I t hink my LD method is unusual... is it?

[imawesome]

I've been having lucid dreams every night since I was five and control them perfectly. Nothing happens that I don't want to, it's a beautiful experience. Especially because they last as long as I want... IRL it lasted about 5-8 minutes but my dreams last as long as I want. Anyways, whenever I fall asleep the same thing happens. I wake up in another bed, plain white sheets, matress, blanket, everything. The headboard and everything is black. I'm in a plain, square room with white walls, no doors or windows, and the only other furniture in the room is a black office chair in front of a black desk with a black laptop on it. This has a word processor on it. On the word processor I enter all the details on my lucid dream (including a word I have to say or something I have to do or something I have to think (with failsafes so I don't accidently exit my dream) which gets me out. Otherwise dying works. When I save the document and name it I'm where I wanted to be instantly... no matter what. When I die or exit, I open my eyes and I'm there on the chair again. If I want to leave and wake up in the morning, I'll just stand up, walk over to the bed, lie down, and go to sleep. In my first lucid dream I understood absolutely everything. This was when I was five, remember, and I typed perfectly in the dream but I didn't really type well outside of the dream. Although I was always fairly intelligent. So... yeah... is this unusual? I just figured out now that they're called Lucid Dreams... before that I knew nothing about DC's or WILD or MILD or any of that. I don't use those, I just fall asleep. Also, I remember every dream for at least a month, so it gets to be a bit of an overload so I have to limit myself to standing up and going back to sleep sometimes. Anyone think this is unusual or anything? I don't really know if it is or not...

[spiritofthewolf]

I don't think it's unusual, you just may be a natural Lucid Dreamer... That is my thoughts on it! (which i think would be awesome) Spiritofthewolf

[imawesome]

Oh, and I forgot to mention, once I had a three-year dream... when I woke up I expected to be disoriented, distressed, depressed, violent, spontaneous, or in some way batshit insane... nothing. When I wake up I'm totally normal. I remember everything, but I know it's a dream, I remember as much as I normally would have about the last few days and the previous years of my life, and everything back to normal... not even any longing for the previous world I was in... which was inspired by The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy... so it was a bit overwhelming when I first went in... anyways, I have a couple theories on this... 1) I don't long for anything from the dream because I know I can go right back that night if I really want to. I usually don't, though. Far too many possibilities. 2) The plain white room with black furniture I "wake up" in and "fall asleep" in acts as a barrier to help me get back to my normal self and negate any feelings of disorientation because of how the room never changes and it feels like I've just blinked when I open my eyes in front of the laptop. Also, I do feel pain in my worlds. However it's more of a dull pressure than anything else, nothing too uncomfortable, or I wouldn't be able to go through a lifelike Grand Theft Auto IV... Anyways, it's not my choice that it's a dull pressure, it just is, always has been, and I can't change it. Oh, and with my laptop (in dream), I just sort of have a vague document of what the dream is like, and it turns up exactly how I want it. I could write "an attractive woman" and it would come up with the exact picture in my head, whereas there are millions of attractive women in the world and even more that could be made in my head. I'm not sure why, I think it's just my mind has a bit of trouble actually MAKING the dreams happen, it knows what I want, just not sure how to do it... so it made the laptop so I could design it and my mind would actively make the little things in the world (which it could do), while the big things were already put in design so they were already made when I started. I'm not sure how clear that sounded, as it's a difficult message to get across... but, you know what I mean, right? One more thing... if, on the word processor I go to file/open I can view all of the dreams I've ever had. If I open it the exact directions come onto my processor and all I have to do is press file/save to enter it in and relive it. So, of course, it's becoming fairly difficult to name dreams by now . Recently I've redone it so images from the dreams come up instead... I name it then and decide on a moment to see after I'm done. Alright, I'll add more about it as I remember... it's become so ordinary that I can't really think about it, you know? It's like examining the sky on a clear day.

[destinationmoon]

this sounds so amazing! you are so lucky

[luigi]

That's amazing! I'd love to be able to do that!

[KingYetiTeffa]

So you're claiming: Since 5, you've had perfectly, perfectly, controlled lucids every night You can make them last as long as you want You type all the details of the dream you want to happen into a laptop, and it comes out perfectly as you wanted This laptop even has a name and save function It never fails You remember all dreams You even have a list of every dream you've ever had on the laptop You can have year+ long dreams at will, with no disorienting side effects Something confusing about little and big details, didn't really get what you were saying You can relive any and all dreams you've ever had You've understood ALL of this since you were five This is ordinary, read boring, to you You can understand if I flat out don't believe you? This to me is clearly a desperate attention seeking series of claims, trying to make yourself out to be the perfect lucid dreamer, better than anyone else here. Which also explains your name, imawesome. This just isn't how the brain works. I believe there are natural lucid dreamers, there are a few that frequent this forum, but none of them claim to have the complete god-like control over their dreams that you do. And all this in only your first 2 posts on this forum. Can you spell 'troll'? So no, I don't believe a word of this. I could be wrong. But I very much doubt I am.

[XeL]

This sounds a little too perfect to me... If it is true true though... Wow, then you are a very, very, very lucky guy.

[mrToad]

Hehe, I agree with KingYetiTeffa.

[MrDamon]

If anything, I would think this is more like astral travel than lucid dreaming. This white room made up of mostly white elements/features is your safe zone/hub and the few black elements that more or less control what is to happen next represents the astral plane. If its the truth of course.

[imawesome]

So you're claiming: Since 5, you've had perfectly, perfectly, controlled lucids every night You can make them last as long as you want You type all the details of the dream you want to happen into a laptop, and it comes out perfectly as you wanted This laptop even has a name and save function It never fails You remember all dreams You even have a list of every dream you've ever had on the laptop You can have year+ long dreams at will, with no disorienting side effects Something confusing about little and big details, didn't really get what you were saying You can relive any and all dreams you've ever had You've understood ALL of this since you were five This is ordinary, read boring, to you You can understand if I flat out don't believe you? This to me is clearly a desperate attention seeking series of claims, trying to make yourself out to be the perfect lucid dreamer, better than anyone else here. Which also explains your name, imawesome. This just isn't how the brain works. I believe there are natural lucid dreamers, there are a few that frequent this forum, but none of them claim to have the complete god-like control over their dreams that you do. And all this in only your first 2 posts on this forum. Can you spell 'troll'? So no, I don't believe a word of this. I could be wrong. But I very much doubt I am. No, your reaction is exactly what I expected from people... I don't understand WHY it is, or HOW it is... but it is. If you don't believe me, that's fine, if you do, that's fine, too. I just wanted to ask if this was unusual, because none of my friends can do it... As for the first two posts thing, I just learned about lucid dreaming a year or so ago and really wasn't interested in it (even though I knew I could do it) until now when I became interested in neuroscience (I'm interested in fairly random things for periods of time... last time I wanted to learn to program) and wanted to know if my control was unusual or not. Anyways... yeah, that's about it. All I know about it is it started after I fell down some stairs and cracked my skull open, so it could be like those people who start tasting colors or something... only way more fun. I don't understand what happened and I don't want to.