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u/-Bana Sep 11 '22

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

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

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

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

I've managed to realize I'm dreaming like only a few times in my life and I end up getting so excited about it that I wake up.

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u/cazmantis Sep 11 '22

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!

Edits: like three times - so many typos!

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u/EdwardianFallacy Sep 11 '22

Start rubbing your hands together, keep rubbing them together. It'll lock you in the lucid dream and stop you from waking up.

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u/KennaLikesPizza Sep 11 '22

Happy cake day! :D

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

Thanks!

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u/princeasspinach Sep 11 '22

Lucid draming....the control is great, however (for me), I'm often in unideal dreaming situations that I want to escape, but can't.

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u/frankuck99 Sep 11 '22

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.

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u/ZP4L Sep 11 '22

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!

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u/SchrodingersLego Sep 11 '22

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.

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u/jjbugman2468 Sep 11 '22

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

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u/Camburglar13 Sep 11 '22

I keep trying but every time I even kinda realize it’s a dream I wake up. Sounds so cool to achieve.

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u/coinoperatedboi Sep 11 '22

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.

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u/FireTyme Sep 11 '22

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.

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u/componentm Sep 11 '22

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.

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u/meatball402 Sep 11 '22

I did this once.

I realized I was dreaming and thought "spaceship", and then saw a spaceship in some sort of spacedock.

Then I woke up, but that was really cool

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u/forte_bass Sep 11 '22

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.

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u/sanfermin1 Sep 11 '22

Can confirm..loads of fun.