anyone here ever had a lucid dream? (being awake in a dream?)

[JKDarkside]

i had one where i was talking to this chick about......somthing, relized she was too hot to talk to me in real life, became lucid, and then i boned her.

You're a twat.

Moving on, I'm not sure it was lucid dreaming buut I had one hell of an experience once. I was aware I was in a dream as I began too notice all the rules of reality and time were wrong (it was at the point where I was Brian Griffin, I honestly have no idea why) and I kept thinking to myself things were wrong and tried to wake up, only I was completely unable. The dream started to fall apart from some sort of lighthearted action thing into Silent Hill's sister town and I was scared shitless. Eventually I got up and had to feel around to make sure I was in reality, my body was completely cold. I still have no idea what the fuck was up with that.

[Inferno.]

So glad I haven't had one.

[LeftyGuitar]

I've had a lucid dream once or twice, I remember I was able to take control of the dream and I was aware that I was dreaming.

[Mohit]

i'm going to sleep.

[Ness]

It happens to me all the time. Almost too much. Scary. init?

[ddrXero64]

Eventually I got up and had to feel around to make sure I was in reality, my body was completely cold. I still have no idea what the fuck was up with that.

Night terrors? Sounds more like you had a nightmare if you had no control. I think the fact things were wrong was more fear induced than a realization itself.

[killerklown]

You're a twat.

Moving on, I'm not sure it was lucid dreaming buut I had one hell of an experience once. I was aware I was in a dream as I began too notice all the rules of reality and time were wrong (it was at the point where I was Brian Griffin, I honestly have no idea why) and I kept thinking to myself things were wrong and tried to wake up, only I was completely unable. The dream started to fall apart from some sort of lighthearted action thing into Silent Hill's sister town and I was scared shitless. Eventually I got up and had to feel around to make sure I was in reality, my body was completely cold. I still have no idea what the fuck was up with that.

hey its totaly true, but in all seriousness i did leave out some details. like how every every thing was like a cartoon, and i was in a tube shaped tower thing. the sky was brown, i was flying, and oh yeah, that chick was me. i saw my real self fall from the roof and i caught ....me. then i turned back into me, saw girl me, realized it was a dream, then boned her, or at least tried to, because then we both fell down and died and then i woke up.

[MaslowK]

Almost every night for the past few years. Generally they involved me being asleep/in bed in some strange combination of several familiar rooms/places I've visited and impending senses of doom :/

[Alchemist: Sygnious]

I started having a few of them about a year or two ago--but I was aware that I was dreaming in such a way that I became uncomfortable about the fact that I was physically laying down in the body's natural form of sleep paralysis. So instead of really enjoying the imaginative side of the experience I would quickly try to rouse myself into wakefulness. I think there was one incident of the three in which I forced myself to relax and try to enjoy the dream for a bit longer; but I was too aware of being asleep for it to be comfortable.

As Andy said they can pretty uncomfortable especially if it happens for the first time. A few weeks ago was the first time I have experienced such a lucid state of dreaming. I began running up stone stairs to this altar (picture a Cathedral type setting with the huge stained glass window) then crashing through the stained glass window with a pair of daggers.
This is when the lucidity took root; as i crashed through the window i began feeling the pull of weightlessness and the pull of gravity in the pit of your stomach. I was getting pretty freaked out at this point, I knew it was a dream but couldn't seem to wrap my brain around the fact that I wasn't really falling, that i was laying flat on my bed. After a few moments of that I began to shake it off and come back to the present (or back to my body). Lucid Dreams will always be interesting to me, especially after watching Shinreigari: Ghost Hound (Anime).

[IcaruStyx]

There is a lot of lore and legend and myth surrounding and attached it and other altered states, not a whole lot of credible research though
Theres some psychology, mostly Joseph Campbell and some Carl Jung, dealing with the psychological nature of them and the archetypes typically encountered
People have obviously been doing it for a loooong time though
Im terrible interested but rarely have them

A lot of times I have moments in dreams where I remember there was something wrong, and I should have realized it was a dream
I suppose that would be one of my chances

Ive also heard flicking on and off the lights during the day periodically to check to see if its reality,
it might make you try it in the dream and when it doesnt work you realize your dreaming

Ive read some techniques on dream recall and such, but it requires a tenacity I dont have for the subject,
plus Ive seen the negative effects on relying on a lucid dream state in people around me - although it was in conjunction with
large amounts of hallucinogens, conspiracy theories, and MDMA

[ddrXero64]

Ive also heard flicking on and off the lights during the day periodically to check to see if its reality,
it might make you try it in the dream and when it doesnt work you realize your dreaming

Yea, basically making anything habitual in your daily routine (such as randomly stopping and looking at your hands) might make you do it in the dream. I think it's just dedication, doing this often along with setting yourself up before you sleep (for as long as you can, lie in bed and visualize what you want to dream, the people, the smells, the feel, the sights of the places, etc.) and just sticking to it. As I said before, eating a banana before bed seems to help. And not drinking anything before bed, preferably not after 7pm/19:00 so bathroom urges don't wake you from your dream.

If anything I believe when you do it once successfully (intentionally) every time thereafter becomes a lot easier.