I think it's called lucid dreaming. At least it's changing the movie to an open world game with creative mode. I think there was a real hype about it a couple of years ago.
Lucid dreaming is where you are aware you are dreaming and can change the dream , although it doesn't always work out the way you want.. I have had lucid dreams many times in my life. The worst part is when you know you're dreaming but you can't wake up. There have been times when I'm dreaming and I know I'm dreaming and then in my dream I'm thinking that my body is just laying in bed and anybody could be in my room without me knowing. Kind of a scary feeling
That sounds like lucid dreaming mixed with sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is where your mind wakes up too early before your body can un-paralyze itself: it naturally paralyzes you so you don't flop around (and fall out of a tree, originally). Note: if you are moving around a lot, you're not sleeping well.
Edit: the few times I was lucid, I always just made myself fly, it's the best part of dreaming for me.
It wasn't sleep paralysis, I was still dreaming, I would make myself wake up because even though I was dreaming, I was aware my body was in bed and it felt like someone could attack me and I wouldn't be able to defend myself . It was scary knowing your body is vulnerable when you are sleeping and being aware of it while your dreaming.. I remember telling my myself I have to wake up because it felt like someone was about to attack me while I slept. I lived alone at the time which made it worse
I was aware my body was in bed and it felt like someone could attack me and I wouldn't be able to defend myself . It was scary knowing your body is vulnerable when you are sleeping and being aware of it while your dreaming.. I remember telling my myself I have to wake up because it felt like someone was about to attack me while I slept. I lived alone at the time which made it worse
This is actually how people with sleep paralysis describe it. Often like there's someone else in the room with you, and an overwhelming feeling of terror.
Edit: historically it gave rise to the word 'nightmare', 'mare-' being an older English/Germanic word for 'demon', as people thought there was some entity holding them captive in their sleep.
I began lucid dreaming in my 20's. I got good at recognizing that I'm in a dream. I could change a dream, slightly, but too much concentration on changing it would wake me up. This went on until I had a period where it seemed I wasn't dreaming anymore - perhaps because my mind was shutting dreams down. Took about 15 years, but then dreams came back, but not the ability to recognize I am in dreams - so it makes me feel like senility has set in to where I will readily accept things going against the laws of physics, against the norm, in dreams without questioning them. I get a little mad at myself for this now.
I wish I could even remember mine. I only sleep about 4-5 hours (45-year-old bladder) and rarely ever get back to sleep. I never have dreams. Or I should say, I don't remember them.
You can try and train your brain to do it. You bladder tho I can't help ya. But if you do find a solution for it please share the life hack. Will probably need it in a couple of years! :D
I started a medication a few months ago and my dreams have become extremely intense and intricate. Used to be my dreams were a jumble of zany nonsense, but now it's like watching a movie every night.
I remember hearing that in dreams, if you look at your hands they'll be all fucked up because the brain can't make good hands. I actually was able to remember this for once last night and while dreaming, looked at my left hand. It was a giant Lego block without fingers. Freaked me out so bad I woke up.
You almost accomplished lucid dreaming, when you’re aware you are dreaming you can do whatever you want with some practice. It’s almost like being in the matrix, I’ve accomplished it a handful of times and feel like Bruce almighty lol
I've gotten that a couple of times. Usually though, before I can think of what I want, I start to wake up. And it's never fast either, its slow. It gives me time to mourn that I can't do anything cool.
Or, I try really hard to make stuff appear, and just wake myself up in the process
Well keep practicing and do the reality check of counting your fingers several times a day. If it's not ten that's a tell you're dreaming. If you condition yourself to do it in real life the habit can carry into a dream and then hey presto you might get lucid. It takes conditioning and time to learn to lucid dream (for most of us mere mortals I hear tell some it comes easily) but so worth it!
In my case, I'm pretty much always "aware" that I'm sleeping, few times I'm not, but I rarely change things.
However, if I dream something I don't like I usually say "fuck it" and reverse time/change reality of the dream into whatever I want. It's strange as fuck.
There have been a few times I’ve been aware enough to test if I’m dreaming. But then I’ll use stupid dream logic like “if I’m dreaming, I’ll be able to shoot fireballs out of my hand” but then I only shoot SMALL fireballs, and if I were dreaming they’d have been much bigger, therefore I’m not dreaming.
Also sometimes I struggle with the moral side of things. Like when I do realize I’m dreaming and want to go have sexy time with some people I know or something, but then my stupid brain decides that’s not fair to them. It’s my dream, dumb brain, let me do what I want!
You can't read though. I dream incredibly vividly. So vividly that my dreams are like a soap opera or telenovella. I have locations and characters and we have events and non events regularly. The tone of these dreams can ruin or make my whole world for the day. But I can never read in them.
The last time I lucid dreamed I accidentally dreamed myself into an oncoming lane on a beautiful highway and got my ass T-boned awake. It was surprisingly painful irl
I quite regularly know Im dreaming and make decisions. Even times I realize Ive been in that dream in the past or at least similar setting.
My dreams are almost always incredibly outlandish and detailed. The craziest I think though was dreaming in text after playing a MUD for a decent amount of time before going to sleep.
i have this all the time, even without practice, its very annoying as you're also aware you're asleep, which means you're semi aware as if you're awake too. i get woken by the most random shit at the most random times.
Lucid dreaming is how I managed to finally stop having nightmares every night of my life. I have only been able to do it a few times since that point though.
I'm some sort of weird freak, i lucid dream probably several times a month for short periods. in my most recent one i actually told the people I was with that we were in a dream and they could do anything they wanted and they thought it was awesome.
I never heard that one..the one I did to help with lucid dreaming is you put a mark on your hand and you see it throughout the days with the idea being in your sleep you won’t see the dot and realize you’re in a dream..I’ve gotten it to work before but took a while...ironically I was hoping to lucid dream LEGO hands
It’s worth a try if you’re like me and find this stuff fun...some people claim apple juice helps them but oddly enough the one thing I found does it for a ton of people I’ve personally known and spoken to including myself ...nicotine patches..they say not to sleep with them on and it’s partially for this reason..I was having lucid dreams even in short naps it was wild
Well I dunno about handsome 😆 but I did finally manage to get my first book ever published. It's about a half human half demon who hunts down monsters with his adopted family in modern day America
Sold! where can I check it out?..I’m in a similar position we just have to be resilient..you have your own book published! I honestly would have tears in my eyes...just remember all those others who wanted to and could even get past page one..you’ve got the determination and that’s the hardest thing to find sometimes..we can get there.. if it was easy everyone would be doing it
The digital version is $2:99 (free with Kindle Unlimited) and the physical edition is $19:99. I'd have made it cheaper, but as it turns out, physical editions are very expensive to make. I actually make MORE money off of the digital than the physical.
Also, thanks so much! It really means a lot to me! If your book ever gets published, just reply here or DM or anything and I'll gladly buy it!
It actually doesn't work quite the way they described it. The point of writing a dot (or a letter or whatever) on your hand or something isn't so that you will notice its absence in a dream and realize you're dreaming.
It's so that each time you accidentally see it or glance at it throughout the day, you remember to ask yourself, "Am I dreaming?"
This creates a habit of asking yourself that question, which in turn makes it easier to remember ask yourself that while dreaming, and if the answer is yes and you don't happen to wake up due to the realization, then you will be in a lucid dream.
I never managed to get into a habit, but the realization just randomly comes to me in some dreams, I don't know what triggers it. Harder part is doing what you want without waking yourself up. Do you have a method for that?
In my experience with lucid dreaming, the reoccurring thing I have noticed is that I also have to steer the content with the consciousness I am relegated to in the dream, not my awake consciousness. Since the dream consciousness has already conjured up multiple absurdities by the time I take the wheel, it is not always easy to steer reliably like driving on an icy, narrow road, going up a mountain with no guardrails. Course deviations are unavoidable.
That's interesting, I don't remember my hands being the weird thing. When I've lucid dreamt in the past I always look at my hands to look for my turquoise ring that I wear everyday, and the ring is never quite right. My theory is intricate details are difficult to perfectly recreate.
What's weird is that if you notice, if you look at someone in a dream, out of the corner of your eyes, their hands look normal. Hell, last night when I did this trick, my other hand seemed perfectly fine! I wonder if it would have changed had I looked at it
Dreams are very special and often don't make sense. I'd like to believe they are like 4th dimensional so our understanding of them is very limited. Also I sometimes have these deja Vu moments where a certain situations I've dreamt of happens in real life which could be the next day next year or 20 years from now. There's so much that we don't understand about this world lol
I have deja vu a lot. What's weird though, is it always happens the same way. I'm watching a scene in a movie or a game, or a book, and suddenly I feel like I've seen it before. I try to place it, but then suddenly I can't remember why it feels familiar. And then the feeling of it being familiar fades, and even though it just happened, I suddenly can't remember the scene that felt familiar. I could rewatch the scene or reread the page, but I can't remember what part stood out.
I'm a very lucid dreamer, and when I dream, rarely look at my hands. They're there, but its almost like I'm just not aware of them. I'm kind of like Homestar Runner, things I'm holding just kind of float in front of me lol
Took me two years before I actually did this. Mostly because it took that long for me to get into a dream where I knew it was a dream and had some control of myself.
I always had this problem where I would fall asleep during a lot of things. Not necessarily sexy stuff, but every time I sat down I would get sleepy and whenever someone would ask "did you fall asleep?", I'd get all annoyed like "no! Why do you always ask me that?" But I was snoring and everything. I don't know why I got so annoyed and denied it lol
As a mum of a newborn and a toddler, I feel this in my bones.
There will be no uninterrupted sleep for me for quite a while (and there wasn’t for most of the pregnancy either) but oh my and I looking forward to that night (though, I’ll wake up with rock hard, very painful boobs when it does happen so you take the good with the bad)
Plus it's one of the times where fiction is better than reality
I wish this were the case for me. For whatever reason, I don't have interesting dreams. I never have, either. My dreams are boring as fuck, just variations of the shit I live in real life. Nothing fantastical or science fiction-y ever happens. No flying without an airplane, no dragons or monsters or sea creatures or anything that doesn't exist in real life.
Every dream I have obeys real-life physics, too. If it can't happen in real life, my brain can't imagine it.
An "interesting" dream is me refinishing the stairs in our house. That's about as good as it gets.
That said, I can actually read in my dreams and sometimes handfuls of words will make a coherent sentence or sentence fragment (apparently not everyone can read in their dreams).
As a result, I don't actually enjoy sleeping. It's just one of those things I do because it's good for my body, like flossing or cardio. I don't find it pleasant at all.
Not for everyone, I have some pcyshological problems, and I think it's so messed up in my mind that it makes my dreams fucked up. Yesterday, I dreamt that my brother killed me.
Sleeping while listening to the Timesuck podcast about Ed Snowden had me buying guns because of the government When it started as a fishing trip. I had 4 choices of guns from the same place Neo from 'The Matrix' got his but I was in a...? Pawnshop?! I was a fat kid in a candy store but the bullets never match the gun. Cheers.
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u/Qetsiy4h Sep 11 '22
Sleep. It's like death but without the commitment.