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Hello :content: I know that none of you know me cause I'm new here, which is why I'm posting. I'd basically like to introduce myself and share past experiences that I've had with lucid dreaming and hopefully get someone experienced with lucid dreaming to explain if I've actually accomplished anything, and answer some other random questions I have :)
Alright, so only yesterday did I hear about the concept of lucid dreaming and I realized that I had had experiences where I knew I was dreaming in the past, but never thought much of it or knew that I could possibly control a dream.
To be honest, I'm kinda scared of lucid dreaming. The only experiences I've had in the past with it were ALL nightmares and they ALL involved me entering the dream by thinking I have woken up, which quickly changes when something scary happens... I have had control of my actions in dreams, but never control of anything else. I'll try to explain some of the lucid dreams I've had before.
This one was a reoccurring dream I used to have... I would dream that I woke up and I kinda wandered out of my room into the hall where I was attacked by one of my brothers giant stuffed dolls... Once that happened I knew I was dreaming. The next times I found myself in that dream I knew it was a dream as soon as I saw the doll... But I guess I wasn't totally lucid because I always ended up walking out into the hall anyway.
Another one I had was where I thought I woke up and then I was being tapped on the foot by a disembodied hand (that's when I became lucid) and then there was a whole bunch of stomping noises, and I decided to use one of the few abilities I seem to have in dreams... waking up. I simply close my eyes and think to myself that it is a dream, then jerk my head upward and wake myself. I've had quite a few dreams like this one.
Anyway, that's enough of my dreams for now (and could someone try to make sense of this/give me advice?)
I also have one question. If you control your dream so that you do something in the dream that you've never done before, if you were to go out in real life the next day and do it for the first time for real, would it be the same as the dream experience you had?
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I think lucid dreaming in nightmares is probably pretty common, it certainly is for me. The type of fear nightmares evoke never really occurs when you're awake, making it easier to realize that you're dreaming. As for the way you're nightmares always come after false awakenings, I've never heard of that happening to anyone else, but you could probably use it to your advantage. Just get in the habit of performing some sort of reality check, like pinching your nose shut and seeing if you can still breathe through it, immediately upon awakening. You should end up doing it during the false awakenings, and end up lucid before scary things start happening. Then you can have some time to try to sieze control of the dream, and hopefully lead it away from becoming a nightmare.
As to your question, things done in a dream that you've never done while awake can be the same as they are in real life, but it's not certain. I think what they're like in a dream depends on what you subconciously expect them to be like, so how much like reality it is probably depends on how close to reality your expectations are.
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Hi there Sxq Power :party:
Well, usually when we are kids, we used lucid dreams to escape from nightmares. Alot of the lucids from when I was younger was during a nightmare. So I guess thats what happened to you. Also to answer your question about doing stuff that you haven't done in real life. Your mind works out what it would be like and how it would feel. So if you dreamt you would sky-dive, your mind would try to work out how it would feel. Your mind is really powerful and usually is very accurate with this sort of stuff.
