Dreams

If you do some little "reality checks" throughout the day when you're awake, you can train yourself to do it when you're sleeping. Once you realize you're dreaming, it's pretty crazy.

What works for me is checking the time on a clock or watch. During the day whenever you look at a clock, just ask yourself if you're dreaming. In a dream when you look at the time, look away, and then look back, chances are the time will be different or the numbers will be all out of order.

Interesting. So is this how you train your cognitive skills to respond during a dream?

Okay, here's some far out stuff since we're talking about it. Do you guys fly in your dreams a lot or at all? And like land in weird places, times in history or the future?

Interesting. So is this how you train your cognitive skills to respond during a dream?

Okay, here's some far out stuff since we're talking about it. Do you guys fly in your dreams a lot or at all? And like land in weird places, times in history or the future?

Yeah there are some other techniques too like keeping a dream journal. It's just all about being more aware and knowing what to look for in order to realize a dream vs. reality.

I used to fly all the time, haven't done that in a long time though. Hmm, I wonder why.

i wish I could lucid dream. Sometimes I know I'm dreaming.. and I try to control it and make things go in the way I want them to.. But it never works.

I'm sure I've brought it up here before but perhaps my weirdest dream ever wasn't so much the dream itself but the circumstances following the dream

This was back in college. So I have this dream that I'm standing on one side of the road and my friend is on the other side. I see her and wave to her. She waves back, and starts crossing the street. Suddenly she's hit by a bus! She flies in the air and lands hard on the asphalt. But then she gets up and appears unscathed.

So anyway, I wake up, and think to myself wow what a crazy dream I'll have to tell this girl all about it when I see her. We'll probably have a good laugh over it. So the whole day passes and I still haven't seen her, and no one else knew about the dream.

It's early in the evening now and I'm walking back to my dorm. I then see her running toward me in a frenzy. "Oh my God! I'm so glad you're ok. I had the craziest dream last night. I had this dream where you were on the other side of the street and you waved to me. I waved back. Then you started crossing the street and were hit by a bus!"

Woah!

fuuuuck

we didn't have the good stuff when I was that age ;)

i wish I could lucid dream. Sometimes I know I'm dreaming.. and I try to control it and make things go in the way I want them to.. But it never works.That's the way I am. It seems like as soon as I realize I'm dreaming the dream itself completely shifts, like I just changed the channel or something and everything starts to go fuzzy. I guess it could be that my conscious mind starts into interfere with my subconscious and I sort of lose my train of thought.

You guys have some crazy dreams. Mine are never that intense but there's always some huge thing that makes them not realistic, I can't really think of any examples but I'm sure that something will pop up later.

I never have dreams I can recall later... My wife is one of those people that remembers every detail of her crazy dreams, I'm always jealous because it sounds like fun. I've had the dreams where I'm fighting but I can only punch in slow motion or my fist never connects right...

holy shit I hate those.. I never lose the fight but it always happens.. I'm in control but the punches do nothing

Interesting. So is this how you train your cognitive skills to respond during a dream?

Okay, here's some far out stuff since we're talking about it. Do you guys fly in your dreams a lot or at all? And like land in weird places, times in history or the future?

never had the flying thing

sometimes it seems like gravity is much lower though as I'll bounce along slowly.. or one where I was swinging from the power lines and bouncing off of the rock wall along side a road between swings

everytime I get into a lucid stage either my alarm goes off, the dogs bark, I really really really have to pee or something

I had a dream once the mods here had to ban Matty. It was actually pretty ugly. Matty was not just banned but dragged from his house by police with a jacket over his head covering his face and Gmanc was answering questions about the banning to the media. Don't know what he did but I guess it was pretty bad