Lucid Dreaming

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 01-22-2006, 06:18

I made a thread, which led to an other thread, which now is leading to this thread. If you want to get info or try it out here is a nifty little link I found...

http://brain.web-us.com/lucid/lucidd...cid%20Dreaming

**Kongamato** · 01-22-2006, 07:27

That link talks about pre-cognitive abilities and out-of-body experiences as well. I don't wish to discredit everything they've written, but those are some wild claims. In my experiences, lucid dreams occur by chance, and I don't know if any science has come close to finding out how they occur. As for the other, paranormal things I'll say that anything is possible. However, I will have to personally experience these phenomena to truly believe in them.

**IrishMike** · 01-22-2006, 07:36

If you think about this, i't can be some scary stuff. Once you get good at it, how will you know when your dreaming and when your not. Sounds a bit wacked out to me.

**A.Saturnus** · 01-24-2006, 20:19

In a lucid dream you know exactly that you're dreaming.
Lucid dreaming exists and it has been shown that it is possible to increase control of your dreams. That said, many of the claims in that link are of course completely unrealistic.

**Ser Clegane** · 01-24-2006, 20:32

I regularly have lucid dreams, I am not aware of having had more "control" in those, though - rather the opposite, as I seem to be more aware about the lack of control.

These dreams are usually a really weird experience...

**Tachikaze** · 01-24-2006, 20:32

The article takes an idea and goes too far with it. I have had control of my dreams on a few occasions. The control is pretty weak due to lack of full senses and abilities, and mostly just ends the dream, rather than going somewhere significant.

**Red Peasant** · 01-24-2006, 20:36

I was able to 'lucid dream' quite effectively by my late teens and early twenties but then I had an out-of-body experience that really scared me witless, it shook me up so badly that I didn't have another dream -or at least one I could remember- for more than fifteen years. I was able to dictate what the dreams were and control them.

**Duke Malcolm** · 01-24-2006, 21:03

I used to have lucid dreams quite often, but they gradually faded away... My last was sometime in summer... I am sceptical of the "Shared Lucid Dream" and the other more outlandish ones on that site, however...

**Reverend Joe** · 01-26-2006, 19:37

Originally Posted by Red Peasant

I was able to 'lucid dream' quite effectively by my late teens and early twenties but then I had an out-of-body experience that really scared me witless, it shook me up so badly that I didn't have another dream -or at least one I could remember- for more than fifteen years. I was able to dictate what the dreams were and control them.

Wait, are you serious? That's far out... and kinda frightening.