| S/O of Strange Dreams Are you a lucid dreamer? | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 14 2018, 11:00 PM (320 Views) | |
| Chutes Away | Apr 14 2018, 11:00 PM Post #1 |
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I am not a lucid dreamer. In fact, when I wake up, I’m frequently have to ask my DH if things really happened. (Or, we’ll argue in my dream and I’ll wake up mad at him. He hates that!) Some “memories” I have I’m not sure if they are events I remember or events that I just dreamed happened. I also have auditory hallucinations when I’m half asleep- usually the doorbell, phone, or someone calling my name. I can’t ignore them, because every so often it’s not a hallucination but real. My brain is weird. |
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| Walternate | Apr 14 2018, 11:03 PM Post #2 |
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Walternate is a fuzzy smurple.
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I dream both ways, sometimes I am aware it's a dream and other times I crash hard back into reality. The auditory hallucination thing fucks me up sometimes. I hate waking up knowing I heard a crash and there was no crash. Don't get me started on the stupid phantom doorbell, I've learned to look at the pets, if the cats are running to hide it's a real ring. |
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| FrootLoop | Apr 14 2018, 11:10 PM Post #3 |
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Naturally Frootilicious
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I can sometimes steer my dreams when they turn bad. I almost never dream I'm myself, frequently I'm a guy who is a spy in eastern Europe. I smuggle people and documents, there are times I have to kill and many times where I've been killed. Two nights ago I was a woman from India traveling the world with her husband around 1890. That was fun! The most fascinating was a period of several years where I had an ongoing dream. I was a young black slave woman, eventually I married a wonderful field slave and had two children. Most of the dreams were mundane day to day life. It ended when the owner decided to sell my son and daughter. They were pulled from my arms and I collapsed onto the dirt screaming as they were taken away. I can still see their faces even though the dreams ended decades ago. When I woke up that last time I was sobbing then checked my knees, certain the rocks in the dirt had cut them. It was very very impactful, very real. I have super vivid dreams lol, almost every night. |
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| Millicat | Apr 14 2018, 11:22 PM Post #4 |
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The hallucinations that happen when you are in the process of falling asleep or waking up are called hypnopompic or hypnogogic hallucinations. I had them frequently when my dad was still living. I would think that he was calling out to me because he had fallen. |
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| FrootLoop | Apr 14 2018, 11:24 PM Post #5 |
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Naturally Frootilicious
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Sometimes just on the verge of sleep I get what feels like an electrical zap, kinda painful and way annoying. |
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| Wannabe Author | Apr 14 2018, 11:29 PM Post #6 |
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I'm very rarely not me, though the cast of characters around me changes. [Hidden Content: Login/Register to View] |
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| Sam | Apr 14 2018, 11:58 PM Post #7 |
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I'm always me in my dreams, though sometime in really different circumstances than my real life. I don't realize I'm dreaming as it's going on. After I wake up, I realize that it was just a dream, but sometimes the feeling stays with me for awhile. I've had nightmares and woken up with my heart pounding, and even though I knew it was a dream, it took some time to calm down and go back to sleep. Most of my dreams aren't that emotional, the ones I remember are just odd. |
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| Parsnip | Apr 15 2018, 12:50 AM Post #8 |
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Most of my remembered dreams were lucid. I'm almost always myself, but generally 3rd person - but viewed from just behind/above. Always in color and rarely set to music. |
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| Parsnip | Apr 15 2018, 12:51 AM Post #9 |
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I often have drwam hangovers or feelings that remain throughout the day. Those typically result from nonlucid dreams. |
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| Allday | Apr 15 2018, 04:51 AM Post #10 |
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It really depends for me. Most of the time I know it's a dream but sometimes I'll have to ask dh later on if XYZ happened. |
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| monica | Apr 15 2018, 06:53 AM Post #11 |
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This is exactly how I dream. To a T. |
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| RealtorLady | Apr 15 2018, 08:56 AM Post #12 |
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RealtorLady
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Yes I am, I find myself dreaming and thinking I don't like how it's going and changing it. |
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| greenbean | Apr 15 2018, 09:15 AM Post #13 |
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Queen Bean
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I have fairly lucid dreams sometimes too, I think I'm awake in my room and getting up going about my day, then realize I'm still sleeping. I dream about my mum sometimes too, I know she's gone but in my dream she's there and I can hug and kiss her. Those dreams are actually very comforting. The weirdest I've had recently was that ds was a newborn in my bed and his head was under the blankets. I started panicking thinking he'd stopped breathing, woke up in fright and started looking for him. Then I remembered that he's 19, 6'2" and a sophomore in college. |
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| Westtexasgirl | Apr 15 2018, 09:55 AM Post #14 |
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I had a dream one time that I just knew was real. My dead grandma was knocking on the front door and I opened it and we talked for just a second before I woke up. I woke up missing her so bad and I just knew someone was knocking on the front door so my husband went to check the house. It was so real to me. |
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| greenbean | Apr 15 2018, 09:57 AM Post #15 |
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Queen Bean
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(((Hugs))). |
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| miss jojo | Apr 15 2018, 10:03 AM Post #16 |
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Ever since I started this job, most of my dreams involve trying to help people with their software issues. Sometimes I’ll be struggling with their problems and I’ll think “you know this is just a dream, you don’t have to call anyone back.” |
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| greenbean | Apr 15 2018, 10:05 AM Post #17 |
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Queen Bean
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My most pathetic dream was about taking DH's pants to get mended. I woke up thinking that I really need to get out more.
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| jaybird | Apr 15 2018, 10:20 AM Post #18 |
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I'm not really a lucid dreamer. I think I've had only one or maybe two in my entire life that I vaguely remember thinking "this is just a dream" while I'm actually dreaming. There have been three that I've had over the years that were so real and so disturbing that I can still remember them to this day. One from when I was a pre-teen, one from when the boys were young, and one a few months after T died. Mostly though, they are just really bizarre dreams where I wake up and think "wow. That was...interesting" and then promptly forget them. |
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| Bets | Apr 15 2018, 02:11 PM Post #19 |
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I never know that I'm dreaming when I'm asleep, but I usally realize as soon as I wake. I cannot control my dreams as far as I know because as soon as I realize I am dreaming, I wake up! Sometimes I have those dreams were I think I already woken up and started my day, but I'm really still asleep. (And even though things are really different or out of proportion or place, it still seems perfectly normal). I usually have dreams I like that seem really intriguing when I am dreaming them, and I wake up and think it would be a cool story, but by the time write it down they seem really dumb and boring. |
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| RitaK | Apr 15 2018, 03:12 PM Post #20 |
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Sometimes. When I do realize I am dreaming, I always try to fly. I'm successful most of the time. |
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| Time Lord | Apr 15 2018, 03:38 PM Post #21 |
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If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
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Yes, I am a lucid dreamer, but not with every dream. When I do lucid dream, I am always in them, and trying to defend or protect others (nuclear war, plagues, chemical and other warfare, being pursued or persecuted, are some types of lucid dreams I have had). Sometimes I can affect the outcome through my actions, other times I am unable to. I have not died in any of my dreams yet. I unfortunately have not had any pleasant lucid dreams. |
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| Roor | Apr 15 2018, 03:41 PM Post #22 |
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bad hombre
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Yep. I always know and am usually capable of controlling the plot. It sucks, I wake up still exhausted. |
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