which you sat inside, and the branches you sat in/on moved randomly (imagine the whomping willow from Harry Potter) The dream ended with me gazing at this ride in awe, feeling quite unsure whether I wanted to go on it... |
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Huh. I found this interesting:
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Perhaps there's something to this "dream analysis" thing after all.
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03-15-2006, 10:30 AM | #32 |
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Ofcourse there is, that's what Freud found out some time ago I had an cool (non lucid, didn't work) dream yesterday, but woke up in the middle of it, and despite all efforts to finish it, I got up and forgot the whole thing Man, I wish there were Dream-VCRs or something like that
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I am pretty sure however, that I was able to breathe normally back in that nightmare with the dark room. In fact, it was a feeling as if I am floating in the middle of the room (which might have been due to me having a high bed back then, or maybe not), and I was certainly able to open my eyes and breathe normally. It was just completely dark. I think I sat up, hugging my legs in that dream back then, because I had a feeling that this room was all that's left of the world, as if I am in a box that is itself immersed in nothingness. It felt as if there was nothing material outside the room (so I guess windows and door would have been kind of pointless), that all of existence was to be found inside that room. And considering that except for me and perfect darkness there was nothing in the room, that thought was not a happy one. I can remember that feeling, and it sends shivers down my spine. -
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Of course, perhaps the feeling itself is worth it; I'm not questioning that. I just fail to understand all those "No, I could really do anything." assertions.
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03-16-2006, 03:10 PM | #38 |
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Call me extremely cynical, but this lucid dreaming thing just seems implausible to me.
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I am not saying I have experienced it. I am working on it though. However, there are people that always have lucid dreams, and have always had, not knowing that for most people lucid dreams are not a given thing. However, you don't often ask people about their dreams, do you? -
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03-16-2006, 03:19 PM | #40 |
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I'm still not quite believing this, but that's because I've yet to actually speak to any individual who has actually had lucid dreams themselves. Everyone appears to be in a state of trying, with a whole heap of website links to point me two, but without their own personal experiences.
I sound like such a cynical old man ... |