Questions and Experiences

**moe** · 01-05-2004 11:25 PM

I have a bunch of questions about lucid dreaming. I have had a lucid dream once when I was 12, and it was super breif. Now I am intrested in the subject. So here goes some questions:

1. Does age affect lucid dreaming? I am 37, and I was wondering if that makes it harder or easier to reach lucidity.

2. How vivid are the controlled lucid dreams? I have had many dreams over the years. They have always been different snap shots of places and events. They never look clear to me. The picture is alway wierd when I recall it after I wake up.

3. How long after recording dreams, and performing some of the suggestions should I expect to have a lucid dream (I know that it depends on each person, but please tell me about your personal experience).

4. Last night, before going to bed, I was suggesting to myself to be aware of my dreams (after 5 days of reading this stuff). During the night every time I felt like I was about to have a dream I would wake up telling myself, "you're about to have a dream now. Be aware!" I wasn't able to dream because I was too sensitive to them. What should I do? Did that happen to any one of you.

5. How well can you control your dreams? Can you do anything easily?

Anyway, I have had dreams in the past, but mostly of the type that comes true. I dream something, and usually it is symbolic. I would understand the symbols, and then they come true. Some time they are not symbolic and they happen in real life as they are.

Also, I have had back problems in the past, and part of the problem was solved when I controlled how I slept. I realized, after many nights of sleeping and waking to pain, that I could control how I slept even though I was not awake. I used to suggest to myself before goig to bed that if I sleep a certain way that I should wake up and reposition myself. It worked! I called that conscious sleeping.

Now I want to combine my dreams and conscious sleeping to achieve controlled lucid dreaming.

Moe.

**Blissful** · 01-06-2004 12:26 AM

Hi Moe,

We dream alike (most dreams come true, some symbolic some just literal). I found this board because I had my first real LD and then went into an OOBE (but stopped it because I wasn't ready). The control part is amazing and I have been recallling my dreams for 10 years. Nothing compars to this experience (not even when my things in my dreams come true and). I went into another LD a couple days later but still didn't take it too far because I think one should know all the depths of this mystery before venturing in. Right now I'm in research mode. I think reading many books on the subject matter can help you (as well as getting advice here).

Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.

**Seeker** · 01-06-2004 12:38 AM

Wow, such curiosity, but first:
:yumdumdoodledum: :yumdumdoodledum: Welcome Moe! :yumdumdoodledum: :yumdumdoodledum:

I knew someone once that went by Moe, but his name was Mike. I guess he would be about your age.

1. Does age affect lucid dreaming? I am 37, and I was wondering if that makes it harder or easier to reach lucidity.
A: Not that I can tell. I had my first when I was 30, I am now 42 and have them more often.

2. How vivid are the controlled lucid dreams? I have had many dreams over the years. They have always been different snap shots of places and events. They never look clear to me. The picture is alway wierd when I recall it after I wake up.
A: They range from just barely dreaming to full blown better than life!

3. How long after recording dreams, and performing some of the suggestions should I expect to have a lucid dream (I know that it depends on each person, but please tell me about your personal experience).
A: Some people have one the next night, some here have worked on it for weeks before having their first.

4. Last night, before going to bed, I was suggesting to myself to be aware of my dreams (after 5 days of reading this stuff). During the night every time I felt like I was about to have a dream I would wake up telling myself, "you're about to have a dream now. Be aware!" I wasn't able to dream because I was too sensitive to them. What should I do? Did that happen to any one of you.
A: The best thing you can do is try to relax and not be too tense about it. You cannot force it!

5. How well can you control your dreams? Can you do anything easily?
A: That depends on the level of lucidity. Sometimes you cannot control anything, sometimes you have full control over matter, time and space.

Sounds to me like you are on the right track! Just keep on doing what you are doing. AND ASK QUESTIONS!!
There are many years of experience here in this forum!

Good luck!

**moe** · 01-06-2004 08:10 AM

Thanks for the answers and the welcome note.

42! That's wonderfull. I was so worried that I wouldn't be able to get this right. How many people on this forum that are about our age?

My name is Mohamed, and I am from Kuwait and in Kuwait right now. I lived in the States for 10 years. They were the best years of my life.

I had a dream this morning. I don't know if I should call this a lucid dream or not, but it wasn't enough.

I dreamt that I was sitting some where with a bunch of people, and the moment I started dreaming I felt that it wasn't real. I realized that I was dreaming, and I was about to slip out into reality. So I started thinking about spinging. Now, I don't know if I did spin, but the moment I though about it I came back into the dream world.

All this felt like a second. Now comes the bad part. As soon as I continued dreaming a huge dragon cought my shoulder. I could only remember it's huge claw piercing through. So I said, "Damn. I am only dreaming. Wake up!" I did!

I don't think I want to call this my first lucid dream. Too simple. Too convoluted.

That was it.

Moe

**Seeker** · 01-06-2004 01:43 PM

Moe, If you realized you were dreaming, then it was a Lucid dream.

So far, I think I am the oldest here. There is another member that served in 'Nam. So I guess there are three of us aging baby-boomers around here.

Lowercase Society call us cool old grandpa's

Nice to have another grey-hair onboard!

**seniorpepe** · 02-18-2012 06:51 PM

Age shouldn't matter. I'm around the age you had your first lucid dream and I have had 2...but I only started trying a week ago. I haven't had many problems with dream control so far, but I have been having some trouble with flying and controlling some people's actions. You need to have full confidence, if you THINK something might happen wrong, it will because remember, dreams are all your thoughts and when you think it, it'll come true. In the past week as I try, I haven't needed to tell myself I was about to dream. In fact, when I tried that, it wouldn't work. The way I always know I'm in a dream is when I try to fly. It's a thought that rarely comes to me, so when I think it I'd know I'm in a dream. Then I'd try to, and suddenly, the entire dream would become much clearer to me. Also, ask yourself throughout the day "Am I in a dream?" and make it a HABBIT. Make it so your subconscious will ask you and answer you. Once you're in a dream and you ask yourself that, your subconscious will answer "no" . I'm not sure if that works, but it seems fair enough to try. Good luck on your journey to LD'ing.

**Spyguy** · 02-18-2012 08:51 PM

Answers:

1. Age doesn't affect the ability to LD significantly. It may have a little affect, but not enoughto have been noticed so far.
2. Depending on the dream's own stability and your ability to stabilize, they can ramge from vaguer than a memory to way more vivid than waking life.
3. I think you should expect one somewhere in between tonight and in a few weeks.
4. Relax, being tense only reduces your chances. Be confident and fall asleep without doubting your abilties. Also, I've heard that mantra's in present tense work better than ones with 'will' in it.
5. It varies a lot. I'm personally terrible at stabilizing, but I think I've figured that out now.

I hope this helps! The best of luck to you, be sure to have a good time here at DreamViews!

**Fuzzman** · 02-18-2012 09:32 PM

I hope you guys realize you just responded to an 8 year old thread

doubt these guys are even on anymore...

**seniorpepe** · 02-18-2012 10:06 PM

...holy...wow fuzz, way to ruin my 2nd forum post D:

**Fuzzman** · 02-18-2012 11:55 PM

hah! sorry I just felt like I needed to point that out lol

**seniorpepe** · 02-19-2012 01:05 AM

It's okay, but this discussion can still go on with the usual and unusual experience of LD'ing...or we can go get biscuits. Yeah let's go get biscuits.