Lucid Dreams

[Quartney]

What does staring at your hand do??

[Mike]

Ive had them at it was AWESOME!!!! Someone told me if you stare at your hand before you go to sleep thats a way to do it. Ive never actually tried it

i think whoever told you the hand thing was misinformed. They might have been talking about a reality check

Reality testing (or reality checking) is a common method used by people to determine whether or not they are dreaming. It involves performing an action and observing if the results are consistent with results which would be expected in a state of wakefulness. By practicing these tests during waking life, one may eventually decide to perform such a test while dreaming, which may fail and let the dreamer realize that they are dreaming.

* The hand reality check: The dreamer looks at their hands and they may appear to have more or less than five fingers.
* The nose reality check: The dreamer pinches their nose shut and if they are able to breathe without using their nose, it is a dream.
* Sticking one's finger through the palm of one's hand.
* Looking at one's digital watch (remembering the time), looking away, and looking back. As with text, the time will probably have changed randomly and radically at the second glance or contain strange letters and characters. (Analog watches do not usually change in dreams, while digital watches and clocks have a great tendency to do so.) A digital watch or clock may feature strange characters or the numbers all out of order.
* Flipping a light switch. Light levels rarely change as a result of the switch flipping in dreams.
* Looking into a mirror; in dreams, reflections from a mirror often appear to be blurred, distorted, incorrect, or frightening.[37]
* Looking at the ground beneath one's feet or at one's hands. If one does this within a dream the difference in appearance of the ground or one's hands from the normal waking state is often enough to alert the conscious to the dream state.
* If you listen to music while you sleep, listen to see if the lyrics are changed or if the tempo (or speed) of the song changes.

A more precise form of reality testing involves examining the properties of dream objects to judge their apparent reality. Some lucid dreamers report that dream objects when examined closely have all the sensory properties, stability, and detail of objects in the physical world. Such detailed observation relates to whether mental objects and environments could effectively act as substitutes for the physical environments with the dreamer unable to see significant differences between the two. This has implications for those who claim there is a spiritual or supernatural world that might be accessible through out of body experience or after death

[HeavyMetal]

this thread is insane to me...

how is it that i basically dont dream at all, for years, but people are having lucid interactive dreams on a reg basis....

not enough drugs??

[Lawn Guyland]

another thing i was always curious about...i was always told you can't die in your dreams, and i believed it for the most part because i've had many, many, many dreams where i've come EXTREMELY close to death but wake up before it can happen..but this thread got me interested and i just looked it up and apparently it can happen...anyone ever experience this?

[Lawn Guyland]

this thread is insane to me...

how is it that i basically dont dream at all, for years, but people are having lucid interactive dreams on a reg basis....

not enough drugs??

pudding.

[XJLI]

not enough drugs??

probably. and or alcohol. it greatly increases the intensity of my dreams

[Lawn Guyland]

probably. and or alcohol. it greatly increases the intensity of my dreams

alcohol definitelyyyy messes with my dreams. some of the craziest dreams i've had was after i drank

[HeavyMetal]

TOO CLEAN TO DREAM

maybe i should start sniffin some markers before bed

[Lawn Guyland]

TOO CLEAN TO DREAM

maybe i should start sniffin some markers before bed

i just told you! pudding!

[wannabejeep]

TOO CLEAN TO DREAM

maybe i should start sniffin some markers before bed

not at any SiS events you wont.

[HeavyMetal]

not at any SiS events you wont.

I hate your guts.

[Bigbike]

not at any SiS events you wont.

??

[Lawn Guyland]

[Ktmracer419]

another thing i was always curious about...i was always told you can't die in your dreams, and i believed it for the most part because i've had many, many, many dreams where i've come EXTREMELY close to death but wake up before it can happen..but this thread got me interested and i just looked it up and apparently it can happen...anyone ever experience this?

when im about to die in my dreams

I JUMP RIGHT THE FUCK UP like high enough where i lift my body a few inches off my bed from the intensity

and go "wtf"? im in bed, alive, goodnight.

[Lawn Guyland]

thats what happens with me too...i dont necessarily jump up, but its like a startling wake up...and then i take a second to realize it was a dream and pass back out