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Lucid Dreaming
Hello,
I'm one of those persons who remembers my dreams every night, and enjoys talking about them.
I had a lucid dream last night and it was awesome. I had a dream I was flying ( I always know when i'm lucid dreaming, because i'm always flying) and I found a beautiful temple in on a large island...and I woke up wondering, do you have lucid dreams? (dreams where you know you know you're dreaming and are able to control them) If so, what are they about? Are they in color?
I'm quite interested to hear of your unconscious adventures if you'd like to tell!!
I'm one of those persons who remembers my dreams every night, and enjoys talking about them.
I had a lucid dream last night and it was awesome. I had a dream I was flying ( I always know when i'm lucid dreaming, because i'm always flying) and I found a beautiful temple in on a large island...and I woke up wondering, do you have lucid dreams? (dreams where you know you know you're dreaming and are able to control them) If so, what are they about? Are they in color?
I'm quite interested to hear of your unconscious adventures if you'd like to tell!!
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I am one of those people who rarely, if ever, remembers dreams. Last night I was reading 'Awakening the Buddha Within' and the author was talking about lucid dreaming being something that some of his teachers taught. He said that when he was studying with them they just took it for granted as something everyone did and they taught him techniques to do it himself. He didn't go on to teach the technique in the book (or I haven't gotten to where he does yet), but did mention that during his training he would sleep in a box in a sitting meditation posture as part of it.
I am not sure what value there is in lucid dreaming, but perhaps there is some.
Well, technically, a lucid dream is a conscious adventure and not an unconscious one yes?
What a beautiful quote!!!! LOVE IT.
Seeker, you're right, in a sense, it is conscious, obviously if you know that you are doing it.
There may not be matirial benefits, or even physical benefits to lucid dreaming, but I believe there's an emotional one. It gives one the opportunity to do things they can't do in the real world, such as flying, or seeing things they may never get to see in their life awake. If I catch myself lucid dreaming, I always try to see people that have passed in my life, like my dad, or great grandmother, I know it doesnt fill the void I have when I awake, but as long I am careful not to get addicted to it, its a benefit for me. Emotionally anyway.
I was giving this thread some thought after my first post and I recalled a lucid dream I had as a child. I wasn't in a position to benefit from the dream at the time, but now that I am working to cultivate mindfulness and put and end to attachments I can see where it could have been a very valuable teaching experience for myself.
As a kid what I wanted most was a dirt bike, the motorized kind. I longed to ride it all over the place having great fun. My parents were not keen on the idea. One night I had a lucid dream where my father brought me a dirt bike. I could not have been happier. I drove it all over the place and was in heaven. Then I woke up and was seriously depressed. The dream was so lucid that waking up was the same as if I had really gotten the dirt bike and someone stole it from me.
Back then I simply experienced the suffering of depression. Today I would value the experience as it would have identified something I was clinging to and would have seen how that clinging was causing me to suffer.
In other words I think that lucid dreaming has the potential to teach us things about ourselves that we may not spot as easily while awake.
Hehe, Mkay. Lunch time.
wait...i really like your avatar too....maybe you should share that too... :ninja:
Mtns
iv been lucid up to this point, and than I lose awareness lol it sucks
Ahem! We are discussing lucid dreams here, not wet dreams.
These days I still get the odd spontaneous lucid dream, but nowhere near as many as when I was a kid.
Well there may be a physical benefit, in a way... I read about it in a book on lucid dreaming a few years ago (unfortunately I don't remember the name of the book). Bascially some experiments were done which suggest that if you practice something during a lucid dream, you actually become better at it in waking life as a result. People were practicing things such as sport, public speaking, etc.
It may come as no surprise that I've always been really interested in dreaming, and consciousness generally. My dream job would probably be a dream or sleep researcher (no pun intended).
Metta to all sentient beings
There is one place in my lucid dreams that is repeated over and over. It is a very scary and dark place that you can enter if you go through this section of fields, into the edge of a forest, follow a path down through the trees and it gets narrower and narrower and darker as you go. The fields actually exist in reality back in england where I was brought up and lived for most of my life but this trail I have never been down. I keep having this lucid dream though and it always ends with this trail...
ThailAndTom, sounds like your dreams are trying to tell you something...when I have bizarre dreams like that, I always try to meditate on them. Maybe that will help??
I have night terrors and what I like to refer to as "Tyler Durden Syndrome." I sit up in bed, open my eyes very wide and talk to my partner about bizarre, disconnected things in a strange voice or accent, then lie back down. I have no recollection later on of the things I've said, none whatsoever. Last one that happened was yesterday when I sat up and told my girlfriend that "the super super fun rubber bands are a great toy for children to play with" or something like that.
I have intensely frightening nightmares, sometimes for months or years without end. I'm currently in a cycle of bad nightmares now. Just this morning I woke myself up screaming. So maybe when I'm having better dreams I can expound on the positive points better, but right now the negative experience is fresh in my mind.
There is also a very rare phenomena where people are awake, but they cannot move or speak or anything like that. Then a figure comes into the room and walks towards them inducing great fear. This figure climbs on top of them and proceeds to strangle them until they properly wake up. This is actually a real event and is documented throughout history. The person who had this problem on the documentary experienced this figure strangling her 2-3 times a week and she said it never gets any less scary even though she knows what is going to happen!
That's a good thing right?
My earliest lucid dream was when I was a kid and it was nightmare with giant monsters chasing me. I realized I was in a dream somehow, and then I turned to face the monsters and told them to go away, and I banished them.
Flying feels great in a dream. But sometimes I'm bad at controlling it and I end up crashing and I get that falling feeling and wake up.
More recently when I dream and I realize I'm dreaming, I'll try to control it, but I end up trying too hard and waking myself up. I can only get partial control of my dreams.
I would like to learn how to lucid dream on command, it would be fun.
Dreams can "feel" very real, but I've never had that confusion between dream and reality. I think that's because most of my dreams are outrageous enough that it would not make any sense at all.
Then the next part of the dream I was on an excavation team in the Himalayan mountains. We were in a cold and dark cave surrounded with many pieces of ice. And in that cave we found a yeti frozen in ice. It was a fantastic specimen. It really felt real and amazing that we found it. We began to thaw it out and we got it to be alive again. It was that well preserved.
Last night I had to head south of thailand and stay in a hotel awaiting a trip to burma today. The bed was not very comfortable to say the least and I had a lucid dream. Many of the details have left me now, but in the morning I could recall them, but 2 stand out vividly. Firstly I stole a car which belonged to an old friend of mine who I haven't spoken to for over 2 years lol. Then I got stabbed in the lower part of my spine by somebody, I remember waking up with back pain also. I think the bed caused the pain which induced the stabbing in my dream, not the other way around lol. But I have been stabbed in my dreams quite a few times
The second part took place in greece and I have now forgotten most of the details, but I was in a tour group on a coach and there were many different coaches full of people going to different places. Then I heard this explosion and there were a succession of explosions throughout the country. I heard from somebody that it was ETA, the terrorist group, which is weird because they are spanish and have little to do with greece.. lol. But it was all a bit scary seeing as I thought it was all too real