haha no…lately my schedule has been off. I’ve been getting to bed late and sleeping in which is no good for lucidity. I’ll restart my schedule tomorrow night by going to bed at about 11. I prefer to wake up with about 5 1\2 hours of sleep so I’m still tired but awake enough to mope around for a bit. So I’d say about 4:00-5:00 I -hopefully- will awake and move around doing misc things and then return to bed about 10-15 min after waking thus giving me a higher chance of lucidity. So yea…that gives you the info. Lately though I have been having troubles lucid dreaming as it just hasn’t been on the “Importance List” in my life. I will try to scrape it off the back burner and really strap it on to get this rolling. I’ll post my next lucid dream. I doubt I’ll be able to tonight as my sleep schedule is all buggered up from staying up till 4 this morning. Hope to see you in the Sea of Wonder!
haha no…lately my schedule has been off. I’ve been getting to bed late and sleeping in which is no good for lucidity. I’ll restart my schedule tomorrow night by going to bed at about 11. I prefer to wake up with about 5 1\2 hours of sleep so I’m still tired but awake enough to mope around for a bit. So I’d say about 4:00-5:00 I -hopefully- will awake and move around doing misc things and then return to bed about 10-15 min after waking thus giving me a higher chance of lucidity. So yea…that gives you the info. Lately though I have been having troubles lucid dreaming as it just hasn’t been on the “Importance List” in my life. I will try to scrape it off the back burner and really strap it on to get this rolling. I’ll post my next lucid dream. I doubt I’ll be able to tonight as my sleep schedule is all buggered up from staying up till 4 this morning. Hope to see you in the Sea of Wonder!
P.S. I hope you don’t try to sex me up!
LOL well you never know in Dreamland, do you?? LOL Actually, I have become so aware of myself when lucid that I even practice the same general restraint and exercise the same moral thinking as I do when I’m awake!! Crazy, right??! I even have proof of that, in a recent lucid dream that I was quick enough to write down after I woke up. Maybe I’ll share that one.. That said, who’s to say how moral I actually am in waking life anyway LOL Just kidding!!!!
OK, so it looks like I saw your reply just in time, as you thought you probably wouldn’t sleep the way you hoped last night. So tonight we start! From what you say, my best time to try to find you is around 6:15am my time, which is just about perfect, that’s close to the time I have the best chance of lucidity myself. I’ll post my next lucid dream, too, whether or not I think I located you specifically. But I’m going to make it a task to try to find you We’ll see if that’s possible with next to no information about you…
and @redcrane, thanks for the encouragement, I will make it a point to keep this thread updated with my own lucid dreams, at any rate and i promise i’ll post one from the past soon, just have to dig it up from wherever I put it…
Dang it, no luck last night. Had a bit of insomnia and had to put on a DVD and pop a few benadryl, though, so that might have hampered me. Oh well! The last dream I had was a weird one - it ended with me thinking I was having a miscarriage (I’m not actually pregnant) and it turned out to be some sort of unidentified stomach worm. Trying again tonight
I didn’t get to try last night either. I ended up going to a bonfire and got a little bit drunk hehe. Yes, we’ll get it together sometime. Tonight will be clean for me…I think…hehehe. I’ll be calling out your screen name if I so happen to go lucid. “Sister! Hey, Sister!” Something like that. Or maybe I’ll just think it as that’s what I’m really doing anyway.
Yeah, I’m clean and trying again tonight, too. I’ve just been chanting to myself (in my head I mean) “go find MeThisGuy” so if I go lucid I will remember what I’m doing there! I’ve also been trying to just be an observer to my mind as I drift off to sleep to see if I can get some sort of image of you, but I don’t have anything solid yet. Anyway, good luck tonight, hope to see you out there! **yawwwwnnn…......***
EDIT: something just clicked for me! and let me first say i promise i will never, ever lie about any of this stuff, not so much because i don’t want to lie to YOU (tho that is important to me, of course), but more because it wouldn’t do ME any good, since i am very sincere about wanting to find truth and possibilities and lying to myself just has the effect of shutting truth and possibility out. ok, that said—i remembered that the only thing i saw in my inner vision last night that felt like it might have been something, tho i discounted it at the time as not being connected, was a dark blue color with a sparkly aspect to it. i remember that at the time i was like “what, is he wearing something sparkly blue or something?” and laughing a little to myself about that, and also i thought to myself “i’m trying to see a person, not a color” and “looks like the cosmos” and i kid you not, i am pretty sure i even considered asking you if you were looking at the cosmos or a planetarium or something along those lines. so now that you mentioned you were at a bonfire, well granted it was probably just coincidence (i do like to try to let my mind wander into outer space), but there is a very very very small chance it wasn’t coincidence at all i am pretty sure this would have been sometime between 10 and 11 pm your time. i say let’s choose to let this give us hope
it seam interessting but how do you come to make lucid dream , i do some when someone awake me in the morning them when i get asleep again i often do lucid dream !! how do you perfect your lucid dream ?
Thank you for the links, Dragonfly, they are quite useful to me Robert Waggoner, who I mentioned earlier, also runs a group at The Lucid Dream Exchange http://www.dreaminglucid.com/ for those who are interested. As for my lucidity, I am sadly failing miserably lately. I hate when I’m having an “off” period :/ Still trying, tho, MeThisGuy!! You ARE actually sleeping lately, right?
Ah, sorry to make you stir in restless anticipation! You know things just never fly straight. One thing happens that seems to have a ripple effect on the next week. I did come very close to lucidity two mornings in a row but both times I felt as though I was going to stop breathing and this feeling kept me from falling asleep correctly. As in most cases in morning naps with me, I am highly prone to some odd happenings. One being that my body just totally shuts down and I am like a brick. My arms will lose circulation and I often feel like someone is sitting on my chest.( I do think this is a common way people claim to start experiencing O.B.E.) But anyhow I too tried to get a good grasp on the physical image of you, but as I had no basis other than you being female to grow on, I had an image of a girl who looked just plain and pretty with straight, brunette, long hair. The face was young. Now I have some interesting theories about all of this but they are all just fanciful notions more than anything. I took a peep at your profile on here and saw your b-date. Is that your real b-date? Mine is ‘89.
Really on the dreams though, they have been reflecting the events of my day more and more like a mirror than ever before. I think I enjoy my dreams more than the small amounts of lucidity I have had which in turn might inhibit the lucidity. I am happy to have this world in my head to keep me pondering. I will clean up my mind a bit by polluting it less with the toxicity that is “media”.
What is this you mention about the cosmos vision? I carry such a vision quite often. In fact I have written a poem in some kind of “trance?” I underwent a while back that describes such an environment the cosmos experiences. Odd things indeed. I am wearing a blue shirt, button up(not sparkly) now but I have no idea what I was wearing or thinking the night of your thought. If only I could have hopped on these forums a bit sooner when my memory was still fresh. I have felt slightly guilty on the nights where I just went to sleep with you not on the surface of my mind :/
Having absolutely nothing to draw on is too misty. Granted you will be less likely to mistake finding each other but my general belief is that we won’t so why not get something out here to draw on so as to at least fool ourselves in the end? What do you think?
... But anyhow I too tried to get a good grasp on the physical image of you, but as I had no basis other than you being female to grow on, I had an image of a girl who looked just plain and pretty with straight, brunette, long hair. The face was young. Now I have some interesting theories about all of this but they are all just fanciful notions more than anything. I took a peep at your profile on here and saw your b-date. Is that your real b-date? Mine is ‘89.
Really on the dreams though, they have been reflecting the events of my day more and more like a mirror than ever before. I think I enjoy my dreams more than the small amounts of lucidity I have had which in turn might inhibit the lucidity. I am happy to have this world in my head to keep me pondering. I will clean up my mind a bit by polluting it less with the toxicity that is “media”.
What is this you mention about the cosmos vision? I carry such a vision quite often. In fact I have written a poem in some kind of “trance?” I underwent a while back that describes such an environment the cosmos experiences. Odd things indeed. I am wearing a blue shirt, button up(not sparkly) now but I have no idea what I was wearing or thinking the night of your thought. If only I could have hopped on these forums a bit sooner when my memory was still fresh. I have felt slightly guilty on the nights where I just went to sleep with you not on the surface of my mind :/
Having absolutely nothing to draw on is too misty. Granted you will be less likely to mistake finding each other but my general belief is that we won’t so why not get something out here to draw on so as to at least fool ourselves in the end? What do you think?
@MeThisGuy - I dare say that’s a pretty accurate description of me!! I am surprised you got that much dead-on, however general it may be. Yes, that is my real birth date, so I’d expect the “young” face had you thinking you couldn’t have been onto anything, but in fact I do look a good deal younger than my age. (That’s from everyone else I’ve met in my life, not from my own treasure trove of wishful thinking, lol) I’d say we’ve both got fair enough reason now to think there could be a chance we’re getting somewhere, so let’s keep going I still hesitate to give out any new specifics on each other, in case that leads to false results.. How about we try this: for the next however many nights (since we never seem to catch each other at quite the same time on here), let’s both try to focus on a vision of the Statue of Liberty, think about it from time to time during the day and then try to focus on it heavily as you’re trying to fall asleep, and if you go lucid try to get there and look for “me.” I’ll do the same.
I’m with you on the dreams reflecting day to day life like a mirror, lately. Though for me that is somewhat disappointing. I like my adventurous, inexplicable dreams far more I think I’ve got a lot on my mind/soul lately and that’s why my dreams have been so uneventful. My dreaming mind wants to clean things up as much as my waking mind does, so the inner work continues 24-7. Probably why I haven’t been going lucid lately, either. But I’m going to keep trying
As for the cosmos vision, well in your case I just wondered if you were staring up at the stars at the time I envisioned the blue and sparkly thing. But if you were referring to my comment that I like to “let my mind wander into outer space,” I guess that’s some sort of thought experiement, if it’s not actual wandering. I kind of set my mind’s destination for outer space and then try to go blank consciously and watch what happens on what feels like a more subconscious level. More like I’m watching a movie, or so I’ve at least tricked myself into believing, hehe! Swirly stars, lots of empty spaces, I dunno, I’m usually in a halfway state when I see those things so it’s hard to remember exactly what I see. Often I’ll “hear” music too, sometimes I “hear” a really amazing classical or electronica piece (not a song I know of, I think, pretty sure it’s something new my mind “writes” as I’m hearing it—and humility forces me to add that the song may actually suck, I just think it’s amazing at the time lol), or sometimes it’s even like a choral of voices, which I think is the Universe singing, the sound it must make. But that could all be just fancy. I’d really love to hear your poem, though! Care to share it?? Did you really write it while you were in a trance state? I’ve written a few poems throughout life, nothing extraordinary for sure, but there was one time I was in sort of an entry-level trance state and I wrote something down (more like prose than poetry). When I entered all the poems I had in a poetry contest, THAT was the one that won a prize. I found it funny at the time because I figured that was the one that had the least chance, but afterwards I realized maybe I reached something deeper when I wrote that one (because of the trance state) and that came through in the writing in a way that I never seemed to access with all the other stuff. So I’d really like to hear what you wrote in your trance state
@slipslapslop - I don’t know anything about Salvia, but I really enjoyed reading your post anyway And I think a dream journal is a great idea!! How about we all do it?? I’ll promise right now to write down the next dream I remember (post it here, I mean), though I make no guarantee that it will be interesting LOL
id be up for trying to meet you people in a lucid dream.. though i probably will never be asleep at the same times you are. im CST in usa and i usually dont go to sleep until 4-7ish AM…im a night owl. ill look for you anyways
I’ll look for you! Tho I’m not even sure how I’d pronounce your screen name to find you LOL Think I’ll just refer to you as “Number 2” for now, or maybe “The Great and Powerful Oz,” if you prefer. Hehe! Your 4-7ish AM would probably work out ok for me anyway, tho. I’m on EST so I’m only an hour ahead of you, and 5-8AM is a pretty prime time for me, lucid dream-wise. Incidentally, I believe MeThisGuy is also on CST.
013akilper - 10 June 2011 12:05 PM
i used to have lucid dreams almost every night back in my teens but the last 4 years or so i have not had much luck with it. my main problem is once i find out im dreaming i usually wake up immediately. one thing that i think would be pretty cool is asking dream figures questions about who they are or what their purpose is and such like you mentioned but ive never been able to keep that in mind when i find out im dreaming. theres been a few times ive told people they werent real and that i was dreaming but of course they deny it. i cant really argue with that though because this whole thing we consider to be ‘real’ and ‘awake’ could really just be some elaborate dream anyways
Ah, but what I find interesting is that this response of denial (or in some cases, flat-out anger and aggression) when a dream figure is told they aren’t real is documentedly common among various dreamers! It’s those kinds of things that keep me wondering… evidence of something more real than we think, or maybe just higher brain functions than we are aware of? Maybe even A CONSPIRACY!!! woohoo!
I keep forgetting to go to the Statue of Liberty… OK tonight I’m going to focus. see you out there in the beyond
OK, I finally had a dream interesting enough to write down (tho sadly not quite lucid), and I gotta type up what seem like the main points before it all leaks away from me…
It started out with me back at school (college). I met a group of people - 3 girls, one guy - and I became friends with them. But when I decided to let them listen to one of several taped sessions I’d had with a psychologist, for some school-related reason, that’s when we really all began to bond. [note: no, those tapes do not exist in waking life] I’d figured it was reward for being honest and being me. The guy had seemed a bit of a goof to me at first, but after he heard the tape we became very taken with each other. He was not very tall, had dark brown hair, and had a young face. [LOL I think that’s half a description of me, and half the description @MeThisGuy gave on here of a face he saw] Soon I was moving in with this group of people. One of the girls had brown hair and became a best friend, the second was tall and I think blond, and I think the third was named Kathya and was foreign. I remember an early scene of having my two cats downstairs and turning on some heaters for them, but later that room didn’t exist in the apartment. Later, the address of the house was 1820 and it was more like the first floor of an apartment house. There was a lock on the front door (and everyone’s name was listed in script on the door), then another lock to get into our apartment, and finally there was a lock on the door to my room. I know this because I accidentally left the house without my keys but fortunately when I went back I realized I’d left all three unlocked anyway. There was a combination lock somewhere in the dream, probably it was the lock to my room. I wish I could remember the whole combination, but I do remember that the last number (there were 5 numbers in the combination) was 1099. (This lock had a lot of strange numbers on it!) I was expecting my parents later in the day, and when I came back after having left without my keys I checked my phone and saw that I’d missed 5 calls. The first was the guy in the dream, the second was my parents, and I don’t know who the other 3 were from. I immediately tried to call the guy back. When my alarm clock went off and woke me, I thought it was very important to try to remember the guy’s name. The name I immediately thought of was Simon Grooves (hehe, too much Shpongle on the brain) but I knew that was wrong. It hit me like a flash that it was actually Ryan Grooves, but I’m pretty sure that was wrong, too. I was able to fall back asleep and I immediately went back to the dream world to try to find this guy’s name. I knew if I could get back to my phone it would be there on the missed calls list. But I was outside, and my parents and brother had showed up, and I woke up again before I got back in the door of the house. At some point in this dream continuation I had another flash that his name was actually Stephen, but now I am pretty certain that was also wrong. Oh, well!! There seemed to be a lot of NUMBERRRRRRS in this dream…. hmm…..
p.s. i did try to focus on the statue of liberty but i seem not to have made it there. i’ll keep trying tho!
Sorry for not being on for so long. I’ll hold the statue of liberty in mind I suppose. To help, every time I go somewhere I’m going to act like I’m going to the statue of liberty. Usually, I dream of places I’ve been throughout the day before. Not always though. Maybe I could find a replica statue or something and keep it on my night stand to help! Bah, anyways…
Though I enjoy sharing my writings and such I’m not going to share them online. I still have yet to have any sort of plan for them. I want it to be protected but at the same time I’m not too concerned about receiving credit for it. I feel as if much of what I “yoink” out of the pool is not from me but from the pool…getting credit for it is just a way to get my name out there and all that which, for some reason, feels incredibly selfish. Maybe it’s just cuz it’s what everybody does. I don’t like to sell myself and I definitely don’t want to be a sell out. Maybe I could be coerced into letting some lines slip if you leave a few from your favorite work! I just get paranoid about putting material online that has no protection.
In other news I did see my first UFO a few nights ago. That was something interesting. The “experience of the other” as Terrence would say, is an experience filled with numerous feelings. The unidentified FLOATING object wasn’t so strange as was the environment in which it was acting in…still, silent night. When I first saw it I doubted my eyes thinking the moon had made a spot in my eye but as I double take I see this thing coming up from the horrizon. And this black “blob” just floated lazily above the tree tops and right over our heads. It was circular but had no apparant depth (I discount this to it being dark which makes it harder to percieve depth)but the odd things about this were that this circular blob wasn’t just round. It was morphing and bending around the edges as if a soft cell in the body. There was no noise coming from this UFO and no wind stirred the trees. The moon was the only thing giving this object light. Another strange bit is that the object couldn’t have been more than 2 feet in diameter which leads me to think that it was a trash bag somehow picked up in a lazy wind. This is so doubtful though. How can a bag float through the air so silently and where did it come from? The direction it floated from was from the middle of the woods. There couldn’t have been a house or building for at least 5 miles that direction. This thing did not make any changes in course but would simply float in a general direction, the course that was not altered even by my yelling at it. “Hey! Down here! We’re here! Get down here!” It didnt’ listen It did look as if it were going to “fall” into the treeline behind us but we didn’t investigate cuz we’re wimps…we were going to but we had to leave to go get a flashlight and by the time we got back to the spot we kept hearing all kinds of things that were creeping us out. Later on a storm rolled through and brought some strong wind with it leaving little chance that the UFO/bag thing would still be there if it HAD landed there.
Lately though I have been having troubles lucid dreaming as it just hasn’t been on the “Importance List” in my life. I will try to scrape it off the back burner and really strap it on to get this rolling. I’ll post my next lucid dream. I doubt I’ll be able to tonight as my sleep schedule is all buggered up from staying up till 4 this morning. Hope to see you in the Sea of Wonder!
