I have played with lucid dreaming and was successful a couple of times. And I was able to control the dream. I made myself fly like a bird. But I had a dream of this sort last night that comes with a twist. I dreamed I was at the gym [one I frequented many years ago] and was driving home. I turned on the road that led to my home when suddenly it turned into a very rough dirt road covered with big rocks and large holes. I was confused because this wasn't my road and couldn't figure out where I had taken a wrong turn. As I tried to backtrack, it only got worse. Nothing was familiar or made sense. I checked the GPS on my phone but the icon showing my location wouldn't come up. It went on and on and got stranger and stranger. Finally I was reaching a point of panic. There was a bunch of other really strange stuff happening as well. About the time I was full panic mode, I reasoned out that this can't be real. It must be a dream. So I just waited and kept telling myself I was dreaming. Eventually I woke up in a sweat. Oh thank goodness!!! I thought. That was terrifying. And it took a moment to realize that THIS was reality and my dream really wasn't. It was a huge relief to wake up. My mind was logically telling me that I was dreaming but it was hard to believe that while still dreaming. In the dream I was putting my faith in logic and kept telling myself it can't be real. It must be a dream. That is one of the strangest dreams I've ever had. And I don't recall ever logically deducing that a dream was dream. Lucid dreaming is more about telling your conscious mind to wake up when you start dreaming. But logically deducing that a dream is a dream is a first, as near as I can recall.
I've had dreams and realized I was dreaming when it was happening and continued with the dream. The last one was fairly recent. I had a dream my dad, who has been dead for many years, was standing in our kitchen leaning against the stove. He looked so healthy and happy. He said to me, "Come home". I knew it couldn't be real because in the middle of the dream my brain reminded me he was dead. But I was so happy to see him, the dream didn't end when I realized he was dead. He just stood there smiling. I couldn't let the dream go. Then I thought that he was calling me home to die and I woke up. Ive also had dreams of flying. I knew I was dreaming and still wanted to dream I was flying because it was an excellent feeling and I still flew for a short time in spite of the fact I knew it was a dream. Ive also at times focused on things so deep right before I fell asleep that it became incorporated in a dream.
One time I dreamt I was sucking dick for money, and I woke up with $900 in my lap. Disturbing to say the least. I dunno if I got up and got the money out of my safe in my sleep, who knows.
I dreamt 4 guys came round my house with guns, wasn't that nice a dream. When I woke my cat was pounding my chest!
An old girlfriend was once dreaming and the dream suddenly turned into a nightmare. The most distinctive aspect was people screaming in horror. She awoke with a start and found her cat had caught a mouse, was sitting on her chest, with the mouse squeaking as the cat tortured it to death.
I had this weird dream a while back after my sister passed away. My mom and sister were sitting in a large room. I was sitting with people I didn't know across the room at a large table. My sister walked across the room and sat down across from me and held her hand out. She said, "Hold my hand." I said, "No. I cant hold your hand. You're dead." She said, "Hold my hand." So I grabbed onto her hand and she turned into some guy I didn't know. I quickly pulled my hand back and said, "You're not my sister." He said, "I needed you to hold my hand to free me." I woke up scared thinking what the hell was that all about?
I have dreams that I know are dreams quite often actually. It's weird because I am fully aware that I am dreaming and I can choose whether or not I want to continue dreaming and just let it play out or stop it right then and there and wake myself up. I can't really control what I dream about but I can tell myself "Alright that's enough of this, wake up" and I will. It's a nice technique to have so I can prevent myself from waking up too depressed. Sometimes though I won't wake up right away and I have to keep telling myself to wake up because the dream becomes too real and scares me. For example a few weeks ago I had a dream I was going to prison for some reason in a third world country. I wasn't exactly enjoying myself in that dream so I told myself alright wake up. Then i didn't. After awhile I freaked out thinking ok maybe this isn't a dream, no this has to be, seriously wake up there is no way this is real. Then finally I did, woke up short of breath lol.
As a late teen, early adult, I started having lucid dreams of the future. No, not jet packs. The NEAR future. Conversations with people. Emotions and events. That I dreamt about. And what was worse, I COULD NOT VEER, once embroiled in a moment. Then, I had a dream of hitting a dog. But, it was really weird, as there were fences on all curbs. Then, I was going down NEWLAND street, and there are those fences. I get scared, I am paranoid, a dog jumps out from a curb, and wam. I freaked. Went home and thought about where it was going. Would I start seeing airliners going down, etc? And so, I shunned the whole dreaming about the future thingie. Forced myself not to adhere or sucuumb. Didn't want lucid dreams.
It's the guilt. Most of us are socially programmed about right and wrong. Guilty people are afraid of being caught.
Edison reportedly used lucid dreaming for ideas. I've worked with it myself. Western culture teaches us to be very logical and linear in our thinking, but that only uses half our brain (the Left brain in most people). Lucid dreaming allows us to make use of our right brain which is visual and non-verbal. Non-verbal images and sensations are our Right brains version of speech. In everyday life, "trust your gut" and "use your intuition" are also means of using the Right brain.
Not really but thanks for playing... Normally one dreams of what is playing on the TV when you doze off...I have nothing to be guilty off..I do watch a lot of gangster movies though.
First, not "normally", but it's not unusual. Second, a point on which we can disagree. A person who professes to "usually having shootouts with cops", even if that is what they watch TV every night, probably has more going on than a television show. Third, I'm guessing you tried to be funny and I deliberately took you serious to mess with you....and to see your reaction. Have a nice day, sir!
https://www.livescience.com/25597-ramanujans-math-theories-proved.html I've solved problems in my dreams. One I remember well was at age 12 or so when I rebuilt my first motorcycle engine for pay. I was working with this odd little bike called an SST that had a very strange clutch system. The owner had bought it in boxes completely disassembled so I'd never seen one fully assembled before. No manuals were available and the clutch mechanism had me stumped. One afternoon I was working on it and decided to take a nap. I dreamed the solution and saw it go together in my mind, piece by piece. I awoke and leapt out of bed, ran to the garage, and sure enough, I had dreamed the correct solution. The clutch cable pushed a rod through the engine case and actually operated from the other side of the engine. I remember solving chemistry problems in dreams, in college as well. Interesting note on the SST. Rather than valves or a typical two-stroke port configuration, they used a rotating disk with a piece cut out - like a slice of pie. That was mounted on the crankshaft and allow air and fuel to enter the combustion chamber via a port on the side of the engine that went through the engine case, when the pie slice rotated in front of the intake port. I never have seen anything like it since. But that little engine was a screamer for its size.
Good story about the SST. Using parts of our mind that we don’t normally use is a good skill. It’s not unusual. Many of us have heard people say “I need to sleep on it” when confronting a problem. As for Ramanujan, there’s a good movie about his life titled “The Man who knew Infinity”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity_(film)
I was always intrigued with that engine design because it was like a two-stroke with intake valves. Ports are fairly lossy and they had beaten that problem. And I always suspected that was why it performed so well. It was an impressive little engine! But I always wondered how long that disk would last. I've often come back to problems after sleeping and was able to figure it out. But only a few times do I remember dreaming a solution in detail. I wonder if lucid dreaming could be used to do this intentionally.
