So... Do you dream?

[Dark Serge]

Yeah kinda wondering about this.

All right let's cut it up in questions to make it easier:

- Do you dream (often) ?

- What do you dream about?

- While dreaming, are you lucid (often) ? - (Lucid means that while you're dreaming, you're aware that you're dreaming, and that you could wake up any moment)

- Do you remember your dreams well?

Well, I think that'll do nicely. As for myself, I hardly ever dream, which I just hate. I'd love to dream more, but it just doesn't happen. Oh well.

[teaflower]

Everyone dreams. It's part of R.E.M. sleep. It's what we remember that some don't do.

I usually recall my dreams. They're the most vivid when I wake up. And when I wake up, I can't wait to tell the world about them. But as the day progresses, they seem to fade. I know I dreamt something freaky, but what? Often, my dreams involve my writing, psychics, and crazy situations I've kind of been in. Like kind of foster care. I don't usually think of my dreams as nothing but them. They seem too real.

This one night, I had a scary, freaky dream. I couldn't tell if I was me or a young psychic boy. I was at some beach home, I guess, and my sister and I needed to clean out between our bunkbeds. Which is apparently a death hole. Anyway, I realize that I need to go pee, but there's someone in the bathroom. So I wait until she comes out and I rush in. Much to my dismay, it is the MEN'S room. Ha. So I bitch my way over to the other side of the house to the inferior girl's room. I'm bitching because the girl's room sucks and the woman in the bathroom (apparently in charge) is yelling at me for going into the guy's bathroom. Eventually she just tells me to get out, so I find myself on the porch, sitting on the rail. Between me and the beach outside is this weird net. Next thing I know, I'm on the beach, trying to plot my escape. I eventually start running, and this is where I sort of loose my identity. I start running, while chasing myself. The one I'm chasing is teleporting away at every turn, frustrating the chaser, who is also me. Eventually, the me teleporter finds themselves at the movie theater where they got abducted and forced into the beach home of DEATH.

... it was weird.

[Dark Serge]

Yeah, I do sometimes remember the freaky ones. Ages ago I dreamt about my teachers from school teaching me magic. It was so weird that I didn't forget it.

These lucid dreams though, are dreams where you're supposed to be able to whatever you want in a dream. I've been thinking, say you actually have a lucid dream, could you create a dream world of Trigger or Cross? Would be so cool to experience that xD

[Acacia Sgt]

Can't write much of my dreams, I always forget them easily, the earliest being as soon as I woke up, I only remember that I had a dream, and that is all. Weird.

However, of the ones I do remember, they all are about me playing videogames. And sometimes in those I face really exaggerated situations. Again, Weird.

These lucid dreams though, are dreams where you're supposed to be able to whatever you want in a dream. I've been thinking, say you actually have a lucid dream, could you create a dream world of Trigger or Cross? Would be so cool to experience that xD

I don't remember ever having a lucid dream. I wish I could at least have one.

[Yourgingerestfan]

- Do you dream (often) ?
Only sometimes I dont know why but other times I dont seem to dream or perhaps I just can't remember them .

- What do you dream about?
Sometimes about school and what might happen , love or even games it changes all the while I certainly hate dreams in which someone dies.

- While dreaming, are you lucid (often) ? - Sometimes If I reach for something in my dream my arm actually moves and I can feel it ..other times if im having a tantrum my legs sorta go a bit wild so yes I know whats a dream and whats not .

- Do you remember your dreams well?
The dreams I enjoy I seem to remember more and oftet I might have the same dream repeatedly

[Asafigow]

I don't remember ever having a lucd dream. I wish I could at least have one.

I've had lucid dreams before. In my experiences, they might happen if you dream shortly after waking up in the middle of the night(you'll be more aware that you're dreaming). As for being in control, you'll probably have to voice out what you want others to do(like instead of thinking it, you ave to say it, which may cause talking in your sleep). Action is really the only thing I've ever been able to control in a lucid dream. But for controlling the thoughts and feelings of other characters, that is a whole different level of semiconscious control for me.

An example that I remember quite clearly, I told this random lady to shoot my dad, but before doing so I told her to put the gun down. Yeah, that sounds kind of dark, but I merely used it as a test to see if I had control.

[Acacia Sgt]

Well, of what I remember, I was never in a situation where I could try it out (regardless of being aware or not that it was a dream).

[Asafigow]

Well that's just it. To try and have control, you have to be aware it's a dream first. If you know it's a dream, then just dig right in at any time.

[FouCapitan]

I rarely have lucid dreams.  By the time I recognize that I'm in a dream state, that's usually my cue to wake up.

I do have strong recollection of my dreams though.  Many times they are quite strange, ranging from my home town turning to a post-apocolyptic warzone, to living the life of a cartoon, to nightmarish demons behind shadows while I dream of normal day-to-day activities.  Sometimes dreams aren't even that fleshed out, and the short sporatic dreams tend to be the worst.  Dreams where I'm just arguing with someone about nothing in particular until it gets to the point of screaming, then I wake up.  Another where I'm riding a bike, crash, wake up with a jolt, only to drift back to sleep and repeat the same damn dream.  I've also had the ever popular "falling" dreams.

I think we tend to remember the more bizzare vivid dreams.  Others that fall into the mundane category, no matter how vivid they may be, tend to slip from memory.  I can recall a few times where I actually wind up dreaming I'm just going to work like a regular day.  *yawn*

[Asafigow]

Whenever I go camping with my troop, I have dreams about CAMPING. One time it got so bad, I was waking up constantly in the very earliest of morning that I became delusional and thought that everyone was waking up, while I was actually dreaming. It sucked and hurt my head, so I finally decided to get up and wait for every one to wake on there own time.

[leena_zeal]

I used to have more vivid dreams when I was younger.
Now, I only rarely remember my dreams when I wake up. Though I still have lucid dreams.

I've also had the ever popular "falling" dreams.

lol, me too. I used to have that one very often. Also, I sometimes dream that I'm running and that my legs can't support me, so I end up running like a dog, with my hands and feet.... Whenever I dream that, I get the same feeling that the "falling" dreams give you. Has anyone dreamt that too or is it just me?

[teaflower]

I remember the one time I think I had a falling dream. I was napping on my mother's bead and I was walking in the dream. I was walking and then there was this hole. I fell in and I woke up with that same feeling. It was scary.

[utunnels]

I used to take down my dreams everyday. During that period, I found I could remember most of them clearly.
But I can't remember a thing nowadays after waking up as if I never dream.

[chrono eric]

I wish I could have a lucid dream, since I am so interested in altered states of consciousness and exploring those states. But unfortunately, I never have had one. And to be honest, I am skeptical when many people claim they have had lucid dreams. I think it is likely that a "true" lucid dream experience is much more rare.

[utunnels]

Perhaps your own life is nothing but a lucid dream.