Do You Ever Know When You Are Dreaming?

[shadowhound]

Originally posted by Sir Goulum: quote: Originally posted by shadowhound: I can usually tell when I am dreaming and wake up at will, always thought that was normal lol [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Well I can wake myself up, but I can never manipulate my dreams. [/QUOTE]I can occasionally but I discover that there is a stage where you realise you are dreaming, try to control something and either you wake up or you can control things from that point onward.

[Winter Wolf]

Most of the time my dreams are better than life. Of course I also have dreams that the majority of people would consider nightmares. I think that it can only be a nightmare if you're truly afraid, and my weird dreams just don't scare me. Dreams of being in massive crypts, being chased by vampires and skeletons, dreams of falling into the blackest pit only to wind up in an even deeper crypt, dreams of giant lizards guarding forbidden gates, dreams of being hunted by fuzzy green scorpion-things with swirly red eyes that would infect you with a moss disease, dreams of wandering in peat bogs covered with heavy fog, dreams of killing things (self defense mind you). I like these dreams, and I have no fear. They pretty well could never happen in my real life.

The dreams I hate are the prophetic ones. I've had numerous dreams of things that would happen to me later on in life (usually a month to a couple years after the dream), but it's never something like winning lotto numbers, it's always bad stuff: g/f breaking up with me, THE MAN audits my taxes, things like that. These are my nightmares. I might not remember after a while, but when I'm in a real situation and I get that sinking feeling in my stomach, I suddenly recall with clarity the dream. Never exactly the same as life, but the important stuff is still the same. Now if only I could harness this power for evil.... I mean good....

I remember a lot of my dreams, and I recall a dream from when I was in sixth grade with clarity to this day. That dream was more than 20 years ago (lizard guarding gate dream).

[Q'alooaith]

I pretty much know when I'm dreaming all the time, my body is diffrent, or non exsistant sometimes, in other words I only ever see myself in my nightmares, and that's only very rarely that I'm in my own body even then.

I can wake myself up from my dreams/nightmares, got a couple of ways I can do so, I just tell my body to wake up, I increase my heartrate and breathing. It's a little scary because everything goes black when I wakeup, I'm not able to open my eye's for a few seconds, the rest of my body takes more time. Untill I get control back I'm limp and totaly defenceless.

Then the other way, I will my body into action, sitting up is normaly enough, I hit my head off the wall and I'm wide awake, in full control. It's kinda painfull so I avoide it.

[Sir Goulum]

Originally posted by shadowhound: quote: Originally posted by Sir Goulum: quote: Originally posted by shadowhound: I can usually tell when I am dreaming and wake up at will, always thought that was normal lol [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Well I can wake myself up, but I can never manipulate my dreams. [/QUOTE]I can occasionally but I discover that there is a stage where you realise you are dreaming, try to control something and either you wake up or you can control things from that point onward. [/QUOTE]Hmm... I'll have to try that next time. I haven't actually realized I'm dreaming for a while now.

[Ladyzekke]

Originally posted by Drakilor: And if i´m aware i can control, mostly flying etc, but i did create a fryingpan out of nowhere once (try it).

LOL, I'm going to endeavor to create a frying pan in my dreams LOL. [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] Not sure if I'll ever be able to actually do it, but if I remember this thread enough and the remembrance of it pops into my head during a dream, it could be possible LOL!

[Cloudbringer]

Ok, we'll take a poll on how long before you get a frying pan in your dream, Wendy! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Dalamar Stormcrow]

I had a dream last night about Ashton Kutcher being a microboilogist, and saved the world from a smallpox terrorism attack I knew I was dreaming, but up until a few hours ago, I thought Ashton Kutcher was smart