Is anyone else a lucid dreamer. Warning you will think this fucked up.

I read somewhere everyone dreams every night -- you just don't always remember it.

Oh, yeah:
http://www.beatport.com/track/2cb-dreams-original-mix/1251885

 

It's true, you usually just remember the stuff you dream prior to waking up or when you're just taking a nap. Naps are fun though, some of the best dreams I had I dreamt during naps.

 

The one :nod:
I have a rather scary story: there's a tarantula in my room, next to my bed. Note that this is not the scary part - it's in a terrarium, and very sedate at that - rather, when I sleep in my own room (as opposed to at my girlfriend's) the freaking tarantula appears in my dreams almost every damn time! In these dreams it's sometimes huge, sometimes it moves around, tonight it died and left a very gruesome mouldy corpse just as I was apologizing to a woman in a burqa for not wanting to make out with her... it's unsettling.

 

I had 2-CB once....horrible stuff.

 

I read somewhere eating cheese gives you nightmares

 

Really? I've heard it's pretty wicked.

 

I don't know exactly why or how, but it happened to me last night, and it was fucking awesome.

I'd clearly know this was a dream, but wouldn't wake up - but since I knew it was a dream, I had control over what happened, which characters would show up and what they'd do. I had direct recollections of the times it happened in the past, too, and I understood some things about dreams. If we were to talk about dreams in terms of video games, they are made with "resources" from other dreams and real life, which you store - and many "sprites" - characters, come from real life as well.

Sporadically, to check whether it was a real lucid dream, or I was just dreaming that I was having a lucid dream, I'd check the backs of my hands, and certainly, my hands in that reality would get "bugs" - like the amount of fingers or the shape. I'd lose control over the dream for a timeless interval, but I'd get it back. It wouldn't send the "wake up" signal to my mind, for some reason.

It's like I'd found the debug code for my own mind.

What scenery was I in? First it was like a reproduction of my grandmother's house, circa 1989, but sort of like my parents' room in the same period, only darker. The hallway would take me to a large Neoclassical building (think like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospicio_Cabañas , only darker). The characters in the dream would tell me that in one of the huge rooms in that building I had started giving classes.

Sure enough, I came back to my "dad's room" - which was my grandmother's room, and realised both my dad and grandmother were dead, and I was 30 - so I was dreaming. Only I didn't wake up. So I thought "Fuck yeah, lucid dreaming - let's check my hands to see whether it's true" - and while my hands bugging made me lose control of it, I still stayed in the dream. I could alter the structures, like a low budget version of "Inception" (don't know whether the mind works like that or I was just "loading resources" from my own viewing of the movie). I could "call" different characters and situations. But I'd lose control of the dream if I did too many things at once, and the scenarios would change.

If I did or thought of doing something too unreal, the characters wouldn't become aggresive, BUT they would show up, surround me and "stop" me.

So what did I do? Let's just say I attempted to satiate some curiosities about certain people in my life, I told some people some things that I always wanted to tell them but haven't had the chance yet, and explored interesting locales. I did end up in some back alleys, a la "Deus Ex" (which doesn't surprise me, as I am currently playing that) but there were children, and some of my students, doing fingerpainting on a table. I went to an apartment that could, or could not, have been a friend's place circa 1992.

Oh, and every time (which means, like twice - my architectural curiosities were much stronger) I thought "awesome, let's do perverted stuff without consequence" - I'd get "surrounded" by my own "sprites" - and I'd lose control of the dream for a few in-dream minutes. I didn't have complete command in many instances, but I thought "it would be sweet if X could happen!" and then a few seconds later, a version of "X" would happen and let me see how it had happened. It's as if my thoughts manifested themselves indirectly.

I tell you, it's like having the debug mode to one's own mind.

If they sold a drug that could trigger this on command (or an augmentation in the future), I'd get SO MUCH of it. It was awesome, and I woke up rested, even more so than I usually do. And I still remember my dream in a mostly vivid manner. Also, references made in that dream to many other previous dreams I had forgotten, so those all came back.
It was vivid, and it opened up areas of my mind, a lot of them, and now I sort of now how to concentrate in certain states of consciousness in order to attempt to get at them.

No, I didn't smoke anything before going to sleep, but I did feel like I was about to get a small migraine, which I frequently get. Also, I went to sleep at 21:50 Saturday, and it's now 10:42 Sunday, so maybe that's why I'm so rested. (I'm posting this merely minutes after waking up).


I feel I sort of woke up as a very slightly different person. I understand my mind a bit better.

 

I once headbutted a wall while sleeping, Was a "fighty" dream, woke up to a pillow and face full of blood.

 

Same here. It may have been a related chemical miss-sold, looking on wiki 2-CE sounds similar, no euphoria and vague discomfort/nausea. Though everyone felt the same way.