Conquer Club

BigBallinStalin wrote:

AAFitz wrote:

InkL0sed wrote:

BigBallinStalin wrote:

InkL0sed wrote:

BigBallinStalin wrote:"when I opened teh door the T-Rex eye from Jurassic Park was there so I went back to class"

A wise decision.




Speaking of decision-making, how many people in here can (somewhat) consciously make decisions during their dreams?

For example, can you alter the flow of your dream? Can you get out of your director's chair and say, "All right, all right! Enough of this silliness! Let's move on."

I've had the illusion of making decisions in my dreams, but I don't know they are real ones. I'm skeptical of other people who say they can do that.

While dreaming, are you of the position that the dreamer exerts no control over the dream and/or over his/her role in the dream?

I don't know enough to have a position. It might be possible, but I'm still skeptical of people who say they have consciously controlled their dream.

I can remember one dream in which I was aware that I was dreaming. I thought it was lucid (ie, that I had control), but when I woke up, I realized that what I had control over was utter nonsense. All I remember about it is that I had control over the number of syllables (and yes, that's supposed to be vague). I think it was a verbal dream – there were no visuals. I was immersed in another language at the time, and I was having quite a few purely verbal dreams.

Cracked has an article about this, and people who play lots of video games are even more able to do it, as they are used to managing fantasy actions. I absolutely know I can guide my dreams to some extent, and lately have been very close to conscious while having them, but definitely do not have absolute control either. Its a give and take relationship where I am willing it to go in one direction, and it kind of does, but will often throw a curve ball in at the same time. I suppose I could have been dreaming the conscious part, but given my memory of it, and the level of lucidity, I know I had some control for sure. I certainly do not question that some have trained themselves to exert quite a bit of control, though, I feel like that is a dangerous thing to do to some degree, because at some point, the two realities, have to become a little blurred.

It may distort your memory, but other than that you'll be fine!

x-raider wrote:

AndyDufresne wrote:I can sometimes tell when I am dreaming, since I usually always have a specific article of clothing on or with me during my everyday life, but it doesn't seem to get translated to my dream self. So when I have noticed it was missing, I was vaguely aware that I was dreaming.
--Andy

Boom!
Inception...

AAFitz wrote:In all seriousness though, I think its quite possible to imagine a scenario where someone acting out in their lucid dreams violently, might lead to actual violence, that may not have otherwise have happened.

AndyDufresne wrote:

AAFitz wrote:In all seriousness though, I think its quite possible to imagine a scenario where someone acting out in their lucid dreams violently, might lead to actual violence, that may not have otherwise have happened.

Has anyone seen Mike Birbiglia's "Sleep Walk With Me" movie? I liked it. He has some condition that he acts out his dreams, sometimes with frightening outcomes.


--Andy

2dimes wrote:Ok so I'm dreaming and there's a nice looking woman. So I know I'm dreaming and decide I should lucidly cause her to come over to me.

She disappears like a cheap special effects explosion from an 80s movie and I'm suddenly awake fully dressed. Next I dream I'm pissed off and have to post about it. This of course doesn't workout since I'm still dreaming.

2dimes wrote:I think it would be, "So you finally learned how to dream lucidly?"

I was able to get that far before I read your stuff.

One thing I realized from this recent one is. I can do whatever I want. I just have no control over others. That's were things fail. For example, the woman exploded.

2dimes wrote:Lucid dreams last night. Went straight for the boob grab. DENIED!
Harshly physically prevented (obviously it wasn't actually physical even though I felt it in the dream) .

Every time I tried to touch a woman I was stopped. Woke up in the dream then intentionally went back to sleep so I could make another attempt.

So what was stopping me? Jimminy Cricket? In one attempt it was as if an arm was pushing the back of my head. I would have accused the wife but she had left for work.

nietzsche wrote:as soon as i realize I'm dreaming I go for the girls haha

krallam wrote:"I hate dreaming because i just wanna sleep. I'll be fast asleep, and next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord. I want to dream about watching myself sleep" - Mitch Hedberg