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Ironworks Atomic Moderator
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Just a thought I figured I'd toss out to yall. [img]smile.gif[/img]
I never used to be able to get out of a dream, or even realize I was dreaming in a dream. But sometimes I do now. It's like sometimes I just realize I'm dreaming and my mind refuses to deal with anything that may be violent towards me, and I'm able to get away/thwart it, move onto another dream,etc. I'm a big dreamer in that I know I dream frequently every night, and remember most of them to a certain extent. Maybe it's because of gaming so much, or what I choose to watch on TV, but I do have nightmares often, always seems I'm running from something LOL. So for me being able to recognize a dream and being able to either manipulate it, or get out of it, is something I could find quite handy LOL. A few weeks ago in my quest to do this, was early morning hours, I'm dreaming. To make a long story short I was talking in my dream to some woman in a room, we were disagreeing about something, I cannot remember what it was. I was getting frustrated trying to get my point across, and all of the sudden I realized I was dreaming, and I decided to take it one step further LOL, and I made myself look at the woman and say outloud in the dream "I know how to end this. Because I'm DREAMING". And wham!!!!! I woke right up with a big start and damn it hurt my head too, felt like somebody konked my brain for a minute there. Was weird LOL, but it worked. ![]() Can any of you tell you are dreaming in a dream sometimes? Be interested to see if anyone else has any stories re that. [img]smile.gif[/img] [ 08-01-2005, 08:14 PM: Message edited by: ladyzekke ] |
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Baaz Draconian
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Well I know no to try that lol.
But you have a talent there, I can't wake myself up from a dream, usually I only remember all the bad dreams that i have which is kind of scary because I don't want to remember them. Anyways maybe because you told your brain to stop dreaming all of a sudden, maybe all the chemicals weren't balanced to wake you up properly so you had a big head spin. I know that if my mum tries to wake me up really early in the morning to do something, I can never remember it unless she tells me about it later in the day.
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John Locke
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Wow, I wish I could do that. [img]tongue.gif[/img] My dreams are so bland right now, but I can never tell that I am dreaming.
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Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice
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I can usually tell when I am dreaming and wake up at will, always thought that was normal lol [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Happened once, but I didn't take the opportunity to manipulate the dream or anything. In fact, later on, I forgot that I had realised it was a dream altogether and went back to thinking it was real. [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]
But there is this very peculiar thing that happens to me about once a month while dreaming. While slowly drifting off - not exactly sleeping, but a similar state of mind - I can see nothing but a void. Sometimes a black void, sometimes a white void, heck, I've even experienced an orange void before (with a curious transparent rabbit hole in the middle, I may add [img]graemlins/stunned.gif[/img] ). After a few seconds of looking into this void, I hear a violent sound; for example an earthquake or a drill, followed by the most horrendous pain - a really sharp, stinging pain - either on my leg or arm. The pain is so intense that it wakes me up... and then back in my room I can still feel the ongoing pain for many seconds (despite the fact I'm wide awake), as if someone had stabbed me in the leg in my sleep and vanished. I mean, where the hell did this pain come from? Does my brain cause artificial pain to my body as a defense system to wake me up? (Well, that's my theory anyway [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) [ 08-01-2005, 10:01 PM: Message edited by: Jaradu ] |
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John Locke
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Harper
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Heh, I sometimes know when I'm dreaming... usually it's when the dream is just incredibly nice, like still being with a girl who left me or that I'm being extremely sucessfull in life... then I find myself thinking, hey this is too unreal, too good to be true, must be a dream... and ofcourse I wake up then from the dream...
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Knight of the Rose
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Strangely I can always tell when I'm dreaming. But I never have the desire to end a dream. Not that I don't have frightening or odd dreams, but I like to see things through to the end.
Now I have woken up from dreams that I would rather have stayed within for a little while longer. It's really fun when you're goin along in your dream and then in the background you here it. Buzz Buzz Buzz Buzz Buzz. You're alarm is going off and you hear it in your dream. You wake up and it's still there. Most common way I can tell I'm dreaming? A large amount of my dreams occur in the 3rd person view point. Like I'm watching myself on TV, but I'm still fully in control of myself. [ 08-01-2005, 10:24 PM: Message edited by: Firestormalpha ]
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The Magister
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Hey for those of you who can wake up from dreams.. Have you ever tried continuing it? (as in waking up and then fell asleep afterwards and you contiuned, like a "savegame" and then "loadgame") I tried and it works for some of my dreams but not all... As for me, forcefully waking up from a dream always take me a lot of effort.. not like "Hmm.. I don't like this dream.. I am waking up now" and poof you are awake...
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I used to be able to do that. Now, sleep comes after more of a fight and doesn't last long enough for me to have that many dreams. But yeah, lucid dreaming is very interesting. It can even be used as a vehicle for astral projection... Most interesting stuff, indeed. Someday I'll start getting more sleep and experiment with it.
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