The most basic definition of lucid dreaming is "being aware you are dreaming while dreaming". Most lucid dreams are about things you want to happen. Although most people know they're lucid dreaming, you can change your dream to how you want it to be... You can control your dreams using the lucid dreaming methods that follow...
I once got shot in a dream and went down, thinking I was going to die. Then I realized I was dreaming, wasn't actually hurt, got up and finished robbing bank. It's never happened again.
Dreams (reality) = good.
Lucid dreams (alternate reality) = awesome!-zridling (September 10, 2009, 09:19 AM)
Never worked for me BTW. :(-Edvard (September 10, 2009, 10:28 AM)
I once got shot in a dream and went down, thinking I was going to die. Then I realized I was dreaming, wasn't actually hurt, got up and finished robbing bank. It's never happened again.-zridling (September 10, 2009, 09:19 AM)
i read the cognitivedaily blog regularly -- you'll see it linked above after the word "from.." ;)
(my academic background is artificial intelligence and neuroscience)-mouser (September 09, 2009, 08:51 PM)
Never worked for me BTW. :(-Edvard (September 10, 2009, 10:28 AM)
I've been experimenting with hypnogogic and lucid dream states since I learned about them in college.-40hz (September 10, 2009, 12:47 PM)
Aw jeez, hypnogogic is old hat.-Edvard (September 10, 2009, 07:37 PM)
A little sleep deprivation, a long drive, a decaf mocha and I'm THERE, baby!!-Edvard (September 10, 2009, 07:37 PM)
although can get the same effects by attending a PowerPoint presentation
BTW: If hypnogogic state sounds too 'old hat' you can always refer to it by the more modern term: Zoned Out ;DLucid in the sky with diamonds? :)-40hz (September 10, 2009, 10:29 PM)
I don't know what you guys think but so far i've seen the dreams i get is what my mind wants to see.-mahesh2k (September 11, 2009, 01:12 AM)
BTW: If hypnogogic state sounds too 'old hat' you can always refer to it by the more modern term: Zoned Out ;DLucid in the sky with diamonds? :)-40hz (September 10, 2009, 10:29 PM)-f0dder (September 11, 2009, 02:10 AM)
lol..I've seen snakes many times in my dreams (cause we've few here). and those sites interpret something like this (http://dreammoods.com/cgibin/dreamdictionarysearch.pl?method=exact&header=dreamsymbol&search=snakes). Which is not making sense to me ever. This is the reason i don't buy those telekensis,paranormal people's opinion who try to interpret dreams/events. So gotta agree dream dictionary/forums are of no use :down:-mahesh2k (September 11, 2009, 02:27 AM)
A Dream Within A Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
-Edgar Allan Poe