I Love Lucid Dreaming

If you've experienced it, you know lucid dreaming is a feeling like no other! As a child I had an awareness often in dreams that I was dreaming. I remember saying to friends once, "You know when you're dreaming and you know you're dreaming in your dream?" They looked at me like I was crazy and told me no. I thought- Am I dreaming I'm dreaming?.. Not anymore!

I used to have very bad nightmares where I was drowning, falling from cliffs and threatened with violence. The whole "if you die in a dream you don't wake up," stuck in my head when I was asleep and I'd always manage to wake up. I'd tell myself when awake, I need to face it and not be afraid. Little by little I started realizing more and more that I could control those dreams and started facing them head on and even simply started some on my own. The first time I tested it I was dreaming that I was driving and was literally telling myself let's start now- I went off a cliff in the car and I had no fear. I remember thinking, "Did I kill myself in this dream, because I don't feel any kind of pain right now and this is getting boring." Then I woke up. Other times I willingly went in water over my head, knowing I dont swim and faced all types of violence knowing nothing can hurt me when I'm dreaming since I can control it. Recently I dreamt I was stuck between water and sand and couldn't get up the sand. I told myself, "Great, I can't wait to see the meaning of this dream when I get up!" LOL..

I recently taught my 5 year old to be more aware in his nightmares that they aren't real and he can change them to whatever he wants if he can remember it's just a dream. His nightmares have more than cut in half and one night he woke me up to tell me he did what I told him- he kicked the bad guy without even touching him, hahaha...

I'd say in at least 90% of my dreams, I am fully aware that I am dreaming. It's really fun when you can take control of good dreams too.

Do you or have you experienced lucid dreaming?

Heartlander · 80-89, M

I understand DomMan. The dreams go back to my childhood and may be related to that old game about not stepping on the lines in the sidewalk. Stretch a bit and I could skip 2 lines in the sidewalk. In my dream I could skip 3, 4 .... eventually all the lines.

In my dreams I really couldn't control it, I could just go with it. While dreaming I was aware of such supernatural feats. But they were mildly supernatural in that I could just glide inches above whatever my path, but I wasn't able to soar over the mountains or fields, or to the fly to the moon. What control I had was the choice to wake up or not. Unless there was an external force, like someone yelling about being late for school, my usual choice was to remain in those kind of dreams.