I have a very active dream life. Busy beck lives a vicarious life in her dream-land everynight.
I’ve told you all before, my penchant for reading the whole bodies of threads and posts of a given Doper. There’s no going alphabetically or in any other design to my madness. I see an interesting post and look up the poster. Invariably looking at the treads they’ve started
At the moment I am reading jtur88.
Naturally I would see him my dream.
Here’s the dream: (feel free to analyze)
jtur88, runs into me in a narrow hallway in a building I didn’t know. He inquired as to where my mask was. I kept trying to explain to him I was self-isolating and virus free. He answered "Well, hon you are not at home now.
I asked him repeatedly where were we. I told him I had to leave. He wouldn’t let me leave because I didn’t have a mask.
So we fumbled around and were in someone’s home (It’s a dresm, no logic on board) We rummaged around in the house, looking for a mask or scarf. We were getting nowhere.
All of a sudden the door flies open and Kayaker runs in yelling “What are you Dopers doing in my house?” I mumbled something andjtur88 starts screaming at him. Asking “Why are you hoarding all the masks?”
I decided I had enough. I pulled my blue t-shirt lovey that I always have up around my mouth. And I booked outta there. I was running down a graveled driveway…
And I woke up…
I have lucid dreams and can usually pick them up again when I sleep, we’ll see if it happens tonight. Stay tuned…
Dang-it typo in my thread title. Sorry.
Did you learned a technique to be lucid during your dreams? A friend of mine told me that he does the same but I don’t believe him!
How could I do the same?
I sometimes dream places I have already dreamed about : a station, a gallery etc… But unfortunately I cannot control any of my actions during my dreams…
I occasionally have lucid dreams, which is nice if it is a nightmare because I can steer myself out of whatever horrid thing is happening. Like I was able to avoid a tornado that touched down right next to me because I, um, shut the door. I am my own hero!
Lately, I’ve been dreaming about my racing hobby and all the people I didn’t get to see this year because Covid. Dang, but I miss my peeps.
The only lucid (and memorable!) dreams I have are about toilets. Toilets in strange places, toilets with no privacy, and usually very nasty toilets.
When I dream of toilets, I know I have to WAKE UP NOW and head to the bathroom, because I have to pee!
I have also learned through the years, that if I dream I have a headache, I must wake up and take my migraine medication. I learned the hard way that thinking, “Oh, I’ll just stay asleep, and sleep it off,” doesn’t work!
Noooo, ignoring the Dreamland Headache means waking up in the morning with half your brain on fire.
Mr VOW also gets migraines. It took a long long time of “convincing” before he saw the wisdom in treating a middle-of-the-night headache. In his own way, though, his version wasn’t usually a dreaming headache. Instead, he’d have a dream where somebody shot him in the head.
I explained, "That is your body sending you a message in a dream. You are being told: You have a migraine! Go take some medicine!
That’s interesting, Beck. The other night, I dreamed I was in a store and suddenly realized MY FACE WAS NAKED! No mask. Naturally, I couldn’t find an exit. I used to dream I discovered I was teaching in my undies until I lucidly told my subconscious during the dream to knock it off. Maybe that’ll work here.
What would REALLY be interesting would be if either kayaker or jtur88 dreamed the next chapter.
I have trained myself to have lucid dreams on occasion. The main thing that works for me is to frequently ask yourself during the day, “is this a dream?” You have to do this frequently and consistently, so that it becomes a habit. If successful, you will start asking yourself that question during dreams as well. Initially you may incorrectly conclude that it is NOT a dream; that is called pre-lucidity, but it can be the first step to lucidity. During times when I do this consistently, I usually have at least a few lucid dreams, but for me it’s rather tedious to keep it up for more than a few days at a time.
I wouldn’t say I have lucid dreams, but a couple of times I was able to wake myself up when I didn’t like the way a dream was going. I pushed upward in my mind very hard, and the dreamscape dissolved around me as I kept pushing up. It was sort of like swimming upward through thick brown motor oil.
Finally, I opened my eyes and I was safe in bed in my room.
I think I know what sleep paralysis feels like. Sort of like quicksand. Although I’ve never been caught in quicksand.
I’ve had this a couple of times. Once, in a dream, someone put their hand around my ankle (they had been chasing me). I woke up, and could not move until I had willed myself to blink, which broke through.
I’ve also felt like I was possessed, body flailing wildly, when actually, I was sleeping with my wrist in an odd position which had set my nerves jumping but in reality, I wasn’t moving at all. I think this experience (I had it a few times) is what actually brought me to lucid dreaming because I discovered that if I moved in reality, the problem would stop. After the first experience, it became gradually easier to control it without completely waking up.
