Thread: ADD in lucid dreams

Does anyone else get MASSIVE attention deficit disorder in their dreams?

I've never had a full-on lucid dream, but I have had quite a few sandbox dreams. (Where I knew I was dreaming,but didn't have any control over what happened)

Those dreams are lots of fun, but I keep running all over the place. I usually start by flying, maybe reaching 2 stories high. I think to myself, "this is okay,but there I'm gonna miss something neat on the ground". I'll land, and start kissing someone. After a few seconds of that, I decide to start burning crap. Then I might start random fights, until I see someone new to kiss.

You get the idea. I run around my dream like a chicken with his head cut off. I keep jumping around from the erotic to the psychotic.

Unless you had some objectives in mind before you started dreaming, I think that's pretty normal. I'm usually like that too, as I sometimes forget my intentions once I'm actually lucid. I end running/flying around aimlessly.

What also happens, I think, is that I lose lucidity without realizing it, and I continue on a sort of non-lucid adventure, with lucid-like situations and whatnot.

Your term 'sandbox dream' is totally inaccurate, I don't think you should use it as it's very confusing. A lucid dream is just a dream where you know you are dreaming, not a dream where you have control.

lol

Yes, it happens to me too but not in a way that affects my (dream) decisions, it's usually all in my (dream?) head.

I have ADHD and my thoughts are always pretty much chaotic, but sometimes in my dreams it goes berserk, it goes wild, it grows stronger and sometimes while I'm dreaming I'm focused on so many thoughts at the same time that I want to kill myself (in dreams) to make it stop or I get a very strong impression that I'm a actually two or more people.
And sometimes that feeling even persists for several minutes after waking up.

Oh, and sometimes when I take B6 I feel like a "thinking machine", like I can control all the chaos within my thoughts. That could be because of the B6's effect on neurotransmission, but it could also be a placebo effect.

Btw, here's a random banana for ADD's and B6's sake.