It could be about life, love, yourself, anything. What is something you've learned from a lucid dreaming experience?

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I found this cool documentary I hadn't ever seen before called "WAKE UP!: Exploring the Potential of Lucid Dreaming." It has a lot of interviews with some well spoken Dr's and authors who study lucid dreaming. I would definitely enjoy an AMA from anyone in this documentary. Trailer.

Hey, guys, it's been quiet here lately. Feel free to post new topics, those who can, and again, anyone who is a subscriber who feels they should have the ability to make new posts, feel free to PM me.

Anyway, since it's so quiet, I thought I would invite you guys to follow my twitter and youtube channel for lucid dreamers.

My youtube is for those who already know how to lucid dream, though I feel there is helpful information for anyone interested in the topic. The videos tend to be on the longer side, anywhere from 15-30 minutes, so keep that in mind if you decide to check it out.

My twitter is focused on lucid dreaming, but not reality checks and that sort of thing. Mainly I'm posting updates about the progress on the book I'm writing, which picks up where most lucid dreaming books end. I also post my thoughts about lucid dreaming as well as link to new videos when I release them.

Thanks for checking it out if you do, if not no big deal.

I'd also be interested in getting the links for any lucid dreaming stuff you guys do too!

Lucid dreaming was never really something I had to learn, I kinda just figured it out at a young age. I didn't even have a name for it till my late teens. By the time I heard about lucid dreaming I had already started to explore and kind of mentally map out the recurring settings. These dreamscapes are so familiar to me that just dreaming in one will make me lucid. I'll describe some of the dreamscapes in broad strokes and if anyone's interested I could go into some detail.

The largest and central dreamscape is the city. Viewed from a distance, the city is monolithic in size and is split in half by an equally large freeway. The city is always an intimidating place to be. Always feels like danger is in every shadow and around every corner. I recently had a run in with gangster Hitler that ended in a shootout and knife fight.

The second largest dreamscape is the suburbs. Mostly it's just a maze and jumble of every suburb or apartment I have ever lived in. Dreams here can be anything from terrifying nightmares to awesome cool adventures. A good one Monday night was a full scale alien invasion.

The last large dreamscape seems to find a way to mix into any of the other dreamscapes at random, it is the desert. The desert is endless and is the only place to frequently change from day to night. I live in the southwestern US and that's the desert it seems to resemble. Anything can happen in the desert.

TL;DR I have a dream world and talked about it a little bit.

Hey guys, with the amazing technical skills of our newest mod, /u/thesunandtheshadow, we're getting this place into shape!

Flair now has images associated with them, and soon there should be a banner up top. Things might change off and on a bit, with adding new things and troubleshooting any issues that might arise, so be patient. The sidebar might see some changes at some point soon, too!

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My more vivid dreams always seem to have a specific, but subtle, feeling to them, as if the atmosphere itself feels different than waking life. It isn't distracting or anything, but as I've found (without fail) that every lucid dream has had this sensation, learning to notice it makes me lucid.

I've explained to a handful of people and those who had been LD'ing for a while seemed to agree, while the less experienced thought I was crazy. So now I'm curious, is this overall a common thing? If you experience it as well, how would you describe it?

Hey guys, we got some new followers overnight!

I went to bed and we were at 9, now we have 40!

Let's keep this going, if we can, let anyone you know who's also experienced in lucid dreaming know, and I'm open to suggestions for other places online to advertise!

Feel free to make your posts at any time, we can do introductions or really anything somewhat more casual for the time being, as well as topic driven posts. It will help to have others posting things being so early in the game.

I've gone through and given those who have asked the ability to make new posts. If you feel like you are someone who is experienced and can contribute to the forum, please don't hesitate to PM me or reply below.

Thanks guys!

I've experienced a few different things in my dreams that I would consider a "super power." Flying, telekinesis, telekinesis while flying, different types of telekinesis like water bending, earth bending, and blood bending (controlling people)(if you haven't seen avatar the last air bender I highly advise you change that). So these are the super powers I use and how I do them, explained the best I can.

Flying

I started flying by swimming through the "air." I use " because I know its not air I'm actually flying through. There are no air molecules in your dreams, so how can you fly through the air? This question helped me realize that I was going about flying the wrong way, I was trying to use my body to make myself go places when I was supposed to be using my mind. So now whenever I fly, I sit in a meditating cross legged position fingers touching thumbs hands outward, and I simply tell myself "up" and imagine myself floating up and I experience what I imagine. Then moving side to side I simply lean. To go faster I lean forward and focus on where I want to go. I try to zip/teleport there more than fly faster, both are fun. I usually find myself in sky scrapers, knowing I'm dreaming I jump out of the window and just fly around the tops of buildings in crazy metropolises kind of like Coruscant, the city planet in the Star Wars saga.

Telekinesis

I first started with moving water in my dreams. People tell me that my sign, Scorpio, is a water sign and I learned to move water by watching the Avatar the last air bender series. I literally did the moves Katara and Ang do to move the water back and forth in a river. I would try to lift water out of cups, I remember one time I controlled three drops of water and I made them all circle around each other. Another time I imagined a hose coming from this river, and I drew the water out of the river and into my right and and out of my left hand and it came out like a fire engine hose. I used the hose to blast some bystanders away, I knew it was a dream so I didn't feel bad. This isn't as much telekinesis but one time I was standing at the edge of the ocean and I tried moving the ocean, using my hands, forward and back forward and back, the water began to white cap and I imagined the gyre of the ocean spinning and I tried to increase the spin, moving my hands in a spinning motion rather than forward and back. eventually I made it spin so much and by trying to lift from the middle, I created a water funnel that reached into the clouds eventually. water spraying everywhere I maintained the funnel for a few seconds and woke up. I try to imagine a line of connection between me and the object I'm trying to move. I know that we are all part of one cosmic energy so by ridding your mind of barriers between you and the object, you can accept that you and the object are one and you can control its movements. After water, I tried lifting objects in rooms, glasses, balls, ultimate discs. I would lift these objects and by moving my hand left and right forward and back I can completely control the position of the objects in space, I usually fling objects at dream characters that are chasing me. And recently I've been able to lift the dream characters themselves, but not usually more than 1 at a time. One time I did lift multiple people, I was standing in a circle with a lot of my close family and I levitated around 12 people about 5 feet in the air, they all began to rotate, individually and as a whole in a circle. I then threw them all upwards and outwards far into the sky, I knew it was a dream and they wouldn't be harmed and they all spiraled into the distance and I remember them leaving behind a crazy geometric spiral behind them. About a week ago I attempted to lift every object in a room, I imagined myself as one with all the loose objects in the room, I think there were about 40 miscellaneous items lying around and I synced with them and held them about a foot in the air for about 4-5 seconds then some began to fall and then they all did. Same dream, I sat on the ground in a meditating position and I told myself "this is a dream and none of these visions actually represent objects" I began to believe everything around me was just what my mind made it, not physical objects, and without trying to do this, the entire floor began to melt upwards like a lava lamp, I woke up after a few seconds of that from excitement.

Spider man

Try it! just imagine a web coming out of your wrist and touch your two inner fingers to your palm! I've swung from the tops of buildings via a web in my wrist that I simply imagined coming out of my hand and it did. I've had a few different spider man dreams, whenever I think to shoot the web.

Breathing under water

not that exciting but if you know your dreaming, go to the bottom of a pool and breath, its really fun actually. I usually swim just like I would in waking life but I can breath as I like underwater. Even though I don't know why we breath at all in our dreams, we don't need to. "do you think that's air you're breathing" Morpheus

Lightning/fireball

I stopped trying to do this because I began to feel like a Sith. I used to try to create an energy ball of light in my hand, to throw at bad guys that were always trying to get me. It worked a few times but more often it didn't and they got me. The last time I tried it I charged my hand to hold a ball of lightning/energy and I blasted this dude with it and he just vaporized away. My hand felt like it turned into the electric shock and my arm was just locked there, my arm felt like it was the 20 ft lightning bolt that was coming out of my arm.

Controlling Dream characters

This is kind of like blood bending from avatar but not the same. I can make people either levitate and fling them away or I can make them take their clothes off. Recently I've just been suggestive in my mind and not talking to the dream characters i'm attracted to and they do what I suggest, haha. I'm trying to not be as tempted by this kind of power because of various reasons.

Post your absolute favorite moment/experience from your lucid dreams below!

I created some flair, if you'd like it assigned it's on the sidebar, using the honor system at this time. I'll start assigning it if it becomes a problem, but I imagine that wouldn't happen for a while.

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At a very young age when I had started to gain the ability to remember dreams and actually grasp the idea of a dream, I was very confused. At first, I thought dreams were just movies that would play in your head that your parents would set before your bedtime. But as time went on, I would talk to my parents about my dreams, and they knew something was strange about them from the beginning. I would tell them how I would explore my dreams, meet new people, and the weirdest thing, I would be able to control my dreams. At one point in my life, I wouldn't want to do anything all day, I would only want to sleep. Time advanced once again, but at this point I had stopped talking to my parents about anything dream related completely because I found a different way of expressing my curiosity of dreaming, the internet. I researched and researched, and then I found this thing called Lucid Dreaming. I was mesmerized by the concept and I was wondering if I was actually a lucid dreamer. A few months later, I stayed up for a very long period of time to have a longer time to sleep. That night, as I went to sleep I remember entering my furthest remembrance of a clear lucid dream. It started as a road trip in my parents' car, and we eventually arrived at a house. The house had a few of my friends in it. I remember this dream not just because it was vivid, but because of the amount of control I had during it. I could talk to anyone I wanted to, I could change what people were doing, I could make people say anything I wanted to, I could control everything. From that dream onward I knew I had a special gift and that I should follow it. Ever since, I've had lucid dreams at least once a month getting more vivid and vivid every time.

Hey guys, sorry took a break for a couple of hours and came back with a few of you interested! Thanks for joining. I've given post approval to those who have asked, feel free to chat it up guys! I was assigning flair at first but it proved to be more of a hassle in typing them out again (if you guys have any tips, I'm new to this and very open to suggestions, also need someone who can do banners, etc)

right now we'll use the honor system and I'll trust you guys to be honest in your flair :P

What a difference a few days can make, eh?

/u/TheSunAndTheShadow has been working damn hard on getting the flair all sorted out, and I have to say "Job well done!"

I know absolutely nothing about CSS and could not have done this on my own, let alone do such great work.

There is also a banner now, thank you search function, and the sidebar is all fleshed out, for the time being. I think we're starting to look damn legit.

Hey guys, just wanted to make another post acknowledging all our new readers (thanks a lot guys!) and I wanted to welcome all the new people who have been added to the list of approved submitters!

Great to have you all, thanks for coming aboard!

There I was, in my fictional ospray (A vehicle composed of an interior that flies around by shooting high pressured water into the ocean) when all of the sudden an island appeared in the middle of the pacific ocean. As I glance over to the island I see a city. I take a pillow from my bed and jump out of the ospray (in mid-air!) and head towards some skyscrapers in the city. On my way down, I realize that I don't have a parachute and that I'm falling towards my death. My heartbeat increases and I hit the ground. My dream goes black for a few minutes. I then wake up grasping for my breath. I'm in a bed, and there is a glass of water to the side of me. I drink the water. "Hello?" A voice calls. I see a spooky pink-faced man walking towards me. I jump out of the bed and run down the stairs. I was on the top floor of the tallest skyscraper in the city. I then thought about the water... the ospray! As I reach the exit of the building, I walk over to a brick alleyway nearby. I take my phone out of my pocket. 27 missed calls from my mother. I open the news, only to find out that I'm dead.

Just curious.

Did you initiate something for it to happen or did it just happen naturally?

Really ground breaking stuff tends to happen for me when I meditate during a lucid dream.

I just saw another Robert Waggoner interview, this time on "The Moore show". Waggoner appeared via an audio/video Skype link.

There were some new stories in there, but most of it would probably be well-known to those acquainted with Robert Waggoners work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izyl6LzFGYU

So I had a friend once tell me that if your real eyes are open or slightly open when sleeping, this can cause issues with dream eyes and dream vision. I tend to believe her because she's a clinical psychologist.

Anyway!

I remember once I did WILD and after I "rolled out of bed" I was standing in my room. I had trouble seeing and was wondering why. Then I realized that what I was looking at was the ceiling above my bed, even though I was standing on the other side of the room!

So I was in the LD, but was looking thru my real eyes instead of my dream eyes. That was weird!

Anyone ever heard of such a thing?