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Dreams
- Thread starter Keenan
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Instead of posting my own dream, I'll go ahead and post this one I read on Reddit because it's fascinating. Really long but shows the power of lucid dreaming to its full extent:
"I woke up and played out the next fifteen years going day by day. In the dream I quit a job and started a new one, had a girl friend then got married. My dream had good days and bad days. I had every emotional response I felt in reality.
I was living day to day and new events came and went. The transitions made logical sense. I started dating a girl from my high school that was in one of my classes. Lets call her Emily. We went on dates had classes together and took family vacations together. We had sex the first time 5 months into dating and went to the same college for undergrad. We moved into an apartment together with friends from school and got engaged 6 months after graduation. I went to grad school and she started working while we rented my aunts house. We did everything together and had nicknames for each other and I used to count the freckles on her cheeks while I watched her sleep. We got married and lived a good life.
One day during the remodel I pulled a couch into the living room. Emily came into the room and joined me on the couch. She pulled in close the way she always did. Her arms wrapping around me as she rest her head against my chest. The blinds in the window behind us were moving with the wind, bumping into the wooden frame, in a slow unsteady beat. The smell of fresh cut wood and paint were moving with the breeze. As Emily's breathing became constant the feeling of joy washed over me. I still remember the feelings I had in that moment. The heat of her body against mine, the leather couch on my back and fleece blanket and the cool breeze coming in waves from the window.
I woke up back in my old room from high school. At first I thought i was dreaming. I could still smell Emilys hair. There was no way that after 15 years I could be back in my room. I looked around and everything looked familiar but distant. I didnt feel comfortable in my body.I climbed out of bed and went to the bathroom. Looking at myself in the mirror I could see myself as I was back in highschool. Thinking I was still dreaming I pulled on my face and it hurt. I didn't believe this was reality and i had been dreaming. I walked around my house and had to remember where things were. It was 7 am and my family stated moving around. Seeing my little brothers walk into the kitchen and my older sister living at home I was shocked. I had to talk to each one to see if I was dreaming. I couldnt remember any hard details from reality. I went to school and couldn't remember my locker location or combination. My best friend met me and I was happy to see his face. I told him about my dream(in my dream he was my best man at my wedding and was married) and how I couldnt tell if my dream had happened.
It took awhile to get peoples names back. I had to search my brain and often couldnt remember. Not wanting to sound crazy, I just waited for people to say something to remind me of past plans and to get there names. I was expecting to wake up the whole time. Each thing I did felt like it had already been played out. I couldn't predict anything but felt it was familiar. I went to sleep at night and expected to wake up back in my life with my wife on my couch in the middle of the afternoon on my couch.
I woke up the second day, scared to open my eyes. I kept them shut in fear of being in this old reality from my childhood. I could feel my body starting to come alive. The beating of my heart quickening to wake me up, the restless tingling in my hands and feet, the pressure of the cold sheets against my body. I felt around my sheets looking for Emily. I searched the bed and found no trace of anyone other than myself. Wanting to find Emily to have her hold me and pull me back from this horrible dream, to wake up and live the life I had built and worked so hard for. I started crying knowing that when I opened my eyes I would be back in the old reality of my real life. Opening my eyes my old room materialized before me.
Going through the motions of the day I still cant believe this life is real. Trying to figure out which memories were lived and which were dreamed. It was confusing and not clear either way.
I had class with Emily that day. I arrived early and sat in the back waiting for her to walk through the door so I can see her face. Emily walks in with a friend smiling and laughing. Her eyes, the freckles on her face, her lips, Everything about her was mesmerizing. My heart jumped and beat fast wanting to reclaim what I had felt before. I watch her walk to her seat as if in slow motion, Her eyes never meeting mine. A crushing weight hit my chest and my hands started shaking. My mind was reeling, trying to put it all together, slipping from my body. I was frozen. Memories of our life together flew through my mind: our first kiss, sex for the first time in her bed, moving in together, buying a house, her telling me she was pregnant. All these things I had lived and felt were nothing. I was back to a time before I even had her phone number.
I didn't hear a word said the whole class. I could barely hold back all the feelings I was experiencing. We locked eyes and she smiled. It was the first thing that made me smile in two days. She looked away and I was lost in thought.
The feelings I had for her have never gone away. We dated for 3 months for but because of other circumstances broke up and went to separate colleges.
I never fully remembered what happened before the dream life happened. It is still blurry on the dates and times from my life and hard to recall and not add in parts of the dream. I suffered for awhile trying to get over my lost life. Everything I had grown to love was gone and not coming back. I still love Emily and talk to her all the time but our lives went different directions as of now. It has been 7 years and I still remember my life from the dream and feelings for Emily. 7 years from the day of the dream that led 15 into the future and I still cant shake it. The experiences I had changed me into a different person, but did they really happen at all."
Later on in the reddit thread, the original poster added this:
"When I woke up I felt older. It is hard to describe. I felt more in control of my emotions and feelings compared to my highschool friends. After the dream life occured my taste changed. I started liking different music, I love tomatoes now(couldnt stand them before) and drive slower. Stuff I learned in the dream made sense to me. My job had new clients with unique problems and issues and the way I solved them was through my logic.
After I came back to reality I lost alot of friends. Most everything I liked had changed as I had grown as a person and out of childhood emotions and feelings."
I was living day to day and new events came and went. The transitions made logical sense. I started dating a girl from my high school that was in one of my classes. Lets call her Emily. We went on dates had classes together and took family vacations together. We had sex the first time 5 months into dating and went to the same college for undergrad. We moved into an apartment together with friends from school and got engaged 6 months after graduation. I went to grad school and she started working while we rented my aunts house. We did everything together and had nicknames for each other and I used to count the freckles on her cheeks while I watched her sleep. We got married and lived a good life.
One day during the remodel I pulled a couch into the living room. Emily came into the room and joined me on the couch. She pulled in close the way she always did. Her arms wrapping around me as she rest her head against my chest. The blinds in the window behind us were moving with the wind, bumping into the wooden frame, in a slow unsteady beat. The smell of fresh cut wood and paint were moving with the breeze. As Emily's breathing became constant the feeling of joy washed over me. I still remember the feelings I had in that moment. The heat of her body against mine, the leather couch on my back and fleece blanket and the cool breeze coming in waves from the window.
I woke up back in my old room from high school. At first I thought i was dreaming. I could still smell Emilys hair. There was no way that after 15 years I could be back in my room. I looked around and everything looked familiar but distant. I didnt feel comfortable in my body.I climbed out of bed and went to the bathroom. Looking at myself in the mirror I could see myself as I was back in highschool. Thinking I was still dreaming I pulled on my face and it hurt. I didn't believe this was reality and i had been dreaming. I walked around my house and had to remember where things were. It was 7 am and my family stated moving around. Seeing my little brothers walk into the kitchen and my older sister living at home I was shocked. I had to talk to each one to see if I was dreaming. I couldnt remember any hard details from reality. I went to school and couldn't remember my locker location or combination. My best friend met me and I was happy to see his face. I told him about my dream(in my dream he was my best man at my wedding and was married) and how I couldnt tell if my dream had happened.
It took awhile to get peoples names back. I had to search my brain and often couldnt remember. Not wanting to sound crazy, I just waited for people to say something to remind me of past plans and to get there names. I was expecting to wake up the whole time. Each thing I did felt like it had already been played out. I couldn't predict anything but felt it was familiar. I went to sleep at night and expected to wake up back in my life with my wife on my couch in the middle of the afternoon on my couch.
I woke up the second day, scared to open my eyes. I kept them shut in fear of being in this old reality from my childhood. I could feel my body starting to come alive. The beating of my heart quickening to wake me up, the restless tingling in my hands and feet, the pressure of the cold sheets against my body. I felt around my sheets looking for Emily. I searched the bed and found no trace of anyone other than myself. Wanting to find Emily to have her hold me and pull me back from this horrible dream, to wake up and live the life I had built and worked so hard for. I started crying knowing that when I opened my eyes I would be back in the old reality of my real life. Opening my eyes my old room materialized before me.
Going through the motions of the day I still cant believe this life is real. Trying to figure out which memories were lived and which were dreamed. It was confusing and not clear either way.
I had class with Emily that day. I arrived early and sat in the back waiting for her to walk through the door so I can see her face. Emily walks in with a friend smiling and laughing. Her eyes, the freckles on her face, her lips, Everything about her was mesmerizing. My heart jumped and beat fast wanting to reclaim what I had felt before. I watch her walk to her seat as if in slow motion, Her eyes never meeting mine. A crushing weight hit my chest and my hands started shaking. My mind was reeling, trying to put it all together, slipping from my body. I was frozen. Memories of our life together flew through my mind: our first kiss, sex for the first time in her bed, moving in together, buying a house, her telling me she was pregnant. All these things I had lived and felt were nothing. I was back to a time before I even had her phone number.
I didn't hear a word said the whole class. I could barely hold back all the feelings I was experiencing. We locked eyes and she smiled. It was the first thing that made me smile in two days. She looked away and I was lost in thought.
The feelings I had for her have never gone away. We dated for 3 months for but because of other circumstances broke up and went to separate colleges.
I never fully remembered what happened before the dream life happened. It is still blurry on the dates and times from my life and hard to recall and not add in parts of the dream. I suffered for awhile trying to get over my lost life. Everything I had grown to love was gone and not coming back. I still love Emily and talk to her all the time but our lives went different directions as of now. It has been 7 years and I still remember my life from the dream and feelings for Emily. 7 years from the day of the dream that led 15 into the future and I still cant shake it. The experiences I had changed me into a different person, but did they really happen at all."
Later on in the reddit thread, the original poster added this:
"When I woke up I felt older. It is hard to describe. I felt more in control of my emotions and feelings compared to my highschool friends. After the dream life occured my taste changed. I started liking different music, I love tomatoes now(couldnt stand them before) and drive slower. Stuff I learned in the dream made sense to me. My job had new clients with unique problems and issues and the way I solved them was through my logic.
After I came back to reality I lost alot of friends. Most everything I liked had changed as I had grown as a person and out of childhood emotions and feelings."
Prof Gallows
Retired Staff
I used to try and purposely have lucid dreams. Never worked on purpose but I've had a few where I've realized I'm dreaming and was able to somewhat have control over my dream.
As far as my dreams go, I couldn't tell you which one is the weirdest. All of my dreams are weird.
As far as my dreams go, I couldn't tell you which one is the weirdest. All of my dreams are weird.
toshiwoshi
Senior Member
hmm... that means i always have lucid dreams, it gets to the point where i actually feel kind of awkward when i wake up. For example if i dream about a friend in an awkward or weird way, it'll feel like it actually happened sometimes, causing me to act weird around them. Although, i only have control of myself in dreams, not others around me.
omg haha the best
My dreams can predict the future. Call me crazy but I see the faces of people in my dreams who I am yet to meet. I also climbed cake mountain BTW 
Here's a great video, explaining dreams to a great extent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGzc3x9WJU
Here's a great video, explaining dreams to a great extent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGzc3x9WJU
This may be weird, but i only had 1 lucid dream, it was month ago. And i was having a nightmare but my sister was being loud, so i ended up waking up. But fell back a sleep and forcing my brain to continue with the nightmare haha
Idk why/how.
I just remembered this when looking at the users online, and some guest was viewing a topic named "Thor" (thread for the movie)
then i remembered a dream i had last night, and idk why, but my brother bought CoD: Black Ops for Wii :\
I just remembered this when looking at the users online, and some guest was viewing a topic named "Thor" (thread for the movie)
then i remembered a dream i had last night, and idk why, but my brother bought CoD: Black Ops for Wii :\
Master of the Triforce
Member
The scariest dream I ever had was when I was 17 and dreamt I was being dragged backwards through shallow water and drowning and woke up spluttering :/ No more lucid dreams for me!
Colour Bandit
Senior Member
I've always suffered from night terrors and rather bad nightmares, a few nights ago I had a nightmare that one of the guys from my maths class who I don't really like was strangling me, not like 'I'm just threatening you' strangling, proper 'I'm going to kill you' strangling, for the whole day after that nightmare my neck was hurting like mad... Though I can't really remember all my nightmares most of them have the re-occurring theme of abandonment, mainly by my parents (Who I haven't really gotten along well with over the past year or so...)
A dream I had once was about myself getting stabbed in the chest all of a sudden and then becoming a ghost, and then the dream gets hazy and I can't remember what has happened after that. Another one was where I was hang gliding over this forest-like area during Autumn; it was a really great dream.
I had my first lucid dream!
It was an incredible experience. I was approached by a white fox which for some reason seemed really suspicious and mystical to me, so I performed a reality check. I had 6 fingers and immediately had a false awakening, luckily I've already got into the habit of performing reality checks each time I wake up so I almost immediately knew what was happening and stood up out of bed. I noticed how shockingly realistic yet still dreamy it looked, so I rubbed my hands together and decided I was going to try flying. I walked up to my wall and passed through it, I noticed how tight everything felt while passing through the wall, it was quite a unique feeling. I floated down from the second level of my house into the garden, noticing the grass gliding against my bare feet, I couldn't get over how realistic it was. I noticed the dream seemed kind of "dark" so I attempted to brighten it, but this just created blinding effect and I felt like I was losing the dream so I toned it back down (this eventually went away the more I got into the dream anyway). I proceeded to jump into the air to try and fly, which I failed at to begin with and just managed to hop over a fence. I tried a second time and floated up into the sky amongst the clouds, looking down on all the houses and scenery, seeing the curvature of the earth. It was quite surreal. I flew around for a bit, but noticed I struggled to actually turn in mid-air, I ended up almost crashing into a building. I stopped flying momentarily and tried to use some "telekinetic" powers to smash windows from afar, but nothing seemed to be happening. After this I began to lose lucidity and things became blurred, I walked through a building and when I reached the other side, it had completely changed back to a normal dream (though a pretty cool one, regardless).
It was an incredible experience. I was approached by a white fox which for some reason seemed really suspicious and mystical to me, so I performed a reality check. I had 6 fingers and immediately had a false awakening, luckily I've already got into the habit of performing reality checks each time I wake up so I almost immediately knew what was happening and stood up out of bed. I noticed how shockingly realistic yet still dreamy it looked, so I rubbed my hands together and decided I was going to try flying. I walked up to my wall and passed through it, I noticed how tight everything felt while passing through the wall, it was quite a unique feeling. I floated down from the second level of my house into the garden, noticing the grass gliding against my bare feet, I couldn't get over how realistic it was. I noticed the dream seemed kind of "dark" so I attempted to brighten it, but this just created blinding effect and I felt like I was losing the dream so I toned it back down (this eventually went away the more I got into the dream anyway). I proceeded to jump into the air to try and fly, which I failed at to begin with and just managed to hop over a fence. I tried a second time and floated up into the sky amongst the clouds, looking down on all the houses and scenery, seeing the curvature of the earth. It was quite surreal. I flew around for a bit, but noticed I struggled to actually turn in mid-air, I ended up almost crashing into a building. I stopped flying momentarily and tried to use some "telekinetic" powers to smash windows from afar, but nothing seemed to be happening. After this I began to lose lucidity and things became blurred, I walked through a building and when I reached the other side, it had completely changed back to a normal dream (though a pretty cool one, regardless).
That's intense.
Okay, so a few years ago my friend told me about this dreaming thing (I can't remember the name) but she was like "it's when you know you're dreaming and you can do whatever you want" - anyway, last night i was dreaming, and then i said to myself "wait i'm dreaming" but i couldn't do whatever i wanted.
Just thought i'd share 'cause it's the first one i remember, so itz a milestone!
Just thought i'd share 'cause it's the first one i remember, so itz a milestone!
It's Lucid dreaming. What this thread is based around..?
This is called a layer 2 lucid dream.
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