How Video Games Affect Lucid Dreaming
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Date: 2023-08-20
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Maybeline
Always been a lucid dreamer. Not a strong one, though. Once I start controlling a dream, it starts kinda glitching out here and there, and then things repeat, and then I wake up. So I tend to just let the dream play out (cuz I have some pretty interesting dreams without controlling them) unless something happens I want to go a different way. Then I'll take control. But I can't remember ever having a dream I didn't have control over. I used to be a lot better at it, but I don't dream as much as I used to. In the past though, I could completely create a dream and play it out how I wanted to. The repeating thing would still happen, but that's just how my mind works when its being creative, so thats probably why. I wont go into detail about why my mind works like that.
As I got older and didn't dream as much, it started getting to the glitchy repeating point, so I stopped trying to control them unless I really wanted to. Then I stopped dreaming, so I don't even know how good at it I am at it right now.
Interestingly, because I've always been able to do it, I actually didn't realize until about a year ago that other people couldn't do that on a normal basis. I'd never really talked about it with anyone before, so I didn't know it wasn't normal. I watch a lot of top ten lists and I found one about dreams, (don't remember what about dreams, just dreams) and it said something about someone lucid dreaming. Thought it was interesting but didn't think anything of it until I listened to a scary story not too long after of someone figuring out how to lucid dream, then bad stuff started happening in their dreams. It was then I started asking people I knew if this was normal, and each one of them thought it was weird and cool that I could willingly control my dreams.
I also do play a lot of video games, but unless watching someone else play them counts, (aka, watching my brother, who was not a lucid dreamer, play his games, then that's not why. I don't know why. It's just something I've always been able to do. But I didn't start playing video games myself until I was like 10 or 11, and I was able to do it long before that.
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Always been a lucid dreamer. Not a strong one, though. Once I start controlling a dream, it starts kinda glitching out here and there, and then things repeat, and then I wake up. So I tend to just let the dream play out (cuz I have some pretty interesting dreams without controlling them) unless something happens I want to go a different way. Then I'll take control. But I can't remember ever having a dream I didn't have control over. I used to be a lot better at it, but I don't dream as much as I used to. In the past though, I could completely create a dream and play it out how I wanted to. The repeating thing would still happen, but that's just how my mind works when its being creative, so thats probably why. I wont go into detail about why my mind works like that.
As I got older and didn't dream as much, it started getting to the glitchy repeating point, so I stopped trying to control them unless I really wanted to. Then I stopped dreaming, so I don't even know how good at it I am at it right now.
Interestingly, because I've always been able to do it, I actually didn't realize until about a year ago that other people couldn't do that on a normal basis. I'd never really talked about it with anyone before, so I didn't know it wasn't normal. I watch a lot of top ten lists and I found one about dreams, (don't remember what about dreams, just dreams) and it said something about someone lucid dreaming. Thought it was interesting but didn't think anything of it until I listened to a scary story not too long after of someone figuring out how to lucid dream, then bad stuff started happening in their dreams. It was then I started asking people I knew if this was normal, and each one of them thought it was weird and cool that I could willingly control my dreams.
I also do play a lot of video games, but unless watching someone else play them counts, (aka, watching my brother, who was not a lucid dreamer, play his games, then that's not why. I don't know why. It's just something I've always been able to do. But I didn't start playing video games myself until I was like 10 or 11, and I was able to do it long before that.
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Doomguy44
This is probably true because I play games a bunch and I'm a lucid dreamer however i don't have a lucid dream every night it happens if I do something like pinch myself and it doesn't hurt or the stuff mentioned in the video or if I think about it before I go to sleep but when it happens it basically feels like your In an open world game in sandbox mode but (I can't speak for every lucid dreamer because it might be different for them) I can't always make stuff appear like most people say I need to concentrate in my dream or something like that to make it happen, in my lucid dreams at least it is basically pushing my dream world to the limit instead of following the story because there's still a plot if you will like in all dreams but in a lucid dream you can walk down the street and see what's over there even though something is supposed to be going on in a different location but I think this is a false sense of free will because in my dreams when I choose to do something random like walking down the street or in some other location that has seemingly no purpose in the dream some event always happens like I find a family In that house or something so in my opinion I think lucid dreams might still be pre-programmed In our brains. but lucid dreams feel much different than normal dreams, I can't explain it but you actually feel like your there and you can do really normal/weird things like talk to yourself control your every movement interact with dream NPC's and have them react in either ways you'd expect or ways you wouldn't, sometimes you narrate your own story and know what's gonna happen next and other times it feels like there's someone who knows more than you (you being yourself in the dream) someone who is narrating your dream without your knowing (it's weird because since your self aware you are basically questioning your own brain's world) anyway sorry for making this so long but I have a lot to talk about on lucid dreaming any questions you want answered? (I'll do my best to answer them but although I lucid dream myself I'm not a professional so yeah XD)
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This is probably true because I play games a bunch and I'm a lucid dreamer however i don't have a lucid dream every night it happens if I do something like pinch myself and it doesn't hurt or the stuff mentioned in the video or if I think about it before I go to sleep but when it happens it basically feels like your In an open world game in sandbox mode but (I can't speak for every lucid dreamer because it might be different for them) I can't always make stuff appear like most people say I need to concentrate in my dream or something like that to make it happen, in my lucid dreams at least it is basically pushing my dream world to the limit instead of following the story because there's still a plot if you will like in all dreams but in a lucid dream you can walk down the street and see what's over there even though something is supposed to be going on in a different location but I think this is a false sense of free will because in my dreams when I choose to do something random like walking down the street or in some other location that has seemingly no purpose in the dream some event always happens like I find a family In that house or something so in my opinion I think lucid dreams might still be pre-programmed In our brains. but lucid dreams feel much different than normal dreams, I can't explain it but you actually feel like your there and you can do really normal/weird things like talk to yourself control your every movement interact with dream NPC's and have them react in either ways you'd expect or ways you wouldn't, sometimes you narrate your own story and know what's gonna happen next and other times it feels like there's someone who knows more than you (you being yourself in the dream) someone who is narrating your dream without your knowing (it's weird because since your self aware you are basically questioning your own brain's world) anyway sorry for making this so long but I have a lot to talk about on lucid dreaming any questions you want answered? (I'll do my best to answer them but although I lucid dream myself I'm not a professional so yeah XD)
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C. J.
Ever since I was a little kid (around 5) I have had dreams where I have been playing a videogame and then I would enter the game. I knew I was in the game, but had difficulty controlling anything. I would still have nightmares of wolfs or even sentient trucks trying to murder me, but I always knew I have having a nightmare and couldn't quite wake up. I even recall having a dream where the whole time I was trying to figure out how to wake up. (I originally was trying to kill myself in the dream, at one instance I was going to take a pogo stick into a highway until a magic fish thing told me not to and the pogostick would be useful later in my life so I didn't and eventually it was solved by falling asleep in the dream) There was one instance when I was about 6 or 7 where I was first able to use lucid dreaming when a supervillain was going to drop me into a volcano when I was like; ha I CAN FLY DUMMY. By the time I hit middle school and started getting into psychology and learned of Lucid dreaming and took naps to practice. Since then I have learned how to beat up whatever monster tries to kill me in my dreams, but it still doesn't work out to well for the real world adulting nightmares of the car breaks not working, not remembering any lines to a play I was preforming in, not being ready for a test, being late for a class or job ect. Haven't tried to actively lucid dream in a couple years, but sometimes I will binge play a game like The Sims or Darkest Dungeon or even Mass Effect and my mind will be so occupied with potential actions I could take in the future.
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Ever since I was a little kid (around 5) I have had dreams where I have been playing a videogame and then I would enter the game. I knew I was in the game, but had difficulty controlling anything. I would still have nightmares of wolfs or even sentient trucks trying to murder me, but I always knew I have having a nightmare and couldn't quite wake up. I even recall having a dream where the whole time I was trying to figure out how to wake up. (I originally was trying to kill myself in the dream, at one instance I was going to take a pogo stick into a highway until a magic fish thing told me not to and the pogostick would be useful later in my life so I didn't and eventually it was solved by falling asleep in the dream) There was one instance when I was about 6 or 7 where I was first able to use lucid dreaming when a supervillain was going to drop me into a volcano when I was like; ha I CAN FLY DUMMY. By the time I hit middle school and started getting into psychology and learned of Lucid dreaming and took naps to practice. Since then I have learned how to beat up whatever monster tries to kill me in my dreams, but it still doesn't work out to well for the real world adulting nightmares of the car breaks not working, not remembering any lines to a play I was preforming in, not being ready for a test, being late for a class or job ect. Haven't tried to actively lucid dream in a couple years, but sometimes I will binge play a game like The Sims or Darkest Dungeon or even Mass Effect and my mind will be so occupied with potential actions I could take in the future.
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Death
Your explanation is false I lucid dream and able to create what ever I want in them, their called thought forms and is quite easy to do what ever you imagine becomes reality in a dream. Driving however is harder in a dream because the dream has no concept of friction so it's more like flying so some people may say their car drives like it's on ice in a dream. To control a dream you need self control especially over emotion fear or excitement can snap you out of the dream the more emotion the slower or harder the dream becomes as you start putting more energy into consiousness vs unconscious states. I have also had lucid conversations with my subcontious on understanding myself.
There are times where the subconscious may take control of a dream and take you where it wants so by coming to terms or sharing control the subconscious is more willing to give you control it's about accepting your other side and not trying to control your other side. By talking with my subconscious I bypass all the weird stuff you have in dreams and understand more what it's trying to tell me or wants me to learn everything in a dream is You including your subconscious but when you reject the subconscious it tends to do what it wants.
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Your explanation is false I lucid dream and able to create what ever I want in them, their called thought forms and is quite easy to do what ever you imagine becomes reality in a dream. Driving however is harder in a dream because the dream has no concept of friction so it's more like flying so some people may say their car drives like it's on ice in a dream. To control a dream you need self control especially over emotion fear or excitement can snap you out of the dream the more emotion the slower or harder the dream becomes as you start putting more energy into consiousness vs unconscious states. I have also had lucid conversations with my subcontious on understanding myself.
There are times where the subconscious may take control of a dream and take you where it wants so by coming to terms or sharing control the subconscious is more willing to give you control it's about accepting your other side and not trying to control your other side. By talking with my subconscious I bypass all the weird stuff you have in dreams and understand more what it's trying to tell me or wants me to learn everything in a dream is You including your subconscious but when you reject the subconscious it tends to do what it wants.
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Zombie
I actually had a dream where I was playing the exact map of Ravenholm from half-life 2. It was a very scary dream as the map in real life freaked me out with it's zombies sneaking out of the darkest places in the map and headcrabs giving you a jumpscare. In my dream I felt like I was playing the exact level but it was even scarier. I don't know how this was possible, but I could feel my heart thumping in my dream and it felt like it was hard to breathe. In real life, I visited the map again to get an achievement, and that night I had another dream about Ravenholm except it was less scarier. Fast forward half a year later, I was playing this Vietnam War themed game on Roblox and that night I had a dream that felt like a video game. The map was different and the people that fought on my side were my friends from school. In the dream, we were ambushed an a lot of my friends died making my breathing tight again. All three of these dream are ones that I could control, I just don't know why my friends were killed by the Viet Cong.
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I actually had a dream where I was playing the exact map of Ravenholm from half-life 2. It was a very scary dream as the map in real life freaked me out with it's zombies sneaking out of the darkest places in the map and headcrabs giving you a jumpscare. In my dream I felt like I was playing the exact level but it was even scarier. I don't know how this was possible, but I could feel my heart thumping in my dream and it felt like it was hard to breathe. In real life, I visited the map again to get an achievement, and that night I had another dream about Ravenholm except it was less scarier. Fast forward half a year later, I was playing this Vietnam War themed game on Roblox and that night I had a dream that felt like a video game. The map was different and the people that fought on my side were my friends from school. In the dream, we were ambushed an a lot of my friends died making my breathing tight again. All three of these dream are ones that I could control, I just don't know why my friends were killed by the Viet Cong.
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Daniheart06
i always wanted to know what lucid dreaming is like, since i never experienced one before, but recently, i been forgetting my dreams. every, single, detail. when i go to sleep, it's as if time has sped up, and i instantly wake up in the morning, while not knowing anything about my dreams, and i recently got interested into lucid dreaming, but im never motivated enough to try it. i normally remember a tiny bit of my dreams when i wake up, but it's as if i haven't been dreaming at all. no nightmares either! i don't remember what having a REAL nightmare feels like, and i just want to remember something from my dreams, i'll even be fine with remembering a nightmare!
i mean, yes, i had a few video game related dreams before -some felt realistic, none were lucid, - but that was it, nothing else, it'd just been me going to sleep, and waking up what feels like a few seconds later
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i always wanted to know what lucid dreaming is like, since i never experienced one before, but recently, i been forgetting my dreams. every, single, detail. when i go to sleep, it's as if time has sped up, and i instantly wake up in the morning, while not knowing anything about my dreams, and i recently got interested into lucid dreaming, but im never motivated enough to try it. i normally remember a tiny bit of my dreams when i wake up, but it's as if i haven't been dreaming at all. no nightmares either! i don't remember what having a REAL nightmare feels like, and i just want to remember something from my dreams, i'll even be fine with remembering a nightmare!
i mean, yes, i had a few video game related dreams before -some felt realistic, none were lucid, - but that was it, nothing else, it'd just been me going to sleep, and waking up what feels like a few seconds later
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Crazy
Well I had a weird dream before well I can't say that cause all my dreams r weird but for some reason I had this dream I was in 4th grade I told my dad I'm DREAMING I went in the class yo it was awesome there were so many slides and balls I went told my friend im in a dream she said don't tell anyone I went in the bathroom looked in the mirror and said I'm dreaming?
I told everyone IM DREAMING! This is a dream! Everything goes black except for the people they look at me and I'm like what the (_) That's what their faces look like then there was this weird noise then I woke up and said that was the weird dream but this thing is I wasn't really controlling myself at all but I've always wanted to have lucid dream and tell everyone I was dreaming.
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Well I had a weird dream before well I can't say that cause all my dreams r weird but for some reason I had this dream I was in 4th grade I told my dad I'm DREAMING I went in the class yo it was awesome there were so many slides and balls I went told my friend im in a dream she said don't tell anyone I went in the bathroom looked in the mirror and said I'm dreaming?
I told everyone IM DREAMING! This is a dream! Everything goes black except for the people they look at me and I'm like what the (_) That's what their faces look like then there was this weird noise then I woke up and said that was the weird dream but this thing is I wasn't really controlling myself at all but I've always wanted to have lucid dream and tell everyone I was dreaming.
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CelticMagician
I lucid dream regularly, although I'm not always able to control the situation. It definitely helps in coping with far more stressful dream imagery, however. For instance; I was once horribly mauled while being completely lucid in the dream. Not only was I able to go through the mauling without being overly terrified for my personal safety (since I knew none of it was real and that I couldn't actually be harmed); but the aftermath of seeing my body torn to shreds literally had this response from me: Good thing this is a dream, because there is no way I'd be alive otherwise.
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I lucid dream regularly, although I'm not always able to control the situation. It definitely helps in coping with far more stressful dream imagery, however. For instance; I was once horribly mauled while being completely lucid in the dream. Not only was I able to go through the mauling without being overly terrified for my personal safety (since I knew none of it was real and that I couldn't actually be harmed); but the aftermath of seeing my body torn to shreds literally had this response from me: Good thing this is a dream, because there is no way I'd be alive otherwise.
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toby
I dont play video games. And I always have lucid dreams, like 2in 3 nights I have a lucid dream. However as it said I cant control other ppl but I can backtrack and change something to get the desired result. Like say I was flying with someone and their wings or flight suit or whatever crashes and they dont have enough time till they crash I can backtrack and stay with them closely until they fall and hold them up. The only bad thing is that every time I backtrack I go into this like half awake half asleep thing for ten seconds about.
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I dont play video games. And I always have lucid dreams, like 2in 3 nights I have a lucid dream. However as it said I cant control other ppl but I can backtrack and change something to get the desired result. Like say I was flying with someone and their wings or flight suit or whatever crashes and they dont have enough time till they crash I can backtrack and stay with them closely until they fall and hold them up. The only bad thing is that every time I backtrack I go into this like half awake half asleep thing for ten seconds about.
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TRIPLUSIONAL2. 0
When I have a quote unquote nightmare I just get excited to be honest like I barely play video games now but I guess I don't know if this consider part of me controlling my dreams but like do to me it joined being frightened and enjoy being scared and nearly watch scary movies horror movies nearly all the time or at least enjoy it for the fright of it and watch people play scary games I guess it doesn't really affect me that much if I have a nightmare
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When I have a quote unquote nightmare I just get excited to be honest like I barely play video games now but I guess I don't know if this consider part of me controlling my dreams but like do to me it joined being frightened and enjoy being scared and nearly watch scary movies horror movies nearly all the time or at least enjoy it for the fright of it and watch people play scary games I guess it doesn't really affect me that much if I have a nightmare
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Mrwruble
I have a repeated dream. I am drowning and cant get out. Im in some sort of box, but water is the only thing i can see. My lungs are burning, and it feels like my body will collapse. Eventually, I take a breath. I can breathe. I am still in the water. I dont think about. I realize that it's not possible and realize hey this is a dream and I wake myself up. I dont know if its a dream or a nightmare, but i have it like once a month.
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I have a repeated dream. I am drowning and cant get out. Im in some sort of box, but water is the only thing i can see. My lungs are burning, and it feels like my body will collapse. Eventually, I take a breath. I can breathe. I am still in the water. I dont think about. I realize that it's not possible and realize hey this is a dream and I wake myself up. I dont know if its a dream or a nightmare, but i have it like once a month.
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EdMcStinko
I've started having these kinds of dreams constantly. There is a feeling of inevitable victory and invincibility. I figure it's because you are often one of the most powerful and influential characters in many games. You also have little reason to back down or be intimidated by anything, since in a game a save feature takes all the pressure away. While these dreams are amusing, you're not really emotionally invested.
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I've started having these kinds of dreams constantly. There is a feeling of inevitable victory and invincibility. I figure it's because you are often one of the most powerful and influential characters in many games. You also have little reason to back down or be intimidated by anything, since in a game a save feature takes all the pressure away. While these dreams are amusing, you're not really emotionally invested.
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aivi
Imagine you get a lucid dream were you are the slayer (doom if you dont know where it is from) and you get throughts of your worst nightmares making them appear, but because you are the slayer, you have no fear on them and actually fight back and kill them in seconds (depending on your nightmare creature, and wake up (for real) to be super happy about it. That would be badss super cool sht right there
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Imagine you get a lucid dream were you are the slayer (doom if you dont know where it is from) and you get throughts of your worst nightmares making them appear, but because you are the slayer, you have no fear on them and actually fight back and kill them in seconds (depending on your nightmare creature, and wake up (for real) to be super happy about it. That would be badss super cool sht right there
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Jack
Can you explain all my crazy realistic lucid dreams before I play video games when I was younger and didn't bother with Such trivial alities as television and movies can you explain how a head full of science and short story fiction would allow me to dream about hidden cities on the moon and traveling about the universe with a group of unknown aliens have you ever heard of the secret space program
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Can you explain all my crazy realistic lucid dreams before I play video games when I was younger and didn't bother with Such trivial alities as television and movies can you explain how a head full of science and short story fiction would allow me to dream about hidden cities on the moon and traveling about the universe with a group of unknown aliens have you ever heard of the secret space program
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Mari
One time I played Skyrim before bed and I had a nightmare that had nothing to do with the game. But certain aspects of the game helped me conquer my nightmare. Like when the thing chasing me was about to get me I just opened up the menu and restarted the dream. After a bit of this I got a handle on things and turned it into a really good dream
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One time I played Skyrim before bed and I had a nightmare that had nothing to do with the game. But certain aspects of the game helped me conquer my nightmare. Like when the thing chasing me was about to get me I just opened up the menu and restarted the dream. After a bit of this I got a handle on things and turned it into a really good dream
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sentian442
I shit you not after a two day long session of payday 2 I got a horrible recurring dream of me getting out of the van putting on the mask walking into the bank and getting shot to shit by cops. Every time Id close my eyes Id instantly start it back over and it terrified me. I wanna have that dream again
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I shit you not after a two day long session of payday 2 I got a horrible recurring dream of me getting out of the van putting on the mask walking into the bank and getting shot to shit by cops. Every time Id close my eyes Id instantly start it back over and it terrified me. I wanna have that dream again
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Mason!
When you said that they preferred to fight than run away, I've done that in my dream recently lol A guy tried to eat my hands for some reason as my baby sisters scratched him, and I realized it was a dream, so I decided to tie him up with spider webs like I was spiderman then Thanos snapped him.
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When you said that they preferred to fight than run away, I've done that in my dream recently lol A guy tried to eat my hands for some reason as my baby sisters scratched him, and I realized it was a dream, so I decided to tie him up with spider webs like I was spiderman then Thanos snapped him.
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ThatIllussaatThing
I had this dream where a tornado hit me and my family and we had to evacuate. I forgot to bring my cat's with me but then I realized that I might be dreaming. So I teleported the cat's to us and just waited till the dream was over because I knew It wouldn't matter in the end.
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I had this dream where a tornado hit me and my family and we had to evacuate. I forgot to bring my cat's with me but then I realized that I might be dreaming. So I teleported the cat's to us and just waited till the dream was over because I knew It wouldn't matter in the end.
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USER_SH4RP
For some reason when i have a dream that im drowning and after like 30 seconds im out of air and i take a deep breath i realize im not drowning, i wake up within the dream in other words i have effectively took a red pill, after that for a few minutes i can make anything happen
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For some reason when i have a dream that im drowning and after like 30 seconds im out of air and i take a deep breath i realize im not drowning, i wake up within the dream in other words i have effectively took a red pill, after that for a few minutes i can make anything happen
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MeowBean
I thought lucid dreaming was when you were aware you were dreaming. I cant always do magic things.
Also, a simple reality check i use is to look at your hand and see if it looks weird, like your fingers being weird or having the wrong number.
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I thought lucid dreaming was when you were aware you were dreaming. I cant always do magic things.
Also, a simple reality check i use is to look at your hand and see if it looks weird, like your fingers being weird or having the wrong number.
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Winstalgia
When I was playing video games for like 4 hours before I went to sleep, (The games I played when I played often were Skyrim, COD) I've only had dreams like this a few times. I dont play that often now due to new house rules tho.
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When I was playing video games for like 4 hours before I went to sleep, (The games I played when I played often were Skyrim, COD) I've only had dreams like this a few times. I dont play that often now due to new house rules tho.
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Catcocomics
My belief that every outcome is possible coupled with my powerful longing for the real world outside this cramped box of everyday life leads me to not initially identify a dream by the it's not real method.
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My belief that every outcome is possible coupled with my powerful longing for the real world outside this cramped box of everyday life leads me to not initially identify a dream by the it's not real method.
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Stockpile
Doesn't looking at a LCD screen hours on end effect your r. e. m sleep? I would think you would be able to deam better if you limit your screen time or have none. This weekend no tv. See if dreams move vivid.
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Doesn't looking at a LCD screen hours on end effect your r. e. m sleep? I would think you would be able to deam better if you limit your screen time or have none. This weekend no tv. See if dreams move vivid.
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MAXWELL
I got to ask you a question I play this game every once in a while but I dream about it every month will not every night but you know off and on type thing and it's a good game it's just I'm the only one there
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I got to ask you a question I play this game every once in a while but I dream about it every month will not every night but you know off and on type thing and it's a good game it's just I'm the only one there
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Chomummy
Had one I remember as a kid. I knew it was a dream, so I raised my hand toward a building and thought (Spiderman. A web shot out and I started swinging on buildings and soon after the lucid dream ended lol
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Had one I remember as a kid. I knew it was a dream, so I raised my hand toward a building and thought (Spiderman. A web shot out and I started swinging on buildings and soon after the lucid dream ended lol
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