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Lucid dreams are pretty cool, and actually relatively easy to do. I've dabbled a little with them and reached the point where I could realize that I was in a dream, but I never got to the final point where you can actively control them. The only problem with lucid dreaming is that it can actually become fairly addictive for some people because who wouldn't want to be able to enter a "world" where you can control every single aspect of it.

Im into lucid dreaming for a couple of years now and it yielded great results over time. I will write more about it later, im kinda busy if you dont mind

You shouldn't promote the use of alucinogenic drugs in public forums chap.

so that thing is called 'lucid dreaming'? i did not know about it.. but have done it many times.. especially when I was very tired.

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So, i woke up in my dream and there was few people with me in a tunnel, one of them was black and it just came tom my mind to ask him: "show me something important" to which he replied "youre not ready yet"
As he stared at me, its like he could feel my insecurity, you could actually feel in in the air and then he said again "youre not ready yet"
At this point i decided that i would be more comfortable in a WW2 plane and i was surrounded by a lot of attractive flight attendants and they were all singing....the song was so amazing and pure, it felt like the most perfect and beautiful thing that ive ever heard in my life, their voices would combine into a melody that was overflowing my mind. At that point i saw myself in a bed surrounded by the pure yellow energy around me, it must have been generated from the song cause thats when i felt the perfection again.
Then the song stopped and i felt it wa my time to make a mark, say something or perhaps create that sound again but my voice was just a pale copy of them. But then, something amazing happened - the chanting voices combined with mine and so we continued to preserve the original sound. And then it hit me:
Maybe my tone was needed to sustain that melody and to incorporate itself into a moving flow of the cosmos. Which was apparently true, because in the next moment i found myself travelling at the amazing speed until i reached the end of the known universe in my dream and there i saw it. A sphere. The whole universe is actually a sphere with constant movements inside of it, filled with yellow energy and created from multiple symphonies of sounds.

When i left the borders of known universe, i found myself in a new place which wa infinite and filled with swirling towers of smoke. I started falling, faster and faster through this new space untill i couldnt take it anymore, i shook my head and found myself awake.
In some way i came to the conclusion that this infinite moving space from the first stage of existence was actually my conscience, that was me, my ego, my here and now and that swirling towers of smoke - my subconscience.
I guess that my subconscience -compared to myself here- is big as the whole universe compared to Earth and that "your not ready yet" fro this black dude was a fact, because i stormed out of my dream faster than light :)

But i still managed to keep that woooooooo effect that was with me few days after that lucid trip and it is still the most significant impression that ive ever felt

Lucid dreams? Would love to experience one, I don't remember ever having one of those. However, I do remember having the so-called "sleep paralysis". Don't like it. :(

I have them constantly, and its something really odd, yet satisfying to have, the fact that you can "think" what might happen in your own dream is something peculiar.

One thing i seriously HATE about lucid dreaming is when i start to spin in the bed, while it keeps the dream "on" and i'm completely aware of what i'm doing, sometimes it bothers me alot, depending on what the dream is about of course.

Something you can do to train yourself, is to keep track of every dream, in my case whenever i dream i write it down on my cell phone as i wake up, so if i want to see what might happen if the dream would kept going, i try to remember all the feelings i had with it, and constantly repeat to myself that i'm choosing that, spinning also works i think.

I've occasionally had lucid dreams, very fun if you can realise you're actually in one. There's many techniques i.e. Writing some sort of symbol on your hand and throughout the day whenever you look at it say to yourself "I am in a dream". Eventually you may see this symbol in a dream and hopefully that line "I am in a dream" will come to you and you will experience one. Dream diaries are also a resourceful way of increasing the rate of lucid dreams.

There's also many ways to prolong a lucid dream, if you look down when you feel you are losing your "hold" on the dream or if you spin around etc. Beware though, they can be unsettling, looking in a mirror in a lucid dream for example, can lead to how you think people see you in the world or highlight any insecurities you may have about yourself. Well, good luck to anybody on the path to successful lucidity and Happy Dreams!

OMG! I never heard of 'lucid dreams' but whenever im dreaming i always know im in a dream. I could control it and end it whenever i like. Its pretty cool. When im dreaming, I let myself fly and explore the world. Its so awesome. I do it all the time. Its a brillaint feeling. But i thought this was normal?

I've tried a couple times. Never worked on me. Maybe it's because my head is not empty enough.

I was lucky enough to have a lucid dream without trying for it. It was awesome.

I am never able to control dreams.

Lucid dreams sound awesome, basically living a second life without tiredness or aging.

I got a lot of "Lucid Dreams" i never hear about of it or I don't know how was called it, but yeah sometimes I have full control of my dreams and sometimes when I'm hurt (in my dream) I jump over my bed and still hurting but I'm awake.
When I'm good in the dream, this is really funny and pleasurable (You are feeling like be a god).

Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ChhO57D7k (but can't join in another dream of another person xd)
Well, sorry for my basic english.

A lot of people utilize Lucid Dreams to live out their wildest sexuaHELL I'D FLY AROUND IN ROCKET BOOTS LIKE A GOD DAMN SUPER HERO

I remember one dream where I flew away in some badass rocket boots, and damned if I can't do that someday.

I rarely have dreams (at least those that I remember) but they are always lucid. The level of lucidity is varying. Sometimes something absurd happens or I get into trouble and only after that I realize that it is impossible in reality and that I'm dreaming and can control the dream (for example: I'm being hunted, I realize that it's a dream and I just "teleport" to a better place/dream or fight the hunters Matrix-style, depending on the mood; another example: I'm surrounded by hundreds of frogs and I realize that it only could happen in a dream (happened to me a couple of weeks ago)). Sometimes I know from the beginning that I'm in a dream and can do whatever I want.

It's like watching a movie, but you can control what happens next. If a dream is really good, I am sometimes afraid of being woken up by somebody. :)

My dreams are mostly surreal, so it's easy to distinguish them from the reality. I never trained to have lucid dreams. I just have them.

Lol. Thats abit like me. Whenever i was in a bad dream. All i had to do is shake my head and close my eyes. And i'd wake. But then fall asleep into another dream. But sometimes i love dreaming a nightmare because i know im in one and i can control it. :D

Anyway, i just woke up now and what i was doing was opening doors that wern't there and walking into various fantasies. Which ever i liked i jumped in. Theres always one that i love to go in. Its awesome. I see aeroplanes flying above me and all i did was jump as if i had rocket boots and jump again til i got higher and then fly with the plane. :D

It happened to me more than 5 times, I'm pretty sure about that. Since the dreams are few moments before you wake up, there is a chance to control it if you stand somewhere between the real state of waking up and dreaming - you could actually use your brain to control it somehow, not fully but still. All this can't happen if you're trying it consciously I think, but it happens from time to time.

I've had dreams where I'm aware it's a dream but I can't really control it. It's like, ok I know this is a dream and depending I might try to wake myself up or not.

I've only ever occasionally realised that I'm dreaming and when I do I struggle to hold onto the thought.
realises I'm dreaming distracted by stuff in dream no I am dreaming I can do whatever I want yeah but first whatever I was already doing
Needless to say I've never got up to the point of controlling them.

Also fun fact: A there was a study recently where lucid dreamers were able to communicate with people outside their dreams by being trained to make slight movements to communicate things to the scientists studying it: Some random article I googled up about it

I had a Lucid dream sometime ago ... but it was kinda of ... werid, since I was a Stalker and I was in The Zone ... and other one, from 3 or 4 years ago. I was trapped in a small house, only with a kitchen and a bathroom, with a psicotic assasin, who was chasing me arround . the table ... until he got me, and then I died. That was scary ... REALLY scary ;-;

Reading through this is quite interesting, I wasn't aware any of this was even possible, nice one OP.

I've tried it a few times without success, but know a few people who can do it and have met people online who claim they can lucid dream as well.

In b4 someone steals dreams.

I don't usually dream, but when I do... I always have to protect my ideas from Leonardo DiCaprio.

I'm not sure if I ever had a lucid dream. There were times when I was half-awake and knew I was dreaming, but I'm really not sure if I was lucid dreaming or just imagining a continuation of the dream I just had, like some sort of daydreaming.