Dreams

[Androxine Vortex]

I also keep a Dreams Journal, and since I do this, I have improved my dream recall skills dramatically with the goal of developing Lucid Dreaming... Which has already happened to me in several occasions =)

Those are fun dreams Vortex, sometimes my dreams are very surreal too and that's exactly my favourite style of dreams.

My last nightmare was about some sort of paranormal creature (all my nightmares are related to the paranormal world) which was something like a witch of grey skin and no eyes. She had an ancient-looking mirror where a little girl was trapped, and her mother was forced to be the servant of this witch for thousands of years so her daughter would be released someday...

The witch could fly like a shadow across the sky, she lived in an old abandoned house surrounded by forests and fields... I could see people walking into the house not knowing what was in there, and then I would hear them screaming and nobody would ever come out.

I love funny dreams, and really get frustrated when I have dreams about my common everyday life- Now I have discovered that eating cheese before going to sleep works well to cause good dreams, you have to try it!!

Hmm not a big fan of cheese but okay. What was it like to lucid dream? What did you do?

[Kit]

I can never control what happens in my dreams. I never realize I am dreaming no matter how strange it may seem.

It can sometimes be learned. Some of your other dreams suggest you could have a talent for lucid dreaming or shamanic journeying. If you're interested, you should do some research.

If your previous try at learning lucid dreaming didn't bear any fruit, it could just have been not quite the right technique- or maybe you weren't ready at that point. May be worth another try using different methods.

[Androxine Vortex]

It can sometimes be learned. Some of your other dreams suggest you could have a talent for lucid dreaming or shamanic journeying. If you're interested, you should do some research.

I don't know as far as an out-of-body-experience but lucid dreaming has always interested me. I have tried it before but it never worked.

[Kit]

What was it like to lucid dream? What did you do?

Usually, as soon as a person realizes that they're dreaming, they wake up. When you realize you're dreaming, but are able to stay in that state (or more commonly, come half awake and then sink back in), you can sometimes control the action to some degree.

I don't have nearly the frequency or control that I would like, but as soon as I realize I'm having a lucid dream, all I want to do is fly. I'm like "OMG! Here I am! Yowza!!! Hurry up and fly before you wake up!!!!" LOL.

[Androxine Vortex]

Usually, as soon as a person realizes that they're dreaming, they wake up. When you realize you're dreaming, but are able to stay in that state (or more commonly, come half awake and then sink back in), you can sometimes control the action to some degree.

I don't have nearly the frequency or control that I would like, but as soon as I realize I'm having a lucid dream, all I want to do is fly. I'm like "OMG! Here I am! Yowza!!! Hurry up and fly before you wake up!!!!" LOL.

Now I want to watch Inception

[Sheilawisz]

Inception is really a terrible movie from a dreamer's point of view.

When I realize that I am dreaming most of the times I just wake up, but in some occasions I have managed to stay in the dream and gain some degree of control over things...

In one of my lucid dreams I found a freaking beautiful castle in the middle of a forest, and then I started to fly all around it while I watched the intense light of daybreak coming to my eyes across the trees.

The colours are something so beautiful, something that we cannot see in waking life, and you can find places so incredible that lucid dreaming is a little scary because you may wish to stay there and do not come back!!

If you want to learn to do this, the first step is to start your Dreams Journal =)

[Saigonnus]

I have odd dreams all the time; most of which I don't write down since I can't imagine a way of incorporating them into a serious story (like riding on a school bus with William Shatner and a bunch of huskies heading to Alaska for the Iditerod)

Those I do write down though I complete as fully as possible so I could potentially use them IN a story or as the basis of a story (I have had a few of either type)

One of these dreams was the following:

*I was standing on a lifeless and barren plain with strangely striated mountains and hills on the horizon. I was wearing a light pressurized suit with a helmet and gloves and my hand clutched a strange tubular device that emitted subsonic sound. Growing domes were visible off in the distance; and like often happens in a dream, I knew what crops were grown within and also that they housed the colony's livestock. When I pushed the button, the ground begin to rumble and I felt the ground shifting beneath my feet. At first it was just a rumbling in the bedrock, but soon the loose dirt began moving in a whirlpool pattern thirty feet across and I had to move as a creature emerged from beneath me. It was a worm whose mouth was just as wide as the hole it had just made and was nearly 90 feet long when fully sated, and I knew it had eaten the rock and that it's "waste" would be plain soil and the undigestible minerals.

I knew the creatures had been found in deep space in what was assumed was an asteroid belt; but in reality was the remnants of the planet they'd eaten to the point of it's destruction. They'd been bred over two centuries to survive in any climate and are perfect for terraforming new planets and mining them, limiting the needs for machines (only to collect the ore and minerals).*

That was one concept that is slowly becoming something.

[Amanita]

It's interesting that you lot are having many vivid dreams too. I often have them as well but I still don't understand what they might mean.

Last night, I dreamed that a very dangerous chemical substance was being manufactured in my old high school with students still being taught there. I was one of the students but at the same time someone told me to push a button related to the chemical manufacturing process. At first, the dials went black and I got worried but thought it had stopped itself. The people in charge of that got upset over it but they managed to get it back to working mode. I was glad that my action hadn't done any serious damage.
Afterwards I was standing in line with many others so I could go to the toilett. Standing in this tight line got me worried again so and finally decided that I'd rather not go to the toilet because I wanted an escape route.
As soon as I was out, an alarm was going off and many people fled the school. I was with another girl who might have been another member of this forum, but I don't remember this part clearly anymore. We tried to get away as quickly as possible because the gas would kill anyone nearby if it got released. Then we started discussing how far it might spread and the other person thought I was wrong first, but in the end, she believed me. After this we stood in front of a street which was so full of cars we couldn't cross it. This was where I woke up.

I'm often dreaming entire stories and they aren't real nightmares even though they might seem like it from the description. They're acutally quite interesting and might be from similar sources as my day time stories.
The worst nightmares I've had so far involved my younger sister being brutally executed. I've dreamed this a few times and I really don't know why. It made me feel quite ashamed even though I couldn't influence it of course.
My most common nightmare involve myself drinking water and realising that it was poisoned afterwards. I've been dreaming that many, many times and from a very early age. Still I don't know what it's supposed to tell me. After waking up, it usually takes a while till I dare to drink anything again.
Sometimes, I'm having pleasant dreams where things I wish for happen and I'm quite sad about waking up.

[Jess A]

I love to dream. They are always vivid and sometimes I lucid dream. It is fun to walk or fly around my dream world knowing that it is a dream because I can create things. Sometimes, I write entire stories in my dream, and music, too. I solve problems in my dreams. I create new worlds, new creatures (one features in my book) and I shape-shift a lot - normally into something that can fly or run fast.

Something else I do is 'dream' whilst awake (so not true dreaming). Before I fall asleep, I vividly see things, but I am still awake and I can move/hear things. It's very strange. Sometimes it's so vivid it is as though I am in the place I am seeing and that place is not a memory. Very strange - they are sometimes what I would imagine astral projection to be like, but I am sure it is the amazing ability of the human mind to create such scenes. I do not take drugs in case anybody is wondering. -Chuckle-

[Androxine Vortex]

Inception is really a terrible movie from a dreamer's point of view.

Nope. Inception is a fantastic movie. Argument won.